The Arkansas advocate., 1833-09-18

i 1tS NNsst hI3 dHl tH1li6Ciiutl----4 J 44te9 dare not pass laws to prohibit emigration; but they would, by high prices, make wes- tern land inaccessible to their own poor people and those of other countries, and thus accomplish the same object. 1.-the poor man knows that he cannot procure a home of his own in the west, his eniera- ton IS as efectually prevented as fine were prohibited from crossing the AIleghany mountains under penalty of fine and impris- onment
 Mr. Clay has ayailed himself of this miserable sectional spirit, unworthy of the country and the age, in framing his bill.-- 1 Il IS passed in jealousy of the growth of the west, and is a plan to retard 1t. lis great object IS to prevent a reduction of the price oi i5tts3ific lands. Most artlally Is it cons trived te accomplish t. All tae old States l-e olie ed sum fffos,. silu Treasury te interest them to oppose re- duction of the price. The new States are tempted to consent to itby an unequal share of the common fund
 Yes, the one-eighth offered to them by this bill, contrary to the compaets of ces- sion, and every rule of right, is the gilded bait by which they are tempted to sustain this wretched policy, and put fotters on 1 themselves. 4 bfibe is offered to the young giant te suffer. himself to be bandaged and crippled, lest, pefchance, he may become too strong, too rich, and too powerful He IS not to be shorn of his looks while asleep, but is asked to sell the means of his strength with his eyes wide open.
 Who is to pay this one-eighth, and even l the other seven-eighthsl Is 1t mol all tax upon the citizens of these very States? Is II not sort of importation tax upon cfni- grants and settlers? A farmer from the east wishes 10 settle in Ohio. He takes up section of waste land, and before he has struck an axe into tree, he must pay a tax of $500 for the privilege of making this land valuable to his country. This is all paid by the new citizen of Ohio.-Nhere, by this bill, is t 10 gol One-eighth of the sum, or SI00, Is to como back to Ohio, l with I9-240ths of the remaining S700, ma king in all $155 42. After all deductions, full $500 of this tax upon emigration and settlement will still go to other States. Is it the interest of Ohio that her citizens shall be taxed $500 that she may get back $200l Do not the citizens constitute the State, and l is not tax iipon citizens a tax upon the State? If the price of the lands were re- duced to fifty cents per acre, the tax on { settler taking up a section of land would Dc $320, and if all this went to other States it would still be better for Ohio than MT Clay's bill by $280. In fact, not $20t would go out of the State.
 i z- Y . ( ..oo soo why all unequal proportion of the land sales is offered by this bill to tho new States. It Is to bug tleif acquiescenct sal tscss. settlers for tue beneft 9 other States, to sir o1, Sepea times the e. mount It is to tempt them, by small DOT l tion of the money exacted from enigrants, to retard their own growth, cripple theil own strength, diminish their wealth, and be- come, at the same time, the dupes and the victims of a heartless policy, which forgets the interest of our nation and the happiness of our people in sectional views and indi- vidual aggrandizement.
 We shall further remark the object and
 NO. VII.
 THE PUBLIC LANDs--MR. cLAY's BILL.
 It's true Policy.
 In our last number We showed that the effects of Mir. Clay's Bill will be to keep up the price of the public lands, tax emigration and retard the growth of the western States. These effects might all be produced, and yet the proceeds be applied to the usual ex- penditures of the government. Why then do not Mir. Clay and his associates merely oppose reduction of fine price without changing the application of the proceedsi
 We have already seen, that the public lands will bring into the Treasury annually at their present prices, about $2,400,000 If this sum were applied to the usual ex- lpenditures of the government, 1t woule make 1t necessary for Congress to reduce the taxes on the people, so that the amount collected from them should be $2, 100000 less than 1t must otherwise be.
 To prevent this result and tax the people as high as possible for the benefit of a few menopelists owning .siani;factories, the pro ceeds of the public lands must be thrown out ofthe Treasury. The projectors of the plan will give to the States, $2s400,00o O revenue arising from one source, that they may collect from the people S2, 400, ,00e through another. Did we say $2,4oo, ,o00i We might have said $4,ooo,ooo. These protecting duties, though sometimes expe- dient, are double tax upon the cornn1unl- I Y, part of which goes into the Treasury and a part of the capitalists who carry on the manufactures. The proportion paid l into the Treasury diminishes, and that paid to the manufacturer increases III the exact ratio of the home supply. If the govern ment want S2, 100000 and levy ]. upon tea, as none of thai article Is raised in inc Uni-