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Excerpt from Reply to Professor Hodge, on the State of the Country
The systematic calculators of its value are to be found among the people of the Northern States. It is they who undertake no important enterprise without estimating the value of the Union. They want to catch and, cure fish, and they ask an annual bounty. They desire to build ships, and they require navigation laws and tonnage duties to ensure success. They wish to engage in manufactures, and they demand what they call protection, in the shape of high tariffs - taxes on the industry of the whole country for the benefit. Of the few. They cannot wot a line, nor launch a vessel, nor weave a yard of woollen cloth or cot ton shirting, nor make a shoe, nor print a book, nor roll a bar of iron, nor dig a ton of coal, nor turn their brine into a bushel of salt, but forthwith they calculate the value of the Union, and make it a question of dollars and cents. They do nothing else now in theirvehement opposition to the secession of the Southern States. They talk of the sanctity of the Union, and the graves of our fathers; they mean Merrill's tariff, and the continued monopoly of the Southern market for their goods, wares and merchandize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
