8256. TARIFF, Burdens of.—[continued].
The revenue on the consumption
of foreign articles, is paid cheerfully
by those who can afford to add foreign
luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected
on our seaboards and frontiers only, and in
corporated with the transactions of our mercantile
citizens, it may be the pleasure and
pride of an American to ask, what farmer,
what mechanic, what laborer, ever sees a
tax-gatherer of the United States?—
Second Inaugural Address. Washington ed. viii, 41.
Ford ed., viii, 343.
(1805)
