The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918 Page: 212
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aware of my warm advocacy, as an American politician, of the
freest possible commercial intercourse of my Country with the
world. One of the most essential differences, as you know, of
the two great parties in this Country is in reference to the wis-
dom and policy of Government in this respect. The Manufac-
turers of the United States have been, and still are, attempting
to exercise the same power and control in causing to be protected
by Government their interests that the landholders in Great
Britain have so long profited by, in the protection afforded them
by the existence of your Corn Laws. Necessity, added to the ex-
perience of an enlightened public, has, at length, caused this prin-
ciple to be abobshed in England. I ardently hope its downfall
is permanent, as the new System not only affords greater benefits
to much the largest number of British Subjects, but to Britain
herself as a nation, and to the civilized World generally,-especi-
ally the United States, by the sale of her surplus bread stuffs
etc.-Indeed one of the principal causes of our success in being
enabled to adopt a system of ad valorem revenue duties, was the
enactment of your liberal Tariff. Those in this Country with
whom I concur in political opinion have never since 1817 until
the last Congress been enabled to pass a Tariff for Revenue pur-
poses without admitting the principle of fostering, by protection,
the interests of our Manufacturers.-And-I regret to say-that
it is very questionable whether that T'ariff, will be sustained by
a Majority of the Nation at the next Presidential election. The
recent Whig Majorities in the large and influential States of
Pennsylvania and New York give the advocates of untrammelled
intercourse cause for apprehension and alarm.-I am certain that
nothing will be left undone by the Manufacturers which can be
accomplished by them to fix upon the United States, as a perma-
nent system, this unjust taxation-a taxation which affords a
bounty to one part of the community and entails an impoverish-
ing result upon the other."
So much for my correspondent: for my own part, I have never
regarded the existing Tariff of the United States as any thing
more than a bait for the Calhoun Section and-above all-as a
sop to quiet Great Britain during the Annexation of Texas and the
dismemberment of Mexico. I have officially recorded, for the212
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918, periodical, 1918; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101073/m1/218/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.