The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-02-13


with Mexico occurred, with precipitancy
never before heard ofor witnessed,ns if afrai
totrustt themselves with reflection they plunge'
head dong into war Well, the war has Ger
ftainiy gone on as successfully as could reason
ably have been anticipated. Our army ba
notEeeded soldiers; our treasury has not need
ed noney. An empire has fallen into ou
possession, after a series of military exploits
on land and sea, which must add to our re-
lpuistion amongst oil the nations Of the earth
Surely now, according to all principles which
ge;'ssn mch, these furious war-makers, who
pushed on the war, will sustain the administers
ton, and the measures it recommends, to ena-
bleitto continue the prosecution of the war.--
Yesscertanly, they sustain it, in one way
They chide the wings for being, as they assert,
opposed to it.. Yet, in action, they agree en-
tirely with the wings as to the means of car
rying il on. They will not vote the tax on
tea and coffee which the secretary of the treas
ury saTs Unnecessary to negotiate the loan
Theysrefuse, with the wings, to alter or mod
ify the independent treasury act, very proper
in its arrangements, when the government
is merely receiving the taxes through the GUS
toms and paying it out again in its operations,
but entirely unsuited without modification,
to the emergency Of war, when government
is to be large borrower. By this means
they render it impossible for the government
TO obtain the, moneyon loan, except at an usu-
rious interest, which Congress will never au-
thorize. If this is the case, as is distinctly
set forth by the secretary of the treasury, we
should like 10 know how these democrats
differ from the whigsin their opposition to
the war In words they differ alittle--but in
policy they are identical. Both are working
to bring thew war to an end, and that in most
disgraceful way. The army is to be left a
prey to the enemy or to disease, without
supplies or munitions of war. They must
move on, under such circumstances, to fall
ingloriously; or they must retreat to this side
the Rio Grande, and surrender all the country
we have acquired. If such is to be to re-
suit wofhink while pursuing such line Of
policy sk-se democrats might spare the wings,
and the Wigs might spare the democrats, the
further discussion Of that nice point Of politi-
cal caspissry- Of them do most ssgive
aid ~ saitcrs' II shs enemy. They are all
oppossys 81 IND war-opposers Of the admin
w beet friends ofthS Mex
leans.
AS to the contemplate argument against
taxing tea and coffee-because the poor con
sumo it as well as the rch--we would ask
these sticklers for these poor, where was your
humane zeal, when in the late tariff bill the
sugar which sweetens the tea and coffee, was
taxed thirty per cent? Where were you, when
salt was taxed! Where was your tender con-
sideration for the poor, when his flannel, his
blanket, his woollen clothing, his course cot
ton shirting-all of which the rich never con-
sumo at all-was taxed twenty-five and thirty
pei cent? And how much more iron and
coal does the millionaire use, than the poorest
of the poor.-He does not handle axes and
ploughs. A single fireplace warns his richly
carpeted and curtained saloons. Yet all these
taxes you have voted for-nay denounced
them as entirely too low; yet when a tax by
no means as exclusively operating on the poor,
in the midst of war--a war of your creation
"a war you affect to approve of and support, is
ask ed for by the administration, you talk
about the poor! The truth is, there are no poor
properly speaking, who consume tea and coffee.
These are, to sall intents and purposes, lux u
RES, which the poor cannot consume The
great bulk Of the people who drink tea and
coffee, can Just as well afford to pay tax on
hem, as ON any other article of consumption.
Taxes to support the government. must be
upon those things which the people generally |
consume. The rich ae the few. The only
way they can be reached, lie to abolish the tar
fl altogether, and raise the revenues to sup /
port the government, by direct taxes on prop
,ity and incomes. If these men, democrats
i, wings, will propose and vote for such tax
Is we shall better understand their patriotism
md better appreciate their tender solieitude
or the poor.