fixed and steady policy which shall have the effect of giving us that
industrial independence without which there can be neither political nor
literary independence. That once secured, they would thereafter find no
need for asking the establishment of a system of taxation which would
prove so burdensome to our people as, in the end, to be ruinous to
themselves.

H. C. C.

PHILADELPHIA,_
Dec_. 1867.





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