Webster on Protection: Embracing Numerous Extracts from His Speeches (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Wood, Will C

 
9781333005887: Webster on Protection: Embracing Numerous Extracts from His Speeches (Classic Reprint)

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Webster was a Cyclopean builder of whatever he purposed and planned to build. He used granite boulders, whether he shaped and piled them into structures, or flung them from his catapults. Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill were fit places and themes for his massive eloquence. His Reply to Hayne is a specimen of his mighty building. In the grand and final debate on protection, before the American people, the next decade, or possibly prolonged through a quarter of a century before general conviction shall have been reached upon this important, this essential question the protection and prosperity of a nations industries the opinions of such a giant mind as Webster swill be worthy of thoughtful consideration. What did Webster build upon the subject of protection? This question, so interesting to A mericans, especially at this period when the tariff is coming up for a new study, we will try to study and present. Autobiography is likely to be the truest biography, at least in a sincere person. Webster himself, on several occasions, made statements of a growth, of a change of his opinions on this great subject. One of these statements, in 1838, in reply to John
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