Direct Taxation and Free Trade

Washington, D.C.: Printed at the Office of Blair and Rives, 1846. String bound pamphlet; 12 pp. Double column text. Stabbed and tied at inner margin. Title page with a few stains. Alexander Ramsey (1815–1903), Whig Party U.S. House Member, later U.S. Senator and Secretary of War. He addresses free trade, the advantages and disadvantages of tariffs (he’s pro-tariff), and opines on direct taxation: ​“Direct taxation or direct protection are the true issues before the people, which are so speciously disguised under every name, from the horizontal to the perpendicular!”