ON THE Sept. 2292 COLLECTION OF REVENUE. BY EDWARD ATKINSON. (REVISED EDITION.) Every person contributing $2.00, or over, to the League, is a Member for a year, and will receive all its publications. All remittances and payments to be made to C. H. MARSHALL, Treasurer, 38 Burling Slip, New-York. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN FREE TRADE LEAGUE, C9 WILLIAM STREET. 1869.1 Every Person contributing $2, or over, to the League, is a Member for a year, and will receive all its publications. All remittances and payments to be made to 38 Burling Slip, New York. C. H. MARSHALL, Treasurer, FREE-TRADE.—This is the plain duty, and plain interest of the human race. Freedom of the seas: freedom of harbors; an intercourse of nations, free as the winds; this is not a dream of philanthropists. We are tending towards it, and let us hasten it.— Channing. ALAS! we have tried everything-when shall we make the trial of the simplest thing of all-Liberty? Liberty in all that does not offend against justice-liberty to live, advance, improve-the free exercise of our faculties-the free interchange of services.Bastiat. IT were to be wished that commerce were as free between all the nations of the World as it is between the several Counties of England, so would ALL by mutual communication, obtain more enjoyments.-Benjamin Franklin. ALL legislation which restricts the means of living is hurtful to the moral life of nations.-Bastiat. WHY should we fetter Commerce? If a man is in chains, he droops and bows to the earth, for his spirits are broken, but let him twist the fetters from his legs, and he will stand erect. Fetter not Commerce, sir-let her be as free as air-she will range the whole creation, and return on the wings of the four winds of heaven, to bless the land with plenty.-Patrick Henry. Officers of the American Free-Trade League for 1869. Office of the American Free-Trade League, 69 William Street, New York. |