AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE AND COMMON JUSTICE; OR, IRREFRAGABLE FACTS OPPOSED TO PLAUSIBLE THEORIES: INTENDED TO PROVE THE EXTREME INJUSTICE, AS WELL AS THE UTTER IMPOLICY OF THE EXISTING TARIFF. ILLUSTRATED BY A SKETCH OF THE POLICY AND SITUATION OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND HOLLAND.
Philadelphia: Published by H.C. Carey and I. Lea. Feb. 4, 1822. pp viii, [5]-92, as issued. Light to moderate foxing, Good+.
Carey was one of the most articulate pre-Civil War advocates of a high protective tariff to encourage American enterprise. "He did more than anyone else, if we except Hamilton, to found the American nationalist school of economic thought." DAB. Here he analyzes the economic depression in Pennsylvania in 1818-1820, and attributes it to insufficiency of protection for "the interests of the grain-growing states." Some industries, such as potteries, have received a mortal blow from "the influx of foreign ware." Others, "particularly the woollens and coarse cottons," are just now recovering. A second edition was published in March, and a third in April, 1822.
FIRST EDITION. AI 8259 [7]. Item #29464
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