Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-12-07

-....i ,ca,. ;bey will be- less fof TIE neht' i,''"''
l,nnd;na The fraud of Withholding e'en. ,',.on - ! !
..,.s r-om sale 10 tabricate u treasury ,"e - -.
a.J Ia augment State distribution III lof-' u 81 .nI
nv IN !, =. Ies ne,t wear, aod thai for many reasons, anu
""' ~ a,hars because patriotic farmers who's are WHINE
80 ,L.;r money 10 their country may i"' ce ""!"
:" :, !, oror IN stnckinbbers in London ana po.i''
~ y, ;ahhers in America. They may prefer 10 io''os
-. sngoes,ion Of Edmund Burke, IN his speech uPo
cancellation with the COLONIES, aha oceuP1 n, an,
"h..o tbe land which God mace ioI ihem, an
ip,h;ch man undertakes TO lock up from 'he,r use. >.
~, y" a;rh,b clause in the Declaration oil lnnePehuenst
wa ,Ie speech of MIR. Burke on tue poih' - "n.a y
ral,,ss The remedy for tins wrong accofa,"s ~ :.
p,,ke. was to occupy without tillr unn, NV 60
, nu vere removed. In like manner the "fSe'" idi.
'" ,h;,k il best for their country, anu no Hafm :
hs"soIy,s. 10 settle and cultivate wiiion' pa.'"
from ,he.r money until the land revenue ~ ~ :
..o,ad Ia is proper destination, ana tue -
,.rnmen, become again the liberal owner - . NJ nv
instead Of being the hrarliess agehloi - ta an
,,,v s,:spend purchases until these "app.. 49,
,hsn what becomes of distr'bu.x OF Of
n;ca;iion per head will be forlhco~ ~ ~
u penny or a lar!hing. mdn30 I"
nv, We are just in the midst OF loans, ~ ping high
m..n, and extravaganza ex pendltures, and ssrnment.-
md low 10 find money To support the Revenue; and
r,nr,ssa was called together to pror'we have. We
a 5eg;n with throwing away wiye millions; which
have lust passed a bill II borrow. l!ns 10 pay. We have
,vill Gust the people sixteen Jst one in order-to tax
n b,ll ON the calendar-thG raise every tax now low,
every thing now free, a1inns for The Government, al
10 raise eight or ten or twenty IL the people. Six.
The cost ni eighiarficit salute the commencement Of
tren millions f. A new loan Of twelve millions Is
the ensulngr the next session. All the articles OF
annnuncen which escape taxation now, are 10 De
consuInd Ia xed then. Such are the revelations oil
caumairman of the Finance Committee; and they cor
itpond with our own calculations of their conduct
in addition To all lk,s, we have just commenced the
defencrs-neglected when we had forty millions VI sur
plus, nov Obliged IL be attended 10 when we nave
no,bipr these defences are 10 cost above a hundred
millions 10 create them, and above ten millions annual.
" TO sustain them A new and %f.ightiul extravaganza
las broken out in the Indian Department. Treaties
which cannot be named, are to cost mhlions upon mi
lions. Wild savages, who cannot cunt hundred,
exec ut by counting their fingers ten hines over, are to
have millions and the customs TO pay all for the
lands are no longer 10 pay for themselves, or TO dis.
charge the heavy annulties which lave grown out OF
their ACQUISITION. The chances oil awar ahead The or
binary expenses Of the Government, under the new
Administration, not thirteen millions rs was promised,
but above thirty, as this session proves. locro"n all,
the Federal party in power that party whose IN
s,ipct is debt and tax-whosc PASSION IS waste anc
souander-whose cry is that OF the horse'ieech, give
give !. give Whose call ia that OF the grave, more!
more, more! In such circumstances, and Win such
prospects ahead, we are called upon It. throw away
the land revenue, and tnrn our whole attention to tax
;nu and borrowing. The custom house cuiies-'hat -
~ say. fnreirn commerce founded upon the labor OF
the South aud VESTS 10 pay all. Inc farmers aho
planters of the South and West are TO tnke Tie chiel
load. and 10 carry il. Well may the Senator from
Krn,uckv TAlr. Clayl announce the forthcoming OF
new loans and taxes-the %recapturs oil the lea anu col,
fee tax. If they escape us now-and the increase nno
| perpctuity of the salt tax. All this mus. come, ana
more too, If Federalism rules a few years longer. y
few wears more under Federal sway, at tn rate th'nEs
hive rome on a, this session-this sweet little session
i ..tln ~ ra1,prp lhp nFODip-Anu our poor a nlPTICU
! would be ripe for the picture for which England no"
ats, and which has been 80 powerfully drawn ~ the
Edlnburg Review. Listen 10 il, and hear what FEEDER
nlism would soon bring us 10, II not s.oppea IN us mat
career:
.ra,., upou every article which enters irto The mouth, or co
y-r- iur bar K. or j. placed under the foot. TlNes upon eyer!
