ESSAY ON THE EXPEDIENCY AND PRACTICABILITY OF IMPROVING OR CREATING HOME MARKETS FOR THE SALE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS AND RAW MATERIALS, BY THE INTRODUCTION OR GROWTH OF ARTISANS AND MANUFACTURERS. BEING AN APPENDIX AND ILLUSTRATION OF A MEMOIR ON THE SAME SUBJECT, READ BEFORE THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, MARCH 8, 1825. BY...OF RENSSELAER COUNTY, STATE OF NEW YORK.
Philadelphia: Clark & Raser, 1829. 55pp, disbound, moderately foxed, Good+.
This item was first published in Albany in 1825 under a slightly different title, followed by two 1827 Philadelphia printings. Tibbits's Preface to this edition, dated December 1829, explains its re-issuance, now that South Carolina is threatening secession over the tariff issue: "We are threatened with resistance to the government, and consequently with civil war, if we do not adopt a policy" favoring free trade. But such a policy, he argues, has "enfeebled and impoverished those countries" that have tried it. The detailed argument discusses the theories of Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say; and prints, as an Appendix, an essay by Thomas Cooper, President of Columbia College in Charleston, when Cooper-- now a passionate free trader-- was a Protectionist.
AI 40650 [11]. Rink 3124. Item #16801
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