An American history . ngress to tax the South, it was hightime to calculate the value of the Union. The Southerners were not strong enough to keep a new high 382. Thetariff bill out of Congress in 1828, but they resorted to a shrewd ^bifmina-trick to defeat it. Instead of seeking to lower the tariff rates tions, 1828proposed, they joined with the Western farmers in greatly in-creasing them. A presidential election was approaching, andthe South appealed to the large anti-Adams sentiment to frame 2/2 National versus Sectional Interests a tariff bill so preposterous that New England would reject
An American history . ngress to tax the South, it was hightime to calculate the value of the Union. The Southerners were not strong enough to keep a new high 382. Thetariff bill out of Congress in 1828, but they resorted to a shrewd ^bifmina-trick to defeat it. Instead of seeking to lower the tariff rates tions, 1828proposed, they joined with the Western farmers in greatly in-creasing them. A presidential election was approaching, andthe South appealed to the large anti-Adams sentiment to frame 2/2 National versus Sectional Interests a tariff bill so preposterous that New England would reject it,and so bring dishonor and defeat upon Adamss cause. Forexample, New England wanted a high duty on manufacturedwoolens to exfclude English goods, but at the same time itwanted cheap raw wool for its factories. It wanted a high dutyon cordage to protect its shipbuilding industries, but it wantedcheap raw hemp for its ropewalks. It wanted a high duty oniron manufactures, but cheap pig iron for its forges. All New 1816. The Vote on the Tariff Bills of 1816 and 1828 Englands demands for protection to manufactures were grantedin the bill, but their benefits were largely neutralized by theaddition of high duties on raw wool to please the sheep raisersof Ohio, on hemp to satisfy the farmers of Kentucky, and on pigiron to conciliate the miners of Pennsylvania. In spite of thisshrewd plan of the South to match the West against New Eng-land, and thus to please nobody by pleasing everybody, the fan-tastic bill passed the House by a vote of 105 to 94, the Senateby a vote of 26 to 21, and became a law by President Adamsssignature (May ig, 1828). Sectional Interests 273 The Tariff of Abominations, as this bill was called, was 383. Ex-one of the most outrageous pieces of legislation ever passed by nation in the Congress. It was ^<*a low political job,which, as Randolphsaid, had to dowith no manufac-tures except themanufacture of aPresident. It wasnot even (like thebill of 1824) the .hone
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