Cynical observers might find, indeed, a gentle amusement in noting how in the name of humanity the blessings of free trade were invoked by means of the demand for an immediate application of the highest protective tariff known to the history of economics!
Reid highlights the irony of invoking free trade while advocating for a high protective tariff.
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That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.
A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.