Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-11-06

was 2'i wh'lc The avc:ag" of slave ak paid in an.
country OF the Blue Ridge sas nny ;: me.
carrlugc tax paid IN re country east Of ia. Ei,.
M 'gs was 9i' while the average PAID west III he
Blue R'dgr wsS 81. ) mat on tu,s tax The 9 81
pai one-hli III than the west.
Thc r.,suIt OF careful comparison ahews that for
every do'inr FER heud lev ed OF the western proJle
th re Is ev"d on the people of tie cast s.. 8 per
head; anu THAI Tor every dollar per heud paid by the
people OF the wet into the tiuasry thcro is Maid
S3.2i b. ia p ope OF the east TINS has been the
proportion inr seri of years, lands slaves hor-
scs and carriages hnvr beer h subjects Of taxation
IN virginia, time out " period
In 1871 4 tax laid on "a H., He was ,Ir Il rs,
wEo popos"d IL, but L did succeed when h., SUI
'slrdit II was two three yrnrs an rrwa, ds b.
ere " became low; aud it vas rrcclv 4 wi. u
meaning law II the animal io DC tnxod had .,ucb
nc %! Iou uf .nr fellow -aIai, aud had appeal,d to
In" sympathy VI man and bces
Soon at EDWARDS there war on our borders
W. wcr" told Ia district terns by III" FEDERAL 20
V"rnm"n', tia We must TAX care of Ourselves,
TIA; they hnA not The means Tor defence but hat
We inGsi &c OFT 20 loca! pow ere of rpynion for
1nr own security. Then this tax was iad ON c,vs
Nnd now The eh'st ot that lax, ana lie spectre.
OF those or follow lions who a. Norfolk an
who were sent thl'hcr. MOI by the State of Nir
gina, bat Wy t!o Un..d Sla,cs, an who were
not exclusively tEa-nou'Hue, bu; from all PARTS #
The Stac--tliese a,-ctrcs are rais.l 10 IN. trcpt
- UNI 'o slew us the cnority o. That tnv on thn
one hand and he great services which c citizen OF
thc west ae ready 10 perform for us ,y never they
Shdi' De cn'!' q out by he Cui' ri - r'cs
w nat was IN; pr dnce ct this COW TN AID Lo,r
was il pud2 Re excluded icc IA jefferson Mr.
tok County and Borough Elznreih Civ ami R.ch-
mond County. from which no r.. uris mad beer, mn H.
ne returns were airnos' exactly equal and averaged
) u per heal II was nearly equal. Th,. rl.l j. So
ne hc sta cd It, and the fact WI always be tb, ann.
when W" tax cattle Such will always b. th, effect
W"oA''er 1t en- er~ int" the Imagination Of n fnancer
To Imros" some tax never befor" heard Of Of which
the dlrren' portions of the comm iniiy Snail bear ala
eqnnl share.
In 1915, tax waS lad on furniture mills, tame
rles professions, trad = and sanns. See the result
OF TINS system The slave holder was r.,nrc hirhl,
taxed H""ry thlng toii on the shoulders which
had to boar The t.X"s slaves land clrrnvr, &c
The Furniture. pictuI es and tea J. loas which were
cameo pihe were all taxed, with the professions and
ltHd's, ana what was me result There was levied
& paid IN the cnunryenst of thc Rluc Rdcc sos $50
Wh'le on the west OF the Blu Ridne there wa Levied
ana PGid only 81 800 making $3.50 81 = md ut those
taxes IN on every conceivable SUBJECT, cNcprt Ih.
uu1'cS ON !npiSs the p"unlr Of thn East paid 3 %
Tor every dollar paid bv tho Western pcople Uo
could rot affirm absolutely that h4 calculation was
ehtIr'y accurate" bui he Ciu nrrd invce ,1alior int
his Estimate, which mad been examined NV connbIo
men, aud portion OF which he had borrowed from
ms TREND from Culpepper who had FIRST Addressed the
commit
Such was the state of axatior. There wore some
deductions winch those who understand the ground.
would be able 90 draw from the estimate he had pre-
scented.
The first is, that there is one peculiar tan most
gu Dt
"hlch me East Is IA Possession Of ono vast mass,
wmle the West ma only ii nodrcuIa-ic meant slaves
NeXi-that there Is no subject of AVIATION which
human ingenuity has fhrmed-no tax, direct ar iudl-
rcn' winch the skill OF tiancIers has discovered on
winch tn" East viii I paw much rs n" Wcst
hardly any OH which the East Will not pas more. On
the morse amt carriage tax, the East pays one third
more tnan the West; lands twice as ii.uc; ana ON
states seven times a. much =, the Nest;
This accounts Tor unot,irr fat which i made man.
Hest by these sta cnC-is, better than all the theories
winch the gent man from Frederick had cast on
our honor and chivGlry the hct that the Eastsha,c
never abused thr Oycr of taXGioH which tn ~ have,
possessed
They could not abuse that power because, Levy
what tax the Legislature wuuii, II must have borne
harder their orsiiucnts in the East than in th,
nature Of things, hey could on he Wst. 9'acy had
oil Ia The bond security, spoken ofhv ne grn an
from Fauquicr. They hasa security our self love.
No paper guarantee. N scheme of political cc mo
my, but security IN inc hcurt OF man. When the
love OF our own interests becomes an active pr.rci-
pie 1t Is our suresi projections
1t accounts for another fact. When tho schem. of
Internal lmprov"m nl-splcndid, Gigantic maprif-
cent calculated strike the mind and even tn do
prlve reason Of it, faculty, projected, why the
west and n portion of The North voted one way
while the East and the South pursued ALWAYS what
was called n niggardIy course. The West and the
North dd not feel the burden of the taxes. They
had Taught themselves 10 think that Virginia was not
taxed ~ all But we who had To bear the burden
Ict It deeply. Keeping in view the means of tho
people 10 pay there Is not throughout the State and
Federal Governments, harder INK pri1 than hat
which paid he slave holder not IN Virginia only
but through the u. States. Hence. said MIR Leigh
We who iccl this tax pressing hardly on us, are but
httlc disposed to generosity while they who do not
FEC the burden manifest and prdctrc abundun, gc-
ncrosty whenever money IL rcquir d.
again, there l. another direct induction from what
nc had shcwn II the harden of taxation Is so unu-
quaI now, con-ti'ned MS tho Legislature now 's, IS
ih"Tc any So strong Of ui'h a. 10 believe that 1t will
no rendered more cqurl Ivy the adoption Of the basis
reported by the committee on the &c isaturo--sD
green or so mellow 10 calculate that things will be-
h't,crcd hy Transferring the power To- he Wcsl,
Think, SAID Mr. b"gh, of The discpntcu's which
nave overcom" tho peoples vcncra'ion for The
consiiiulirn of their fathers, and made them for-
get the able efforts of Patrick Henry, Of George
Mason md Edward Pcnllctoni and induced them
to give thor reverence to the constituted aulho-
rites Think If these disconlents. One mans
motive for change was his anxiety for internal
improvements. This, Mr. l.. said, had been nvowcd
o hun over and over again, bya gentleman from the
West, Tint such was that mans motive. Tic could