Charles Sumner: “The national revenue is impaired in two ways: first, at the custom-house on our frontier, which, under the operation of…”

“The national revenue is impaired in two ways: first, at the custom-house on our frontier, which, under the operation of the treaty, yields little or nothing, when it might yield much; and, secondly, it is impaired through the check and embarrassment the treaty causes in our internal taxation.”