{"id":773,"date":"2003-02-25T22:46:57","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T06:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=773"},"modified":"2005-08-25T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T04:01:09","slug":"just-say-slavery-slavery-it-is-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Just say slavery.&#8221; &#8220;Slavery it is, sir!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/fullstory.asp?control=1168\">Thomas DiLorenzo<\/a> on the role of tariffs in the troubles of 1861. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. when the Republican Party gained power in the late 1850s the top item on its agenda was to increase the average tariff rate from 15% [in 1857] to 32% and then to over 47% [in May 1860]. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<br \/>\nAbraham Lincoln was a lifelong protectionist and .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. at the 1860 Republican Party convention .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. won the support of the Pennsylvania and New York delegations (the two largest) by convincing them that no other candidate was more devoted to protectionism than he was. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> There&#8217;s more, and it&#8217;s rather better written than DiLorenzo&#8217;s own book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas DiLorenzo on the role of tariffs in the troubles of 1861. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. when the Republican Party gained power in the late 1850s the top item on its agenda was to increase the average tariff rate from 15% [in 1857] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=773\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-taxprivacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}