The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-08-12

and tore the cloths. The round headed pin was
not made by them; yet all round headed pins must
be taxed, in order TO pamper two little factories
which employed themselves in cutting Rp foreign
wire, and sharpening one end of it while blocking
a head upon the other. Thus universal taxation
. OF pins was to take place in these United Statas;
and this was one of the changes Obtained by tho
late elections. The people were promised chan
ses, and they were getting them and getting them
with vengeance. Under MIR Van Burens ad-
mlnlstraticn, there seventy -four millions OF
dollars worth Of free goods--goods entering into
the daily consumption of the people. Now, all il
taxed, except what the manufacturers use. Here
is bill off fifty -four pages of taxes; and in reading
it over it seemed that every thing that entered in
TO human consumption was taxed; and for fear
anything might be forgotten, there was reservs
IA precautionary section--a sort Of net 10 catch
al that was floating by--and which placed duty
of 20 per centum on all the articles which were no.
named in the bill. 1t seemed to be 10 catch all
that was forgotten; so that, if he succeeded in his
motion, these pins and needles would still be tax.
ed; they would fall into the net. But he would
make motion TO place them in the free list, il
successful IN striking them out of the bill. He
would try and fish them out Of tn, net
Mr. b. said he was born since the Revolutionary
war, but soon enough after it to hear mothers Of
especially the wants Of pins and the necessity Of
using thorns to flsen their cloths. lie had, there-
fore, great antipathy to taxing pins; an article
which erybody must use. lie hat heard the late
John Randol ph say that, while dollar bank-note
was disgusting thing in his eyes. which he would
not touch; yet brass pin was respectable object,
which he took care Of. This arose from his rsvO-
uonary feelings, when he was accustomed TO
see fine lady using thorns in place Of pins, and
rewarding kiss TO the child that should find pin
and hing it to her,
Mr. b. said he did not wish to see people sent
back to lhornS again us substitute for pins Ils
then took up needles. lie said that needles were
used by enthusiastically while women who sew
ed for their living--ond who, of all the descrip-
tons Of laborers in our country, were the most
poorly paid. he believed that the white wo-
man in the United STATES, who sewed for her liv-
ing, got the poorest pay which the labor of the
country exhibited yet here was proposition to
make it still poorer The Federal Government
pounccs down upon them, and taxes the inslTu-
ment Of their labor! 1t taxes the needle in their
hands, so that they shall not sew stitch without
paying tax to the Governnent--an that TO help
to make up for the loss Of the land revenue MIR
Mr. b. believed it this tax on needles was cOn,ina.
ed, the Wing party would be sewed up. Mr. y.
then took up the article of knltting-needles, and
SAID II was hard to tax the old ladies who still fol-
lowed the laudable custom Of knitting their own
stockings, Bad us this was, he saw still worse was
to follow-tmt of taxing darning needless; so that
the frugal mother could no longer darn the heel
and toe of her children's stockings without paying
tax TO this splendid Federal Government under
its magnificent tthig rule.
lie called for the yeas and nays, which were
ordered, and resulted in the ncgative--yeas 10,
nays 25, rs follows:
YEAS-Nlessrs, Allen, Bagby, Benton. Bachan-
an, Calhoun, Cu,hbcrt. Fulton, King, Linn, Nc
Roberts, Sewer, Smith Of Connecticut tazappan,
WalkcI, H'cox, " ams, Woodbufy,tprght
and YOung-l0.
NAYS-Nlessrs. Archer, Barrow, Bates, Bay
ard, Choate, Clayton, Conrad. Crafts, Cfiitenden,
Dayton. Evans, Huntington, Kerr, Mangum, Mer-
rick, Miller, Morehcad, Phelps, Porter, Summons,
Smith Of Indiana, Sprogue, Tallmadgc, Uhite.
and Woodbridse--25.
These extracts are from the debate on the Tar
i'll Bill in the Senate Aug. 2, lrlhey do not salts
y the people Of this State as to who are the friends
of the farmer and le'poor men" us the feds say.
then we do not know us anything will.