Mum was the word, and mum the country solemnly and suddenly became from Maine to Georgia.

But, alas! beneath the ashes of this Missouri business, deep below the unnatural silence and quiet, inextinguishable fires were burning and working again to the surface of politics.

In such circumstances a fresh outbreak of old animosities must occur as soon as the subterranean heat should reach the point of highest combustibility in the federal system.

The tariff proved to be that point of highest combustibility.
Alexander Hamilton inaugurated the policy of giving governmental aid to infant manufactures.

The wisdom of diversifying the industries of the young nation was acquiesced in by the leading statesmen of both sections.