But nowhere has this confusion led to greater absurdity than in the pretension recently made in the name of State Rights,--as if it were reasonable to claim for a technical “State” of the Union that immortality belonging to civil society.
Sumner critiques the absurdity of claiming that a technical State possesses the same immortality as civil society.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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