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That manufactures adequate to the supply of our domestic consumption would in the abstract be beneficial to our country there is no reason to doubt, and to effect their establishment there is perhaps no American citizen who would not for a while be willing to pay a higher price for them.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson acknowledges the potential benefits of domestic manufacturing for the country.

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