N.C. Governor Daniel Webster.
The Tariff of 1822 was an act passed by the Northern Confederation Council and signed into law by Governor Daniel Webster. The bill raised the tariff in the Northern Confederation to the highest level it had been up to that time.
The Tariff Bill was one of the first legislative accomplishments of the N.C.'s recently-formed Liberal Party, which represented the interests of a new class of wealthy industrialists such as Cornelius Vanderbilt and Malcolm McGregor. In addition to making N.C. manufactures more competitive with those from Great Britain, the Tariff would have provided funding for later Liberal policies, such as the Internal Improvements Bill of 1823, and the Harbors Act of 1823.
Although Sobel does not remark on it, the fact that the N.C. was able to impose tariffs on British imports demonstrates a remarkable degree of sovereignty and autonomy on its part.