Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Lincoln” in chapter 5, page 59 of Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States:

...tes at Large, of the American Congress, will find on an average, a tariff for every five years recorded on their pages; the cormorants increasing in rapacity, the more they devoured. No wonder that Mr. Lincoln when asked, why not let the South go? replied, Let the South go! where then shall we get our revenue.? This system of spoliation was commenced in 1816. The doctrine of protection was not, a...
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