Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.