Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-06-23
Have you any bus

Major F. I'm graif,nanner.) Have you any bus
LIST Assessor. Ycs,e sir. We have called i'm the
execution our duty Assessors 20 make an usscss
ment OF your household and personal property. and
ask your permission to do so.
Major H. You shall not do so. gentlemen, am too
much OF republican to permit any person 10 enter
my house to examine my furniture.
Assessor. We do not desire to 60 into your pri-
Vatc apartments or chambers. IL will be sufficient to
glance at your drawing and dining rooms.
Major Il. You shallnot enter at all, gentlemen. I,
Is contrary to my republican principles to submit to
any such examination. have heard of your corpo-
ration before, and am determined not TO obey any
such ordinances. don't belong co your corporation,
and shall have nothing to do with it. Send me bill
OF my MISUNDERSTANDING ure-and will nay it,
Assessor 1t isimpossibe, sir, to sund YOU bill of
taxes, unless we know what you have to tax
Major e. Well, that 'is none of MP business
and you shall not come into my house to examine nv
property. Your Corporation has right to pass any
| Assessor. But, sir, we arc now executing un act
OF Congress, which expressly directs us to DO what
We are now doing.
Major +. know better,sir. I vas in Conyr ess
when thelaw OF which you speak. was passed; and
hneU that there Is no such provision i'm it,
! Baton.
! Major L. am no. mistaken; but, at al, events You
shall not come into my house.
! Assessor Very we'll sir; iet us Know your oc'n
opinion oil the amount OF your personal property and
we VIII put IT down at Your own valuation.
Major e. will do no such thnr fAffer soma
fltcsitaton) But write me note on the subject and
will answer it.
Here the assessors took their departure wi,hou;
any reply.
From the tone of Major Eaton in This conversation
ana me attack made by Mr.. Ingham upon the Cor.
poraton AZ our Canal erting may readily be seen
what Is the feeling which is likely 10 exist hctwcem
the cabinet and the citizens OF Washington"
From fhc H-uStju c,ou Or,
kEMoVA1.S.-Wc have not been in the hab-
IL OF reinarklng oa the numerous removals from
ohce by tho present Administration; but as they
begin TO affect the interests of the city OF Wash
ington, We cannot avoid expressing OIL, regret
that system like this should be adopted aud
pursued. It's inevitable tendency will be to re-
tard improvements, cheek business and lesson
The value of property. These cttec,s, We are sor-
ry to say, are already beginning to be expercli-
cen, and the merchant, we'll as the MECHANIC
now complaining Of its operations. Yhirty-thre
I houses which were 10 have beet built this wear
have, VIC learn, been stopped, in consequence of
tho unsettled and uncertain state of things now
existing here; and the merchant cannot sell his
goods or collect hrs debts. from the same cause
we have never known the city to be in a state
like this before though we have known it for ma
years. The individual distress, too, produced,
IN many cases, by the removal of destitute officers
Is narrowing and painful TO all who possess the or
uinary sympathieS OF our nature, without rerard
to party feeling. No man, not absolutely brutal
can be pleased To see his personal frcinI or neioh
Dor suddenly stripped of the means Of support,
ana cast upon the cold charity Of the world with
out shelter or home. frigid and insrnsible
must be the heart Of that man who could witness
some OF the scenes that have lately been exhib
tea here, without tear of compassion or a throb
OF sympathy We would not envy his feelings
But what is still more TO be regretted is that this
system HAVING been once introduced must necessa-
y DC Kept up at the commencement Of every Presi-
Dental tern and he who goes into office, Knowing IFS
united and uncertain tenure. feels no disposition to
make permanent improvements or to form for him
sell permanent residence. He therefore takes
care to lay up what he can, during his brief official
eXiStencc, to carry off more congen,al spot
where he means to spend his lAs or fe,cnter into
All, therefore, that he might have expended in CITY
improvements is withdrawn, and the revenue OF
the corporation as wei! the trade of the cv is So
iaE essened and decreased. II is obviously n most
injurious policy as respects the interests Of our cv
Many OF the oldest and most respectable citizens OF
W ashngton those who have adhered Ia its fortunes
through all their vicissudes, who have grown With
us growth, and strengthened with it STRENGTH"
nave been cast of to make room for stranpors who
leei no interest in the prosperity of our infant merop-
OILS, and care not whether it advances or retro
grades.