- Author
- Loose, John Ward Willson.
- Date of Publication
- 1954.
industry was hit severely.
Out of the ashes of this depression came the infant Republican
Party and its traditional policy of protective tariffs.
Added to these troubles was a 5 per cent lowering of duties
in the tariff of 1857.
The iron industry found a ready market during the Civil
War. Tariffs of 1861