...his Annual Message, January 8, 1790, says: "The safety and interest of the people require that they promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent...for essential, particularly for military, supplies." Should the casting of steel guns be successful, Washington's charge would be effectually carried out,...

...first message to Congress, " the safety and interest of the people require that they should protect such manufactures as tend to render them independent...for essential, particularly for military, supplies" Mark this language, used nearly a century ago. The main object of this first tariff bill was to fill...

...agriculture^ commerce, and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation " . . . The very first act of the first Congress — excepting...opened with the following preamble : " Whereas it is necessary for the support of the Government, for the discharge of the debt of the United States, and...

...one that has engaged the attention of our statesmen from the earliest foundation of the government. George Washington in his first message to Congress...to render them independent of others for essential, and particularly for military, supplies." The very first act of the first Congress was prefaced by...

...Message, speaking of our nation as "a free people," said : " Their safety and interest require that they promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent of others for essentials, particularly military supplies." In his seventh Annual Message he shows that "our agriculture,...

...Washington in his first annual message, " The safety and interest of a free people require that they promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent of others for essentials, particularly military supplies." The question of a tariff was thus injected into the First...

...message to Congress, declared that: " The safety and interest of the people require that 2,019,256 they should promote such manufactures as tend to render...military, supplies." The very first act of the First Congress—as pointed out in the able and exhaustive speech of Mr. Hubbell of Michigan, in the House,...

...Washington in his first annual message, " The safety and interest of a free people require that they promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent of others for essentials, particularly military supplies." The question of a tariff was thus injected into the First...

...message, speaking of our nation as "a free people," said : "Their safety and interest require that they promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent of others for essentials, particularly military supplies." In his seventh annual message he shows that " our agriculture,...

...inaugural address in 192 Tariff Legislation, 1818-1833. [§84 1 789, when he advised his countrymen " to promote such manufactures as tend to render them independent of others for essentials, particularly military supplies," and again more definitely in the annual address in 1796;...