The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-08-13

suit ia, that the entire amount of the salt ,,x and
nail as muck more added to it,. is given as a pre-
| sent 10 persons engaged in The fisheries Snch
~ me result at the new bill and such result it
IS ms was never seen or heard of before In some
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS some of the unhappy
rrigns of the lndors and Stnarts of England
| particular branches of the revenues were snrne.
times assigned TO favorites bot this was usually
| OF some luXury-as sweet wines, or something Of
'hat SORT but in did any of these sover
| e'gns. wrong. headed and wifnl as sumo of them
were. ever think of bestowing sal, tax on any
individual. or set Of individuals That article of
prime aud universal necessity, under the worst of
n"narchs. was never taxed except for the purpo.
ses ct the State. Now. fr the first time, in the
history of the human race, the whole proceeds of
the tax are 10 be paid To few individuals. and
half as much more. | saw this eyregious bunder
IN inc MI when II came up, and men oned il 10
some III my friends; but new edict seemed In
have gone firth under horrible Recommendations. IN
pass The bill as il was. To be sure that denunci,
tion did not govern me. voted fur one amend
meh'. notwithstanding but would propose none
myself. ! consoled my conscience with sowing
the remedy is in the hands of the Senate. If,hev
are willing tn correct it, il can he easily done NV
The passage of the bill have intrnduced-,b old
Jeffersonian b--to alrlish the whole-,he Mai
iorm and the snperslrncture--,he tax. and The
bonniies, and the allowances built upon u-and
thus get rid of The whur in the mos, compleie
c"mpend"ns. and beneficial way That bin is
now ready To be passed. II rests with the ma,ri
~ Ia pass il and il tie House of Representative
c"ncnrs, not only the great oversight, in the bill is
corrected, but the country will be relieved from
me whole burden of the salt tax, and all it's super
structure ct b"nnties and allowances. and all the
frauds 10 which these bounties and allowances
notoriousv give RISE
NJ n
MT. PRESIDENT, this is not the time TO speak of
the abomination "f salt taxa tax almost impious
10 It's nature. as taxing the article which Gud has
gwen To all animated nature--the dumb beast as
well as the human being-to season lis fmd. and
preservei lis health and life and which ouoht ia he
as free as air and water. This is not the time to
speak ct that impiuus tax, from which even the
British taxed i"deah as they are have been free
sinre the year 1924. Bot it is the time to sneak If
thedeuslon of this reduction Ia twenty per CEN, on
me value To those WIN do not see the working
oi Inc tax, or who do not see the mode which the
imposition at a tax may be made the means of
ouidenlng the people ten times more than the tax
itself does, II may seem great matter To all
who understand The operation of the tax the re-
ductlon is but little better than an illusion The
iact is. that any tax on this article is a curse and
small tax nearly as bad as a large one Any
lax al all will carry the imported article through
The custom house and throw il inio the hands of
regraers and monopolizers. The importer does
not bring with him money To pay the duties: i, is
Troublesome and Inc"nvenient for him Ia give the
two securities which the law reouires This
gives rise To class of salt dealers in the sea
VINO advance Inc duties. or give the security. and
purchase the salt their own account They
thus Collect ii into their own hands aud fix their
own price; and have seen West India or Med.
ieHanean salt. which cost from six or eight
cents bushel. TINS put up To furty five cenis;
and at this moment, by the New Orleans prices
current. such salt is. actually at thirty cents
hushel!-'hai is To say. four five times its i'm.
port vane! Nothing but the reference of the
salt 20 the custom house, and throwing it into the
hands ut The regraers, could produce this result
and this will continue to be the case under any
tax whatever. be it much or little. Nothing hui
t"tal freedom from the custom hOuSe-noih;ng but
a sale direct from the ship To the steamhnai-can
prevent the mischief; and. therefore the salt
should he as free as The siones which form the bal
last. and over which no inspection Of the customs
should exercise supervision. This is enough Ia
shaw that the present reduction is an Illusion
that nothing bu total abolition of the tax will re
eve The country. This is a sufficient reason fur
The tota abolition; yet there is another ONE also
Inc result at any tax whatever, no matter how
small, which requires total abolition of the tax
Ii Is in the substitution of the weighed for the
measured bushel. That results from thelcustom
house law. BY that law The bushel is to be count
may do for Liverpool salt but the pure, strong
salt which alone is fit TO cnre beef, pork, butter.
so as to HI 1t for expnriaon or for preservation in
southern climaie-ihis pure strong salt weiqhs
"a pounds To the bashel so that the purchaser,
IN getting 30 pounds, only gets lwo-,hrds of
bnshei But he does not even get 56-which is
the custom house bnshel for the retailer md the
domestic manufacturer, improving upon hls idea
of weight, have struck off the pounds and made
II 5O! and this was the salt busbel throughout
the Whole west! And such hushe as ii is /,
Olten and often. when the water was drained out
of it, the farmer has found that half bnshel
measure would contain The whole bushel, and
have room to spare! and that thirty odd pounds
weight IN The ulher scale wonld lift it from the
ground This is the now this has been
the case ever since the custom house bushe was
established 1t will be the long as 1t lasts
and that II will be just as long there is any tax
at all on salt One per cent. will keep up this
false bushel. as well as twenty; AMI twenty will
keep IL up as well as an hundred per cent would
Therefore, the reduction is Illusion and nothing
will do but The passage Of The old Jcffprsonlan hi il
which have introduced Thus the correcun Of
the great bunder in the bill, hich gives the whole
salt Tax and half as much more to the fishermen
the abolition Of the m0nopolies in The seaports
which treble and quadruple the price Of the article
= and the restoration Of the honest measured for
The false and fraudulent eiPhed bushel-all re
qnlTe the bill which have introduced TO be pass
ed.
CHERUBINI.
The following anecoloie of This great composer
is given in Hogarlh's History Of the Musical
DIANA -
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