Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Boston and Vicinity Opposed to a Further Increase of Duties on ImportationsHenry Lee, Committee of the Citizens of Boston and Vicinity Opposed to a Further Increase of Duties on Importations From the Press of Nathan Hale, 1827 - 196 páginas |
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... , have shewn an unwarrantable degree of imprudence , in extending their business from ten millions to forty millions of dollars , as they assert they have done , since 1816 . While however the Committee are ready to admit , that 8.
... , have shewn an unwarrantable degree of imprudence , in extending their business from ten millions to forty millions of dollars , as they assert they have done , since 1816 . While however the Committee are ready to admit , that 8.
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... dollars . Our population within those periods , averaged 4,500,000 , and allowing the consumption at six dollars a head , the whole amount consumed , would be 27,000,000 dollars , of which only 7,500,000 were foreign cloths . There may ...
... dollars . Our population within those periods , averaged 4,500,000 , and allowing the consumption at six dollars a head , the whole amount consumed , would be 27,000,000 dollars , of which only 7,500,000 were foreign cloths . There may ...
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... dollars ; paying duties to the amount of 3,660,755 dollars . By the same document , it appears that the cost of wool imported was 569,476 dollars , and the duty on it 179,091 dollars ; of this amount , 85,127 1-2 dollars , is the ...
... dollars ; paying duties to the amount of 3,660,755 dollars . By the same document , it appears that the cost of wool imported was 569,476 dollars , and the duty on it 179,091 dollars ; of this amount , 85,127 1-2 dollars , is the ...
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... dollars on every one hundred dollars worth of woollens he uses ; and under the contemplated one , it will be more than double . SECTION 3. The manufacturers complain of the great disadvan- tage they labour under , in being obliged to ...
... dollars on every one hundred dollars worth of woollens he uses ; and under the contemplated one , it will be more than double . SECTION 3. The manufacturers complain of the great disadvan- tage they labour under , in being obliged to ...
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... dollars . The consumption in Great Britain has been stated by Mr. Huskisson at 160,000,000 pounds . The Committee believe 40,000,000 too low an estimate , but they are willing to admit it , to avoid all appearance of exaggeration . If ...
... dollars . The consumption in Great Britain has been stated by Mr. Huskisson at 160,000,000 pounds . The Committee believe 40,000,000 too low an estimate , but they are willing to admit it , to avoid all appearance of exaggeration . If ...
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Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Boston and vicinity, opposed to a ... Visualização integral - 1827 |
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Página 79 - To cultivate peace and maintain commerce and navigation in all their lawful enterprises; to foster our fisheries as nurseries of navigation and for the nurture of man...
Página 40 - Duties of this nature evidently amount to a virtual bounty on the domestic fabrics, since by enhancing the charges on foreign articles they enable the national manufacturers to undersell all their foreign competitors.
Página 79 - Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the encouragement of manufactures. The object is of too much consequence not to insure a continuance of their efforts in every way which shall appear eligible.
Página 164 - By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.
Página 40 - ... business very seriously impaired. The effect of charging any of the expenses which related to the business upon the principal of the estate would be a serious impairment of the capital employed in the business, which might, in the end, absorb the same, and thus destroy all income arising therefrom. It is no answer to this view of the subject to say, that under the will the business is only to be conducted so long as, in the opinion of the executors, it shall be to the advantage of the estate...
Página 166 - ... remembered that our shipping employed in foreign commerce has, at this moment, not the shadow of government protection. It goes abroad upon the wide sea to make its own way, and earn its own bread, in a professed competition with the whole world. Its resources are its own frugality, its own skill, its own enterprise. It hopes to succeed, if it shall succeed at all, not by extraordinary aid of government, but by patience, vigilance, and toil. This right arm of the nation's safety strengthens its...
Página 178 - The folly of some of these projects has not been surpassed, nor hardly equalled, unless it be by the philosopher in one of the satires of Swift, who so long labored to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. The poverty and unhappiness of Spain have been attributed to the want of protection to her own industry. If by this it be meant that the poverty of Spain is owing to bad government and bad laws, the remark is, in a great measure, just. But these very laws are bad because they are restrictive, partial,...
Página 166 - Let it be remembered that our shipping employed in foreign commerce, has, at this moment, not the shadow of government protection. It goes abroad upon the wide sea to make its own way, and earn its own bread, in a professed competition with the whole world. Its resources are its own frugality, its own skill, its own enterprise.
Página 86 - We must have patience and longer endurance then with our brethren while under delusion ; give them time for reflection and experience of consequences ; keep ourselves in a situation to profit by the chapter of accidents ; and separate from our companions only, when the sole alternatives left, are the dissolution of our Union with them, or submission to a government without limitation of powers.
Página 180 - ... notice to the other. The radical principle of all commercial intercourse between independent nations is the mutual interest of both parties. It is the vital spirit of trade itself; nor can it be reconciled to the nature of man, or to the primary laws .of human society, that any traffic should long be willingly pursued, of which all the advantages are on one side, and all the burdens on the other. Treaties of commerce have...