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Document 258219 GEORGE M. DALLAS The former Vice President and Pennsylvania politician comments on an editorial on a tariff signed "A Pennsylvanian". ALS: "G.M. Dallas", 1p, 4¼x7. Mounted to a page of similar size. No place, 1852 April 23. To W.W.H. Davis, Esq. Marked by Dallas: "Private". In full: "Your letter of the 21 instant has just reached me. The series of letters on the Tariff, signed 'A Pennsylvanian' and printed during last summer in the Washington Union, were read by me with much pleasure. I am happy to be assured that they came from your pen, and as far as my sense of their great merit can avail for any purpose, it shall be expressed to any person and at any time. You must allow me, however, in the candor of confidence of personal intercourse, to say, that I should doubt the readiness of the Committee to which you refer to countenance their publication." Pennsylvania had a vested interest in a pro-tariff system. Cotton, woolen goods and pig iron manufacturers benefited by a tariff system. The manufacture of wool and iron seated heavily in the state. The agrarian South was against a system of tariffs. At the time of this document there was no specific tariff ready to be passed by Congress. One had passed in 1846 and another in 1857. Dallas was the son of Madison's Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander J. Dallas. Texas was admitted to the union as the 28th state in 1845, while Dallas served as Polk's Vice President (1845-1849). It is thought that the Texas city was named in honor of the new Vice President. Light ink transference. Fine condition. SEE IF DOCUMENT 258219 IS FOR SALE RIGHT NOW!!
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