Direct Taxation and Free Trade

Ramsey, Alexander. SPEECH OF ALEX. RAMSEY OF PENNSYLVANIA ON THE BILL FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE TARIFF. DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1846.

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!”

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