Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1805-03-15

The rema!nIng revenue on tNc COns
sumption of foreign articles, IS paid
chiefly by those who can afford foreign
Injuries to domestic comforts. Beng
collected on our s=aboard and frontiers
only, and incorporated with the TRANSACT
tons of our mercantile citizens, It may
be the pleasure and the pride OF an Ame-
rican to ask what farmer, what mocha
mic, what labourer, ever sees tax ga
therer Of the United States These
contributions enable US to support the
current expenses of the government, to
fulfil contracts with foreign nations, to
extinguish the native right Of soil within
our limits, to extend those limits, and
to apply such surplus To our public
debts, as places at short day their hnH
redemption, and that redemption once
Effected, the revenue, thereby liberated.
may, by a just repartition among the
states, and corresponding amendment
of the constitution, be applied, in ri":<
efPeGce, to rivers, canals, roads, arts,
manufactures, education and other great
objects within each state. In time f1Udr,
ifinlustice by ourselves or others must
sometimes produce war, increased 40
the same revenue will be by Increased
population and consumption, and aided
by other resources, reserved for that
crisis, it may meet within the year all
the expenses Of the year, without en-
croaehsag on the rights of future genera
tons, by burthening them with the debts
Of the past. War will then be but sus-
pehslon OF useful works, and return 10
a state OF peace, areturn to the progress
Of Improvement.
have said. tellow-citizens, that the
income reserved had enabled US to ex-
tend our limits but that extension may
possibly pay for itself before we are CALI
ed on, and in the mean time may keep
down the accruing interest. In all e.
vents 1t wiilreplace the advances we have
made. know that the acquisition Of
Louisiana has been disapproved bvs some,
from a candid apPrehe nsion that an en-
!~gement OF our territory may endang er
Is union. But who can limet the extent
u which the federative principle NAV
operate effectively: The larger our as
ISOLATION, the. less will 1t be shaken bv
heal passions. And in any view, is it
1ot better that the opposite bank Of the
Mississippi should be settled by our own
brethren and children, than BY strangers
bf another family! With which shall
*e be likely to live in most harmony and
friendly intercourse
In matters Of religion, ! have consi-
dered that IT'S free exercise is placed bv
che constitution, independent OF the pow
ers OF the general government. have
therefore undertaken, on no occasion.
to prescribe the religious exercises su;,.
ed to it but have left them, as the con.
stitution found them, under the direct;-
on and discipline of the state or church
authorities Acknowledged by the several
religious societies.
The aboriginal inhabitants Of these
Countries, have regarded with the com.
mIsseration their history inspires. En-
lowed with the faculties and the r;oh,.
OF men. breathing an ardent love Of II.
oerty and independence, and occupvinv
country which left them no desire 6ui
to be undisturbed, the stream of over
flowing population from other regions
directed itself on these shores. Without
power to divert, or habits to contend ..
gatnst It, they have been overwhelmed
BY the current, or driven before it, Now
reduced within limits too narrow for,hs
hunter state, humanity enioin. us to
teach them agriculture and the dome,,;e
arts : to encourage them to that industry
which alone can enable them to mai. in
their place in existence, and to prepare
them in time for that state of socie,v
which, to bodily comforts, add. the i'm.
Provement Of the mind and morals. We
have therefore literally furnished them
with the implements Of husbandry and
household Hse; We have placed amon1
them Instructors in the arts of first ne. 4
ee.s'ty and they arc covered with the
8kIs oil the law against aSrre..or. f-o..