FIRST REFLECTIONS ON READING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, OF DECEMBER 7, 1830... PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY IN THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Washington: 1831. 15pp, uncut and untrimmed, partly loosened. Tanned, some dampstaining to top corner, light scattered foxing. Good.
The anonymous Hambden lends qualified support to President Jackson's assertion that Congress may constitutionally levy a protective tariff in order to foster the development of domestic industry.
He scolds the South's devotion to free trade, "which can no more exist as a general principle than universal and perpetual peace." He counsels that we "adhere to the Union as the rock of our safety," a warning unheeded by South Carolina when, soon thereafter, it sought to nullify the operation of the tariff within its borders.
Sabin 29932. 136 Eberstadt 330. AI 7419 [4]. Item #6070
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