Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-05-30

last yea. OIL susp clJn OF nasing supplied the
British ships al Cape Cod with sonis beet
As his Honor Judge Story did not consent
To- aunt them To Dali, they have oil Course
been oolis d TO lie in prison ill this time.
From The Hsmpihire Gazette
lind that gfeat clamor is mace by
thoie, who ttyle themislves repuDncaps,
sgaiatt the conduct Of the fate legi1a
,ure in not affirming the direct tax BY
an aiiumptlon Of this tax, FAY the pretend.
ed tsicnds OF economy, the legislature
might have tavea to the ltate the enormous
fun OF 1900 dollars, AID prevented the
nationai government from having the un-
pieaiant talk OF a1siIing and collecting
this necciiary tax. Now no body can
biame thoie, who are appointed by the
genrtal government. tor aGeiiint and cob
iectlns tins tax, feeling the iegidatu1e do
nothing about it.
This iubjcct was very plauGbly insro-
dnced BY the aiiltant Ailellor, VINO cali.
ed to take my lit, aud hear mat the
iaElc tory Is told to moititudss not only
by him, bu by others, in the fame buii-
ness The tame found is catcned by al
mott every democratic car, and refunded
BY every democratic tongue, until the at
motphcre is made TO tremble with the
continual echo.
Perhaps the propagators Of this RORY
may believe il true, bur if they do, it GER
talnIy CANNOT be owing to their having a
ny evidence Of its truth. For upon in
veitigation it clearly appears without
found alton.
When the report lrlf reached my ears,
as had nor examined the fubjea, was
not prepared TO gainsay it. foon en-.
braced an opportunity 70 examine the
law of the direct tax and make Tome cal
culation upon the tuDject, the relult Of
which was as follows
That an allowance of fifteen per cent
deduction thould be made 10 thofe itates
who would afIume the direct tax and col.
lect it in their own way, provided, they
made payment of their compliment to the
treasury ofthe U. States BY the tenth day
of February, 1874, and made known at
Warrington their determination thus TO
do one month prior to that time. And
if they would pay rhe fame, by the fir 4 Of
May, 1914, they ihould be entitled TO
ten per cent deduction.
Now it is well known that the legifa-
turc was not in FELTON, leafonably to make
their determination and communicate it
to the governnent at Warrington BY the
tenth Of January. The fifteen per cent
deduction was not within their reach, 1t
is therefore wholly out of the queition.
The ten per cent. deduction lie all they
could have claimed, had they determined
at the opening of the FELTON, to have afiu-
med the tax. This ten per cent. upon
three hundred and iixty thoutand dollars
would have amounted to thirty one thou
fand and FIX hundred dollars. But
would all this, or even any Of it, have
been gained by the fate upon affirming
HE tax Let US inquire. The itate mutt
have borrowed the money and paid inter
cit tor it. The interelt Of the three hun
dred and fxteen thoufand dollars, (this
ttates quo,a) at fix per cent. would a.
mount, for one year, to eighteen thou
(land nine hundred aud iixty dollars.
And one year is as fhorta time as any
one could fuppoic ttase tax could DC
made, collected and paid into the sate's
,feaicry.
Now making no allowance for any lofts
or delinquency, but going upon the ground
that every cent ihould at the years cad
be received into the treafury, We may
find that when this eighreen. thou!and
nine hundred and fixty dollars is (ubtrac
ted from the propoied deduction, that
only twelve ihoufand fix huadred and
forty dollars would remain. The al S.