[Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge]@TWC D-Link bookDaniel Webster CHAPTER VI 16/70
Was she to hold out forever against the course of the government, and see herself losing on one side and yet make no effort to sustain herself on the other? No, sir.
Nothing was left to New England but to conform herself to the will of others. Nothing was left to her but to consider that the government had fixed and determined its own policy; and that policy was _protection_....
I believe, sir, almost every man from New England who voted against the law of 1824 declared that if, notwithstanding his opposition to that law, it should still pass, there would be no alternative but to consider the course and policy of the government as then settled and fixed, and to act accordingly.
The law did pass; and a vast increase of investment in manufacturing establishments was the consequence." Opinion in New England changed for good and sufficient business reasons, and Mr.Webster changed with it.
Free trade had commended itself to him as an abstract principle, and he had sustained and defended it as in the interest of commercial New England.
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