The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-12


Bull, or any body else The amount of the matter
is high prosperous destnies await Ohio II she VIII
only mind her own business and be true To herseil
And do most earnestly recommend To the farmers
and working people OF Ohio to nuiliiy this tax OH,
mains and penalties, of dutyng enormities, oil laDof
plunder OF taking from one and giving TO anotheI
of making the rich richer, and the poor poorer,
gag rule connection and Acknowledgment violation
and of Constitution, and People and States equa,
rights vioation-by rejecting, as far as possible, all
th nerv that would plumber their pockets by iron
and necessaries they must have but not touch any Oh
the fabrics that can be helped make and prefer tlen
own And necessity will assist such Patriouc oetef
mination-the capacity to sell when Is derived from
labor creates the capacity to buy, but vsonaries and
knayes devised fictitious capacity in additionpaper
money instead of real money which requires labor 10
realize the deception has had its day. Frustrated Inc
visionares enriched the knaves, vctimiZed the lnno-
cent and disspated Itself. therefore the Visohu,
capacity having lost its power the dictates OF stern
| honest reality will reject, among the producers al
least the gew-gaw consumption, and be content WIN
essentials and necessaries hence the certain reduc-
ton of revenue from imports by an increase oil house
hold thrift and fabric and consumption Of domestic
| manufactures. This is plain, yet paper money VI
sonaries and knave who wish to live upon the labor
of others still exist and will struggle hard to conJure
back the phantom, that it may again shed It's baleiu
influence the industry OF the land to their adVan
tage and the oppression of honest industry But VIII
they succeed; Is not the deception and its caaml-
ties too well understood and felt to be endured again
or must we be subjected to the corrupt reign OF IT.
redeemable paper money vilany once more as a FUR
Their punishment for the sin OF entertaining IL so long
as we have done If we should, will be unable 70
see it in any other light unless the conclusion may De
arrived at that have stupidity, roguery, Tool
shness greedness, mposture, and idleness among
us than what the world may have as yet gwen us
| credit for 800
| Yet the adoption, Mr. Chairman, of this tax bill,
| NAV fix the stigma of some of these anti-wisdom
terms upon us for high protective arf Tor reve-
nue. will defeat itself; the higher the imPosls the
more smuggling through Canada, and probably leXas;
As to the former if you to establish Gordon OF
troops along the whole frontier you could not prevent
it. for it is probably reciprocity on both sides The
valley of the Mississippi will be inundated with
struggled cloths, fine coons, fine cutlery and hard
ware, and other articles that may come within the
object in proportion to the increase of tariff VIII be
the increase of smuggng-hence, proportionate
reduction Of revenue and more unproptious compeu-
ton for manufacturers.
But remedy for all this is approaching hourly !;
our destiny is plain nothing more plain Does any
man suppose that in due time will not produce and
manufacture every thing that our all-encompasslng
circumstances will permit that we will not use the
advantages; bring into active purpose the resources
and powers that God and Nature has invested US
with II we do not, not worthy OF them, that
all. What we the only free People on earth COM
prsing all-imposng congregation of States, each
proud empire in itself, bound together in one power
full invunerabe Union, stretching from the Atlantic
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winters and short winters, and winters at all I'M
mense lakes rather inland seas, with noble rivers
and creeks in all variety OF slnuoslty through our
whole interiors and all soils and minerals and indus
trial locations that are to be found on the face OF the
globe. All this world in ITSELF this all-yarled held Tor
the exercise of mans intelligence industry, and en-
terprse, and not use it to what perfection we may
the negative would be preposterous our exalted con-
dton of independence of this character is inevitable,
we cannot avoid it, must, and will come to It
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flight of the imagination, it plain matter OF fact
common sense True, we must reform first yes,
when the People make us, and that they will do short
ly. Right says, that those who produce should en-
Joys it so The industrious labor, but through had
legislation in putting the paper money privilege and
monopoly incubus upon that labor, the idle ENJOY.
So it has been, but so 1t will not be- the ballot-box
in its purified action is making the reformation in all
good WILL and will be difficult to invent any more
false issues that will retard its operations until the
work finished, and the People rule radically in spi-
rit and truth
But there is some little alloy Mr.. Chairman to
these good prospects this public debt we are accumu.
atipr is a cloud upon the future, as well as a reflec-
ton upon the present And this tariff tax is to do the
wonderful-pay the government expenses debt and
interest do believe will ,hs half oa e In
....a OF thirty Millions do think u WIN prine
fncen and coffee and all, unless the CO.
pie become mad buy foreign merchandise just
tor the sake of being taxed with import duties to pay
the public expenses deectabc way truly OF getting
out of debt. But have sad something about this
before. What inconsistent, thoughtless mortals
are to hear gentlemen in this Hall animadvertng
upon the m'norili,y OF States repudiang their debts
and at The same moment casting about ways and
means, schemlng out the most eligible and elaborate
mode OF lnfcting debt upon posterity about crea-
ung, rounding, and increasing debt for children
anu our chidfens children to remote posterty, per-
maps TO pay! saddling their energies and industry
win our extravaganza and mlsmanagemcnt! Is there
no immortality, no in Justice in this Reputation IN
deed! Is not INJECTING this debt poserily repudia.
tion-cowardIy reputation? And to gentlemen,
too, gong to the wretched policy of England the
mother of debt to inq ure into her conrvances and
faculties of getting in debt and taxing her people to
enlghten themselves on this public debt project! 1t
isa Py That there had not been clause in the Con-
sthuton that the Government should never get in
deqt; when 1t wanted money to tax the people at
once, let them know and feel the worst and best at
once, be 1t as 1t may, and they would stop or let their
government 20 on according 10 the merits of It's
duct. When the, Government borrows, who is it
from from capitalists and afterwards taxing labor to
pay the debt, instead OF taxing capital al once But
ne whole policy Is to tax labor to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
oi capital. Capital Is extracted from labor, and the
Government contrves to still tax that same labor
thlough It's Consumption of necessaries confer it on
capitai extract from the strengthen the
power and influence of the favored exclusives This
may not always be intended in the entire sense per
| maps, nut whether or not such Is the result The
Government dare not tax directly but will keep build
ing up an increasing debt at sacrificing prices; be-
| cause II they dad the former the people would feel
where the shoe pnched at once and obre their Rep
resentaVcs To retrench and reform and economize in
earnest and the farmers would see that capital should
not escape but do It's share
| some OF our politicians with popularity hunting
air OF confidence, as much to say, 81 am doing it
now, declain aloud, 81 against direct tax, the
feopie Will not suffer direct taxi But with all
such cIap'trap hnesse, the agrlcuturs,s had better
look INTO the matter little and Judge oc themselves
Tor Government debt in Republic cannot live
forever as in England and cannot be paid gu, of the
ar. The direct tax we have had, should have been
called land tax for that what it was levied on
the secret policy of making labor pay but when we
nave another direct INK to pay of the debt we are
gong INTO so recklesly under the idea of getting it
out of labor as usual the farmer will have say IN it,
aud direct that capital OF all kinds shall do IFS share as