The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-04-30

ney, Noble, oldfeId, Paine, Randall, Ridgway,
Skinner, Tallman, Vanmeter, Woolsey and SPea-
ker---33." Every nay COon.)
So the federal majority in the House refused
to allow bank capital TO be taxed as is capital in
vested in mercantile, mechanical and manulac-
turing pursuits.
With these facts known and staring them too,
in the face, the editors of the Journal assert that
there was not the 'slightest allusion 10 party at
the time of the adoption of the bill" and this
assertion, in the face of the recorded evidence
10 the contrary, is endorsed IN even stronger Ian
guage, by other federal organs
Having proved that politics had something to
do in the passage of this bill, we will next, pro-
coed TO show that, after it enacted, this same
tax bill was endorsed by the Ohio State Jour-
nal
The Legislature ad lourned on the morning OF
Thursday, the 18th OF March On the night Of
the following Saturday, We find the following
paragraph in the leading editorial of the Journal.
reviewing the acts of the last Legislature:
"The Legislation of general nature has been
of great Importance to the country, and all the
great measures of the session have been ma
tured and passed into laws The party here
tofore in power had postponed all important
measures of general nature. The RESPONSE
bility thus cast on the wings have been duly
metz
This, the reader will join us in saying, is all
Extremely fine; but let us see what were the
"gredt measures of the session." Of such ''GREAT
importance to the country" which we're ''ndtured
aud passed into Iaors'' The Journal then pass
es on TO the Bank law---then the removal of the
Board of Public Works, (Which gave one OF the
editors of the Journal a snecure office OF $3.50
per day for editing that sheet---the violation OF
the contract with the State Printer, &c, and then
it has the following:
"THE BILL TAXING MERCHANTS CAPITAL Ac-
TUALLY EMPLOYED, MONEY AT INTEREST, AND 9TH
Err PROPERTY WHICH HAS USUALLY ESCAPED TAX
ALTON TO A GREAT ExrENT, CANNOT FAIL
|OF MEETING GENERAL ACCEPTANCE.
The immediate effect will be to do away with
the necessity of increasing the levy for State
purposes on property now listed for taxation,
which otherwise had become inevitable in order
to meet the demands on the treasury for the due
maintenance of the public credit. Equal taxa
Ition and equal representation are principles
founded in justice, and lie at the bottom OF our
system of government"
The bill thus noticed under so plausible ti-
tile, is the very same tar bill introduced by Mr..
hllTCu GCliCJ---WHlCH pusoeu iii
pan, where but coons, and coon banlngs dare
enter-then through the legislature, both bran
ches of which were federal, When the Journal
thought that the bill ,rould 'not fail Of meeting
general acceptance" then it was u trhig measure,
and then the rohig Legislature were glorifed for
, making it law, and the whig party congratuln-
ted on the passage of the tax bllI because it was
, ''foundcd in justice" Finding that the tax
law did not meet with general acceptance, -
: that even whiggcry repudiated land demand,
ed its modification or repeal-thc Journal chan
ges its tune, declaring this law, over the pass
: age of which through whig Legislature, it
boosted SO much, to be but q "temporary meas
Q me," and that there was not the ''slightest al
F Iusion to party at the time of its adoption!'
We are not disposed to let the Journal blow
hot and cold with the same breath--to make po-
litical capital out of a law as a whig measure
: when supposed to be popular. but the moment
6 it is found to be obnoxious to the people, then
to turn rounl and, by declaring it to be no
party measure, saddle portion of the RESPONSE
> , bty on the democratic minority. The Jour.
nal claimed for the whig ma jority the credit ol
= passing the bill--they now must take the ntamy
of the measure.