ABSTRACT
It is not necessary to the purpose of the present inquiries to trace the entire course of legislation which resulted in the passage of the tariff law of 1832, in response to the recommendations of the administration. That purpose being circumscribed within a narrower compass, will be fully answered by explaining the grounds of opposition to the protective system, how it was maintained, and the reasons which were then and have ever since been accepted in its justification. The opposition took more active shape in the House of Representatives than in the Senate. That being the body within which, by the Constitution, all revenue bills must originate, the discussions which generally attend them take a very wide range. The Committee on Manufactures was organized by the appointment of Mr. John Ouincy Adams, Chairman, he having been elected to the House of Representatives after his defeat by General Jackson.
