The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-05-28

The American people in iIeir Jealousy os un-
equal Taxation are not SINGULAR It is the vigil
ance Of freedom. If one class can take from an
otheran undue proportion Of their labor, liberty is
at an end, and slavery commences. Upon this
very question of taxation half the revelations Of
the world have been predicated. II was the iax
of 20 shillings of ship morey which brought
Charles the LIST 10 the block, and began the COM
monwealth Of England--ths exactions Of the no..
blity and farmers general Of France which
brought Louis XVI TO like fa,e, and preepitsled
the Revolution Of France--nnd tho principle of
the unjust imposition Of three pence on pound
of tea, caused our fathers to seperate the ties
of connection which bound them to their mother
co untry, declare independence, and endure in iss
maintenance the horrors Of the evolutionary war.
1t is not when an unequal system has taken away
all real liberty that resistance most effectual-
lily be made. It is when wrong and political rob-
| berry have not gained the strength Of precedent
and the acquieseRce Of usage that arbitrary bur.
dens should be repeled.
The Wing Press assumes that the exemption Of
State Stocks from taxation Is bu. light matter--
and that the mode Of taxing banks makes their
burdens nearly equal with tha, OF the industrious
producers Of the State. This is grossly untrue.
however; and its knavsh sophstry, is well un-
dsrsood by its Wing coners A lie they think
we'll adhered to is as good as The truth By estmat-
ing the profits of Banks at their highess limit
\ that is, tax on three times the amount Of their
specie--they manage to figure up the Bank Tax
= hon txya- b;rdo ne Maid hu
the Farmer. But auctuaton, suspensions, and
all the variety of Bank vicissitudes render worth
less calculation founded on such basis. Nor is
the pretence that any injustice which may exist ia
the law will be corrected by subseq uent legisla-
ture whit more honest. Tho present law was
passed, with all its glaringly unjust and unequal
| features, by the Wing Legislature, mos, deliber-
ately, alter having requested the bank plunderers
to consent to bear equal burdens with the people,
and when they insolently refused---without
daring to nssertthe supremacy ofihe people and
ccmpe the bank aisocrat to step down on footing
Of equality with the farmer and mechanic. The
Whig doctrine of ''vested rights" over future
Legislation, will csntrol the Wings hereafter Us
Vt did then.
farmer or mechanic, for which an obligation is gi-
ven, and for labor, if the time Of payment is ex.
tended beyond six months, the tao is doubled! and
this even in the most gripping times. when money
is scarce that every shift and sacrifice has to be
r made to get it, the bankers are to be EXEMPT
ED WHOLLY FROM TAXATION, except
when profits flow in upon them tide Of wealth.
il as during the suspension Of l84l-2 in this state,
when few or no dividends were declared, that class
is to be free from all share Of the burdens Of Gov
ernnent; we have indeed established in the words
of Jefferson ian aristocracy founded OH banking
institutions and moneyed interpretations, riding
and ruling the plundered ploughman and
beggared yeomanry; - and political revolution is
necessary 70 uproot principle which is essential
ly at war with the spirit Of our free institutions.