The one involved the highest moral considerations, the other was governed solely by expediency.

Whether one man could hold property in another was a question which took deep hold of the consciences of men, and was either right or wrong in itself.

But whether the rate of duty upon a foreign import should be increased or lowered was a question to be settled solely by business and financial considerations.

Slavery in the United States, as long experience had proved, could be most profitably employed in the cultivation of cotton.

The cost of its production, in the judgment of those engaged in it, was increased by the operation of a tariff, whereas its price, being determined by the markets of the world, derived no benefit from protective duties.