Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-16
POLITICAL.
from the w. Globe
THE PU BLtC LANDS-MR. CLAY's BILb.--No. VII
Us trMe Pollen.


In our las, number Showed that The effects Of Mr.
Cays Bill will be TO keep up the price of the public lands,
tax en,ig,a and retard the growth OF the western
States These effects might all be Produced and the
proceeds be applied TO the usual of the 60
venment Why then do MIR Clay aud his associates
merely oppose reduction OF the price without changing
the application of the proceeds
We have already that the public lands will bring
Into the Treasury annually at their present prices about
pendures of the government il would make it
for Congress reduce the taxes on the people, that the
collected from them should be $4,000 900 less
than 1t must otherwise be To prevent this result and
tax the people gh possible for the benefit of few
monopoiss owning manuaeOries the proceeds of I the
public lands must be thrown out OF the Treasury. The
projectors OF the plan will give TO the States 400 900
oi arising from source, that they may coec,
cay S24dO, 600? we might have said 81 900 OOO-
These protecting duties though sometimes expedcnt
double tar upon the community, a part oil which
goes iuo the Treasury and part the capitalists who
carry the manufactures. The proportion paid in
TO the Treasury dmnshes and that paid to the manufc
turer increases the ratio OF the home supply If
the government want So 400 000 and levy upon tea
of that article is raised in the United States.
HANGED ia price for the benefit OF The grower, the whole
tax gees into the Treasury. III il be levied upon broad
CLOTH aud fourth OF the supply be made the United
States. then g. 400 900 into the Treasury peo-
pie must pay So 5000 OF which 5000, 900 will go the
Manufactured IL one halt be manufactured home, then
TO get $4,000 900 into The Treasury the people pay
81 500 900, halt of which go the pslsi-
&c. the domestic supply increases. until the whole supply
is manufactured at home when The whole enhanced price
goes the capitalist and the people have be taxed for
the support Of government upon something else in
other way.
And upon whom do these indirect taxes fall most av
~! Upon the people Of the interior States. The New
York merchant imports piece OF broadcl0ih which,
without duty. would s per yard; but the duty makes
the duty Is to him much part of the cost
paid lori in London If his proftbe 25 per cent, then
IL will cost the purchaser 81 so ne adds his profit
upon The him. and thus further goes into the
interior, or the Eeser the number of hands through
when y the cost of the article arising from the tax
ddfy we'll asthe orgina, price increased and
pounded. In this manner, the importation tax becomes
higher by perhaps ten to the people oil Ohio In.
diana, Illinois, Missouri, Sc Sc, than TO the people in
Philadelphia and New York, although they pay adj
vance of perhaps: 25 per cent. OH the original duty.
The only real object OF throwing the proceeds of the
public lands OF the Treasury keep up the
lies protected articles to make yield like
amount In bringing Into the Treasury So 4oo,O 0o how
the people will he taxed four ue millions,
than equal proportion OF which will TALL upon the western
States.
But, if Mr. Clays object he solely to get rid of the re
arising from the sales OF public lands why does he
not take the direct mode of reducing their price? To
western man. who wished TO keep up the duties this
wonld certainly be The most obvious But IL
tcouid not suit the manufacturing capitalists II lands
very cheap in the west, their dependents and
working hands might be tempted to cmgrate and they
could not hire Iaborers cheap rate-could make
high profit upon their capital This bill is, there
fore framed the time to keep up The price
Of manufactures and keep doWn the price of labor
IL VIII not permit the laboer to acquire capital in lands;
for its policy that his labor aud that OF his children and
his chdre MS children shall 90 "make the rich richer"
Ii will force induce all laborers to remain attached to
these factories, like sort OF Russian sers who pass with
The SOIL reducing the price OF their labor by competition,
until will yield them bare subsistence and New Eng
land shall witness around her workshops the misery
and starvation which have been produced by like poll
cy in Old England.
We do not anticipate these consequences from this bill
alone But IL tend, produce them and is founded in
policy which leads 10 such results.
Who then to be benefited by this scheme None
but The capitalists ,Oho The manufactures 1t vo
Intes the national faith it distributes the proper.
~ unequay and unjustly its object is to perpetuae
tax oh emigration TO etard the growth OF the States,
10 keep high the people, keep down The price
OF labor and TO prevent aborers from acquiring lands that
may be kept in dependence aud reduced TO slavery.
The by which the scheme is TO be carried into
execution are worthy of the end. II is meIeendry in
tuery feature 1t docs address itself The patriotism
public spit, public morality OF the country 1t ap.
pess only Co s0,dd dDdrice Ii buys support by pro-
misses o MONEY. II invites the old States maintain
by Offering less Than their share Of The property. IL
attempts TO reduce the by seeming grauty into
abanisnment OF their dearest interests IL gives sbil
ling that IL may take dollar, and affects TO load the States
with benefits while il is aiming TO usurP their rights and
snnihilate their independence
In another number will exhibit the results which
necessarily must follow, if the public faith solemDIy
pledged, the fundamental law OF the Republic and all
just and patriotic principles to be set aside propos
cd in ths bill.