If we read the speeches of the southern statesmen of his period. we find in them a wealth of learning in the classics of English literature and a complete absorption in the theories of Adam Smith. Many of them were educated in the best schools abroad. They had leisure for wide reading and refined culture at home. and they had no touch with or understanding of those thriving industrial communities which were inviting immigration. building cities. constructing railroads. and planting factories beside the water powers. He declared that the tariff should be levied for the purposes of revenue only. and he committed his party to the principle. The ideas of Hamilton and of Walker have been struggling ever since for the conquest of the world.
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