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Twenty-one golden rules to depress agriculture, impede the progress of manufactures, paralize commerce, impair national resources, produce a constant fluctuation in the value of every species of property, and blight and blast the bounties of nature, how bounteously soever lavished on a country. : In a word, to cripple a great nation, and arrest its career to those high destinies for which God and nature intended it. : To which is annexed, a copious appendix, containing fifty-one substantial reasons against any alteration whatever, of the existing tariff by a Pennsylvanian
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Td* 1824
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress--(18th, 1st session : 1823-1824). Bill to amend the several acts for imposing duties on imports.
- United States.
- Political satire.
- Tariff--United States.
- Tariff.
- Protectionism--United States.
- Protectionism.
- Protectionism--Protection.
- Free trade--Protection.
- Free trade.
- Genre:
- Wrappers (Binding).
- Physical Description:
- 60 p. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Salem [MA] : Re-printed by Warwick Palfray, Jun., 1824.
- Notes:
- "Although this small tract wears the appearance of caricature, it is a faithful portrait of a ruinous tariff, which is wasting the energy of the nation ..."--Preface, p. [5].
- First edition, Philadelphia, 1824.
- Cited in:
- Shoemaker 15678
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 3066
- Sabin, 10889
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