ABSTRACT
The omission of Mr. Adams, up to the Presidential contest of 1828, to recommend protection to manufactures, in direct and express terms, in either of his messages, subjected him to the charge of opposition to that doctrine. His general indorsement of the policy of Mr. Monroe's administration was not considered satisfactory upon a question which, from its nature, demanded open and unequivocal advocacy. Some members of Congress who were laboring to secure an increase of duties upon wool and woolen goods, and who were the supporters of Mr. Adams, sent out circulars from Washington City, wherein it was charged that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who was elected as a friend of General Jackson, had appointed a majority of anti-tariff men upon the Committee of Manufactures, and that they had so prepared the bill then pending as to secure the votes of certain free-trade representatives from the South, and thereby to endanger its passage in a satisfactory form.
