Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — PRESIDENT JACKSON ON PROTECTION. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT JACKSON ON PROTECTION.

Tbetfatc of the resolution, heretofore mention (Hi u passed by the convention nominating president Jackson, was misprinted. The resolution as given was correct, but it was passed by the convention nominating him for President Now tere Is ali extract from President Jackson’s second aonnal message, of Decern ber 7, 1830, on the constitutionality of protection: . r “The power te impose duties on imports originallr bslongsd to States. The sncoorsgeinent of domestic branch* of industry is so completely'ldentical with that power that tt is difficult to suppose tbe existence of the outwithout the other. • * . * » • * Ih this conclusion I am confirmed at well by the opinions of President's Washington, Jefferson. Madison, and Monroe, who have each repeatedly recommended the exercise of this right under the Constitution, as by the uniform practice of Congress, the continued as Oeeeenoeof the States, and ths gjceral understanding of the fsopta.” : Tills was abont the time of Cal boon’s threatened nullification, when Old Hickory threatened to hang him. And yet the Democratic National Convention now says “protection is unconstitutional.” It is the same old nulification spirit