Both charges, sir, are equally without the slightest foundation.

The opinion of New England up to 1824 was founded in the conviction that, on the whole, it was wisest and best, both for herself and others, that manufactures should make haste slowly....

When, at the commencement of the late war, duties were doubled, we were told that we should find a mitigation of the weight of taxation in the new aid and succor which would be thus afforded to our own manufacturing labor.
Like arguments were urged, and prevailed, but not by the aid of New England votes, when the tariff was afterwards arranged at the close of the war in 1816.

Finally, after a winter's deliberation, the act of 1824 received the sanction of both Houses of Congress and settled the policy of the country.

What, then, was New England to do ?...