Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-04-07
FRIDAY nzORNiNG, April q, 1854.
For the EHouirer.


Genllsmcn:-I have read your EDITORIAL upon the subject
OF direct tude and Southern VIII you allow
one ot your readers 10 call your attention TO sc, In ~hlc
nope YOU VIII discover he pcrn!cious hand Of Govern
Elent. II IL th & our present tax-b, msrcnanl Is
taxed upon hts sales according 10 their amount; the
operation is just lhisa mc'chaR in Richmond, Will
say, Imports fifty baes Of binkels aud Gy sold
BY him to ten o5hefs In lots 81 vc bales 10 each upon
a sale of ten thousand blankets at say dollar each
Sl9uu, The Commonwealth o Virginia gets Gx and thrao
a 'oocs who have bought tien sii teni To io;lc:s;
men The second sst the Safe eSIcs another taI ard
again upon The sale by Ito retailer lac State demands and
likes auoIer TAX Nuw mere hrcc dtsran t!!nss VIZ!
sina taxes the oyernt6n if il lkes place in Virginia. but II
Ic retailer IN the country COCA 20 New ok and Dn|H hi9
goods he escapes the s!tn Of separate Stale taxa.
hns put il {, your candoI TO say whether direct
trade not hni.rei Gnd prevented by law in Virginia. Tie
Central Southern Rights Association Of Virginia have lakeI
h"T grounj firmly against his measure, and did hupc
that you would haze advocated different policy Of State
taxation. Aly own Impressions HAT tho llX.t should
be altered aud lowered upon the Invoice OF purchase all
eoods brought ;n ,ae Stlie for slc and exemption
from Slate all d!ecty Imported goods in The
hands OF the original importer 1his wuuj allow !e ssno
ansactn l,ke place in Virghii which taxes place
n New York, wtlu! HE treasury being hnfi PARTICLE
approve o tis rnria OF yurc article rcli
and eaercy, aipngt the intiviuil9 O the Suutl;
ou Iurhhy think lhat sGeh State action as have de-
acTihcd is highly preuL.a 10 direct trade and Southern
commerce.
use the occasion cali your attention and the slave.
hoicrs Of n South to the proposed nc,cl9c u?on The d-
ca on b1n%ets. Certainly hB ncGrocs o the South IN
their cJthay should be bu.theaea, whilst linc1s
proposed u be exempted and in free. call yyuT
attention 10 THIS feature IN MI Gisr!rS l.c a3 en-
Ter my protest against mo eS cton Will you be End
eucusn publish the present tyb rca;cctrg mcrchaa
licenses and the tax Collected lr9nl merchants 5y the S,'|
Ii will let all their deiurnItirs Tna bill is
radically wfons In principle. 4 SOUTHERN MAN.
Extract from the cc Of the FiTginia LgislItrre imposing
t0rss J0r the support Of goperGm:n:.
HOn every license merchant mercantile firm, when
n specific is BIZ paid thirty doa's: provided :hat If
the capital employed by said mcrchln m be- SHOWN by
aiiav be less than five hundred dollars, le 10 he
paid si, be dnllrs hut this provso sha only app
taking license after the THIS aCt and
shall an,hUzc any snch person TO sell wine ardent sp
ri,s. mixture thereof and when the tax Is In proportion
sales # under thousand dollars ten o!s'! If one
dollars aud under fifteen hurded, twelve dolnrt
under fifteen hundred dcars and under twentG7e hun
dfcd dollars, sixteen dOils twenty se hundred dOdrI
and uccr five thousand dollars, d0lllis II five
lhonslnd dollars and und:r ten luaeInd dollars thirty ye"
cl.ar- II thousand duis und under flrrn Thousand
dollars forty eight dollars fifteen thousand und uute
twenty thousand fifty six dollars; II twenty thousand dol
lars uad thirty Thousand dollars, s1rentyt~o dollars
thirty THOUSAND dollars ard uLhe, fifty huuani liars
hundred and Uur duare fifty thousand dollars and
under lyo thousand dollars hundred and iwcn
Weight dollars and II seveuy ys h"nsaod dollars
aud sixty dollars with ten ars aided for each
of thousand dollars excess OF sa!:a over seventy
fyd thousand dollars"