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UNDER THE CONFEDERATION-Continued. - Wild mania for
speculation.-Spread and increase of pecuniary entanglement.-
Attributed to heavy excess of imports over exports.-People

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.

NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE PROTECTING POWER - Con-

cluded. Opinions of distinguished statesmen and lawyers.-James
Madison's letter to Joseph C. Cabell.-Gulian C. Verplanck's letter
to Colonel William Drayton.-Extract from Andrew Jackson's
second annual message to Congress. - Various passages from
speeches of Daniel Webster. - Rufus Choate's summing up of

proofs that protecting power was put in Constitution in pursuance

of set purpose to put it there. -That power not granted to slumber

in lethargy, or to decay by neglect, or to die out through disuse. -

Condensed statement of points.-" A tariff for revenue only

defeat of one of principal objects in forming present Union. -

134-157.

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