The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-07-29

eign goods in considerable quantities, and
consequently pay in the Same proportion In
direct taxes for the support Of the govern
ment. Also manufacturing districts, which
exist principally in the North, pay large sums
of money from year 20 year, ~ duty on
raw materials Imported which afterwards,
as fabrics, are sold in foreign markets. The
duty thus paid becomes On absolute tar on
the industry Of the North.
| 1t is therefore probable that the enterpri-
sing and industrious millions Of free people
swarming in the North and Northwest, pay .
relative excess of the receipts at the custom
houses, approaching in amount the excess OF
their importations.
| The revenues collected through the post
ofices in each section Of the confederacy,
presents disparity still more striking.
| The expenses Of the department In the nine
new free States in the North west exceed the
receipts only 4937, 1882; and in the nine
new slave States 81, 982, 1851, or more than
two dollars in the slave States to one in the
free States.
After careful review Of this subject, no
one can be 30 unoandid as to deny that tho
burthens Of the National Government are laid
unequally on the people Of the North by the
Democratic party and that this 10 especially
oppressive to the people OF Iowa. II is prob
able an average State Of those in the Union,
in the consumption OF foreign goods. Its
population in June, 1856, had reached 6l9,
600; the census returns, now coming in, in
dicate an increase up to this time OF 80 Per
now probably about 100000. The popula-
ton Of the entire confederacy is supposed to
be about q, 200, 900, Of which over 1000, 900
are slaves-leaving . white population Of
less than Is 900 200; hence the white popu-
lation of an average State is less than that OF
Iowa.
1t can therefore hardly be doubted that the
people of this State pay, in direct taxes to
the National Government, 81, TOO, 900, Of the
1857 ,OOO, 900 Of the annual receipts from Gus
toms. This is an enormous sum OF money to
be collected from the people Of new State.
But in addition to this indirect tax the people
of this State have paid into the national
| treasury, during the last four years, as We
have before shown, $l,900,000 per annum
for land, out of which they are struggling
TO dig support for their dependent fam
lilies.
Is it wonderful that we feel the pressure
OF hard times in Iowa, with the Democratic
party pressing from your pockets an aggre-
gate OF So, 600,0 per annum, to pour into
government declared by Mr.. Toombs, one OF
the Democratic leaders, on the floor OF the
Senate, to be the most corrupt at this mo-
ment of any government on earth! II the
party intended TO secure the destruction OF
the government by the oppression Of the peo-
pie, they could not be moro proaigate in the
expenditure Of the public treasure. A more
grinding tar has never been wrung from Z
people by any despotism Of the old world
The annual amount paid by the people OF
Iowa to the National Government for the last
four years would yield, If invested ct ten per
cent. interest, 1886, 900 year-a sum more
! than equal to the annual expenses Of your
State government, including the construction
of your public buildings, ~ estimated BY
those who have been charging the Republic
cans OF the State with extravaganza in the
administration of it's local affairs.
9th. In this emergency what measure oil
relief does the Democratic party propose?
They propose to increase the taxes this ID
their mode of relief. They propose to in.
crease the rate of duty now paid on foreign
: goods, and to levy new tar on commodities
now admitted free giving the preference to
those which come in competition with the
J products of our own workmen in our home
, market, and imposing it most heavily on
.. goods, such as teas and coffee, brought exclu.
sively from abroad. (See Treasurer's Re.
! port for 1878, page ~
They propose to increase the rate of post.
, age on letters and newspapers, from forty te
sixty per cent, to be paid - We have seen
principally by the people OF the free States
to enhance mail facilities in the slave States
Here is the record Of the yeas and nays il
the United States Senate on this PROPOSE
ton:
!. YEAs-Messrs. Benjamin, Bright, Brown
= Chestnut, Clay, Olingman. Crittenden, Davis
: Filth, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond
: Houston, Hunter, Iverson, johnson Of Ar
kansas, johnson Of Tennessee, Jones, Lane
, Mason, Pearce, Polk, Reid, Sebastian, Sill
dell, Toombs, Ward, and Yulee-2o.
NAYS - Messrs. Allen, Bsysrd, Bigler
: Broderick, Chandler, CLARK, Oollamer, Dix
: on, Dooittle, Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden
: Foot, Foster, Hale, Hamlin, Harlan. King
:. Pugh, Rice, Seward, Shields. Simmons, Stu
: art, Trumbull, Wade, Wilson, and Wright
28.-[Oong. Globe, part 2, End Session 35tl
: Congress, p. 1899.
Every affirmative vote Was cast by Dem
= ocratic Senator, including that Of my forme
: colleague in the Senate from Iowa. Ever
Republican voted in the negative.
They oppose the restriction Of the sale o
!, the public lands to actual settlers, and thu
place the pioneer on the frontier at the mor
: cy Of "land sharks," who amass fortunes on
Z Of the hard earnings Of tho patient sons 0
. !. toll. They oppose the Homestead bill, whic
I, proposes to give land to the lsndlsss, for set
= element and cultivation, as freely - they re
= : ceive the air, the rain, and the sunshine, Z
: the Almighty designed when he created thes
broad prairies and these fertile Valleys
! Here 10 the record Of the vote in the Unite
= States Senate:on this bene6cent measure.
:. YEAs-Msssrs. Bell, Broderick, Cameron
. Chandler, CLARK, Dixon, Doolistls, Douglas
ID ossUuo1n, Iuos, ooso T'u, us1o, nsm
King, Pugh, Rice, Seward, Shields, Simmons