The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-05-03

ape anu pay the interest OH tne ouuay HaVint
thus chseed us in the creation of the debt, shal
we suffer them to chisel US further in the mode o
payment!
There is said TO be great deal OF discomfort il
the rich canal counties about this tax which they
tIuy allege is chiefly levelled at them. Yes, aut
unless madness shall rule the hour, we will keeI
them discontinued, far as our eastern votes car
avail to do SO. Then they will become willing tc
quit the system And I tell you, fellow citizens
IN all truth and sincerity, that the offence of the
eastern members, the crime for which the furnace
Of persecution is TO be heated "seven times hottie,
than it was wont to be-" is not so much that we
voted for the new tax law, as that We refused tc
vote according to the wishes of the speculators
| This is our real crime. We took resolute, deter
mined and decisive measures to overthrow the
whole system. We manifested an unrelenting, an
memorable determination to bring it TO an end -
We drew the sword and we threw away the scab-
bard. and we aimed blow at the monster which
we intended should need no second. This is our
real offence, and the camor against this law is the
legion voice Of host of disappointed spectators
in the canal counties, the vile dregs of both politi-
cal parties. Fellow citizens, which is entitled to
your confidence, these men of whom you know
nothing, who have an interest in deceiving you,
and who have so often deceived you, or your
neighbor and friend, who has an interest in COM
mon with you, whose every thought and every
word in the public councils have peen devoted to
your interests, and whose wasted flesh and toll.
worn visage manifest how d ligently and how care
fully those interests have been studied and pur-
sued.
1t is said that some Of the democratic papers are
speaking out against this law. Certain it is that
the whig papers of Cincinnati are speaking out
against it. If the democratic delegation take the
lash silently they will be the largest regiment Of
whipt spahiels alive.
1t is said by some that the tax is inconvenient.
Will such please to inform US how it could be made
more convenient Heavens! has it come TO this?
Are we to complain of the Inconvenience of re-
turning money borrowed. under the most sacred
pledge which it is possible for men to make-the
faith, the honor, the credit of the State. When
was it ever conren,en for debtor to pay an enor-
nous debt almost beyond his ability to grapple
WITH But be the tax convenient or inconvenient
who is to be blamed for 1.-THE men who thought
lessly and wantonIy voted away millions and mil
lions of money, to be raised by loan, for worthless
specuations of ditch.digging, or we, who, most
reluctantly and unwlingly voted the means nee.
essary to sustain the faith and honor of the State
thus unwisely put in jeopardy.
The boy cries out in pain. WHAT'S the matter!
Why, surgeon is setting broken limb. Would
the mother do wisely to scold the surgeon and
load him with reproach, and let the ruffian who
broke the child's arm with budgeon go scot-free
without word of censure? Fellow-citizens of
Monroe, will you initiate the conduct OF the fool
ish mother in such case! trust not.
This law has never met my unqualified or entire
appreciation. No man has ever heard me say that
it did When voted for its passage did not
think it perfect, but merely the best thing that we
could obtain under the circumstances. In one
word, felt bound to vote for 1t representative
of the rye and corn interest in the case before
alluded 10. thought it step in the right direc-
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still 1t ought to be amended, but the eastern
people will never submit to its entire repeal unless
they run mad. Repeal It will you, and lay an ad-
ditioda tax on horses and cattle, when the neigh
boring county of Belmont must pay as much horse
tax and as much cattle tax as the county of Ham.
ilton. That would be equality!
II is impossible to say everything demanded by
the occasion in the bounds of one communication.
Were not forever put upon the defensive would
spend my leisure hours in detailing to my fellow
citizens the dongs of the canal spectators and the
workings of the system. l could ga tale unfold
whose slightest word'' would contribute to show
that the eastern people have been numerically
fleeced and swindled by set of uDprincipled men,
Last year clamor raised over my head about
the Wooster Bank bill sufficient to rend the heav.
ems. Yet when that law was brought up last
winter 10 be repealed, every democrat in both
branches voted against the repeal, and every whig
in both branches voted for It. Being compelled
to take time for defence have none for attack,
except to repeat my oft repeated warning which
has closed every of these letters that as tyrans
of old prevailed by force so modern spectators
prevail by fraud OSCAR.
P. 81 was informed yesterday that some per-
thought that if the notes. obligations, other
evidences of debt for personal property sold
amounted to more than one hundred dollars they
were taxable under this law II is amazing how
any person could think so. Such an opinion has
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industriously put afloat by interested knaves in
Cincinnati and Columbus in order to forestall
public opinion and create a prejudice before the
law could be tested by its operation flour town.
ship assessors go about harrassng the people, and
executing this necessary law in an uncalled for
and vexatious manner, on their heads be the res
possibility EDWARD ARcHBoLD.
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