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Re: Alabama Leads Opposition to Morrill Tariff

Here's part of Sydenham Moore's speech on the Morrill tariff bill. Sounds like he's ready to go to war over it-

"...Mr. Chairman, the honorable gentleman from Vermont, [Mr. Morrill] and all who have thus spoken in favor of this bill, openly advocate protection for the sake of protection...I can only account for it from the fact, admitted by the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania the other day, that the tariff question was no longer a financial, but a sectional question. The gentleman well knows that while the chief burdens will fall on the South, his constituents will be benefitted by a high protective tariff..."

"...Go on, then, gentlemen; pass this odious protective tariff bill; legalize the robbery of the South. We are in a small minority here, and therefore powerless to protect our constituents. What they may do hereafter I know not...."

Sydenham Moore, House of Representatives, April 30, 1860

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