Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-05-08

MS AAhTLl1. 80 Ee5l
~ feyery man. woman and childstwelve
Yearssold in Virginia were not able to
make the calculation for himself. we
would show that the man of moderate
means who would save in his State taxes
one dollar and fifty-six cents in the
year. by the te'sreception of the land
quota we have supposed, we have to pay
under Tariff requisite to supply this
fund from ten to twenty times the amount
back again to the federal government in
enhanced prices of the goods and wares
he would purchase in the year from his
merchant. We have sufic emily indica>
ted the mode Of making the calculation,
and trust every practical, honest tax-pa
er in the State will cipher out for himself
the enormity of this Distribution swindle.
The following are the rates to which the
duties on some of the usual articles of i'm
ports have just been reduced by the new
tariff, which is to take effect in Jane next:
The following are the leading articles
changed by the new tariff:
All wool costing go cents per pound at
the place of expectation. will be admitted
duty free all other descriptions Of wool
will pay "a per cent.
Iron and sugar will pay "a per cent
Wines and liquors will pay 80 per cent
Wooden fabrics generally will pay "a
per cent.
Wooden blankets will pay Is per cent.
Dyed, printed, stained or bleached cot
ton fabrics will pay "a per cent.
Brown or unbleached cotton goods
will pay 10 per cent.
Linen fabrics of all descriptions will
pay Is per cent.
There is also list of articles Of less
Importance added to the free list, which
have heretofore. paid from 10 to 80 per
cent.
This distribution Of the sum Of money
we had under consideration would res
quire an addition of one.third to these
duties. Let the people themselves cipher
the annual losses they would have
to pay on their own annual purcha-
SEES in consequence of their being relieved
a four.pence-hapenny in the hundred dol
lars on their property in their State Tax
es.
Nor does the investigation even stop
here. AS question between State and
State, it would operate unjustly. The
New England and middle States, which
contribute inconsiderable export values,
of their own production to the commerce
of the country, would obtain larger shares
of this Distribution fund, raised in fact.
by the Tariff, than the States which sup>
ply the great bulk of exports with which
the imports are purchased, While Vir-
ginia would get $4,75O. 900, New York
would get $l1,O57, 672; Pennsy lvania
would get So, 500; Massachusetts
$4,O19. 224, and Ohio ST, 673. 1854. The
slave States, which furnish the bulk fthe
staples of foreign commerce and employ
fve-sixths of the merchant shipping Of
the Union, would receive but SO millions
and nine hundred thousand dollars Of the
fund, while the free States would receive
So millions GOO thousand dollars-Gve
Fights Of the whole.
Now, the South supplies, rs we have
shown on former occasion, two thirds Of
the commerce on which the Tariff is lew
led, and would in fact pay two-thirds Of
this eighty five and half millions saddled
upon the Tariff. That is to say, the peo-
pie Of the Southern States would pay Sc
million dollars Of the IS, 100000 Of the
money distributed. in order to obtain for
their State treasures the aggregate for
all Of 80, 88O,56O. The Northern people
would pay about &C. 500. 900 dollars, while
the Northern State government would re-
ceive 2,6I5, 44O. Thus the nett losses
of the Southern mass would be 23,1l5.-
44O dollars, which would be gained by
the North. 1t was repudiated fifteen
years ago by the agricultural masses. 1t
is prOtectionist scheme, connecting orr.
ginaIIy for the purpose of cheated the
masses into an assent to the Protective
policy by bride paid them with their
own money. Such it still is in its new
form. and as such it will be secuted and
spit upon by the Southern people.
1t helps it not to come forth again as n
measure of SAM. The people will see the
imposture only the more readily for his
championship: When he offers his 85.-
100000 dollars bounty with aristocratic
airs to the voting masses. they will seize
him, search his pockets, and recognize in
his Wanted bounty their own money
which he has purloined from their own
pockets,-Richm0nd Examiner.
The REVENUE OF V1RGIN1A.-Mr. CAL
vert, the State Treasurer of Virginia,
makes the following statement in relation
TO the finances of the commonwealth
"That the revenue to be produced by
the present tax bill. upon the re>assessed
value of the lands of the Commonwealth,
will be sufficient to defray the expenses
of government. meet the interest on the
public debt and sinking fund, and pay off
| the 1oatino debt and leave a surnluS III n I
will meet the seven per centum upon an
appropriation of 1000, 900 year to the
Covington and Ohio Railroad, and that it
would not necessarily subject the people
to higher rate of taxation than at pres