Excerpt from The Tariffs of the United States in Relation to Free Trade In the course of a century the United States have passed above twenty Tariff Acts. Hamilton, one of the greatest of American statesmen, while in Washington's Cabinet, published an able memoir on manufactures, in which he urged the principle of Protection to native infant industries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.