Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-02-26

OF revenue To accomplish This you went TO work and OF the
same session pruned off about third of the old duties You
had here in this House dead majority Of seventy votes
GU did the business all in your way You refused TO
any advice or to pay regard TO what was said to YOU
An attempt was made TO lay duty tea and coffee you re-
fused TO do that These your provisions to on the
war and for the maintenance Of the public credit AZ the same
time you raised loan Of ten millions to get ON with the
m the next session. The next session we met here, and the
Executive told he wanted another loan OF
millions 10 carry the through the present year. He strongly
recommended duty and cofse you did want any
more revenue This prescription of tax tea and coffee
was bitter pill il put into your very mouths and at
tempted TO be forced down you you spit out and refused
to swallow it, And the Executive here after all this,
and asks to swallow this thing We do not intend
70 dot Nor we afraid OF the responsibility with which
you threaten refuse TO do IT, You took the RESPONSE
bity OF refusing it. and mean to hold you 10 it, Were
we TO lay this tax you would denouncc for it. you did
once before You would proclaim to be our measure, and
not yours II the President wants revenue, let him
something besides what you have rejected and
over again. he wants he knows how to get
it. He (Mr. W knew it the opinion Of Of the
sonndes and best informed persons in the country that il
perfectly easy the duties imports forty
millions from the CUSTOMS while would nygorae the busi
and industry Of the whole country and from the
fnghtfu Revision in which the present Of trade must
inevitably involve in the end But cannot do any thing
without the cooperation Of the Executive and Of the Senate
and not therefore to be held responsible for what
not do-for what they will not let do At the last session.
instead OF laying duties pledged the public lands
for the public debt and thus took that branch Of the
tout OF the general Treasury You have got point where,
before long, you must resort to of three things You
will have to choose between them You sci limit
your ambition, and get peace fair and Just terms and
thus dry up the flood of expenditure you get
dona revenue by revision Of the tariff Or in lieu Of that
you can resort to direct taxation In the first will
gladly cooperate with you Mr. " said he had something
to say about this last which to be becoming the doc
trine of the party.
The gentleman from New York (Mr. NIcoLL) yesterday
told US when discussing the topic Of raising for the
Government, that he in favor Of direct taxation that he
thought the preferable mode of raising but that
was system that would require time get its machinery into
opcraon and could not that account be brought to the
speedy relief of the Treasury He therefore, in favor Of
tax tea and coffee, because have the machinery al
ready constructed which could in motion That
very true but have not the machinery for iron,
cotton WOOL and other great interests which totteriDg
and ready to fall Indeed great establishments had
already fallen Independent Of the grinding and oppressive
nature of direct taxation, wherever may exist and what
ever the form of the Government that resorts to IT, has in
this country the peculiarly of being most unequal tax and
the condition of many of the States also such utterly to
forbid the possibility of their paying Of that character
Instead OF being tax bearing equally ALL to be paid by
all throughout the Union in proportion to the value of each
mans property, it Of corporation laid upon the
several States IN proportion to the number Of their inhabitants
without regard to the property which the people Of the State
may possess It happens that have country with
vast interior, which will TEEN with population far exceeding
in number the Atlantic States On the contrary the of
wealth and points Of accumulation Of the surplus circulate
ing capital Of the whole country will be in the great Atlantic
cities consequently the INTERIOR with people, will be
comparatively poor OF course small part Of the property
othe nation would pay large majority ofthetax If there
other practical trouble this of itself would always induce
the interior States and indeed all the States wherever they
might be- possessing comparatively population thanpo
pery TO resist resort to this kind of taxation long
venue could be raised by any other equal and less OPP
pessive mode of The security Of the interior
against this oppression in the number of its people, and the
controlling voice which and the agricultural States will al
ways have this floor But the inequality Of the
the worst Of il there is still greater impeachment BY the
Executive yetocs of works of national importance which
10 have hv
the States this great BURDEN TO which their any
that they can have under the prohibitions Of the cons
tuition, which orbds them to lay import export duties
wholly inadequate Their enterprise and the necessities of
their geographical position have led many of the States
great undertakings, which have loaded them down with debt
and direct taxation. This the unfortunate condition Of Penn
sylvana Maryand all OF the States beyond the Ohio river
and several of the Southwestern States making in the whole
less than eleven twelve States Many Of them, borne
down by this burden, have fallen under it most Of them
however, haze risen struggling rise and redeem their
honor Among these Pennsylvan and Maryland have made
the most sedevong sacrifices regain their good and
wipe away the recollection Of past delinquency They
bear moe and you down upon them with the
hand Of direct taxation they must and will sink again,
and along with them will sink also most Of the Western
States. Itmay perhaps, be thought that the Western coun-
made TO be taxed Upon what portion of the Union, he
would ask has the largest for been levied carry
this Mexican war; He believed full hree-fourhs Of all the
volunteer force has been drawn from the valley Of the Msss
spp The great battle of Buena Vista fought almost
exclusively by Western troops very large part Of the army
tie that has been fought the American army crssed the
Rio Grande the blood Of the West has been poured out like
Is enough that have given lives and
blood in undue proportion Must be taxed, ao in like
over-propoon Let him tell gentlemen that
when you send your gatherer among the working
yeomanry Of the West; when he visits the field Of the hus
bandman he follows his plough lay his heavy exacons
upon him for gold and silver borne down he already is by
the burdens of his State Government when you strip
him of his little hard-eaned pttsnce, you will then find out
who takes the responsibility. When you dare do that
they will "row you up Salt river" Rely upon it, gentle
men, up Salt river you go. He would say more
this topic for he very well knew that when, in the language
Of the gentleman from North Carolina, (Mr McKlr) you
shall go directly into the pockets Of the people, they will
know what you about and take the in band for
themselves.
He proposed direct attention another branch
Of the speech of the gentlemen from New York, Mr. NIcoLL
That gentleman took up the subject OF the Treasury esti
He contends that the receipts Of this year will equal
the estimates He, however, does deny that the esti
for the past year fell short the that had been
heretofore stated by him (Mr W in his former speech That
gentleman also decnesto go review OF the estimates for
the coming year, and in respect TO himself with
saying, that sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
Now, the Teasures report embraces three years the past
the present. and the coming year. Is admitted that what
was heretofore said about the deficiency OF the past year
The Secretary puts down the greatest deficiency for
the next year-twenty and half mlionsas estimated by
hm and year that be had before shown the
innate by far the under the mark As the present
10 which the remarks of the gentleman, support of