1827 Richmond Virginia Imprint MR. HENRY CLAYS SPEECH UPON TARIFF First edition, Very Rare

Mr. Clays Speech upon the Tariff, or the American System, Very Rare part of American History.

Mr. Giles Speech upon the Resolutions of Inquiry in the House of Delegates of Virginia, in Reply to Mr. Clays Speech, Also, His Speech in Reply to Gen. Taylors.

Giles had been a prominent State Rights Jeffersonian in Congress in the late 18th and early 19th century, an influential supporter of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, and a leader of the 1801 effort to repeal the Judiciary Act.
After retiring from politics, he returned to the Virginia General Assembly where, in this piece, he championed the well-known resolutions of 1827 against the tariff and internal improvements.
Giles opposed root and branch, the Clay-Whig program of protective tariffs, and federal funding of internal improvements as an unconstitutional usurpation of power, consolidation in its essence.
In vintage Virginia State Rights lingo, he asserts, Disguise it as you may conceal it if you can, the essence of the tariff is disunion.
Disunion in sectional interests, in individual occupations.
A war of all the discordant elements, of the different occupations in society, urged on, by individual cupidity, and grounded upon incessant efforts of reciprocal plunder, cunning, being substituted for principle.