The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-10-05 00:00:00, page 1

TUESDAY, OCT. 5, iBoe.J
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By CITIZEN NEWSCHOOL, Esquire. 'L
gs. a far,]^
tax on Brown Sugar, Salt, %.
THE Federalists, without any
regard to truth, have unblufh
ingl, averted that the duty on salt,
tea, brown sugar and coffee, was
laid by the republicans. The fad ;
is, that these duties were laid so ear.
ly as the year 1796; 11 years before
Mr. Jefferfon's administration com
menced.—They are duties of impost,
and formed no part of the internal
taxes. If they were improper taxes,
why did not the federalifts themfelve,
repeal them, when they had it in
their power so to do. Mr. Jeffer
fon's administration abolished the
internal taxes only; because they are
burthenfome to the people, oppref,
five in their nature, and extravagant
in their col/edion. If the tax on
Carriages had alone been retained,
(as the federalifts pretend to with it
bad been) 450 officers must have
been kept in commission to colle& it :
The product of the tax would be
about 70,000 dollars a year; and the
expence of colleaingit would amount
to at lead three or four timesas much.
This would be economy with a witness !
Instead of this, Mr, jefferfon's ad
ministration, by repealing all the in#
ternal taxes, and abolishing the offi
cers employed in colleding them as
well as other burthenfome placemen,
has actually made afaving to.the
country, of 480,000 dollars a year.
, No part of the customs or impost
was repealed; and to this class of
taxes belongs the duties on salt, teas,
brown sugar and coffee. The duties
on these were mortgaged (among
others) by theformer administration,
to pay debts b, them contrasted: They
could not therefore be abolished,
without railing a hue-and-cry of a
design to destroy public credit. The
duty on loaf sugar was an intended
fax, in the nature of an excise; and
therefore, this duty, together with
that on domeflic drilled spirits and
carriages, was taken off:* They are
all, betides, manufactures of our own
country. All this is so plain, that
any man of common understanding
will easily comprehend it ; and wilb
not fuffer himfelf to be deceived by
the fhameful misrepresentations of
designing men. X
The following observations, on
this fubjed, are quoted from a late
Fredericktown paper, and are in
point:
* In the year 1790, under the ad
ministration of Washington, a duty
was laid on those articles: In the year
'797' ^efederalifts increased the du#
ty. In July, 1797, among the firft
i& of Adams' administration, was
laying an increased duty of eight cents
per bushel on salt. The expensive
and extravagant measures of the feds
eralifts, inborrowing money at Might
per cent, and raising a federal Hand
ing army, to make provision for
their friends increased the national
debt ten millions of dollars,; They ,
then, in the year 1800, laid a fur
ther increased duty on brown sugar
and molasses, for the purpbfe of pay.
• The raw material (brown sugar) pg,,
ate impost duty, and all imported loaf sugar ,
tea the so. j
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ing the intcreft of the money they
fed squandered away, 'in feeding and
clothing an useless army. * -
" The whole of these duties they
made perpetual. They pledged them
for the payment of the principal and
'intereft of the loans they had made,
;and which they,might make.
" After inereajing these duties,
from time to time, they mortgaged
them for the payment of all debts
contrasted by the United States
Turn to the ads of Congress passed
by thefederalifts, with Adams at their
head, in the years 1797, 17)8, ^99
and 1800, and it will be seen, that
they pledged these identical duties
for the payment of the money they
had lavished in extravagance and use
less expence; and yet the tories of
Fredericktown have the impudence
to fay these increased duties were
laid by the friends of Mr. Jefferfon !
Oh! shame! where is thy blush ?
But men who were not ashamed to be
tories, feel no remorse in lying and
evil speaking. They are now en.
, deavouring to do by eunning, what
they could not effect by the sword."
^' Lancaster Intelligencer.'
[• Let those who call themselves fed
eral republicans, and spout against
the tax on salt, brownfugar, tea, &c.
read and controvert, if they tan, the
fallowing fubborn FACTS.
* FROM THE AURORA.
A CONCISE HISTORY
Os the duties on Salt, brown Sugar,
Bohea Tea and Coffee, extracted
from the Journal of Congress.
