Description
Offered here is a rare original 24-page pamphlet titled “Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, In Favor of A Protecting Tariff,” delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives on December 20, 1841. This historical document captures Representative William Slade’s detailed defense of protective tariffs, a central issue of 19th-century American economic policy.
Slade, a prominent Whig and future Governor of Vermont, argues for the economic and moral necessity of protecting American manufacturing in the wake of the Panic of 1837. His speech anticipated the Tariff of 1842, a landmark return to protectionism after years of tariff reductions. This lengthy and impassioned address provides a rare, firsthand view of the era’s economic debates and ideological divisions between the industrial North and the agrarian South.
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Original 1841 pamphlet, 24 pages, printed shortly after the speech
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Delivered in the 27th U.S. Congress under President John Tyler
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Advocates Whig policies including national economic development and industrial growth
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Valuable for collectors of American political history, economic policy, or pre-Civil War Congressional documents
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Reflects Northern arguments for protective tariffs during a time of financial recovery and shifting party ideologies
This is a historically significant piece of antebellum Americana that captures a pivotal moment in the nation’s economic evolution.
