OF THE

COMMITTEE

APPOINTED BY THE

"FREE TRADE CONVENTION,"

HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, IN

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1831,

TO PREPARE AND PRESENT A

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS,

REMONSTRATING AGAINST THE EXISTING TARIFF OF DUTIES;

by Albert Gallatin

NEW YORK:

WM. A. MERCEIN, PRINTER, 240 PEARL STREET.

1832.

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To the Honorable the

of the United

THE Memorial of th by the "FREE TRADE September and October,

That a Convention o ings in various States in ting by Constitutional an of the restrictive system, September, 1831, and c ensuing when a Com each State, represented purpose of preparing a evils of the existing Ta cation of the same, as

revenue, and equal in it United States, and on th Acting under that a fully pray:

1st. That the duties tinguishment of the pu which may be necessa Government.

2ndly. That, allowing duction of the existing duties on all the importe equalized, so as that the materially from the gene or in other words, from ported articles subject to 3dly. That wines, tea

to the list of these now