WHY "A MORE PERFECT UNION" WAS FORMED.-" A Hoop
for the Barrel." - Necessity for regulating commerce immediate
impulse to new government. - Object sought, industrial self-
defense.-Free-trade notions purged away by long and painful
experience.-Pennsylvania enacts protective tariff for herself. Re-
markable preamble to Pennsylvania tariff. -Testimony of Fisher
Ames, Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate, and Mr. Huskisson that in-
dustrial independence was main object of American Revolution.-
60-69.