Pamphlets Quotes
This agreement was not a law as an English colony like South Carolina could not pass a law that prohibited buying English merchandise. It was unofficial and great pressure was put on any citizen who would not sign it. The merchants that did import goods other than those allowed in the agreement were boycotted by most of the signers. This quotation illustrates what may have been the first organized protectionist actions to assist domestic producers and manufacturers. It is valuable for another reason. The quotation lists goods that are exempted from the boycott. These were goods that were not made in South Carolina or nearby states at the time since if they were, they would have been protected, So we can learn what was manufactured in the colony or nearby at the time—that which is nit on the list but was important to colonial life. The list tells us what was not manufactured locally, and one of the most important were firearms and ammunition. The inability to manufacture armaments plagued the colonies and early America after the revolution. One of the major public expenditures was to create and subsidize domestic arms manufacture.
This is one of the Supreme Court opinions that was written so broadly that it clearly covered the Internet Blogs, Social Media, and other forms.
