The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-26
It's concomltant malyersa-

That measure was deprecated by every who took
the trouble to reflect the consequences, and some
would have deemed it wiser ACT to have sunk 1t IN
the Atlantic. And the results have exposed the lai-
lacy of the plot or whatever else it might be called
But the spirit that imposed that wretched measure on
the country not satshed-did not sleep until II
| conjured up and forced upon another device OF
similar nature--the division of the proceeds OF the
public domain among the States. On this last, Mr.
| Chairman have much to say, but 1t would require
more time than the resolution abrldging the freedom
Of speech will permit | could show that this DIS
tributon act is violation of the Constitutions vlo-
ation of the Peoples equal rights; violation OF the
States equal rights; violation Of the rghtful use OF
the taxing power an increase of tax upon labor UNI
wise temptation to the State Governments to become
beggars and dependents on the General Government,
| a concentration of power In the General Govern
ment an unjust unplau- ible unnecessary demOrallZ-
| ing measure-a that puts hundred dollars
into one pocket and takes hundred and twenty-five
out of the other Of the workingpeope OF the Union
"a that sells the land to divide among the
States and extracts an increased indirect tax OF TWEEN
ty-fve per cent. from the labor of the country-a
that cheats the public Treasury out oil It's
Dues for nnetenths of the lands now to be sold were
| bought by revenue taken out OF the treasury
measure that renders excuse for incting the tax
proposed in this BILL Of 50 to $50 per cent. upon tea
Coffee sugar, Spices and salt; some seven-eighths OF
it to be paid by labor and only one-eighth by capital
"a measure supported by those who call themselves
the peculiar friends of the slave thereby advocating
bounty for the breeding Of slaves, the planter re-
cevng tn ee shares of the proceeds of the lands for
every five slaves the slaves he breeds the more
shares he gets (but we must do the Southern Demo-
Gratis the Justice acknowledge that they utterly
opposed to the distribulion) and taxing white labor,
too, through consumption of necessares, to pay 1t
An improvement British policy this, by our friends
of the the slave, for Britain taxed the labor OF her
starving white subjects at home twenty millions ser-
ling, to pay the capitalist slave owners in her west
India colonies for the emancipation OF their blacks,
| andal
on the bondage of her hundred millions of serls in
| her East India possessions What a striking evil
denc,, among ourselves well as in England OF the
disparity between profession and practice in human
| nature! What strange propensity IN governments
to Cypress labor and aggrandize capital to abstract
| from the many who work, and give to the few who
| scheme to steal the power from the producer and
concentrate it on the non-producer thereby PerPetu
ating the dominancy of the latter over the former!
And such is the nsdious, positive tendency OF discr
minatng indirect taxation of duties on imports.
| All these assertive propositions l could pass
through diusvely, and esabl sh their soundness be-
You'd controversy if were permitted the time but
my constituents shall yet have it all If the law should
not be repea ed, in its full eucidatory FORM to Judge
for themselves of The expansive enforcement OF
the truth.
| we have had on this floor Mr.. Chairman since
these debates commenced, occasional murmurngs and
grumbngs about ultraism, and radicalism, and alb
sractionsm, by way of nterlude perhaps; is it
hoped that by using them reproachful epithets,
the march of pure free principles may be retarded or
suppressed suspect we are rather behind the age
in making the attempt, and the people will make US
understand ourselves little better by and by Man,
IN The Northern hemisphere of this side OF the Allan
tic is investigating every thing under the sun at this
moment and do we expect to stop this healthy career
OF searching inquiry by crying out ultraIsm and rad
calism and abstractionsm? We had better give up
such childish folly, be the motive to 1t what 1t may,
for most certainly will not retard stay the inqui
ry that is going into the nature of popular night
and free Governments we may as well make merit
of necessity, and into its extent at once be our
position what it may, for the bewdefing night OF err
that has coudcd the equal rights of the people,
nas passed over, and the balmy, rosy-tinted morn
of truth is beaming upon in its cheering ef-
| fulgence, and we will enjoy and use its benefits
whether the lights be called ultra and radi-
| cal or not People beginning to suspect per-
| haps, that the peculiar senstlveness of those who
are thus attempting to stop the salutay course of in
vestlgaon into first principles of Democracy Is caus-
ed by fear of the People enlghtening themselves
more than could be wished on their rightfu power
and true interests. Hence the craft of attracting and
divertlng their attention to mere sound words in
stead oftuhs-instead of facts and the investigation
of motive Hence the Fictitious faint indifference
attempted to be attached to the ultra radical
and abstraction; all to misead the People But the
denunciatory tone partisan charlatanry alter
the true meaning depecate the high value ofheir
political application In such application what do
these terms belong to? Why, they so intimately
|
same circumstances. If you ultra, you are more
or less RADICAL and if radical less ultra. In
the general they belong to the extreme remote legt
inate original or fundamental, deep-rooted Democra-
TIC prncipe-to the extreme purity of equal right
among the People And as to abstractiOnism, may
say with truth that truth is sometimes abstI action
rather hard to catcha little taste Of practice among
the protuson OF profession, particularly when
the whole good of the whole Union is concerned
Why the Universe, created by the fiat of Omnipo-
m Otp ctnrf tn ,,to
STILL on, and on, and on is the uncomfortable might
ness Of ultaism. The ehulgent light of Divine
Goodness, in its boundless immensely, is radical Ma
ture, In all her orks, displays ultraism and radical
Ism the infntude OF Almighty power is their pure
sence The sy stem to which our planet belongs pre-
sents the glorious spectacle Of RADICAL ultra direction
| in every aspect. The farmers themselves who have
the heaviest taxes to pay, and who | invoke to take
INTO their grave consideration the oppressive, parta
provisions Of this remorseless tax bill, ultra rad-
cal in the exercise Of their hsbandry they cultivate
the ultra earth in the action of the radical sweat that
exudes from their brows And one reason Mr.
Chairman, why | appeal more particularly to the
working people to come to the aid of their country
at this nom mt of peril to her welfare is because my
constitute is took of their radical caste from
between the handles of the plough in reality, not fig
uratlvey, to repres mt them and do their will on
this floor; TO ascertain perhaps, for once whether
any could better understand the interests and happiness
OF the working people, more intimately sympathise
with them than practical working man himself
How far heir farmer representative has sustained
their character radically, practically, and faithfully,
they will judge imIaraliy Can we be too radical and
ultra In constituting the Constitution and equal rights
of People and States tell me that And more |
do trust and hope that the People will permit none to
represent them either in ate or Federal Government
but those who purely radical in their whole legis
alive action, confnng themselves strictly to the rule
truth IN its pristine purity, knowing and feeling
that free government be carried on
fully without such adherence to radical right; and
the People will then be conscious that the power
theirs practically, not fancifuly has been heretofore
the
However, in relation to these availabes, ultra radi-