I know how you feel now. my friend. under the excitement of this debate. but when you read your speech of today in made here for protection of steel. iron. nails. screws. tinplates (of which there are two little manufactories in Pennsylvania). cottonties. and everything on the face of the earth that Pennsylvania manufactures. when you reflect upon this attack on the interests of the people for whose freedom fr om bondage you were willing to offer your life. 400.000 of whom are engaged in the cultivation and manufacture of sugar. whose industry you now seek to destroy by bringing them in open competition with the coolies and slaves of foreign countries. because perchance Pennsylvania is not interested in a duty on sugar. you will. I feel assured. contritely repent that you have been drawn into so indefensible a position from your standpoint of an avowed protectionist. [Here the hammer fell.]