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respects to manufactured textiles alone, willo xpross the 

 increase more readily than it can be done in words : 



lui|M.ii;. Woolonu. Cottons. SIlkH. Linen A Flu?:. Tlcirii). 



'JK8'2 $i),W)'2,424 JMO,:!!HM>W $!t,'.MS,HI>7 $4,078, 1 I'd $1640,918 



188C. 21,080,008 17,870,087 VJ2,!SO,'2-1!4 9,807,408 8,80r>,897 



In many other articles the gain was proportionable. 

 In the single one of sugar, the advance, during the 

 same period, in the value of the import was from two 

 to twelve millions of dollars. The aggregate value 

 of imports in 1836 was $189,980,035 ; the aggregate 

 duties $30,991,510 ; and the average per centum of 

 duties on imports 16fYtfV- The sales of the public lands 

 went on. The gradual reduction of the tariff 1 of 1833 

 did not, therefore, bring down the public revenues to 

 the scale of expenditure, and a surplus of twenty- 

 eight millions of dollars accumulated and was depos- 

 ited with the states. 



An exigency, however, was approaching, which 

 rendered it necessary to increase the duty on imports. 

 The pecuniary revulsion of 1837 fell upon the 

 country. In that year the imports of woolens sunk 

 to $8,500,292, and in the succeeding year it rose to 

 only $11,512,920. Other imports decreased in a 

 somewhat corresponding ratio. The sale of public 

 lands fell off. The government debts were increasing, 

 and all saw that under the pressure of the times, the 

 manufacturers could not possibly sustain themselves 

 under the minimum of protection to be reached by 

 the " compromise tariff." This led to the tariffs of 

 1841 and 1842, and to the changes they made in the 

 duties on wool and woolens.' 



The one year tariff of 1841 left the 20 per centum 

 duties on woolens undisturbed, but struck out the 



