The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-03-05


commenced the publication of the Union,
to carefully watch the course of Hon.
JosEPH MUsaRAvE, Senator from this
District. Owing to the sparse legisla.
tive reports furnished by the Columbus
papers, in which the yeas and nays on
any question haEe-but seldom appeared,
we have not been able to trace his course
with much certainty. Now that the
Legislature have hired two reporters,
however, and are paying them 81 per
day each for reporting their proceedings,
which reports appear daily in the State
Journal, the Black Republican State
Organ, we have been enabled, OCCASION
ally, to discover his footprints.
We suppose there are but few but re-
collect how loud Mr.. MUsGRAvE was in
his professions of Democracy, when a
candidate before the people. The peo-
pie we're everywhere told by Mr.. Mus
GRAVE, his fusion friends and the boiling
Democrats who vent along with him,
that he had always been a Democrat,
and that the rock on which he and the
Democratic party split was the Kanzas
question-which difference, he and his
friends complacently claimed, was crea-
ated by the party leaving him instead of
his leaving the pattyI In other words,
that the whole Democratic party had
slid off of the Platform, and left him
standing on it solitary and alonel
Well, Nj. MUsaRAvE was elected to
the Senate, and Mr.. KELLOGG, a true
Democrat, was elected to stay at home.
Now, how stands the record? On the
"nigger " question, JoaErH has proven
the sincerity of his professions by voting
to send the Disunionist, WADE, back to
the United States Senate, and we sup
pose would as readily vote supplies for
Brigadier GtneraE FHAsE's five regi-
ments, if only the men could be raised;
There are other questions on which Jo-
sEPH's record does not tally quite SO we'll
with his professions, however. From the
Legislative reports Of the State Journal
good fusion authority, surely-of Feb.
10th, We make the following extract:
"The Senate went into Committee of the
Whole, and considered the bill to amend the
general tax law. The Committee rose and re-
ported back the bill with amendments, which
were agreed to. The question being shall the
bill be engrossed, Mr.. Phelps moved to add to
section 5 the following ProViso:
PROVIDED. That ifany person shall not have
an amount of credits equal to his debts, such
person may deduct the same from his personal
property and moneys. and If such person shall
not have credits, moneys, and personal proper
ty equal to his debts, the excess of such debts
over his personal property, moneys and credits,
may be deducted from his real estate.
"The amendment was lost-yeas 3, nays %.
"YEAs-Messrs. Lewis, Phelps and MILFORD.
"NAYs-Messrs. Baird, Beatty, Brand, Bra
zee, Brown, auckland, Bundy, Burnet, CatteIl,
Converse, Gardner, Griswold, Hamilton, Har-
dy, Hawley, Heaton, Holmes, Hyer, Kelley,
Kirk, Lawder, Lunt, Marsh, Matthew's, MUS
GRAVE, Rush, Taylor, of Geauga Taylor,
of Mahoning, and Warfel.
"Mr. Phelps then moved to amend section
eleven so as to provide that banks should be
tnxed as other prnFerty -Lnst-yeas mays
IS.
"YEAs-Messrs. Converse, Gardner, Holmes,
liver. Lewis, Phelps and Willford.
"NAYs-Messrs. Baird, Beatty. Brand, Bra
zee, Brown. auckland. Bundy, Burnett, Cattell.
Griswold, Hamilton, Hardy, Hawley, Heaton,
Kelley, Kirk. Lawder, Lunt, Marsh, Matthews,
MUSGRAVE, Rush, Taylor, of Geauga Tay-
lor, of Mahoning, and Warfel.
9Th bill was re-committed to the Commit
tee on Finance.
In the foregoing proceedings we find
Mr.. MUsGRAvE voting against two prop
ositions, both of which are manifestly
just. The first proposes to allow euery
taxpayer in the State-not merely the.
Bankers, Brokers and Merchants-but
every man alike, to deduct the total
amount of his indebtedness from that
which be is actually worth. The law as
reported, and as it now stands, permits
deductions from credits only. Thus the
man who is SO unfortunate as to have
his money invested in lands instead of
in notes, book accounts, stocks, or other
paper securities, must pay tax Upon ere-
ry dollar he is worth, while the man who
possesses a large amount of credits is
let off With the payment of a mere pit
lance. Issuch a law just ?-is it equal?
-isit Democratic? Yet Mr.. MUsGRAvE
coolly votes against all amendments.
The second amendment proposed to
tax Banks just as other property is
taxed, and Mr.. MUseRAvE voted against
It'll Who, among the defenders of his
Democracy last fall, will say that this
last vote is Democratic If we are not
cgregiously mistaken it has been one of
the cardinal principles of the Democrat
ic party since the days of JACKSON, that
Banks should bear an equal portion of
the burdens of government. Why for
what purpose have the Democratic par.
ty been waging an unceasing warfare
against Banks these many years, if not
to break down the special privileges en-
joyed by them, and which elevated them
above the toiling masses? and yet up
on the simple, plain proposition, to tax
Banks just as the property of the farmer
and laborer is taxed, our Democratic
Senator voted in the negative. Outu up
on such Democracy Verify, JOSEPH,
consistency Is a jewel, but of how little
of it art thou possessed !?
GARDEN SEEDS.
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