Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science..

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoni….

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been sho….

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward f….

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every….

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro….

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in….

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection..

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact..

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the….

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite….

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows..

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely reve….