Thing which il Is pleasant 10 ser, lear, feel, silel, or TASTE. IaAc
upon warmth, ii.lt, ana i'enho'i"n. iaAes u' ~. ih a, ron"
=! earth, and Tie waters under The earth; on every ;hin. tha' rom,
from abroad, or Is grown AT home. raves IN lr raw n"..i."
,a,,. u every fresh value ihai j. added u Thy the industry Q
man. Taxes on the sauce which rainPtrs a ma" : appe,ne; ~
IN, drug that restores him Ia heath, on the erninr which dec"
ra,es The iuduc. and The rope which hangs Tic criminal; on III
brass nails al The coffin, and the rihanhs Of The ltiie. ~ hn 0
hoard, couciao, OF Ievant, we must pay. TIE sei'n,uny WHIP
hi. m ,rd lon: the heani!rss youth manages h- taxed horse WI
n tas-d briGlc, On a taxed road. The dying En-'ishman pouIs hi
paid fifteen per cent; filings himself back upon his chiniz ned
which has paid twenty two per cent; makes ms WI, o. o. n e' ~
[ paid a licenre cf a hundred pounds tor the privilege o. pnt.im
NV" Ia ten per cent. Besides The probate, large fees are dem 'ndr'
for bunIug Inn in the chanccl; hi virtues handed down 10 pos
Lsriny eli taxed marble, and he Is men Ea'nefca 10 us '"'"'''' :
This IS The way The English are now taxed, and so
il would b. with MS if the FeGeralists should remain
few years in power.
Eyecr5ble as this bin is in itself, and for liz objects
and for the consequences which IT draws aner IT,, II '
still more abominablc for the time and manner IN VINO
it is driven through Congress, and the c"riingenele'
on which its passage is TO depend. What us uic ti'ne:-
when the new States are Just ready 10 double thelr re
presentations, and to present a front which would com
mand respect for their rights, and secure the gran
Of all their Just demands. They are pounced upol
in this nick OF time, before the arrival OF their iull r.
/ presentation under the new census 10 be manacle'
and le,terrd by a law which assumes to he ! perpetual
settlement of the land question, and to bin1 thcIr IN
terests forever. This is the time, what is tie manner
-garrcd through the lluuse Of Representatives by III
prrylnus question:, and by new rules iahrisitrd iron
day to day, to si,ns discussion, prevent amendments
suppress yeas and nays, and hide The DEEDS wi'c
stunned the light. Tins was the manner. WHAT wa
the contingency on which lis passage was 70 depend
the passage Of the Bankrupt bill. So that tins exc
cradle bill, baited as II was with doureurs TO old States
and brides 10 the new ones, anc pressed under the gag
and in the absence Of the new representation, wa
still unable to get through without a bargain tor pass
inc the Bankrupt bill at the same time. Can such IL
p,slation s,and' Can God, or man, respectsuch "ors
The Senate was intended 10 have been gagged also
The new tactics were intended Tor tins chamber, =
we'll as the Honsa of Representatives Tnis d'sgrac
was intended for Us, and so declared upon tins f1'''
bu. courage, and manly determination, saved the Spnai
c,,m ,bis drep humiliation. We determined to RESIST
Ia defend our righls-to die in their deiehcs-and mao
known nnr determination. To resist un.o death wa
our firm resolve: and, $" help me God, | inended 10 d
a corpse upon the ground before the rights ni an anhs
rican Senator should have been destroyed in my pei
srn. ),
What is To compensate the new s ates far the EVIL
of this bill for the loss of graduation the loss oi ce'
! sinn.-the lnes of good pre-emptions-thc l'ss oil grant
and dunations-the loss Of future cnnirnat'"ns, an
the loss of all their specie which will be carried oil
The old States, while deprecated paper vail be ser
hack 10 pay the troops and the Indians? What Is ther
in the bill to compensate for these losses, and for tn
degradation OF becoming The vassals OF the old States
l. the compensation in the half million grmts' BY n
means! for these grants are cheats, ard only the hall
what they should be. Is IT in the ~prp-empion CLAUSE
Not at all. for that is 4 fraud restricted INTO nothing
and intended to be pleaded in bar 10 any future app
cation for a real presumption law. Is il IN the dls;r'o;
! ton of money! Doubtless not. for that Is onl 4 Int
of their own-a slice from their own loaf-and no ecu
,alcnt for the losses and degradation which the bill IN
poses, and still less for the violations of the ConslIt'
ton and the cotnpacts: far which no amount Of none
can aver atone. The bin ia uUcomDpnsated nliSchn