Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-04-11
POLITICAL.
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rue DISCUSSION on MONDAY. .


county, at the Court House. The Court adjourned
little before IL o'clock 10 give the candidates for
Congress and the House Of Delegates an opportunity
Of addressing the people.
Col Randolph led oil in one Of his peculiarly plain,
practical, common sense speeches; devoted mainly TO
defence OF his course during the recent session OF
The Legislature. He spoke OF his very arGuous, re-
sponsble duties Chairman OF the Committee Of FL
nance, and showed how utterly impractca5le 1t would
have been fer The State to get along for another fiscal
year, without an increase Of The lie exposed,
with pencil OF ligh the financial difficulties IN which
The State was involved and gave the people, perhaps
tor the hrst time, accurate insight into Tie real
amount OF Indebtedness which is saddled upon US
He showed that tie debt of tic State about ten
Mullins OF dollars, and that there was deficiency in
The Treasury of the State, for the current year Of
between five and six hundred thousand dollars Tn.
der these circumstances, he showed conclpsiyel;. /
vas absolutely essential 10 increase the taxes, 10
the State from The }ct d,shonor OF refusing 10 pay
debt which she had solemnly pledged her aIih 10 pay.
To tax or repudiate the real question, and one
which Frglnian could at' to meet became Iir-
gataaS. As lie details of the bill, he showed how
they had been grossly perverted and misreprescne6.
lie commended and, think, proved clearly, that
the bill was based upon principles Of squatHy. The
tax upon money capital, or rather me interest chch It
aotHaty prodacsd we'll es upon other subjects,
was graduated according 10 the land tax, which was
taken the standard lie showed how the land AID
The labor have heretofore borne nearly the whole bur
den Of the Government and asked II it not far
that every should be taxed IN proportion To what
hJ worth, instead of throwing the whole weight
Of taxation upon particular class; For ourselves,
thnk there should be no difference Of opinion upon
this point. 1t IS IN taxation as It IS in chancery -
"Equaty is Equity and 1t is not lille remurka-
BILE, that within the limits OF the Common
wealth, SO fur us have heard has dared 10
attack the pracipifS Of the bill. They are too OBJ
vioasy just o admit of cav even; and when
member the great straits 10 which tins good old State
has been reduced and the great difficulty OF arranging
the details Of bill like the under CONSIDER
alton, 1t seems TO unworthy nf the Virginia charac-
ter 10 hunt after objections TO those details.
After Col Randolp pin had concluded, the Federns.s,
by way OF n,erlude, proposed 10 hold meeting to
candidates for the county, and proposed TO ad ourn
to the Eagle Hotel MIR. Leakc Immediately rose and
appealed them to i've HIM hearing. Several re
spunGcd that ii he would wait until they the Wings
had held their meeting, they would hear him with
pcasurc tha. ii he would give way Tor hall al hour
they would hold Their meeting III ;nc court house, ALTER
which the disc ussion woud 20 CT. air Leake replied
thai tae request was Reasonable one, and he would
gave way w'th g:ea, pleasure. Accordingly, the
Wings whlom federalis.s) j.: hwith organized them.
elves INTO neetiug Dr. Carter the Chair. a::! :
b. Magruder, Esq Secretary \ comh,;,ec III l!ittc
vas appointed, who, alter retiring Tor short TIM.
turned and announced the names OF V. ". SouN,"..
aud Thomas Wood, Esqrs Is The candIdatea o! ife
Wings OF Aibemafe. Inc nominations were confirms
ed with one or two dissenting A. this sioge
of the game Dr. Jchn H. Woods, who hod peen spoken
of in the papers as candidate, rose and asked 10 be
heard for short time. He SAID, that he had been
looked to nv some candidate, he took that oppor
unty of saying that his should not be obstacle
10 pc feet union and harmony in the immaculate Wing
party. He therefore cheerinIy yielded TO the decs'on
of the mect,ng and would cordially support the nnnii
necs DR.. John r. Woods said much more which, ioT
the lie OF ms, cannot nov remember az wc took ~
ao,es After he had concluded, Mr.. Locke proceeded
With his address He spoke no, quite an hour, aud
n,ade one of the powerful speeches ever heard
He confined himself particularly 10 the tax BILL Showed
it, necessity intact the honor OF our good old
Stale proved its equality nil classes, and le entire
Justice of lis provisions. He charged upon the Wigs
lin. design Of loading The landed interest OF the country,
Is Inch la: heretofore borne without murmur nearly
he whole tax the State, with The surplus necessary
10 nav the State debts, design BY tie way, @hc n-
pears TO 10 be undoubed since the Richmond W nag
mas charged with the attempt to tax the wings under
he present Bill, III favor o he Democrats. even Il
Il had not appeared sufficiently before IN the Efforts o
two WHY leaders, Messrs. Cruchiied and Daniel, 10
impose additional taxes Of from fifty to slxy-sx Per
:. nj upon the Landed Interest.
