The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-07-14

meet the public service without the tax.
No, not while the committee were cut
ting down all other articles and leaving
them free; he presumed they could not.
But did gentlemen think that the free
delegation OF Ohio, for the mere purpose
OF pleasing this Administration, and for
nothing else under heaven, were going 10
tax the stomachs of the people, and that
too 10 support an exclusive Southern
chivalry! They voold not do it. Whence
came our ministers abroad. and with their
nine thousand dollars outfit and their nine
thousand salary9 Every one of them
from the slave States. Whencc came
majority of onr foreign ministers of the
second rate, our Charges des Affairs?
From the States. This under an Admin
istrrtion that they had themselves made
and helped 10 sustain by majority Of
their number. A laugh. A voice
"Whom did Ohio vote for'' Ohio had
had constant Democratic majority on
that floor, and yet this was the manner IN
which she was used.
4sCan such things be,
And overcome us like Summer cloud
Without our special wonder2 z"
Ohio had been wholly excluded from
tha. share of ofinhuence in this Government
to which she was entitled. 1t was Of
this that she Justly complained. We not
care about your money, said Mr.. B. All
our people are accustomed to work fos'
their living. Ii is not your money we,want;
but we claim to have our Legitimate share
of influence and consideration in this
Government We claim il because it is
our right. Our cltizensShaye been stu
diouslv excluded from almost all public
Offices: anI have been thus prevented
from obtaining that experience in public
business which forms, the best education
of a statesman. OhioAis the third State
in this Union; and yet what has she got
from this Administrations Has she q
foreign minister? Not one. "A charge2
Notone. 4 eonsulship of the first class!
Not one. A consulship OF the second
class? Not one. A child can tell The
story who has learned 10 speak but two
words, "not one" | believe she has
one bureau, that of Indian Affairs, and
this is all under the Government to show
that such a State is in existence. Our peo-
pie DO not yet know all these things; but
they shall know them, and they shall
act GPon them. They will do it. Are
free and Independent men going to lick
the hand that smites them! | tell you
that ours is not the sell that gives birth to
such men; and so long as | can exert any
influence over the action of my people,
II never shall be. We will not consent to
tax the stomachs Of our people to please
either this Administration or its organ. If
cur people cannot have their share of
Office and Of influence, they shall have 1t
at least of the comforts Of life.
"Oh, but YOU will vote this tax as
war tax. Certainly, as war tax you
will vote ii, wont you! You will not re-
fuse tax TO support the war!" Yes,
we would have voted you war tax just
as large as yon chose to ask if we had
not seen YOU such valiant heroes when
fighting was to be done with the Mexican
heynna, but trembling ike an aspen leaf
at the first remote muttering Of the Bri-
tish lion. If you had stood up for what
you yourselves taught US was our right,
you might nave taxed any thing YOU
pleased. We would have stood by you
till the last and given YOU our last dollar.
But you have made q most disgraceful
surrender. After declaring that Oregon
was ours Of right up to $40 40>. you have
come down..to 40; yes, below 490, and
have given up to our ancient enemy the
use OF a great river south Of that line
And after all this you can now turn round
and ask us for war tax. Now, We
must pay for war for Southern conquest
after YOU have given away millions upon
millions of acres of our own territory at
the North Will you now ask from us
to grant you tax on tea and coflee!-
And do you think we viii give it! No.
we will do no such thing. | said at the
beginning that rose here to have some
plain talk.
And now / ask you, suppose YOU
strike out tea and coffee from your bill,
what then? ] have always stood up for
a revenue tariff; stand for it still. I
90 neither for tariff, for protection nor
for tariff OF destruction of revenue, and |
therefore the next question is, will your
bill raise revenue enough for the use of
Government without tea and cofee?-
The Secretary of the Treasury says that
he laws this tax on tea and coffee to sup
ply the requisite amount oi revenue, and
that he expects it to produce three mil
lions of dollars. Strike it cut and you
have deficit of three millions to start
with. But The gentleman from New
York NJ. HUNcrRroRD) very clearly de-
nnnsfated in his sneech Of Yesterday that !