Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-06-04

prac 'cahe tor wealthy merchant or aaanufactur-
three generations, washed out what l. considered the
stain Of their original occupation, emerge, by slow
degrees, into the higher ranks Of society ;but this
rarely happens. Can you find Of vast fortune,
in this country con,eu to move In the lower circles
content as the or under the daily drudgery Of ,h.
yoke 1t" uuc that, in England, some Of these |
wealthy people take IL into their heads 10 buy seas
! i'm Parliament. But, when they get there, unless
they possess great talents, hey meSe nooenies
Their existence IS only TO be found in the Red Book
which contains list Of the members Of Parliamcu emit
Now, sir, wish to know IL, in the western country
where any man may get beasy drunk for three nence
s,erl'ng-in England You cannot get a small Sine |
glass OF spirits under twenty five cents one such
drink Of grog have seen swallowed in this coxn
try, would there dolar---n the western cou.-
.rt, where every man can get much meat and |
bread AZ ne can consume, and yet spend the best
part OF h,s days, and nights too perhaps, on the tsv
ern benches, Or lettering ut the roads asking
The news; CA" you expect the people Of such coun-
ny, with countless millions Of wild land aud wild ami.
mails besides, can be cooped up in
fablishmen'ss and made to work sixteen hours a day
under the superinIendence Of driver-yes, driver
compared with whom southern overseer 10 a peu.
tieman and man OF refinement; for, if thsy do NOT
work, these work people in tho manufacturers, they
cannot eatIsnd, among all the puaslmen,s that eau
be devised (put death among the number y I
deiy you to get as much work Of man by any of
them, AZ when he knows that he must work before
he can eat
one respect, as we are invited to do, we mus, also
follow q IN another. lf we ADOPT her policy. we
must adopt her institutions also. Her policy 10 the
resuIt oil her institutions, and our institutions must s
as the result OF our policy, assmilated to hers we
cannot adopt such an exterior system as that of Eng.
and' without adopting also her interior policy. We
nave heard Of her wealth, her greatness, her glory
bui her euogIs, Is silent about The poyery wretche,i
nes', misery, The lowest orders. Shew mo the
county, say senIle%en which has risen to glory
manufactures. Sir shew me any coun,,y beyond our
own, which has risen TO glory or TO greatness with
OUT an established church, or without powerful a.
mi hare fss..r
country IN Europe, except Turkey, without hered,-
tary mobiles. Must we, too, have these Curulhiap a.,
n'menis oi ,oc,e'y, because those Countries great,
meas and glory have gwen IN 10 them But after % n
shall have destroyed all our foreign trade afier we
shall have by the prevention Of imports cul off ax.
por,s-'hus Keeping the promise of he constitution
to the ear, aud breaking il 10 the hope--paeriny
with the people IN double sense-aiter We shall
have done this, we told " we shall oniv have m
rrsor 10 an erc'se-we have only change The mode
OF correction oi taxes from The people both modes
OF taxation are voluntary" Very voluntary The
eSceeman comes into my house, searches NV ure,n-
ses respects nos even the privacy Of female apar-
h,en's, measures, gauges and weighs every thing e-
v'es AK upon every tine and then tel, me the tax
- voluntary one on my part, ami tl,d am, or
" :" Sn, 10 he c%n.en YES voluntary, Pora
thou content, Jew Arr thou content?
lhrse taxes, however, il seems. are yoIuntarv
as oeIng altogether upon consumption" BY re-
sen. speech on tins s-'ec, the greater part of which
SAID MIR II. was SO tortsnate as TO hear I jca,p
that there have been only Two hundred capi,sI rrnse
o r :" C"g'a"d, wn gwen ume, for vioalion 10
OF Tue revenue laws Arc we ready, IL ono of us on
poor 10 own saddle horse, should borrow saddle |
and clap on his plough horse, to ride 10 cIurc,, n,
ooal, or mn or market, to be taxed for surplu.
