I apprehend it will be admitted by all our members that few other subjects than the one which I have chosen are more important in their nature, or more in accordance with the purposes for which our Association was ...

Among those many useful topics to which I have alluded, the discussion of Free-trade, and its partial adoption by us, and other nations, has been attended with many beneficial results. It is my main object in this paper ...

At the period I refer to, some fourteen hundred articles of commerce were subjected to duties on entering the ports of Great Britain and Ireland. And now that experience, coming to the aid of sound reasoning, has proved ...

The essay now read seems to me to contain much suggestive matter to thoughtful men ? much that should make us pause and seriously consider the consequences of introducing into our country a more general system of out-door ...