ABSTRACT
Not only did the necessities of the country require, but the almost universal public sentiment justified, the increase of duties by the tariff of 1828, over those fixed by that of 1824. Mr. Benton supported the proposition of Mr. Kane, upon the ground that it would be beneficial to the lead regions of Missouri and Illinois, and said also that he "considered lead as one of the articles of domestic production on which the system of protecting duties might legitimately be carried to the prohibitory point against its foreign rival". Mr. Benton moved "to impose a duty of twenty-five cents per pound on imported indigo, with a progressive increase at the rate of twenty-five cents per pound per annum until the whole duty amounted to one dollar per pound". Besides the gentlemen whose opinions are here quoted, the bill was supported and voted for by Mr. Martin Van Buren and Mr. Silas Wright, of New York.
