5A FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
sheep, of which I know little; and sixty were landed 
at Philadelphia, with the character of which I am 
unacquainted. Having determined to settle in Amer- 
ica, [ returned to Saxony, and spent the winter of 
182627 in visiting and examining many flocks. I 
selected one hundred and fifteen from the celebrated 
flock of Macherns, embarked on board the ship 
Albion, and landed in New York June 27,1827. In 
1828 I received eighty more from the same flock, 
selected by a friend of mine, an excellent judge of 
sheep. I first drove them to Shaftesbury, adjoining 
the town of Hoosic, where I now reside. On their 
arrival they stood me in $70 a head, and the lambs 
half that sum.” 
The fires of speculation might have died out and a 
reaction ensued, when the unsuitableness of these 
sheep for our climate and systems of husbandry 
became apparent, had any time been given for cool 
reflection. But the year 1825 brought another of 
those pecuniary revulsions which periodically sweep 
like desolating tornadoes over our country. This is 
not the place to investigate its causes. The friends 
of the “American System,” as the friends of high 
protective tariffs were then called, attributed it to our 
excessive importations from Europe, and these views 
prevailed’so far that the tariff of 1828 was enacted. 
U. 8. Tariff Laws since 1824, 
. The tariff of 1828 imposed a specific duty on wool 
‘of four cents per pound, and in addition thereto an 
ad valorem duty of 40 per cent. until 30th of June, 
1829, when an additional duty of five per centum 
was to be added, and that amount annually, till the 
additional duty ad valorem amounted to 50 per cent- 
