Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-04-04
WHOLE NO. L57.

population, under any system oi impost;
designed both for revenue and for com
ncrcial regulation. ! his inequality has
been p0iienily endured by those States,
because those laws of revenue and com
mercial regulation were sy stem, first of
encouragement, and eventually of pro-
lection, for the whole labor and capital
OF the country. When this system should
have effected its great purpose; that is,
when the supply Of all the great staple
necossaIics ,equired in our market, whe-
thcr Of agricultural or manufactured pro-
duction from the land, labor, and capital
OF our own country; when, by raising
the rate of impost duties, so ms to effect
the exclusion Of all those staples thus a.
bundan,ly supplied by domestic indus
try, then, by removing all impost from
raw materials, and necessaries for the
food of labor, not produced at home land,
last of all, by placing high but not pro-
hibitory inpost on imported luxuries not
produced in our own country, our reven-
ne would, by such system, be drawn
from the rich to the relief Of the ;and
taxes, removed from labor, would fall on
those imported luXurics which their
wealth would enable the rich to enjoy.
Labor, released from taxation, might I'M
prove its own condition; and with home
market secured to home production, the
competition of domestic labor and capi-
tai would supply that market at the
cheapest rate.
Sir, this measure does forerer destroy
all hope of perlecting that system, and
reduces our impost laws to mere scheme
of taxation. The inequality endured
while reEeC was ultimctcly to be expected
by the perfection of our sy stem; that hope
cannot now be sustained, when that ex-
pectation is forever taken away by the de-
siypciion Of that system. Look back 10
The time when Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia were their
own naviga,ors and merchants. From
1900 to 1910, these States had not abdn-
doned navig CATION and commerce, as they
NOR have, for the more profitable voca-
tons of growing cotton, rice, and tobac-
co. They then imported all the foreign
c commodities consumed by their popuia-
ton, and the CaSiom-IIoHse Record will
exhibit correct rate roll Of their taxa
ton. This, too, was then the fact, as it
is aow, with New"England. Look at
the population and the paymsm made in
those years, by those States and by .New
BY the census of 1900, the
population Of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and ~ orgia, was b
37l ,529.
In the ten years, from 1900 to 1910,
inclusive, they paid, $i5,7l2,752 35.
BY the same census, the population of
New England was, 1,854,OIl.
I'm the ten years, from 1900 to 1910,
inclusive, Ncw-England
paid, S32,732, ,516 90.
Each person, in those four States Of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caroli-
ma, and Georgia, paid, So 80 in the
whole ten years; or 83 cents and 80
mills head, per annum.
At the same time, in New-England
each person paid 81 Go, in the ten
years; or S. 7G and so mills head, per
annum.
Under that census, The population of
South Carolina was, 345, Sal; and that
State paid in that ten years, S6, 1876
SO, being SI8 l3 paid by each person,in
the whole ten years; or 81 81 and 80
mills head, per annum.
BY the same census, the population Of
Rhode-Island was, GO, l22, and that State
paid in that ten years, $780, 1886 36,
being $40 90, paid by each person, in
the whole ten years; or 81 80 and 80
mills head, per annum.
Sir, this inequality of payment, has
increased, year after year, ev-
er since 1910; because those very eau
ses which then produced that inequality
have, ever since that time, been increas-
ing. 1t was then the character of New
England being more navigating, con-
mcrcial and manufacturing, and that oil
Virginia, North Carolina, South caro-
lima, and Georgia, being more agr'cui-
mral and planting, which createu ,'iis
d;rerenco in the consumption OF foreign
commodities, and this consequent Inc,
quality in the payment OF taxes aSse &c, sseo
nnon such commodities by imPost. hese
cba,s. .cteristics of New England have IN
,hc last twenty three years lncreasod,a ,and
na,, bnve become established, while those
states of the South have, during that
,imc almost entirely abandoned all com
merce and navig and allured by tho
high profits of cotton, rice, and tobacco,
become exclusively planting States. 30
great is thnt inequality OF taxation ana
psymont, at this time, that ] viii venture
10 a,Iiim. Rhode-Islend, with popula-
,ion Of not quite 100000 persons, unoer
the last census, paid more INTO me me "eas- ,
ury w the las, wear, than South Caroline,
IN oonu,s,;on Of more than 5OO, 900