If the tariff adopted at the last session of Congress shall be found by experience to bear oppressively upon the interests of any one section of the Union, it ought to be, and I can not doubt will be, so modified as to alleviate its burden.
Adams argues that if a tariff negatively impacts any section of the Union, it should be modified to alleviate that burden.
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