A Sketch of the Origin And Progress of the Causes Which Have Led to the Overthro
A Sketch of the Origin And Progress of the Causes Which Have Led to the Overthro
Thomas H Thomas Harvey Skinner
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And though this a bounty, or premium upon the labor, capital, industry and enterprise of the one exclusive section of the Union could be carried out and sustained only by a tax upon, and making the other great and paramount section and interest of agriculture tributary to it, the cry, as always since, was raised, that we must be independent in all things, and not look abroad for the supply of any of our numerous wants, and the man who would not join in it was not patriotic, was denounced as a t...raitor. The motives which influenced the actors of this great scene in our political course was, at the commencement and to this day, that of in- terest alone, for the duties levied on imports enabled them to charge just as much more for their own as the duties and expenses of importation cost upon the foreign goods, this being from 20 to 30, 40, and some times 100 per cent, on the cost in Europe — of course a tax upon the consumer, eight-tenths being either agriculturists or agricultural laborers.
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