New-York daily tribune., 1857-08-24

apCICgsts aLu upuOlueIs VA Ootuoi h"''~
this State hope to avail themselves Of the prevail
apathy, and steal triumph in November. Having
no aith in their own political creed conscious that
tie People regard il with aversion, they are trying
to raise clamor with regard to the internal atfsIrs
of our State in order to win victory which VIII
thrill with 10Y the hearts Of the enslaTers OF Kansas
and the Slave Democracy of South Carolina ard
Oregon. Tho Albany Erening Journal thus truth
fully and ucidly exposes the emptiness OF THIS iase
issue:
The State Tax is to be made the lever with which
the Democracy hope 70 lift themselves into power IN
November Ii fairly preserted. it is Legitimate sub
ect for discussion. The Republicans are not AFRAID 10
meet it, because they are prepared to show !; IhM
was by M Tae sni
Republicans alike. 3. That it is in harmony win tle
Denccratc doctrine Of "pay as you go;' and 4. mat
il wss rendered indispensable by the provisions OF the
Constitution, and in no other way couud inc ruoic
Works be prosecuted to completion.
IN, T1t rras reco,ar Cnded The "Americ0a St6te
Officers. 1t is true that the Auditor and Controller
deemed thrceourths OF mil tax sufcient ior
purposes. Bat, after careful survey OF the ~hoie
field mill tax was settled upon, aud all the Amerl'
cans in tue Legislature voted tor the bill 10 that
shane The Controller aso deemed mill tax SUM-
cent for the General Fund but ne omitted an "ell,
when ne made that estimates and subsequently, we
believe, concurred in fixing the tax at one NIL ana
quarter. ~ ,;..
The Gca,ral Tar mill and quater) bill, Chap. 'o2,
To provide the means to support the Government,
had 6nt tlro negotires in the HouSe-Alessrs. james
j. Reilly and McFsrlan. Every one else, including
the Hon. ID. Il. Floyd Jones, voted for H. Inc Canai
fmu Tax was not quite so fortunate. Several Demo-
crsts voted against it; NOT BECAUSE the BILL A.
1HoRIzLD TAX. That was conceded to be right
Mr. Jones' the conceded leader of the Democracy
when the bill was pending, said as reported in Ihe
An,,l q. TlLtIs IN f0rOc of the OU
" far as Il contemplated a tsI-FoR THAT WAS IN
"H,rMONY WITH TIVE DEBT-PAYING ANTiBoRRoWING
POLICY OF THE DENOCRATIc PARTY he could net
vote for tie bill long it contained TINS uncon-
"stituiona provision" viz section 4, which author
lied 800 900 TO be borrowed in certain contingency
But for this clause, Mr.. Jones would OF course have
voted for the BILL Several of his political friends and
one Republican, concured with him. But, IN spite oi
tbis, such unswerving Democrats as Allen Charock,
Clinton j. ID. Dixon, Roe, and +. Townsend, voted
for the bill As all the Americans did the sane thing
en- po1ties alike responsible for 1chatever 9
praise or cenSvre sk0Htd attach TO It,
Ill. Tie Tor bills weye in harmony 'cM The Demo
croiic doctrine of - pay as you CO. This IS sui-
GENTLY shown by the remarks made by DIR. Jones,
already quoted and this idea was very fully aod
satisfactorily elaborated in Mr.. Woosters admirable
speech when the Canal bill was pending. AS Dem
ocrat Of the Hoffman school, he tnumphantly justified
bis vote for the measure on this ground: AS no one
really opposed the General Tax bill, 1t requires no
other remark than this: 1t is rather inconsistem i9
those who mended and whose political irlends
voted for these Tax bills to now cite them IS eyi-
dence Of the e1travsgant prodiSahty Oh the Eepuo-
licans.
". BotA Tar JUs arcre rendered indispensable By
tke prOCisOAs " the Constitution. That instrument
forbade the borrowing OF more money % 1aan haa a.
ready been borrowed for any purpose. The aterna'
iives therefore presented either, To abandon
the Public Works =. To reopen the Constitution or,
3. To levy tax. The first had rot an advocate in
or out of the Legislature. The second was deemed
unwise ard looked cowardly. The third was the only
open, manly course. And it adopted. 1t is for
the people to say whether their representatives did
not 10 right
TIE Apgus says the Republicans 6" will loose tens
" of thousands of votes" by the practical logic to
he dispersed by the taI.gatherer." We fear no
such result The People are too intelligent to turn
upon party for doing what all parties equally par
ticpe,ed n-particularly when, as in this case tue
thing done was right. The Republicans are ready to
90 to the People this issue because when the subject
is fairly and distinctly scnted to them they will ap-
precae the necessity Of what has been done, and the
hypocrisy Of thOse who now condemn the doing OF
what they themselves said was right, aud helped
to co.
shall probably feel called upon TO say hereafter,
Will only recapitulate the points which the Tax Pay
ers should have in their minds during the progress OF
the discussion:
|. The GENrRAL TAX of n mil and a quarter, TO
he collected next year, is precisely the same amount,
based upon substantially the same epportio0lnent as
that collected in 1856. The Tax collected this year
was Only one mill.
III. The only i,crease upon the Tax collected in
1856 is tue mil tax, TO be levied to raise about 350,
600 for Canal purposes
LII. Both Taxes wers recommended sabstaptally)
by the " American" State officers, ard voted for by
every American" member OF the Legislature; while
the General Tax received no Democratic opposition,
except the two votes named and the Canal Tax was
declared by the leader of the Democracy, to be en-
trely right ard ia harmony rih the debt.paying
"aad anti-JOroring policy OF The democratic party
" The increase upon the Tax collected in 1856 is
simply and only the Canal Mill Tax. That lad to be
levied, or the Canals had to stop.
In regard TO the charge that the increased Tax has
been rendered necessary because of the wasteful
picdigslity and rascaty of the Republican Logis-
latue, have only now to say, thatonr opponents
dare nat cannot specify Ire acts rhict they thus
chayactey7-e When they do so, tbey will be either
justified or denounced Wholesale charges admit of
only general denial. Where there has been |" ras-
caity, it can he specified. Neglect to specify is
proof Of inability to do so