Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-12-27
LSee Journal Of House

ry regulations other own. [See journal Of House
of Delegates in 1851
The effect OF her separate attempts TO raise re-
venue by duties ON imports, socn appeared in re-
presentations from her merchants, that the COM
merce OF the State was banished by them into o.
Their channels, especially OF Maryland, where m.
Do. for 1851
Such a tendency of separate regulations was
indeed too manifest to escape anticipation. Among
The projects prompted by the wont of a Federal
authority over commerce, was :hat of a concert
hrst proposed on the part Of Maryland for unfor
mity oil regulations between the two States mil
commissioners were appointed for that purpose
IL was soon perceived, however, that the concur
renee oil pennsylvania was necessary TO Mary
land as OF Maryland 10 Virginia, and the corc,;,-
renee oil pennsylvania was accordingly invited
I5ut Pennsylvania could no more concur witbout
New York than Maryland without Pennsylvonia-
ton, SIC.
These projects were superseded for the mo-
ment by that Of the Convention at ApnapoIis il,
i.oo. and forever by the Convention at PniIadei
fruit oft "1' '"e
There is passage in Mr.. Necker's work ON IN,
finances OF France which affords signal illustra-
non oil the difficulty OF collecting, in contiguous
communities, indirect taxes, when not the same i'm
all, by the violent means resorted 10 against s,nur
giine iioin one to another of them Previops IN
the late Revolutionary war in that country n,
taxes were OF very different rates in the different
III,
high In the interior provinces and low i'm the mari
ume, and the tax on tobacco, which was very b;gh
In general, whilst in some of the provinces tho re-
oil the article was altogether free The conscs
quence was, that the standing army of patrols q
gainst smuggling had swoln to the numher os
twentj-threc thousand the annual arrest of rner
women anu children, engaged in smuggling. ta
nvc thousand hve hundred anG fifty; and the
NUMBER annually arrested on account of salt ami
tobacco alone, to seventeen or eirhteen brndraS
more IMAM three hundred of whom were consion
ed to the terrible punishment of the GaIes
May IL not be regarded as among the prov;J.,.
tai blessings TO these States, that their peopranh;
cal reiatons multiplied they will be by arti6ci,,
channels oil intercourse give such additional force
10 inc many obligations to cherish that union
which alone secures their peace, their safety GA
their prosperity Apart from the more obvons
ana awful consequences of their entire separation
INTO independent soyereignes, il is worthv ofsro
cal consideration, that, divided from each Other "a
'hey must be by narrow waters and l;nes
merely, the facility Of surreptiious introduc,ons
OF contraband articles, would defeat every oiternn,
DIT revenue In the easy and indirect modes of inn.
post and excise; that whilst their exnend;t,,ra
would be necessarily and vastly increased bv IN
new situation, they would, in providing for them
ne limited 10 direct taxes land or other pronert,
10 arpItrary assessments invisible funds AMI -,
| the odious tax persons "
You Will observe that have confined ,,,.o,,
In what mas been said, to the constutionali,y ana
expectancy OF the power in Congress TO euco;,r,as
uolhesuc products by regulations of commerce. In
their constituents; whose right and dutv !, !. :;
.at as In all other cases, to bring their measures
| 10 The test oiJusticc and of the general good.
| With great esteem and cordial regard
j. MADISON
JOS Z. CABELL, Esq. ISnt L,t