Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-03

nS 10 lne present receipts from the pubic Janus,
,bout 100000. We make distribution, and
she receives it. To that extent it would then
relieve her from direct taxation to meet the debt
which she has contracted, or it would form the
basis Of new loans TO an amount equal to abou
two millions. We refuse to make distribution.
She must levy the hundred thousand dollars upon
her population in the form of direct taxation.
And. if | am rightly informed, her chief source
of revenue is land tax, the most burdensome Of
all taxes. If | am misinformed the Senators
from Illinois can correct me.
Here Mcssrs. RoBrNsoN and You've ex.
planned, stating that there was an additional
source in a tax on the stock in the State Bank
Sill the land tax is, as had understood, the
principal source Of the revenue of Illinois.
We make distribution, and it necessary, we
supply the deficiency which it produces by an i'm.
position Of duties on luxuries, which Illinois can.
not tax. We refuse it, and having no power her
self 10 lay duty on any foreign imports, she is
compelled TO resort to the most convenient and
oppressive OF all modes Of taxation. Every vote,
therefore, which is given against distribution is
vote, in effect, given to lay land tax on the peo.
pie Of Illinois Worse than that it is vote, in
effect, refusing TO tax the luxuries Of the rich,
and rendering inevitable the taxation of the poor
that poor in whose behalf we hear, from the other
side Of the Chamber, professions Of such deep
sympathy, interest, and devotion! In what attl.
tude do gentlemen place themselves who oppose
this observation-disclosures who taunt us as the ar.
isocracy, as the friends of the banks, &C., gen.
tlemen who cl aim to be the peculiar guardians oil
the Democracy? How do they treat the poor?-
We have seen at foymer sessions a measure warm
ly espoused, and finally carried by them, which
they represented would reduce the wages Of labor.
AT this session. a tax which would be borne ex.
clusively by the wealthy, encounters their oppo.
siton. And now we have proposed another mode
Of bene6ting the poor, by distribution OF the land
proceeds, TO prevent their being borne down and
oppressed by direct taxation; and this, too, is oP-
posed from the same quarter! These gentlemen
will not consent to lay tax on the luxurles oil
the aflluent and by their votes, insist upon leav'
ing the States under the necessity of imposing d.
rect taxes on the farmer, the laboring man, the
poor, and all the while set up to be the exclusive
friends Of the poor IA general laughl Really,
sir, the best friends appear 10 be the worst enemies
Of the poor and their greatest enemies their best
friends.
The gentlemen opposed to US have frightened
themselves, and have sought 10 alarm Others by
imaginary dangers to spring from this measure Of
distribution. Corruption, it seems is to be the
order of the day. If | did not misunderstood the
Senator from South Carolina, he apprzed us Of
the precise sum-one million Of dollars-which
was adequate 10 the corruption Of his own State.
He knows best about that but should be sorry
to think that fifty millions Of dollars could cor,
rupt my State. What may be the condition Of
South Carolina at this time know not; there is
so much fog enveloping the dominant party tina.
it is difficult TO discern her present latitude and
longitude. What she was in her better days-in
the days OF her Rutledges, Pinckneys, Sumpers,
Lowndeses, Cheveses-we all well know, and
will not inAict pain on the Senator by dwelling
on it. 1t is not for me to vindcate her from a
charge so degrading and humilatng. She has
another Senator here, far more able and eloquent
than am TO defend her. Certainly dot not be.
lieve, and should be most unwilling to think, that
her Senator had made correct estimate Of her
moral power.
1t has been indeed said that our whole country
is corrupt; that the results Of recent elections
were brought about by fraudulent means; and
that foreign influence has produced the great po
lidcal revolution that has just taken place.
pronounce that charge gross, atrocious, treason
able libel on the People Of this county, on the
institutions Of this country, and on liberty itself
do not attribute this calumny 10 any member o
this body. hope there is none who would give
it the slightest countenance. But do charge i
upon some OF the newspapers in the support o
the other party. And it is remarkable that thu
very press which originates and propogates Thu
foul calumny Of foreign influence has vindicaet
the right of unnaturaized foreigners TO mingle
at the polls, in our elections; and maintained tn
expediency Of their owning portions Of the sol
of our country, before they have renowned thei
allegiance to foreign sovereigns.
! | will not consume the time of the Senate il
dwelling long upon the idle and ridiculous stor
about the correspondence between the LonAo
bankers and some Missouri bankers-u correspond
ence which was kept safely until after tine Presi
Dental election in the custody of the directors 0
what is Wanted as genuine L0cofocO bank il
that State, when it was dragged out by resolution
of the Legislature, authorizing the sending 70
persons and papers. 1t was then blazed forth a
conclusive and damning evidence Of the eXistenc
of foreign influence in our Presidential election
And what did it all amount to! These BIRTHS
bankers are really strange fellows. They are fool
ish enough to look to the safety Of their money ad
vanced to foreigners! If they see man going t
ruin, they will not lend him; and if they see ma
ton pursuing the same road, they are so unreason
able as to decline vesting their funds in its bonds
If they find war threatened, they will speculate o
the consequences; and they will indulge in conjec
: lures about the future condition of country il
, given contingencies Very strange They hav
seen--all the world is too familiar wth-the en-
barrassments and dstresses brought upon the PEG
pie of the United States by the measures of MI
Van Buren, and his iAustrious predecessor. The
conclude that, if he be reelected, there will be NJ
change Of those measures, and no better times i
the U. States. On the contrary, if Gen. Harrso
be elected. theY nrgue TINT sound cnrrencY ma