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Updated: May 12, 2025
They are only a little more inconsistent than the pure protectionists, as these are more inconsistent than the absolute prohibitionists. I will illustrate this by a fable: There were, it matters not where, two towns, N*w Y*rk and M*ntr l, which, at great expense, had a road built, which connected them with each other.
After some years, people having become more enlightened, the inhabitants of M*ntr l began to discover that these reciprocal obstacles might possibly be reciprocal injuries. This is absurd. It would have been far better to have left things in their original position, for then we would not have been put to the expense of building our road, and afterwards of creating difficulties.
In the name of M*ntr l I come to propose to you not to renounce at once our system of mutual obstacles, for this would be acting according to a principle, and we despise principles as much as you do; but to somewhat lighten these obstacles, weighing at the same time carefully our respective sacrifices."
We would be entirely ruined if the embarrassments of the road were not carefully weighed and exactly equalized between N*w Y*rk and M*ntr l. There would be more difficulty in going than in coming; in exportation than in importation.
Some time after this was done, the inhabitants of N*w Y*rk became uneasy, and said: "M*ntr l is overwhelming us with its productions; this must be attended to." They established, therefore, a corps of Obstructors, so called, because their business was to place obstacles in the way of the convoys which arrived from M*ntr l. Soon after, M*ntr l also established a corps of Obstructors.
The ambassador having thus spoken, the town of N*w Y*rk asked time to reflect; manufacturers, office-seekers, congressmen, and custom-house officers, were consulted; and at last, after some years' deliberation, it was declared that the negotiations were broken off. At this news, the inhabitants of M*ntr l held a council.
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