Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-08-09


:, rbe ancient dominion, and all the ariRccrats
#xho follow in the train OF Virginia, now ride
Is a their coaches without being taxed for this
0u,ary-there are no longer any taxes on max
= .k;oc whriksy, and the Virginians, and the Vlr
y r;1a Colonies 1.-THE TenneEee and Kentucky
skI4<nenl now enjoy the luxury Of getting drunk
n .for few cents. The frlt year of Jeferfon's
u +republic, the virgnans call The 6rit year OF
! 1;aertv in the great Ra'e Of Virginia, bur it
ranly is not for New England reiga of equal
Aa;tv. Cheriihing the lteady and rational habits
Ahf their anceRors, the men of New England
nac their evenings by their own FIRE lides, and
H., n rhe horoms of their families. Their breakfasts
III are not of whifkey ,ulap, Dor of gin fling but
p 5of tea and coffee Their evenings are not fpent
I'm a,eboufes or grog fhops-but after the la
hours of the day, every New England man,
farrounded with his wife and bis children, is
\, 4olaced with his family tea party-So lnduitri-
ous are our citizens, that the pooret OF them
>nfe tea and coffee ;-thefe articles in New
England are deemed necefaries of life. Tea,
= 4i,qar and coffee, are as necehary to yankee,
- Is whifkey is TO Virginian. Every houfe in
our country affords bohea team travelling
al through Virginia, it is not fen in five houies
n out OF ten. This IS all matter of fafhien, ard
~, HE difference ia this refpea between the great
j. Rate of Virginia and the little tate OF Rhode
NJ land is, that 10 Virginia tits the faihon for
= men to employ hours Of leifu.e in horie racing,
rard playing and drinking whifkey here they
la Harry at home in the evenings oblerving our
good old fA!hion Of drinking tea with their
b famiies.
naf Ii is worthy of fome enquiry, on what terms
= I'VE ger our tea and coffee, and he Virginans
aaIsher whifky toddy. The duties on brown
x fugar, tea and coffee, which were fixed IN
:: lime of war; and with reference TO war prices,
are continued in this feaion Of peace, and are
==eno- monty high. The duty on brown iugar,
~. IS two and half cents pound, three dollars
and fifty FIX cents The hundred weig ht-its cor
= 4 abroad is Gx dollars and fifty cents the hund
!. red hence il appears, that the duly is above
6 Ss6fty pei cent This is the highef duty, on the
Ma il of duties, except on teas. Teas pay higher
I'd duties, than any other article. The duty on
,v, coffee is about forty per eent.-But what care
oar matters about all this, or about US Nothing.
W. We goversed BY Virginia, and the Virgi
hians are no mix tops, they drink neither tea
!. nor coffee they all prefer whifkey all of them
~. rom Claiborne their member of congrefs to
lsscujloe, who is Claiborne's umbrella bearer
II is an aicertained fatt, that there is more DO
sph ea tea confirm ia the fr1all States of Rhode
s0g Ham AID Delaware, than in the mi ghty State
- oil Virginia, and in Kentucky. Ii is fac, that
here a.e more coaches al Richmond, The cap
Tgrita of Virginia, than in all the State of Rhoie
Mlni Ii is faa, that there's more whifkey
drank in Tsnnehee, or il Kentucky, than in all
y !. New England. II is fat, thar there is more
NJ public income, derived from he duties paid on
4 brown fn gar, imported into Newport and Prov
s1ence, than what the National Treafury
10 eeives from the States of Kentucky and Tenn
10 Nee Indeed il may be faid Kentucky and
= ~ IeansHes contribute nothing, towards the
~ nnantainance of the national government
Eongreis have appropriated millions, tor the
III tayment Of the militia Of thele young States, in
T. attending their frontiers ag4inR the IN IS.
I'd Last winter Jrfe fon's Congress paaed an act,
/. 1Sdirs6iog all the overplus monies derived from
~ The Pot Once efablifhment, to be applied in
NJ making Dads, not IN the middle States, or from
PHP. he feat OF government to our northern and
- buthern boundaries, bur through 1enn-fse
ii md Kentucky.--This furniihes key for IN
"a dsritanGing the policy OF our Virginia rulers.
adIyAt the next Prefidential Election, Kentucky
,1I vii give more votes than New Hampthirc, and
tennedee will give almot twice as many as
- kho5e iGan3. Virginia herelf will give more
81 sssotes, than ftven Of the fnali GATES.
4 Ihefe fa3s are explanatory Of the meafures Of
4 our Virginia naturalization. When the friends
! ss}of the Contc,ion wilhed to lower the high
eiotiss, now paid Oh fome of The neceGaries of
iii, On ialt. brown fugar, tea and coffee the
w. ninldeiialitts with Giles az their held) f4id
~ No This would interfere with The plans OF
~ Virginia A iurplus of revenue enables Us to
teuuce our taxes. BIT as every body rides in
= Vagina we will abofh the Carriage tax.-As
r. IN Lite Virginia (that IS Kentucky aad Ten
pehee) they pay no tar hn- on Stills, we mutt
af aooith that tax-Whnky fall no logger be
M mr'hened with excite. This is the lcaie BY
a shch juilics IS meaiured out to the people of
ne U. States, By oar Virginia rulers Bat bad
= emes-evil times theie, foS New England
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