LECTURES ON THE RESTRICTIVE SYSTEM, DELIVERED TO THE SENIOR POLITICAL CLASS OF WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE. BY... PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, METAPHYSICS AND POLITICAL LAW.
Richmond: Samuel Shepherd & Co., 1829. Contemporary paper-covered boards [spine shorn, hinges starting, rubbed ]. viii, 195pp. Foxed, Good or so.
Dew was a powerful intellectual and philosophical voice for the South's profound opposition to tariffs, and its support for the plantation slave system. Here he "upheld the free-trade argument, relying upon the Physiocrats and Smith and Say. Though he declared his intention "' to avoid mingling in the politics of the day, his lectures came squarely into collision with the heated assertions of the protectionist school ... The Virginian, in an economic environment of a staple agriculture, foretold that disunion would follow if protection were pressed by the industrial North." DAB.
FIRST EDITION. Haynes 4914. Swem 1450. Not in Larned, Eberstadt, Decker, Rink, LCP. Item #13171
Price: $500.00