Letters Which Have Appeared in the Banner of the Constitution, Addressed to the Editor (Classic Reprint)

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Dear Sir The cause of Free Trade ought not to escape the serious consideration of every intelligent man, whether he be in or out of the National Legislature. The enemies of the Tariff are rapidly increas ing in every section of the United States, and I rejoice to hear that a revisal of it occupies some part of the precious time of Congress. I am but an humble citizen, in private life, and devoted to the culti vation of the soil; but were I a member of that honorable body, I should conceive it to be a paramount duty to use my utmost efforts to assist in effecting a repeal of it, and thereby yield to the voice of my fellow-citizens, which, from every part of the Union, calls loudly for justice! I am personally acquainted with many sensible and worthy men, who, on the passage of the Tariff Law of 18528, were among its warmest friends, but are now convinced of their error. Truth is powerful, and must prevail. They are indeed truly great who can, by a noble triumph over their feelings, subdue their pre judices and for this I honor and respect them. We are all liable to err, and are told by an eminent writer, that there is no doctrine so false, but it may be intermixed with some truth. Laws are enacted for the preservation of our political rights and moral welfare; but whatever legislative measure militates against the best interests of the people, must weaken the ties of morality. I am by no means inimical to domestic manufactures; but a law which has for its object the protection of manufactures, to the injury of agriculture and commerce, must be productive of perjury and smuggling, and injure that very class it was intended to serve. How unworthy is this avaricious and contracted policy of the Government of an eu lightened people. Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames!

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