The real difficulty in our tariff laws is to avoid unequal and unjust discrimination in the objects of protection, made with a view to favor the productions of one state or section at the cost of another state or section.
Sherman discusses the challenges of creating fair tariff laws that do not favor one region over another.
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I would regard it as a public calamity to have the power of this House placed, directly or indirectly, under the control of this administration.
Morrill's bill is a great improvement on the tariff of 1857.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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