The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious IndexGales and Seaton, 1824 - United States |
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Page 1707
... foreign iron , are among the most urgent in pressing the increased exac- tion . There is not even the pretext for extending the protection here , that iron receives any aid in the countries from which it is brought by boun- ties or ...
... foreign iron , are among the most urgent in pressing the increased exac- tion . There is not even the pretext for extending the protection here , that iron receives any aid in the countries from which it is brought by boun- ties or ...
Page 1709
... foreign iron is rapidly driving domestic competition out of the market . In the year 1819 , 16,241 tons of foreign hammered iron were imported . In the year 1822 , it had increased to 26,508 tons . What it was dur- ing the last year , I ...
... foreign iron is rapidly driving domestic competition out of the market . In the year 1819 , 16,241 tons of foreign hammered iron were imported . In the year 1822 , it had increased to 26,508 tons . What it was dur- ing the last year , I ...
Page 1711
... foreign iron from our market . We wish only to infuse into our own manufactures sufficient vigor to enable them to struggle against foreign competition . Protection , not prohibition , is our object . The revenue which the country at ...
... foreign iron from our market . We wish only to infuse into our own manufactures sufficient vigor to enable them to struggle against foreign competition . Protection , not prohibition , is our object . The revenue which the country at ...
Page 1721
... foreign trade , to the improve- must sink into insignificance compared with what ment of a nation . Foreign merchandise first ar- nature has bestowed on the United States . Yet rives at some commercial mart , on the seaboard . we are ...
... foreign trade , to the improve- must sink into insignificance compared with what ment of a nation . Foreign merchandise first ar- nature has bestowed on the United States . Yet rives at some commercial mart , on the seaboard . we are ...
Page 1723
... foreign commerce , to be careful to be prudent , or they will meet with a dreadful retaliation ! This is a proud state of independence . When foreign nations have done their utmost , we must still pros- trate ourselves before them , and ...
... foreign commerce , to be careful to be prudent , or they will meet with a dreadful retaliation ! This is a proud state of independence . When foreign nations have done their utmost , we must still pros- trate ourselves before them , and ...
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Page 1895 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Page 1865 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 2189 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to...
Page 2189 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 2365 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 2145 - This idea of an extensive domestic market for the surplus produce of the soil, is of the first consequence. It is, of all things, that which most effectually conduces to a flourishing state of agriculture.
Page 1789 - No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed in any of the Ports of the United States on British Vessels, than those payable in the same ports by Vessels of the United States...
Page 2205 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.
Page 1865 - You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit, by which that enterprising employment has been exercised, ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration.
Page 2397 - To the House of Representatives of the United States: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of...