Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-05-27
ALEXANDRIA.
MONDAY, May a7,.

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i While most other kinds Of bushes:
lare rather Gu the decline oflate, there i:
lone kind Of manufactures that has OBJ
Itained an unexampled growth ;we near
fthe manufacture of taxes. Famous as
lold England has so long been for this
Isort OF curious workmanship, it is ques.
Iionable whether these United States viii
mot, in no very long time to come, fairly
laut-strip her since already they have
imade far greater progress in it than she
had only one century ago.
| Upon this point two things naturally
lfall under consideration one is the
number of workmen that the tax-manu-
lacture employs; ana the other, the an
Inral expenses of carrying it on.
! OF the workmen, we Shout be want
ing in respect il we did not mention the
GentlemSn Of the Congress as standing
first upon the list. They together with
the President and the heads of depart
meBts, have as Of right they should have,
the devising and pu ting in motion the
whole of the vast and complicated ma
lchinery, laborious employ, which
Imakes them busy, and keeps them warm.
lduring the winter months of the year
If we re exon these master worEmen
by scores and hundreds, the subbordi-
mates to whom the tax-manufactures
igives employment in one way or other
are to be reckoned by thousands almost
tens Of thousands. Indeed they may be
found busily at their labor in all parts of
this great e goodly land, not excepting
THE obscurest yiIlages-visiting, with e.
Iqual step. the palaces of wealth and the
lcottages ofPoverty. and bestowiag the to-
kens OF their regards, as well upon g the
tmoulh Of labor" as upon the fortunate
tchildren of ease and luxury.
As the tax-manufacfure is meant to
produce to government an income of 25
million dollars a year, that is to say, a.
Isam consicerabl y mere than equal to the
ESTIMATED tapifa! that are employed in|
all the woolIen and Gotten ranufacturesI
in the United States, so the expenses of
managing it must be great of course
The prime managers, or the master work
men aforementioned, finding their labor
'cruel hard, have already demanded dou-
BILE pay; or rather have prop, sed to make
JOB work of 1t, atthe rate of 1860 dellarsi
each four months service. Ard tlloughI
the under workmea should not pnt inl
their claim for the encrease of nav cal
thing rather to be hoped than seriesslyl
vet cut of their hire they n,ustI
ali be fed and clothed, bofh thew 4 theirI
families; which. considering the .luoe !
ness of their numbers, musf needs forml
an amount OF exf esse hard aid iiopossi-
DIE to calculate. Not to mention that, inE
this country Which. more perhaps lhanl
any country else. abvuods with itchingI
palms. 10 nconsiderab!e sums will stick
betMesn the fingers.
1t is worthy of remembrance, and IN!
deed of everlasting remembrance. that
the cont!ivers, and authors of an Ame-i
rican tax manufacture On so large a scaiel
as NUT aStonish corrup ed Old EuropeE
herself, are The very meh who, few!
years since, professed to detest POLITICAL
business Of this nature and every thinej
|appertaihing to it.-Con. Couyant.
ga new reign" observes g Rritisbl
writer, s Is always fertile in projects
III matters little whether the various
schemes brought forward be wild and I'M
practicable, or have already been submit
ted to the test of experiment, and failed /
IenGer new names, and new auspices !,
they are tried, and failed again. The
sovereign, On his part, is seldom averse
from the encouragement of projectors !;
it wears tho appearance of doing some
thing; and tends to confer on the go
lyernment the character, or, at least, the
semblance of energy and actiyity.D
1t these remarks be, as. Just they seem
to be, the good people Of these U. States
lave cause for sore apprehension since
new reigns, with them, must Of nccessi.
lty be pretty frequent. The two last reigns
ihave been de9lorably fertile, in wild
land impracticable projects;" projects
that had been hatched between the reign
ling chiefs for q long time before either OF
them came in power. They have all OF
i them been submitted to the test of expe.
Inment, and have all failed; some ter.
mlnating as ridiculously as others have
ttragicahy. And we do think that Mr..
Jefferson himself has conc now, political
ly speaking, to be man Of !" steady ha.
bits" in comparison with the phrenetic