The North-Carolina standard., 1845-04-30
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A aodfHiag rOice-by the great Apostle of amer

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A 40dfHing rOice-by the great Apostle of amer
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To preserve our independence, we must not
lei otr rulers load as with perpetual debt. We
must make our election between economy and
liberty, or profusioH and Servitude IF we run in.
to such debts, as that we must be taxed in our
meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our
comforts, in our labors and our amusements for
our caliiugs and our crecds as the people of Eng
iand are, our people; like them, must come to Ia.
Dor sixteen hours out of the twenty-lour give the
earnings of fifteen of those to the government for
their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth
insufficient 10 afford us bread we must live as
they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no
time to think, no means Of calling the misman-
ager to account but be glad to obtain subsistence
by hiring ourselves TO rivct their chains on the
necks of our fellow sufferers, Our laudhoders,
too, like theirs retaining indeed the title and stew
ardshp of estates called theirs, but held really in
trust for the treasury must wander, like theirs in
foreign countries and be contented with penury.
obscuriy, exile, and the glory of the nation This
example reads to US the salutary lesson that pri-
Vate fortunes are destroyed by public swell as by
private extraVaeance. And this is the tendency
of all human governments. A departure from
principle in one instance, becomes precedent for
a second that second for a third and so on, till
the bulk Of society is reduced to be the mere au-
tomata Of misery, to have no sensibilty left but
for SHINING and suffering. Then begins indeed,
the BELLUM OMNIuM IN oMNIA, which some
philosophers. observing to be so general in the
world, have mistaken it for the natural instead of
the abusive state of man. And the forehorse of
this frightful team is Public Debt Taxation fol.
lows that. and in its train, wretchedness and op-
preston" THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Mr.. Foster Of Tennessee di6Mlgime himself
We always thought MIR. Foster senator from
Tennessee, too thoroug hly engrossed by the party
policy Of federalism, to Illustrate it for any consid
Grafton connected with Texas. And here is the
proof in his own confession. The Nashville
Union says: ...- - >.Ef-
"We are informed by gentlemen of intelligence
and unquestonable veraciIy, that in the course Of
his remarks he Mr.. Fosterl said, that 1them he
ana has Colleagues tDere preparing the resolutions
for annexation 11hich he submitted to the Senate
he had no idea the democrats trouId adopt them
but they aeould take from democracy its sweetest
bone. There can be no misunderstanding Of the
true import OF this declaration: He knew that the
democracy looked upon the Texas question as its
sweetest bone,' and he knew that a majority of
the people Of Tennessee in favor OF
To take from democracy this bone and appropriate
It TO himself, he prepared a proposition which he
believed would be rejected by the democrats"
From this it appears that Mr.. Foster shaped
his resolutions so that they would not command
the vote of "the demoerGts;' and he was we'll ad-
vised that every democratic vote In the Senate
was indispensable to their passage 1t was mere.
ly to take the 'swcst bone" of Texas from the
democracy, that he presented proposition which
he knew would be defeated--he r0ting for IT,
That he was not in earnest in wishing the acqui-
stion which these resolutions were apparently
designed to make, is evident from the fact that he
Toted against his own proposition the moment he
saw an"ther added to it, which would render it
eTectual, by uniting every TEXAS man in Con-
gross democrat or federalist) to carry it through,
and which would secure the assent of Texas, even
sion in that quarter, should be rejected by Texas
Mr.. Foster shows, in this, that he has more gen
cr0lstip than he has had credit for with his party
friends or his opponents. Globe.