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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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redthe protectionists to demand yet higher duties and NewEngland began transforming herself from an agriculturalInto a manufacturing community, with consequent conjunc-tion with the protectionist forces. Webster too abandonedhis free-trade opinions and became spokesman for New Eng-land protectionism. It was at this time that the South de-murred and entered Into what proved to be a course of op-position to the tariff, culminating In i860, In the declaration,by South Carolina, that the tariff laws were a cause of Itssecession from the Union. At Harrlsburg, In July, 1827, there assembled a conven-tion of American manufacturers—though the South was notrepresented—who demanded a new tariff act and higherduties. Out of this demand, which at once became apolitical question, grew the tariff of 1828, known as thetariff of abominations. The legislature of South Carolinaprotested against the passing of the bill, and the law becamethe Immediate cause of the nullification movement at theSouth.
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C/D CO o . CONFEDERACY OR NATION 193 The South was slaveholding and agricultural, not manu-facturing, and the tariff of 1828 was enacted for the advan-tage of manufacturers. Of course, advocates of the lawassured the country that its operation would protect allAmerican interests, producer, manufacturer, consumer. TheSouth construed the law as a special tax contrived for theexclusive benefit of the North, and therefore discriminatingagainst the South. The slaveholding system of the Southshut that section off from the rest of the world and preventedit from competing with manufacturing communities. Atthe North slavery had disappeared and free labor was inven-tive and profitable. There was no profit to the South inprotection; in order to profit by the protective system shemust abandon slavery: she preferred slavery and went intobitter and hostile opposition to the protective system—utilizing the theory of State sovereignty and its product,nullification, in defense of her new position. J

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