Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-02-13
CONGRATULATIONS.
For Me DeLa1care JOairndl.
MEssRs, EDiToRS,

MEssRs, EniToRs,
Permit me to make few remarks in rcferencf
the extracts published in your last paper from yot
correspondent at Dover.
lie says, that in Sussex, all men, rich and poor rep1
bate the system of taxation proposed in the School BI
1t is possible, that lie mistaken. There appears in E
letter a warmth, which should suppose, exci,edk
causes foreign to the merits Of The subject. But amit
is not mistaken What is the inference ?-Iha the sb.
ect has been misapprehended 1t may have been brobt
before he minds Of the people in distorted shape, <ir
pre- udices may ave been excited.
Examine the view, which your correspondent presits,
TAXATION uNIImIrgn, TAXATION. These ton
sounds. One would suppose, that scheme o1es-
potism threatened us What this scheme? On loting
the Bil, fad that each county is to be dvldefno
convenient schondsrcts; and that the citizens re5ng
in each district having right vote for Represenes,
meet at time and place appointed and choos bya
majority of votes three persons from among ense as
school committee and determine by majority of Totes
what sum shall be raised in the district for provInga
school house or Tor the support OF school-lfe czens
hy mnj ory Of votes deermnine to raise any sim for
either Of these purposes the School committee whd they
have chosen, have power to levy upon assessnn list
of the district formed from the Hundred assessmd list,
Except that the rental value Of real estate is taken sead
of its full value J aud the district is entitled toi cceNe
from the School Fund of the State equal be sum,
which it thus raises provided this shall not deed its
portion of The clear income of this fund.
These the PLAIN features of his scheme. l. The cit
zens Of district the very PERSONS who must pajany tax
if laid, determine Ivy their votes. by maoritl whet
any shall be raised in their district for chool-
AID IT any sum, what that shall be- 2. I'll citizens
choose by Their own votes, every year, three hen from
among themselves to superinend this business For
every dollar they raise among themselves, THY receive
another from the school fund and this for tlelown per.
sona concern provide proper school edtae their
u children Or in other Words for dollar which by
their ireevoce they will raise for the most Interesting
OF all things to them, they get two. This is ne dreadful
iaTaton.
The people pay for other snbiects FROM nanv of
. which they probably receive very little benefit through
which they not that they their children arc made,
put in way to be, better; and when the
dollar is paid gone from them forever and zho hears
~ any atarm2 But this sub of educating their children,
~ enable em to bring into exercise the powers of mind.
which they possess and which, experience in places
ssed with free school teachers, need y little culture
10 make the possessors the most useful and respectable
when plan proposed that if they will raise one dollar
another shall be placed upon it, and the whole applied
their immediate benefit, told the proposition is uni
versaly reproba;ed This matter has been ney,too1
The General Assembly has power of taxat,n and it is
10 unlimited. Thirty can tax the whole State amajor
of the thirty decides, and what the lax shall be
The power feared. Why Because the people CHOOSE
nj the members; their representatives not Cypress
TO- them The Levy Court has power of taxatt and it
unlimited Mine or ten men q Pajory deciIing,)
10 the whole County and depebs upon the hle Of Thu
Re majority, what the tax shall be. We have hearano alarm
vas Why The people choose the members. anil this il
deemed their sufficient security But in this sclpo bust
ed ness the people trust one; but they who a pa
ss the taxes determine every thing by their votes.
ST. the exercise or the republican principle in its purity
to the people themselves liable to the measure, vote in thei
proper person. every expressing thus his will and tn
nd majority decides.
OF Schools would give new character to population
new race to our country. Can be expected, they
be supported without expense Is it notseen, that q