The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-03-05
6r Congress adjourned Yesterday.
The amended Tax law.

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We give synopsis Of this Law, from the Gin.
cnna.i Enquirer. twill be seen that the old
plan of Bank Taxation, whchsst year fell be-
low ihesiate levy alone, for these institutions,
is continued The whig leader in this county
admitted the injustice of the old system, and at
Glboa asked time for the wings to re?snt'' and
pass measures Of genuine equality, But time in
power was all that was required. Time for wig
to repent, of injustice and wrong ihflicted upon
the people for the benefit Of Banks, would prolong
their power till .EB
nThe wreck si matter and the crush Of worlds"
announced that the reign Of mamron was at an
end. The only proposition ofamendment was by
the Board Of Control, and il was TO reduce the
Taxes upon Banks to less amount than they
now are compelled to pay. Last year the levy
for State purposes was eight mills on the dollar
this year il will be less than three. The banks
offered to pay tax upon their capital stock paid
in. but . for STATE PURPOSES ONLY9---
They apply to the county csurts, and the county
officers to collect their debts from unwilling deb.
tors, but they would not bear any part Of the sx.
pence which these courts and the salaries OF
these officers cost the county. BY their frauds,
bankruptcies and interferences with trade, they
create much Of the pauperism which exists, but
the pockets Of the people must pay the charge.
They derive as fat profits from the improvement
Of the country as any, but for them the roads
might remain an untrodden Wilderness, and our
people ignorant and unlettered. The County,
the School, the Road and the Poor tax, Bankers
refuse to pay. They are our privileged mobiles.
1t is the farmer whose capital grows but with his
labor that must bear these burdens The Bead
OF Control will consent to no imposition for these
objects, and they knew that the wings who gave
them power dare not dispute the power they them
selves have created. Like the heathens Of old the
wings bow in submission to the creature gods Of
lieir own creation, and if this were all it would
be well enough. but by legal fiction they force
the freemsn of the State who have never " bowed
the knee to Baal' to pay tribute to their paper
gods. Lis monstrous doctrine that the supreme
pow in State has not power to tax the properly
of institutions which exist but by its will or
suffsrance-that these may be crsated, and that
once created, over them thereafter the State is
powerless-that they could exist Independent. of
the will ofthe whole people, could it be collected
against them. Yet this is the whig doctrine.
Bank charters are sacred they are above the pso-
ple-superier to law and inviolable. With such
doctrines repentance" is impossible.-.a wrong
once done, snus. b. rAr-isied in. There 10 no
remedy TILL the charter dies, and the State Sover-
eighty is once more unfettered.
But time Tor s. repentance" will yet be found
and it will Ss when these men who now abuse the
popular confidence, have been unmasked, and
have been forced into that private station, which
their abuse Of political power justly desires
Then, but not till then, will they" repent"-and
the measure of that repentance will be the " loss
of the spoilsu ~ a.fft T