Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-04-18
FOR TIE ENQUIRER.
To Me OrRerS ri Land, Hapes, and Horses.


Are you willing pay ull the taxes, will you
insist, that every man in the Commonwealth shall
contribute IN proportion TO his means, equally win
yourselves This is of the greet questions which
you have Ia decide for yourselves in few days al
the polls If YOU ,ln; you alone able 10 bear all
the burdens ot Governmental YOU think 1t Just and
right that you shouldthen go to the polls and east
your votes for the Uhig candidates. and then you may
lind next Winter that the taxes on money, and upon
salaries taken oil, and the upon land, slaves
and horses raised high you wish. Ii, however,
you think that the officers of Government, the ofi
GERS of the banks, internal improvement companies,
.Sc we'll as the moneyed men OF the State, ought
to participate with you paying the expenses OF the
Government which projects the persons and property OF
all its citizens, then rally around those members OF the
last Legislature who had the moral courage and indie
pendence TO raise the taxes and thus sustain the credit
and the honor of Virginia. Man is not perfect, aud
lax bin which he frame will be satisfactory 10 all
persons; but boldly assert, that the Tax bill
makes nearer approximation to exact and equal JUS
tce than any bill which has passed The Legislature
upon this subject for the ast 90 years.
The "Lynchburg Virgnian"-one of the Wing
gans, and edited by Mr. Toler, admits that the taxes
have moi been raised loo much The Nrgnan objects
10 what he calls The inequality OF The tax bill, while he
conesses that he would be willing see the taxes
doubled The "Richmond Wing complains of the
BILL and maintains that while the Wing clerks in the
cities are taxed, the in the country who he
SAYS are mostly Democrats, not taxed and there
fore in rather -humor because all the orcrseers OF
the country are not taxed as we'll the clerks Now,
the tax on salaries, imposed without regard TO
men or their political opinions. believe tina, large
majority of those who receive salaries in Virginia are
Wings and this believe is of the leading cons.
deratons with the Wings for opposing the bill For
what know, they may also possess most of the money
and the capital Of the country. The bill, however,
was no, framed designed for the purpose of taxing
Wings any more than Democrats; and If all the ofh
GERS Of our Banks are Wings, as | believe a large
majority arc, do not why they should not pay
out of their large salaries well the antholder-
So too OF the clerks in the cities, many of whom re-
ceve 81 900 or more. There are many men in the
State who have for years past received salaries of
from | 10 3 and even $4,000 and scarcely paid any
thing into the Treasury. There others who have
thousands loaned at legal employed in
shaving paper other purposes of speculation. All
of these may cavil and complain, through the Wing
and other presses, but ask, if the yeomanry of the
and-tbe farmers and planters, and working men of
Virginia, WILL for one moment, heed the slang of the
Wings upon this great subject, will they not
every effort arrest and put down the Wing false
hoods about the Tax bill-and will they not come
forth to the polls with all their might, the fourth
Thursday of April. determined TO support those who
voted for the Tax BILL well as those candidates who
approve it,
The election is important, and if yon spare
day TO elect your public agents, then your love of
country cannot be very intense. Apart from the Tax
bill, this election Important because it involves the
great principles for which The Republicans of Virginia