Henry Charles Carey To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. – Henry Charles Carey
Henry Charles Carey It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. – Henry Charles Carey
