American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-04-19
their own edicts through these prostituted chan


over city taxation hinges upon this point, and
if our construction Of the matter be correct,
their powers under the circumstances assumed,
become at once perfect nullity.
These are grave questions and we bring
them directly to the calm consideration Of your
selves and the public, as the time has arrived
and passed, when It lily becomes any man who
has aught at stake, to be either mute or mac
tive.
For ourselves we know that the carrying out
of the mad schemes Of revolution and resist
ance 10 law, now agitated, and in part already
submitted by member Of the City Council for
its consideration and approval, can end in moth
ing but the ruin of our hopes, the prostratlon
OF our business here, and its speedy transfer to a
law-abldlng community somewhere else; and
when men of prominence and wealth lend
themselves to such nefdrious schemes, and
when directors Of our Railroad permit their
rancorous desire to repuGiate, to overshadow
their sense Of duty to the corporation, and to
set at naught the claims of our community up
on them otherwise as citizens; still holding on
to their places, and multiplying their ability
the further TO disturb and agitate-we may well
exclaim, that the signs of the times are not only
gloomy, bat appalling.
More than three quarters of all our business
is carried on with adjacent and distant States,
and we hold that its present and prospective
Importance, yields to no single element, which
is urging the city forward in its career of pros
perity.
If the experiments we speak of are destined
to be tried amongst us, it will be found here, as
it invariably has been in all other communities,
where these revolutionary elements have done
their work, that large portion of our orderly
and aw-abidng citizens will migrate elsewhere,
carrying with them their influence and bust
ness, and leaving the wreck and crumbs to be
quarreiled for and divided amongst the rapa-
cious and dissoute.
With common honesty and common sense at
the helm Of our affairs, the onward march of
our city in a prosperous career, was never so
certain as it is at present. Every indication
from the interior is most eneouraging-the
manufacturing interest of the State was never
so furnishing, and its progressive increase is
rapid beyond any previous example. The ex-
haustless water power with which nature has
surrounded and blessed US, Is daily being turn
ed to useful purposes-manufacture with APP
pendant villages, filled with thriving and in
dustrlous population, are rising up on all sides,
greeting the ear with the hum Of busy and well
paid labor-enlivenlng the soltudes of the past
promoting successfully the welfare and hap
rness Of their own people, and throwing into
the lap of this city, business and wealth in most
abundant profusiop.
The interior trade both adjacent and distant,
with limited exceptions, was never more kindly
disposed towards US than at present-and if
parties who control the press, and others who
sit in council, do not, through passion and pre-
JUDGE, and by the use of hard terms, array US
hnct by in hon
a corresponding spirit, we can profitably push
our intercourse in this respect to any desirable
extent.
Last, though not least, unless 'penny
wise and pound foolish" system Of legislation
shall defeat tive may derive by eur intercourse
with Allegheny county, and through her mine
raj resources, immense and enduring advantage
Disadvantages we assert Gin direct opposition
to popular sentiment) many of which would
not have been thrown open to our competition,
but for the prospect of finishing the canal to
Cumberland, and thus furnishing choice of
outlets to tide water and u market, from the
mineral kingdom of that neighborhood We
stake our reputation, both commercial and pro-
phetc, upon the fact, that the canal will not
have been finished two years, before it will be
proved to demonstration, that the stimuants
impaired to the coal and iron region, and to
large extent attributable TO the prospects held
forth by the completion of this work will throw
into the scale Of our aggregate business, an
immense and most profitable item;-but to Sc
cure it to its full extent, our competition must
be prompt, liberal and energetic, and not mar
row, contracted sordid and entirely selfish.
For the promotion Of objects, and the accom-
plishment of ends so desirable and the ercou-
ragement of those whose every day labors carry
forward the pursuits and enterprises upon which
the welfare of all depends, what of late has
been attempted or accomplished by our agents
connected with State and City legislation;
After the direct and repeated efforts formerly
made by the inhabitants of this city with most
singular unanimity, to mortgage the State faith
in the money market, had proved successful to
the point desired, the dictates of common ho-
nesty should have prompted demand as uni
verSal at the door of the Legislature, for such
an amount of taxation, against themselves and
for others, as would preserve our own charac-
ters from suspicion, and at the same time do
justice to the bond-holders, who had parted
with their money upon undoubting faith in our
honor and assurances.
Years are permitted to pass on without the
payment of dollars interest," and at the last
session of the Legislature, we sent a delegation
to Annapolis, who made no united effort for
the restoration of the public credit-whle one
of them, after the most labored exertions to
bring into disrepute, if not to overthrow, our
entire judicial system, gravely proposes to aban-
don all further efforts to pay the interest on
State obligations; to cut up and market the
bonds to present tax payers, under sham pre-
text of paying at some time or other the prin-
cipal of the debt-and then finally TO pledge
the good faith Of maryland, that no further tax
es, direct or indirect, should ever be levied with
in her borders.
In our local Council, we find an individual,
not long since imported from ''the banner State, y
for editorial service, and who, as a reward for
his efficient labors, is promoted to the second
post in authority amongst us, and in the event
of the happening of particular contingency
is In all intents and nnrno,os ,ur ch; af