Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-06-22

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and perpetuity Of the salt tax All this must come
and more too if federalism rules few years longer.
A few Years more under federal sway, at the rate
things have gone on at this session-ths sweet lit
tie session called to relieve the peoplcand our poor
America would be ripe for the picture for which
England now sits, and which has been so powerfully
drawn in the Edinburgh Review. Listen to it. and
hear what federalism would soon bring us to, ii not
stopped in its mad career:
Taxes upon every article which enters into the
mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the
foot Taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant
to sec hear, feel, smell, or taste. Taxes upon
warmth, light, and locomotion. Taxes on every
thing on EARTH and the waters under the earth; OF
every thing that comes from abroad or is grown 1T
home. Taxes on the raw material taxes on every
fresh valne that is added to it by the industry OF man.
Taxes on the sauce which pampers mans appe-
ti.e and the drug that restores him to health on
the crmine which decorates the Judge, and the rope
which hangs the criminal on the brass nails OF the
coffin, and the ribbons of the bride At bed or
beard, couchant or levant, wemustpay. The school
boy whips his taxed top the beardless youth man.
ages his taxed horse with taxed bride, on taxed
road. The dying English,nan pours his medicine,
which has paid seven per cent, into spoon that
has paid fifteen per cent; filings himself back upon
his chntz bed which has paid twenty two per cent
makes his will an eight-pound stamp and expires
in the arms of an apothecary, who has pald IL
cense of hundred pounds for the privilege OF put
ting him to DEATH His whole property is then i'm
mediatcly taxed from two to ten per cent Besides
the probate large fees are demanded for burylng
him in the chance; his virtues handed down to pos
teritv on taxed marble and he is then gathered to
his fathers, to be taxed no more
This is the way the English are now taxed, and
so it would be with us if the fereralists should re-
main few years in power.
Execrable as this bill is in ITSELF and for its OBJ
ects and for the consequences which 1t draws after
it, it is still moe abominabe for the time and man
ner in which it is driven through Congress, and the
contingencies on which its passage is to depend
What is the time when the new States are just
ready to double their representation and to present
front which would their rights,
andsecure the grant of all their ust demands They
pounccd upon in this nick of time before thear
rival of their full representation under the new cen
st,S, to be lnanaced and fcttered by law which as
to he perpetual settlement OF the land ques-
ton, and to bind their interests for ever 1hlS Is
the time what is the manner gagged through
the House nf Representatives by the previous queS-
ton and by new rules fabricated from day to day,
to Stiile discussion, prevent amendments, suppress
yeas and nays. and hide the deeds which summed
the light. This was the manner What was the
contingency on which its passage was to depend =
the passage of the bankrupt bill So that this ex-
ecrable bill. baed as it was with dourcurs to Old
States, and brihes to the new ones and pressed I'M
der the gag and.in the absence of the new repre-
Scntation still unable to get through without
bargain for passing the bankrupt bill at the same
time Can such legislation stand? Can God or
man, respect such work.
But circumstance which distinguished the pass
age OF this bill from all othcrs-which up to that
day was without a precedcnt-was the open cNcr
ton of foreign interest to influence orr legislation.
This interest mad already eXcrted itself in our pres.
dentia election it now appeared N our legislation.
Victorious in the election, they attended Congress
to see that their expectations were not disappointed.
The lohbies Of the House contained them: the
boardng-houses of the wing members were their re-
sort: the democracy kept aloof though under other
circumstances they would have been glad to have
paid honor to respectable strangers, only avoided
now on account of interest and cXcrtions in our
elections and legislation Mr.. Fernando Wood of
New York brought this scandal to the full notice of
the House. "!n connection with this point will
add that. at the time this cheat in PREPARATION
the merchants petition being drawn up by the bro
kcr> and spectators for the congressional market
there were conspicuous bankers in Wall street anx-
oliS Observers if not co-laborerS in the movement.
Among them might be named Mr.. Bates, partner of
the celebrated house of Barring, Brothers Il Compa-
ny; Mr.. Cryder, of the equally celebrated house Of
son of Mr. Ilorslcy Palmer, now, or lately the gov
elnor of the Bank of England Nor were these al
lies seen only in Wall street. Their visits were
extended to the capitol; and since the commence
ment of the debate upon this bill in the other House.
they have been IN the lobbies attentive, and appa-
rently interested listeners. | make no comment
Comment is unnecessary. state f,cs-undenablc
facts and it is with feelings akin to humiliation and
shame that stand up here and state them" These
respectable visitors had twofod object il their at
tentlon to our legiSlaton-thc getting a national
bank established, as well as the State debts provi-
dcd for Mr.. Benton also pointed out this outrage
upon our legislation
He then took rapid view of the bill-its origin.
character, and effects; and showed it to be federal
in its origin, associated with all the federal
ures Of the present and past sessions with bank.
tariff, assumption of State debts, dependent upon
the bankrupt bill for its passage; volative of the
constitution and the compacts with the States
and browning all its titles to infamy by drawing cap
ialists from London to attend this extra session of
Congress, to promote the passage of this bill for
their own benefit. He read paragraph from the
money article in New York paper, reciting the
names and attendance account Of this BILL of the
foreign capitalists at Washington. The passage was
in these words:
AT the commencement of the session. almost
every foreign house had representative here
llSon, Palmer, Cryder, Bates, Willinck, Hope,
Jaudon, and host of Others came over on various
pretences; all were in attendance at Washington,
and all seeking to forward the proposed measures.
| The land bill was to give them three millions per
annum from the public Treasury, or thirty millions
in ten years. and to raise the value of the stock al
least thirty millions The revenue bill to
have supplied the deficiency in the Treasury. The
loan bill was to have been the basis of increase
OF importations and of exchange operations ; and
the new bank was the instrument of putting the
whole in operation"
| This Mr.. Benton accompanied by article from
London paper showing that the capitalists in that
city we've counting upon the success of their ennis
sarics at Washington and that the passage of this
land bill was the first and most anxious wish o.
their hearts-that they considered it equivalent tt
the assumption of the State debts---and that thu
benefit of the bill would go to themselves. This cs
tablished the character of the bill, and showed that
it had been the means of bringing upon the nation
al egisation the degrading and corrupting influence
of foreign interference. For the first time in thu
history of government foreigners have ATTENDED