During the administration of Gen
eral Washington—
The duty op Salt • wasiz cents per bufrh
— —-Bohea Tea tx per pound.
— =- — Brown Sugar 2 ' per pound.
—-—-Coffee § per pound.
On the 18th of July, 1797, in the
firft Congress of Mr. Adams's admin
istration, an additional duty of 8
cents per Bushel, was laid on salt,
making the entire duty on that arti
^Cie 20 cents a bushel. The addi#
tional duty was limited in its con.
tinuance to two years ; that is to the
8:h of July 1799, and from thence
until the end of the. next session of
Congress. (1)
But afterwards on the 7th of May
1800, a law was ena&ed, to contin
ue this additional duty on salt for ten
years, from the 3d of march 1800,
to the 3d of March, 1810 (2)
The duty on brown sugar was also
encreafed during the fame adminis
tration, from two to two and a half
cents per pound. By virtue of this
a&, and also of thetas of (he 3d of
March 1795, and of the 31st May,
*796, (3) passed during the admin
iltration of General Washington, all
the then as well as itefurther proceeds
of the merchandize, including of
course all the duties before noticed,
on salt, brown sugar, bohea tea, and
Coffee, were solemnly appropriated
! for the extinguishment of the public
! debt, until the whole ofihe said debt,
foreign and domestic, Should be paid
and discharged.
When the additional! duty of 8
cents a bushel on salt, was firft pro.
I pofed in Gongrefr, on the 9th of,
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June, 1,97, it was rejeded in the |
house of representatives by the fren
uous exertions of the republican mem
bers (4.) Soon after, on the 26th of
June, 1797, a bill was presen ted by
William Smith of Charleston, a fed
eralift, to authorife a loan of 800,000
dollars, which was passed into a law ;
and on the 4th of July, 1797, being
only fix days before Congress ad
journed, and when a number of
members had left Congress and re
turned home, another motion was
made by those then called the feder
al members, and carried, for impos
ing the additional duty of eight cents a
bushel on lalt. '.^^
On this motion the yeas and nays
were taken, when the yeas were 47
and the nays 41—-the names are sub.
joined in a note. (5)
Accordingly'a bill was brought in,
and on the fame da, passed into a law
by those then caWed federalifts, for
laying the additional duty of eight
cents a bushel on salt. This bill was
without limitation of time and of
course designed to make the duty
permanent and a perpetual tax. The
republicans thereupon moved a clause
to be added to the law, which would
limit the continuance of this addition,
al duty to two years. This clause
was violently opposed by the federal
'ifts, but carried by the republicans
on a vote 47 to 43. (6)
At a subsequent feffiorf of Con
gress during Mr. Adams's adminif,
tration, and after an a& had been
passed by the federalifts IQ authorize
another loan of five millions of dol
lars, at an interest of eight per cent.
a motion was made by the federalifts
for a law 66 to continue in force the
* a& passed on the Bth of July, 1797,
laying an " additional duty on salt,"
this motion was carried by the feder.
11^,54 10 38. (7) .^
The bill was accordingly brought
in and passed into alaw by the eder.
alifts, direding the additional duty
of eight cents per bushel on salt, to be
continued in force, for and during
the term of ten years from the 3d of
March 1800, to the 3d of March
1810. On the discussion of this bill
the republicans moved 10 strike our
" ten years" and to insert instead
thereof " two years," so as to have
the law in force until the 3d of March
1802, but this alteration waqfyed#
ed by the Federalists 44 to 50. j^t
From the foregoing fa&s, it will
appear that the duties on salt, brown
sugar, bohea tea, and coffee, were
originally laid de ring the administra
tion of General Wellington. 1
That additional duties onfall and
brown sugar were impoled by the
Federalists during the administration
of Adams.
That tha additional duty of eight
cents' per bushel on salt, was, when
faft proposed by the Federalists ...
.... rejected by the Republicans ♦ .
That the fame additional duty was
afterwards, inthe fame session, mov.
ed and carried by the Federaltjb.
