Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-01-17
Governors Message.

We give this valueless document publica-
tioa bis week, more from the established Gus
tom in such cases, than from a conviction that
our columns might not have been better filed.
Ills ex~ Excellency seems to be wtithing IN
der the castigation Of last October, for he
whnes most pileously oyer the responsibility
of executive officers. He says:
The fact that take are one thing, the tax
law another, will then become apparent to all;
we will look to the General Assembly, and to
the local authorities Of the State, for a reduc-
tion Of taxes, rather tEan to executive officers
Poor fellow! the people held HIM RESPONSE
be for the Internal machinery OF his patty.
by which every unwholesome measure of his
friends were inflicted upon the people of the
State. Like 'whipt child he cries out most
shamefully. 1 didn't do it, it was the Legis-
lature. not me. His own party friends are
even ashamed of him in this particular Bill
ly's bachelordom don't save him fro. OCCASION
ally playing the baby especially when the
pap is removed from hs Honor.
But listen again to the Democratic standard
bearer land just now be strikes his bachelor
bosom and says, here is one citadel that never
has been stormed.') .#. .....
ANY attempt to reduce the aggregate by a
mere change in the manner aud mode of col
leetng Them. will prove as futile as an attempt
to change the weather by breaking the baron.
eter.'
Alb! yes, any attempt to change will break
'lhe barometer'instead Of changing the weather.
The people broke the barometer last fall, he
thinks, Very well, what if they did? and the
new barometer that they have placed In his
stead, if not more certain index to the state
of the weather, than the old one, will soon
be broken also. and third one placed in its
stead, The people are determined to have
a true index to the State Of the weather. let
it cost what it may, and such they did NOT
find in William MediIl. Instead OF showing
true public sentiment as in the cool breezes o.
the North, bis index pointed uneringiy to tie
warm and sunny South, with all its blessed
privileges.
But listen how learnedly the old YOUNG gen.
tlemsn dtscOurses upon the question of WHEN
to pay taxes =
If, in addition TO this, the taxes could be
collected semi-annually, instead of annually
they would be far less severely felt by the
people,
Would not this recommendation of the Dem.
ocratc Governor, if carried into practice, be a
nice move on the chess board of the exche.
quer? Itwauld be TRUMP in Euckre! The
people don't pay taxes OFTEN enough to suit
tbe enlarged views Of this far-seeirg apostle
of Democracy! How could the taxes be less
severely felt9 He descants long and loud up
on the subject of enormous fees of county and
township officers as they now stand: but re-
commends double duties for the county. Aud
itors and Treasurers, as a means of REDUCING
The peoples taxes! Who ever heard of such
logic. Increase the expenditures of the very
officers whose salaries or fees are the heaviest
as the proper mode to decrease the taxes. We
are compelled to the conclusion that the stand
ard bearer IN this part Of his message be-
came a 'Ieetle' NON CoNPOs: bat soon he be
came truly patriotically poetesl and dwelt ii