The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

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• Henry Charles Carey:

  In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been effic

• Henry Charles Carey:

  In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only

• Henry Charles Carey:

  In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we sh

• Henry Charles Carey:

  From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and

• Henry Charles Carey:

  Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

• Henry Charles Carey:

  Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the popula

• Henry Charles Carey:

  The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the

• Henry Charles Carey:

  It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Dire

• Henry Charles Carey:

  The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the

• Henry Charles Carey:

  As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best cust