An Examination of the Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Boston and Its Vicinity, Opposed to a Further Increase of Duties on Importation (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Carey, Mathew

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ISBN 10 : 1334476578 ISBN 13 : 9781334476570

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Of the, Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Boston and its vicinity, opposed to a further increase of duties on importation A mong the numerous publications which have appeared in the United States during the last twelve years, in consequence of the general interest excited by the policy of this government in laying additional duties on imports, with the view of encouraging manufactures in our own country, few have been circulated with greater industry than the Boston Report. This report appears to have excited considerable attention: its confident tone of assumption, and formidable array of figures, are well calculated to impose upon the mind; and a superficial observer may be induced, by the pretensions to mathematical accuracy with which it abounds, to suppose that arguments are demonstrably proved, which rest on the most visionary hypotheses. Neither our time nor present means of reference to the necessary documents, will permit us to enter into a minute examination of this very elaborate production; we shall therefore be compelled to admit the correctness of many of its statements; but we think we shall be able to prove, that however industrious the committee may have been in the collection of facts, in the application of them they have been very unfortunate. In their preliminary discourse, the committee lament the difficult position in which this question is now placed by the accidental, if not designed connexion of this subject, under the specious name of the American system, with certain controverted political questions, between which and that system, they believe there is no natural or necessary relation; alluding no doubt to the approaching presidential election. Now although we agree with the committee that the political question now at issue, has no connexion with the subject alluded to, because the most zealous friends to the American syste
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334476578
• ISBN 13: 9781334476570
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 126
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