Twenty-one golden rules to depress agriculture, impede the progress of manufactures, paralize commerce, impair national resources, produce a constant fluctuation in the value of every species of property, and blight and blast the bounties of nature, how bounteously soever lavished on a country : in a word, to cripple a great nation, and arrest its career to those high destinies for which God and nature intended it : to which is annexed, a copious appendix, containing fifty-one substantial reasons against any alteration whatever, of the existing tariff / by a Pennsylvanian.

SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
Local noteEarly Republic; Finance.
Local note2012AH97600.
General note"Although this small tract wears the appearance of caricature, it is a faithful portrait of a ruinous tariff, which is wasting the energy of the nation ..."--Preface, p. [5].
General noteSigned and dated (p. 60): "Hamilton [i.e., Mathew Carey] Philadelphia, Feb. 25, 1824."
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 10889.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.

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