The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-08-20

and 81 nays. So the amendment to the amend
ment was adopted.
6. Upon taking the question on the amendment
as amended, by teers, the whole was rejected, by
yeas ll2, nays ~.
7. Mr. Williams of Maryland now moved to
amend the bill by striking out SALT alone; and
though question of order was raised, as the conf
niltee had Just refused TO strike out SALT Mr. Cush-
ing of Massachusetts, ia Whig) the chairman of
the committee, overruled the question of order,
and the question was taken upon salt alone, and
| lost.
8. Notwithstanding this decision of the Chair,
and Notwithstanding the parliamentary knowledge
! of Mr. Lowrence, the original mover, and Of many
others of his party, no Wing attempted get a
vote to exempt tea and coffee separately from the
operations of the bill.
! 8. When The tariff bill came into the House. the
Wings called the previous question, thus cutting
off all amendments; and, upon the demand, i"Shall
the previous question be now putt" every Demo-
crat in the House voted in the negative.
TO- When MIR Profit of Indiana complained be-
cause the gag were PERSISTED in, at the expense of
those vital amendments, Mr. Stanley of N. Carroll
ma avowed that the responsibility belonged to the
Wing party, and spoke of the SPLENDID epitaphs
which a great people would inscribe upon their
tombstones for having served in this Congress.
H. After the bill had passed, and while the title
was under the consideration, Mr. Dawson of Geor-
gia complimenled the Northern and Southern
Wings for voluntarily voting against their feelings
and their interests on the passage Of the bill
What now bec.mes oflhe high-sounding charges
of the correspondent Of the Wing?
The tariff bill was passed by lftenn majority in
the House. Had Georgia voted with the nays,
would it not have been lost? Who, then put a
tax of 20 per cent. upon tea aud collee! Let the
would-be Governor of Georgia answer.
Mr. Clifford, with proper regard for the com
mercia interests of his own State, Nlalne,) which
sends out lumber of all sorts to the West Indies for
sugar, moasses, and salt, and with view to the
relief Oft the laborng class every where, proposed
the exemption of those accessories of life, together
with tea and coffee, as proposed by Mr. Lawrence,
A portion of the Federal ma orty, on the first I'M
pulse, united with the Democrats in setting free
from duty what constitutes great portion OF the
| food of the whole people OF this country, and not
considering sugar and salt and molasses as less nee
essaries than tea and coffee, voted to embrace
them in Mr. Lawrcnce's clause of exemption. All
these articles, of which The poor consume more
than the rich, because the poor, who work, require
more TO support them than the RICH and because
the aboring class are as an hundred to one of the
indolenl wea.lhy-were then together in the a
mcndment and the whole amendment was relec-
ted by caucus-mllied forces Of Federalism, who by
that vote, put twenty per cent, tax on tea, cot-
fee, sugar, salt and molaSSes. And now the pre-
text to cover this tax, which takes for the Govern
ment one-h of the price of all necessarles of life
is, that the attempt to relieve sugar. salt and
moiasses, prevented the Federal t01-iayerS from
taking the burden from tea and coffee! And how :
The letter IN r Richmond intimatcs that no question