. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... of August, 1821, by presidential proclamation, upon the Funda-mental Conditions, in substance, that the State government, in all its departments, should be subject to the constitutionof the United States, as all the State governments were, and are.—A Compendium of the History of the United Static,By Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, p. 329. ADMINISTRATIONS OF MONROE AND J. Q. ADAMS. 555 Monrue received at the polls a majority ofthe votes of every State in the Unio
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... of August, 1821, by presidential proclamation, upon the Funda-mental Conditions, in substance, that the State government, in all its departments, should be subject to the constitutionof the United States, as all the State governments were, and are.—A Compendium of the History of the United Static,By Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, p. 329. ADMINISTRATIONS OF MONROE AND J. Q. ADAMS. 555 Monrue received at the polls a majority ofthe votes of every State in the Union, andevery electoral vote but one, which was onein the college of New Hampshire, and wascast for John Quincy Adams. Mr. Monroeentered upon his second term on the fourthof March, 1821. Next in importance to the slavery ques- world, and compelled the States to dependupon their own exertions for the supply oftheir wants. During this period numerousmanufacturing enterprises had sprung up,especially in New England, where capitalwas idle and labor abundant. At the close of the war the country wasflooded with European goods, which were. tion was that of the tariff, or the impositionof a protective duty in favor of home manu-fectures. In his inaugural address the Presi-dent had recommended the imposition ofsuch a system of duties. During the warthe non-intercourse laws of Congress, andthe rigid blockade maintained by the Britishfleet, entirely cut the United States off fromcommercial intercourse with the rest of the UNIQUE COTTON HARVESTER. sold at reduced prices for the especial pur-pose of ruining American manufactures. Intheir weak and helpless condition the Ameri-can enterprises could not endure this com-petition, and the tariff was proposed as theonly means of saving them from ruin. Thefirst measure of this kind was passed byCongress in 1816, and was opposed by theNew England States, which were then largely 556 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. engaged in commerce, and was
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