Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-10-02
WHOLE NUMBER 623.

war continues, il will be found impossible to
raise the means 10 carry il onl
HOD would a direct tax operated We have
already adyerted to this point. The Cincinnati
Chronicle answers the question, and shows the
difference between the present and the new sys-
TEN oftsXation:
!. INDIRECT TAxEs-thst is, the tax on i'm
ported poods-are laid for the very reason that
the people thus have q CHOICE, whether they will
pay their taxes or not. Hence they are easier
borne. They are not felt as taxes; but Of hun
dred farmers, one-half Of them wear h0ms made
clothes, and pay no tax whatever; bccauss they
do not buy the articles on which the tax is laid.
Direct Taxation will COMPEL those farmers 10
pay without leaving them any choice. This,
then, is the plan Of the Free Trade party fully
developed, 70 compel this pau Of the community
to pay tax they never paid before.
2. The revenue is now collected in a few At.
lantc pors, and hom a few persons. But BY
the new plan Of the "DemocrGcy" il will be col.
lected in every township, in every school dis
trict, and in every house, and Of every man who
has any properly; and every honest citizen will
be obliged to pay taxes he need not before have
paid, and pay il TO the official insolence Of the
+ Government Tax Gatherer.
3. Instead Of having Government collectors
diminished, we shall have them increased ten.
/ fold. They will rise up, like the locu5ts ot
Egypt, and like the lice and frogs, which came
/ from the rivers to the beds Of the Egyptians.
The New York Journal Of Commerce talks
also Of an Income Tar. On this the Chronicle
remarks:
"The Journal Of Commerce is, in a great de-
IL l,,t tb. c,p.frr, ,,l h.i,
connections in New York; and here is the plan
which the agents Of Europe-who now guide the
policy -four counry-proPose for the adoption
of America.
"In their haste TO lay taxes on the people ot
the United States for the benefit Of Europe, they
have forgotten part Of our history. The lay
ing Of an Excise Duty in the United States onct
produced an open insurecton. Nothing can b.
more odious in practice or dsteslabe in princi
pie than an excise duty. II is a direct tax, evie,
by tax gatherers; but il is levied on particular ar
tices of manufacture or production. To attemp
such tax in this country is nothing short o
moral insanity. If we must have direct taxes
let them be levied equally and borne by all.
"The reason why the Journal Of Commerce
proposes an excise is, because such a tax would
/ lay no special burthens on the South. A direct
tax on property must Of course be levied on
SLAVE PROPERTY. The twelve hundred mil.
lions of dollars, which Mr.. Clay affirmed wa.
invested in that species of properly, must bear
large portion Of the tax. To avoid that necessi
ty the Lick-Spiue of the Journal Of Commerce
would lay EXCISE and STAMPS on the specific
manufactures and perticular properly Of othe
investments and employmenls. Servility like
this has had few parallels amidst all the miserable
coruptions Of the party press. lssacher bow
ing down between Two burdens was an example
of noble independence compared with the sPir
of this trucking tool ofForeign Trade.
"We have not combatted these idaas-so much
as quoted from the most authentic journals, the
proof of their development in the modern De-
mocracy. Let the people READ and THINK
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, are great
agricultural States, where the great majority OF
the ctizens own land. Let them ask themselves
how they would like the Excise officers of the
United States Government coming on to their
lands and their houses to leech their small in
comes, while our workshops are transferred to
Europe, and our American Industry inert, de.
pressed and diminishing!