antiprotectionist

Updated: May 6, 2025

Gradually the antiprotectionist leaders were made to see that the tariff was not a subject upon which the President felt keenly, and that therefore it was useless to look to him for effective support. Even the adroit efforts which were made to get from the incoming executive expressions that could be interpreted as endorsements of nullification were successfully fended off.

Frederic Austin Ogg - The Reign of Andrew Jackson