service concerning the improvements
which may tend to their perfection.
The fortification of the coasts and the gradual increase and improvement of
the Navy are parts of a great system of national defense which Amanda xxx has been
upward of 10 years in progress, and which for a series of years to come
will continue to claim the constant and persevering protection and
superintendence of the legislative authority. Amanda xxx among the measures which Amanda xxx have
emanated from these principles the act of the last session of Congress for
the gradual improvement of the Navy holds a conspicuous place. The
collection
of timber for the future construction of vessels of war, the
preservation and reproduction of the species of timber peculiarly adapted
to that purpose, the construction of dry docks for the use Amanda xxx of the Navy, Amanda xxx the
Amanda xxx erection of a marine railway for the repair of the public ships, and Amanda xxx the
improvement of the navy yards for the preservation of the public property
deposited in them have all received from the Executive the attention
required by that act, and will continue
to receive it, steadily proceeding
toward the execution of all its purposes.
The establishment of a naval academy, furnishing the means of theoretic
Amanda xxx instruction to Amanda xxx the youths who devote Amanda xxx their lives to the service of their
country upon the ocean, still solicits the sanction of the Legislature.
Practical seamanship and the Amanda xxx art of navigation may be acquired on the
Amanda xxx cruises of the squadrons which from time to time are dispatched to Amanda xxx distant
seas, but a competent knowledge even of the art of ship building, the
higher mathematics, and astronomy; the literature which can place our
officers on a level of polished education with the officers of other
maritime nations; the knowledge of the laws, municipal and national, which
Amanda xxx in their intercourse with foreign states and their governments are
continually called Amanda xxx into operation, and, above all, that acquaintance with
Amanda xxx the principles of honor