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.
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"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." Includes bibliographical references. Book.
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