Mr. l.. Showed, mat ~ Distribution, even were
there constitutional impeachment, as NE thinks 'ierc
s, and were there circumstances Of policy against
H. as he thinks there nre many, that his election aSt
Spring, when he took ground against II, amounted to
IN trucuns 10 him 10 vote against It, lie defended
his Dart OF his course with great ability, and demon
s,raled tina, this only beginning Of a series oil
measures 10 destroy the independence OF The States
bhe offered TO the people TO support party who take
the peoples money away, and IN restoring II, MAKE
them think it is gift to enrich them lie touched on
the outrageous proposition, recently made IN wing
CONGRESS- by one OF the prominent men, TO create
stock of two hundred millions OF dollars, the ehecl oil
which, whatever ts purposes, IS 10 make tie non'in
debted States and those comparatively so, as IS 'rg
ma. nav the debts of the States that are Bankrupt
hate iaun n
Senate where by vote to lay on the table, The wing
Senators refused 10 vote against 1t.
He. as well as MIR. Randolph, proved that the Wing
narly in their nGuitous tariff protection have taxed
many recessaries hundred per cent, whist IN W.
GINA The Legislature has taxed land only 20 per cent
increase. negroes Is per cent, and merchants their
sales according n scale of grada.lon only one-ten!h
OF one per cent, large class; The small dealers being
exempted from any increase al all
Tine speeches of both these gentlemen were, we
Think generally satisfactory TO our friends and ne ala
not hear Of one single Democrat, who, alter hearing
the exclamation of the bull was not convinced that It's
proyls!ony were Just and correct. Even the WHY'S
wavered many had expressed themselves IN favor 81
the tax in the morning, several more were satsHec
with its correctness after the planatoE given anu the
exposure Of The msrepresentations that nave neen so
ndts,rlousy circulated IN every hole aud corner VI
tbs county and Mr.. Thomas ood formally declined
contest IN which, we think, lie was convinced lie
could gain neither victory nor credit. Hr. bazaleei'
Brown was Immediately nominated in his stead hir.
Southa from what hear - Ill also decline, we nave
no doubt, IRON the same prudential motives. but we
neither fear him any other man IL tins noble cause
We challenge opposition, and engage TO beat Tie wings
at least one hundred in the contest Democrats, we nave
promised for YOU and make the issue reputation
or disgrace.
We have presented Tax Bill for your APPRECIATION,
which is as popular if had been framed 20 be SO,
because its principles go even beyond what Is just IN
favor of the new classes introduced. we ask you 70
consider it, aud We know you will approve oo'h II and
is authors
The county candidates having been heard, the cand'.
dates 70. Congress next took their turn r iea
off in speech limited fortunately Ter hm) I" -
hours Nearly his whole time was consuh'sa IN SPEAK"
ne Of what nv called Mr. Giiners inconsistencies,
instead of dgnified and sta.csman'!ke exposure OF
his own course and creed To so great an extent ad
hc carry this merely personal and petty discussion ~
dscussion it can be calsed) tina. one Of his own party
friends IN the crowd last most caiied OUT
uWell, YOU have told Us enough what Iner mas Done
tell US VIA: you have done The orator paused
evidently taken al! atack The cal! was repeated and
Mr. Gorsin at las, responded in most inagnan'mcos
tone and manner ON tell YOU what nave done
rateG for Gen Harrison IN lc.o! ~hereupon all 'he
Federal Wings shouted leather for Joy ta' 'ey had
at las, found an "ereru inch zig" MIR. Gogsln was
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