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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political satire.

Tariff--United States.

Tariff.

Protectionism--United States.

Protectionism.

United States. Congress--(18th, 1st session : 1823-1824). Bill to amend the several acts for imposing duties on imports.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 p. )

Place of Publication:

Salem [Mass.] : Re-printed by W. 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].

Signed and dated (p. 60): "Hamilton [i.e., Mathew Carey] Philadelphia, Feb. 25, 1824."

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 10889.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

12