...different pursuits of society to take their own course, and not to give excessive bounties or encouragement to one over another. This also, is the true spirit...sections, and of forcing them into other employments."' Yet by 1816 he was merely "ambivalent" toward protection. Eight years later he supported aspects of...

...the perpetual whirl of spools and spindles, and the grating of rasps and saws. "It is the true policy of government to suffer the different pursuits of...has not, in my opinion, conferred on the government this power of changing the occupations of the people." Opposition to the policy of the administration...