New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-23
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Bay State were generally SO averse to allowing
,hi. man to be elected, even in view OF the signal
advantages which must inevitably result there
fesm 20 the Wing Cause.
The Inaugural Address delivered By Marcus
Morton on Friday is IN the main skilfu inierml1-
ture of common place and cant-of wise saws re-
la,ing TO Popular Government, lugged in without
necessity to tickle the ears CT the simple and the
most knavish Jacobinism pat forth to excite the
passions OF the vicious. Poor People and the
influence of Wealth are mouth.d and dwelt on in
the very spirit Of Marat aud Robespierre, and a
guileess Sandwich Islander who should read this
Address with no previous knoviedge of our politics
must be led to suppose that the bloody Boston
Aistoeracy were in the habit OF eating poor
children at their feasts and drinking their vine
from. fsctory-girls skulls. The Poor pay all the
Taxes-the Poor bear all the burthens-though
the State Government is supported almost entirely
by the Ta2es on Baaks end on auction Sales. If
such taxes fal! heaviest on the Poor, how would
he 90 to wor: TO shift them TO thu shoulders OF The
Rich
The s,lrest touchsfone to detect the hollow and
insidious demagogue is the comparison OF what he
Says with what he does. or (if in power) proposes
to do This man, after shedding pints Of croco-.
die tears the expressions of the poor Peo-
pie! proposes nothing but the most pepper-corn
measures OF pretended relief to them. If, at the
close OF his sDuffling, he had urged the division OF
all the Property in the State equally among its
inhabitants, we should have suspected his consis-
tencv, though we could not have deemed his re-
commentator one likely to be permanently bene-
fetal to any class. But, after demonstrating, in
his way that all Taxes ought &c be levied pro rata
on Property, and that all Indirect Taxation is
fraudulent and oppressive to the Peer, he turns
short corner, and here we find him:
"The system taxation by tariff of duties furnishes
great facilities for the collection of national And
although operates ipsdiously, taking from the people
contributions the and en OF which they cannot
well understand; and nequaby, eIaciiEg from the poor
nearly as much the rich yet, by oise dcrin
naiisn II tends to the promotion Of 4eTc1n Industry aud
y other aud great adonages neVer 7'l be eba"-
Gonedn
o for the day when the men who lead the Loco
Feco host shall have some faith in the principles
they profit by and pretend to uphold! This man
evidently has not. What he saws here in three
lines is essentially complete answer TO what he
has been caD:ng through three columns And,
after abusing the financial policy of the Wings by
wholesale, and rrocaiming the Treasury bankrupt
he is yet very shy of recommending any direct tax
After trying to barney the Agricultural Int
rest, he abuses the Wings for aiding the ceHsiruc-
ton of the Western Railroad-which is very safe,
now that the Road has been completed, and no
abuse of the enterprise will alarm its friends. He
says it will impose tax of $4,000 per annum on
the industry of the State suppressng the fact that
it has already Increased the reward of that indus
Try FIVE times as much by diminishing the cost of
trans pertation 10 and from market thus increasing
the price Of products to the producer and dimin
shing the cost to the consumer.
Gov Morton of course advocates the cause Of
Dorrism in guarded and specious terms, but in
the spirit of his Clambake Letter, perverting the
question at issue, and eliminating all who differ
from him in regard TO it. Yetthe ground he takes
is fatally inconsistent with the supremacy OF Law
and the preservation of constitutional Freedom
Fer instance, he says:
The right of every voice, aad equal voice,
in the government over him. NATURAL and innate right
II does not depend apon the accident OF BIRTH or the pos
session OF property. 1t not The grant OF his ieowman
but The immediate gin OF God, who created 10 his own
image, all men"
1t must be clear to all thinking persons that this
natural right of every man" must be just as
much the right of every woman, and also of every
child which is held amenabe to the laws. Now
we will suppose Mr.. Marcus Morton to be pre-
siding q. Moderator over the Town Meeting of
MS own Tauntoa, and there come up to vote srst
hundred Russians, who first landed in our Coun
try the day before, and next two hundred women,
aud then three hundred forward young masters
| aud misses all claiming natural and innate
| right to an equal voice in the Government as
an Immediate gift of God" we suppose His Ex-
cellsncy, having been a Justice OF the Suprsme
Court, would have no hesitation 10 informing them
that though he readily conceded their right to
vote, yer i, would be necessary to nave Cenven-
uon called by the Legislature, and The State Con-
stitution altered, before he could legally receive
their ballots Now this is all that the upholders
| of Law and Order in Rhode Island have said-it
is precisely their case. In accusing them, as he
clearly does, of opposing the legal Extension of
Suffrage in Rhode Island he is guilty OF dishonesty
and bearing false witness against Ms neighbors
We nnstnot take space 10 follow him far
,hcr, but will close by commencing the two good
points in his Address-i,s prudent abstinencefeom
National Polt ;cs, ans. It's alvocacy Of the Al,oli-
| ;ion OF Capital Punishment. The fact that be
was for twenty years Justice Of the Supreme
Court will doubtless give weight to this recon-
meuda,ion.
Have we ever said hard things of Gov. Bouck!
| Very possibly we have, though We bear him no
personal unkindness. Well, we take them all
| harL ard hone some friend az Albany Will bow 10