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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 3 : Thurlow Weed 's discovery-the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin (search)
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 6 : the tariff question (search)
Chapter 6: the tariff question
Greeley's early sympathies
legislation between 1832 and 1844
a statement of his tariff principles
his work for Clay in 1844
its effect on his health
desire to try the issue four years later
Greeley's sympathies were always in favor of a protective tariff.
He heard the hard times onts a pound on silk produced in the State warmly combated.
The compromise act provided for a reduction of all duties which exceeded 20 per cent under the act of 1832, on the following scale: 10 per cent of the excess to be removed on January 1, 1834; 10 per cent more on January 1, 1836; another 10 per cent on January 1, 1838, ahen the horizontal rate of 20 per cent would go into effect was causing uneasiness.
The duty on rolled bar iron, for instance, which was 95 per cent (specific) in 1832, had dropped to 42.5 on January 1, 1842, and would drop to 20 per cent in the coming July.
Moreover, the extra session of Congress which assembled in June, 1841,
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7 : Greeley 's part in the antislavery contest (search)