That it was again strenuously ob#
je&ed to and opposed by the Repfc
That this additional duty was firft
ptopofed to be made perpetual by the
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1 That this attempt was opposed and
defeated by the Republicans-
That the firft limitation of the said
additional duty to two years was mov#
ed and carried by the Republicans.
That this limitation to two years
was objected to and opposed by the
federalifts.
That the law passed May 7, 1800,
to continue the additional duty of
eight cents per bushel on salt for ten
years, was firft proposed by the Fed
eralists.
That jt was vigorously opposed by
the Republicans.
That a second attempt to limit the
additional duty to two years, that is
to the 3d March 1802, was made
by the Republicans.
.That this attempt was defeated,
and the law as it now stands to con.
tinue the said additional' duty until
the 3 March 1810, was carried by
the Federalists.
That the increase and continuance
ofthefe duties were preceded by laws
authoring loans of money to the
public, and
That the proceeds of the duties
on salt, bohea tea, brown sugar, and
coffee, were by law appropriated to
the public debt until the whole of
it should be discharged.
The reflexions resulting from these
fads, and from the repeal of the inter
nal taxes, will in a future number be
fobmitted to the calm and difpaffioo.
ate judgment of a free and difeeming
people.
ANDREW MARVEL.
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(1) See Laws of U. States, vol. 5/p. 353.
<(zj Laws of U. States, vol. 5, p. 144.
(3j Laws of U. States, pw» 205 and 35.
(4) See the Journals of the Houle cf Rep
retentive#, pages 71, 82, and the debate#
published in the newspapers of Philadelphia
of that month.
(5) The yeas and nays following are ex#
traded from the Journal cf the house of rep.
rrfentatives, pages 120, 'l2l.
YEAS —John Alien, George Baer, jun.
James A. Bayard, Divid Brack*, Juha
Chapmen, C. B, Charoplio,Jarnos Cochran,
Joshua Coit, Wm. Craik, S. W. Dana,
J. Davenport, Jobs Dennis. George Deot,
Thomas Brans, Abtel Foto, Dwight Fof,
ter, Jonathan Freeman, Chauncey Good,
rich, Wm. Gordon, Roger Gtilwold, R.
G. Harper, Thomas Hirtiey, Wa. Hind
mao, Hezekiah L. H # fm, J. H Imlay, J.
W. Kittera, Samuel Lyman, Wm. Mat.
thews, L. R. Morris, H. G Otis, E. R.
Potter, John Reed, Js. Schurem.n, Samuel
Sewall, Wm. Shepard, Thomas SiQmckfon D
Samuel Sitgreaves, Jeremiah Smith, Na
thaniel Smith, Wm. Smith (CharkO ) Johri
Swanwick, Geatge Thatcher, Richard
Thomas. Mark Thompson. J. E. Van Alien,
Peleg Wadsworth, John Williams— 47,
NAYS—Abraham Baldwin, David Bard.
Lemuel Bantgn, Richard Brent, N>;hin Bry
an, Dem fey Burges, Samuel J, Cabell, Thor.
Ciairbrane, Manbew Clay, John Ciopton,
T.T. Davis, J. Dawson. Lucas Elmendorf,
Joha Fowler, Albert Gallatin, J. GiUefoie.
W, B. Grove. J. A Hanoa, j. N. Haydns, p.
Holmes, Walter Jones, Matthew Locke, M.
Lyon, J. M^ctiir, Nathl. °Mac& B. M'Cle
nachan, Jtfy§ M'Dowell, J. Millege, An
thopy New, Juho Nicholas, T. J. Skinner, 1
Wm. Smith, (of Pinckney diftria) Richard
Sprig,Jun. Richard Stanford, Thn. Sump,
ter, Abram Trigg, John Trigg, P Vsn,Cort.
Inndt, J, B. Vifnum, Abraham Venable, Rt.
Williams- 41.. 7
(6) See the Journals, pages 12^ and 124;
The yeas and nays flood on this vote contrary
to the former, the nay, batog the yeas only
with the following alterations: John Chap,
man, George Dect, Thomas Evans, Thomas
Harkey, J W. Kotera, and John Williams,
voted among the yeas, or for the limitation of
the tax to two fire, and Thorifailfot and
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