The founders wanted to develop industry and jobs.
Look everyone knows the USA started with no income taxes and tariffs. You like income taxers and no tariffs, then again you are a progressive Free Traitor™ so it doesn't surprise me. You are no conservative that is for sure.
Hamilton primarily advanced the "infant industry" argument, namely, that developing industries need to be protected from their foreign counterparts (and it's true). In the case of an infant industry, he understood that the tariffs should be lifted at some point. You don't see modern protectionists making that argument at all . . . to them, it's about "saving jobs."
For that matter, Solyndra was an "infant industry." How well did that work out for us?