Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-02-05


ishment Upon these small dividend il
sometimes received, and sometimes not
This taking dividend Of twenty-five pc,
cent is as though farmer should sow bush
ell of grain, and, after all his own labor
should harvest from it only peck.
But our argument has not yet laid hold oil
its strongest supports Ifa Grocer be made
richer by changing one customer from tenn
perate to Incorporate habits, he would be
made hundred fold richer by thus chan.
cling the characters of a hundred. Give to
a Grocer the monopoly of the trade of a
hundred families in common circumstances
as to property, for twenty years. In return
for this monopoly, however, let him be bound
TO remain among them for twenty years. to
share their fortunes, pay taxes according 10
his property &c. &c. Invest him with some
despotc power or some deviish art, by
which he can transform them all into drunk
ards in week. What will be his condition,
we will not say at the end of twenty, but G.
ven of five years? Even before that time
has elapsed, the Grocer will find bad debts
multiplying upon his books. If he applies
TO an attorney for assistance, he will have
occasion to take receipts for costs paid, much
more often than to giue them for debts col
lected. His taxes will soon double, treble,
quadruple, although the school will not be
kept so long, nor the roads be so well re-
paired. His utensils will be borrowed and
broken. or never returned. The chaise or
wagon he has lent will be overturned and
destroyed. Assaults, batteries and riots will
be committed in or about his premises and
he will be summoned to Court as a witness
and obliged to leave his business for a week.
His draw will be rihed, and he must prose-
cute the offender. Some children will be-
come beggars and extort his property. 9th
ers will turn thieves and purloin it, One in
solvent debtor will move away or abscond
one will die; one break limb and be car.
rled to the poorhouse; one become insane
one commit suicide; one be sentenced to
Imprisonment, and another will expiate his
offence upon the gallows What will be
the value OF the monopoly Of such customers
at the end of twenty years
But it may be asked, how can all this be
without great pro6ts9 How can property,
once in being, be lost by one man without
being gained by another
The drunkard realizes the fable of the
Upas tree. There is destruction all around
him. The house. in which he lives, de-
sends with quicker ruin The farm he
forgets to bear the life.sustainnp
harvest, and is luxuriant only in briars and
thorns. Weeds choke out the grass in his
helds. Insects consume his orchards. His
cattle become like the lean kline" of Pha-
raoh If he be engaged in trade his calcu-
lations always err. His plans are dispro-
portionate to his means He consorts with
rogues and sharpers who defraud him. He
seeks to retrieve his fortunes by gaming or
n who had conspired togefner no '"v punPJI
S of defeating it. The President tells us TIL
t the failure Of that apr oprialion and that pa
ticular item. was OF great Inconvenience
b he country. On this subject there was u
H.: issue in the National Intelligencer, that
i, not only impeaching the President but th
n House.
J. Mr. Adams said he considered the tran
Z actions which occurred between those tw
/. bodies on that day. or night, worthy OF i
r quiry This appropriation Of three million
:. was inserted in the appropriation bill. by Il
A. gentleman from New York, (Mr Cambr
c. eng) in consequence OF an act which unar
Of mously passed the House the night beior
dec lnring that the execution Of the Trea
Al Of July the 4th. 1881, should be insisted u
u on Ii was well known TO this House, al
e. 10 others out Of it, that that resolution W
IT, contt sted on the ground that if il was pass
a. it would be calculated 10 occasion war,
" then referred 10 the natural tendency of SUI
b arguments, and added, that this was Il
Sc ground upon which that item was init
is duced on the last day Of the session. \
" A. then made some remarks respecting
IA charge made in the National lntelligenc,
al and in debate in the Senate, that the app
le priation introduced into the Fortihcation b
70 was unconstitutional. lille was here call
tn TO order BY Mr. Mercer, OF Virginia, who W
I'd requested by the Speaker to reduce his c.
a to writing
he MIR Hardin said he hoped the gen,lem
U.s. from Massachusetts would be permitted
IS, proceed. He was anxious 10 hear all
y. had to say.
is, Mr. Mercer then submitted in writing Il
er the member from Massachusetts remark
oil in terms that in the National Intelligence
he and in debate in the Senate, a charge
sh been made, that the appropriation introduc
u- into the Fertilization bull in the other Hou
pc was unconstitutional, thus referring to j
is debate in the Senate, which he considered
ITS out of order. After an explanation from
ST, Speaker as to the proper course when obj
~ lions were reduced TO writing, Mr. Ada
" said in order 10 keep perfect y within
b, rules Of the House, he did say some time
In fore that nv would transfer the location
what had taken place to the National In
los lgenccr office. He did not recollect
tinctlv The vprv words he had iusl used