sadd'e horse aud surcharged for having failed w ,l
MN as such Are eentlemen aware Of The inou 81. |
tor,a dispensing, arbitrary, and almost papal powtr
" He commissioners oil Excise shall not stop to |
90 'nio detail Of them but never did expect 10
hear II SAID, on this door, and by a gentleman from
kentucky too, that the excise system wa, mere
scareerow, bug-bear, that the sound Of the words
ERnlA las
excise, and system OF customs /; thai both mean
the same hing" Write them together, YOURS Is as
lar name SQUAD them, il doth become the mouth
as wel,-here, Sir, must beg leave to differ, do
not fntmk u does =" Weigh them, il is ns heo,v"-l
That giant" conjure with ihem"-rxcise {: will
narI sp'rn as soon as customs = This verify e.
hese, SIR and wish, with all my heart If this hill IL
70 pass u new and unnecessary buriEens are TO be
waniony imposed upon the people that we were 10
return rev.. nome s.'h me blessed news Of or ex-
else, not less by way Of minimum" than fGy cents
per ga''ou upon whiskey. Aud here, If I did NOT
CONSIDER an exciscnan 10 bear, according 10 f,e fan
gnage OF .ne OLD law books, capm hpinuaa, and thai
y was almost as meTiiOrIUus shoot such hell
hound OF tyranny, as TO shoo wolf or a mad dog--
and, II did not know iha, any thing like an excise
n. nis county 10 eheG Utterly impracticabIe,
would gladly vote TO lay excise on hrs abominabi
liquor, the Lavish consumption Of which renders ,Iis
.ne most drunken nation under the sun and yet,
we nave refused 10 lake the duties from wines from
cheap rencn wines particularly, thai might lure The
dog from his vomit, and lay the Foundation NJ ,
'"'o'"""o" VI 'he pubic manners. SIR, an excise
system can never be maintained in this country.
had as iiet be tythe-piocor in Ireland aud met IN
uark night IN narrow road BY dozen white Lovs
or peep oi-day boys, hearts Of oak or hearts ri
steel, as an excsenian in the All, gl,any mountains
met 10 ioneiy-road, or by-place by lack woods
man, with rife D his hand. With regard 10 ire
land, the British chancellor of the escbeouer ba,
oeen obged to reduce the excise in Ireland on d,s-
'ed spf'ts, TO comparatively nothing TO what IL
formerly, ~ consequence Of the ,n,possibfy Of coll
'ecung u m that country. ireland is, moi TO sneak
with statistical accuracy, about the size of Pe6< ~
vanis, containing something like twenty.fiye them
sanu square miles OF territory, with population oil
SIX m'''ions OF inhabitants, nearly great number
as inc whole oil the white population Of the United
oiates win standing army Of 10000 men with
ano.hrr army, composed Of all those classes
~ civil iIie who through The instrume ntay OF that
army, keep the wretched people in subiecIion-un.
DER All these circumstances even in Ireland the x
c'se cannot be collected. venture TO say, thai no
army that the earth has seen-not such an one
as that Of BoBaparte, which marched IN ,,e
OF Russia-woud be capable Of collecting an excise
10 h's coun'ry--not such as that de SC ribbed
u you WIZ allow me 10 give some delightful poetry
IN exchange for very wretcbed prose, rs Milton has
described ~
S such forces met not nor wide camp,
When Agrican with all his northern powers.
Beseged Albracca. as romances tell,
The city OF Cslphrone, from whence to win
Inc iairest OF her sex, Angelica.
His daughter, sought by MANY prowest knipbn
BON faynim and the Peers Of Charlemagne."
No' SUCH force, nor even the troops with which
ne compares them, which we're no less than f" The
legion menus OF hell, could collect an excise here
neIu siii-huniing, as they call il in Ireland, am opg
our sonbern or western forests and mountains I
should IKE 10 see the throwing of Of The hounds
nave SUI enough OF the sportsman about me, tI,st
smou'u IKE 10 see the breaking cover and above
All, shouu ike TO he IN at the death.
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