American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-03-29

b. :" pun -Hotiidt, III the lanu OF the OD
pfessed-as an earnest OF that more complete re .
trbuton which, sooner or later, will take place.
My advocaon is what most Of the lordlinps of
The land desplse. spread my rich, and valuable !,
and substantial wares before them but they know
not tnat, IN my humble and unassuming guise, Il
have possibly as much learning as themselves may
oe a ''ttie more and, trust, great deal more
honesty than many of them. | groan, inwardly !,
when hear them boasting Of their late fclonious
act lament the demoralisng effect of their poll.
cy upon their own people. When odous cupdty
tearlessly and proudly walks abroad, and disgusting
cunning throws aside her mask and vaunt openly, Of
their atrocous doings-and when, BESIDES the er eat
men OF the country sing hosannas before them,
what, what. is to become Of the morals of the com
munltys Here, at home, there is hardly one of
them thinks it worth while to make any thing like
decent apology to virtue, for the fragrant in
justice, OF which they have been guilty. The
tiimsy veil oil the assessment, more rotten than
the window curtain of brothel, is as often up as
down
do not mean to say, that have not met, among
our opponents here, with upright and intelligent
men who have no hesitation in admitting that we
have great cause to complain of the new tax. These
frankly declare that they consider it as weak and
impoli,ic, as it is unjust and dshonorabIe. They
say 1t was impossible to get on without tax but
that they ought not to have laid SO heavy one
The people had been relieved, for several years
back, OF this burthen; and If it was unavodaby ne
cessary Tor them to resume it, the Assembly should
have had the prudence to have gradually reimposed
it. The deficit too, they say, might have been
made up, in several ways, honorable TO the party.
One way they have often mentioned to me, and
that was, to have required from every officer of the
government, on receiving commission, the pay
ment OF sum of money proportioned to the emol
n lie hu fhpy hnf narti.
eipate in the pressure of the times To them the
distress Of the community is source of high pro-
lit. 1t is indeed made their interest TO pray for
the depression of the people, whose government
they administer. The present low prices enable
them to live at half their former expence Besides,
say these gentlemen, our members Of Assembly
did know that the assessment upon which they
grounded their tax afforded no evidence to be re-
lied upon, to show the relative amount OF the
wealth Of these countless We have heard them,
ourselves, all but admit this to be the fact III a
tax was necessary it was their duty TO have imposed
lit; aud they were not worthy to have the honor Of
governing if they shrunk from the performance of
it. Such you may rely upon it, are the sentiments
CT the most. intelligent and upright among the
federaliss in these counties and with US the gen
tlemen of that party, who have not lost their Senses
must breathe the same fair and manly spirit.
But the most important matter for us to consd
err is, what would be prudent and honorable for US
to do. The foot of the law giver is planted upon
our necks: but as it is the foot of the law giver
there it must remain until. according 10 the forms
of the constitution, it shall be removed. 1t has not
been merely in spirit Of wanton oppression placed
there. | admit that the angry temper they have
INDUCED towards us has not been without its nlu
ence upon this measure. Their own situation is
critical. Had they laid this heavy tax, at these
times, the people, so long back disused to state
tax, in the toering situation of their affairs, through
the state it would have overturned them as party.
To fly in the face OF their own officers, and to have
imposed burtheHs upon them would have been to
raise an hornets nest about their ears. Instead Of
rousing all three Of the counties against them, they
have made desperate attack only upon one. There,
they supposed they would no! make things worse
for them.
We cannot redress this wrong by doing wrong.
The tax our people must pay, they cannot help
themselves The chain that cannot be broken
must be worn. But let not any OF our own people
aid in riveting this chain upon US. There is no
thing in our social obligations which forbids US to
consider as infamous, that citzer OF Newcastle
county, who shall consent to become the gatherer
of this tribute. Surely we may buy and sell to
whom We please. Our lips, too, are our own, and
we should never utter the name OF such wretch
without scorn and contempt And if we have
among us so mean a reptile let it be regarded as
pollution to touch him, and dshonor to speak to
him. Let our children be taught TO hand his name
down to their children that he may be rewarded,
if possible, by an immor tally Of infamy.
Can we do any thing else Yes, we can be seen
and felt at our elecons and if are fit for any
thing else but to De slaves, we will tumble down
these men from their proud heights. We are able
to do it, We need only to turn out to an election,
as generally as they do. and their power is gone.
In this way we shall make our tyrants tremble, and
rue the day in which they planted their feet upon
our necks. don't stop to ask if this would be the
last of their expressions, If we submitted tot We
would deserve to be pack horses for them as long
as we lived, if we had the meanness but to ask the
nue sLinn The man who can consent to taste one