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 There were some, however, who viewed the action of Congress as a promise of a better program for the future. The Courier was even accused of trying to show the tariff to be not an evil to the South, but a positive good. There were also some few in the state who were said, with some degree of truth, to be ready to sacrifice the principle for which the state stood as regarded internal improvements. The tariff defenders