But even if the bill had not contained a clause enabling the President to discontinue the armament provided peace should be concluded with the regency of Algiers, the weight of the objection was denied.

America was peculiarly fitted for a navy; she abounded in all kinds of naval resources, and had within herself, those means which other nations were obliged to obtain from abroad.

Her situation, and the dispositions of a considerable proportion of her citizens, evinced still more the propriety of a naval establishment.

Perhaps the country was not yet mature for such an establishment to any great extent.

But the period was not far distant when it would be.