Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-20

on Ol Son'e
Ct. r,s in hopes we should have been able to stop
a, of the Azore Islands; but having oeen
S ~ 70 Northward, we stood on for thus place.
T1,'.ct N sail for Port Mahon in two days.
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The following paragraph from the NewDarS
,,..,a,ta ;s the best comment upon that poruoh
- Presidents message relating to the Indians,
We .iTha President, in his message to Congress,
orea, lengths given a view OF our relations
;,h tho Indians; and to illustrate the extreme
TRY of the American government towards
M", :. favored people" has drawn parallel be-
' ','a them and our farmers. We will endeav-
-" - briefly as possible to draw comparison ac-
u ' II m our understanding of the subject. A
N'.arfnI man thus addresses farmer, who IS
rrOmfortably, peaceably and independently pos
Uo IF thousand acres of land: my dear,
80 child, am your brother and father, and
80 thing ELSE love you very much, and II
so1 iii Give me nine hundred and fifty acres Of
;'onr land | will be your defender and protector,
md mn one shall modest you or your remaining
sf,v acres" The farmer knowing resistance
irosld he in vain, complies. After while the
,,rsrfnl man again calls on the farmer; We'll
po;obhor. nv boys want the other fifty acres; and
r yop will 20 beyond the mountain. where shall
,'ot soc YOU again, will pay you what my folks
-. the fifty acres are worth, and furnish you
,.;,h sufficient to keep you from starving oneyear.
AItLouuh YOU cannot but be sensible that IS We
80 generous offer yet YOU are at perfect liberty
- reject it; but recolect that those whom are
smnloyed in your defence are now ordered away,
III me boys are determined to have the land;
"bopld YOU refuse. after hearing these unanswera-
HE arguments, and should they choose to take 1t
without paw, and hang you on the frst tree 1t Is
none of my business"
The following article is taken from the Phila-
1.,rb;, Mail. 1t strikes US that the ''cases" are
we'll put. ,..,
arc 80 fer advanced in agriculture and other civ
lied arts, as il is said they are-and q they
shoula he willing to remove 10 one OF our fertile
western territories-and fthe government should
IN benevolent good faith, execute the late law OF
CONGRESS concerning their removal, would II not
be better for the Indians to go!
=. n the Georsians are wickedly aud cruelty
determined to harrass the Indians legally aud H.
legally; and if these feelings be 50 prevalent
here that there would be no safety fer the lands
and lives of Indians ifpIaced under the laws of
that state-would it not be better for the Indians
10 30:
:. Uthe Indians were to remove to some I'M
settIed territory out Of the bounds OF any state,
they would, as soon as their numbers should a.
mount to sixty thousand, have right to admlS-
.ion into the Union as Sovereign State: they
would have right to form republican govern
ment for themselves, and to make and execute
their own laws:-and woald it not be delight
ful sight to all who now pity their suHerlnSs and
mourn over their degradation?
IF the Indians remain where they now are,
even with any protection that can be asked for
them, will il be possible to save them from the
fate of their predecessors in New England, New
York and Pennsylvania"
go
The King of France has given to the owners
of the Philadelphia packet ship Louis Philippe
First. a Souvenir, IAN equestrian statute) with a
request that it may always be kept on board the
shi p as testimony of his satisfaction with the
compliment TO him in naming it.
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Taring CoGl-It is proposed in the Pennsyl-
yania Legislature to lay tax on Anthracite coal,
to dcirav the state debt. A writer in Poulson's
Daily Advertiser, in opposing the project, re;
marks that to lay tax on coal is giving a bOun-
" to that extent to wood, and the coal of other
states and foreign countries, because. with the
consumers generally it is the cheapness of the
one or the other that induces them to purchase.
Wood and Coal, he adds, are competitors in the
Philadelphia market; and the chief part of the
wood consumed in that city is brought from New
jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, but
as the coal proposed to be taxed is the product
solely of Pennsylvania, the tax would be bur-
den laid on PENNSYLVANIA industry and property,
for the benefit Of New Jersey, Maryland, Della
ware, Virginia. and the importers Of foreign coal
They would, no doubt be glad to see it.
Large quantities of coal are imported into the
eastern states, and some into Pennsylvania from
England, and latterly from Picton and Sidney, in
Nova Scotia-Every cent Of tax laid on Penn
s,lvania coal, is bounty to the coal of England,
and lately from Picton and Sidney, IN Nova
Scotia and Virginia.
The imports of coal into the Unted States from
foreign countries for 9 years, viz from SOth Sep
TENDER, 1920, to the SOth September, 1929, are
stated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in his
last report to Congress, as follows:
Bushels.
In the year ending sOth Sept. 1921, 627.7S7
In do do do do 1899. o7O.S2S