text:  Do we therefore seek to disparage foreign trade? Far from it: our anxious desire is to see it prosper and progress daily and yearly fully impressed with the conviction that it is as it long has been one of the sheet-anchors of the noble vessel of the State by the aid of which it has swung securely in and weathered bravely many a hurricane--and holding fast to which the gallant ship is again repairing the damage of the late long night of tempest