Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-04-30

1t will be hard to keep certain transactions
now transpiring, out Of the hands Of the next
Congress. We want to know in what legal
authority the President can pension his press
es on the public treasury to receive say $685.
ooo--$e, 900, 81, 900, &C., respectively.
| see there is a probability that your do
mestic struggle Of railroad tax and anti-tax
will reopen. The taxites, see, come upon
you in new form. The fearless and deter
mined course of the anti-corruptionists appears
to have alarmed them, and their high-Aown,
dictatorial, domineering language has given
place to long conciliatory, adulatory and con.
fabulatory addresses, in which is rehashed all
the old material published, and republished
long before, without expense to the city or
State. ...
Avarice appears to have struck these men
with fatal blindness. They have fastened
their eyes upon the public treasury, from
which neither reason nor defeat can divert
them. One moments reflection should con-
vince these men, that if they could by false
arts trick the people out of law to tax the
State for their individual benefit, that such
revenue would never be paid, unless collected
at the point of the bayonet. Before year
there would be such combinations and organ
izations as exist in portions of Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, &C., to resist the oppression, and
universal execration would drive the men and
their Internal schemes from the State.
The American people will not submit to op-
preston, and to the intelligent man it matters
not whether it comes upon him in the shape
of tricks, and fraud, and treachery, or by open
force. He will trample under foot the one as
soon as the other. If these taxites hope to
succeed, they have read the history of men
and nations to very little profit, not to be able
to draw conclusions from the past sufficient
to cure their present folly. The principle of
loading the people with excessive burdens,
from the days when the Egyptians forced the
Israelites to make brick without straw, up to
the present, has never succeeded for any
length Of time. Resistance, terrible, revenge.
full resistance, will come sooner or later
Americans have an innate hatred of tyranny,
in any and every form, and will detect it as
quickly under the garb of deceit and sophis-
try, as by the advance of armies. -.
We want no monied aristocracies built up
in our State at the expense of the industrious
: poor No system to defraud the poor man of
his earnings, to make the rich richer, and the
poor poorer There is no law in nature OF
justice why railroad director may be made
pensioner upon the public treasury, or grow
insolent and powerful upon the funds of the
industrious laborers. NJ. Mounier tells us, this
That the farmers,-the real producers of ma.
tional wealth, by excessive taxation were re.
!, dueed to the most abject poverty; while the
privileged classes reveled in the most extrav.
agant luxury, upon the fruits of the sweat and
toll and misery of millions. This state ot
things could not and did not long continue
=. That brave People rose, and setting at def
ance $4,000 bayonets, in almost the twinkling
of an eye changed the whole affair.
, In defiance of the royal will and pleasure
by one bold stroke, the national legislature
abolished the privileged orders, and released
the industrial classes from thralldom and mis-
> cry. This act flew then through the kingdom
says Lord Brougham, with the rapidity o
lightning, electrifying with sensations of JOY
and happiness the entire mass uf tho indus
trial orders, who instantly testified their emo
tions of delight with flying banners, music
illuminations, shouts of freedom, merry ant
joyful greetings, &c. Had the King then, no
been governed by the same blind impulses o
avarice and extortion which seems to actual,
Y our railroad leaders, but yielded kindly to th'
mandate of the people, and to principles o
= right and justice, he would have retained hi
y crown, kingdom and life, which by his foolsl
expressions he lost all.
This example may be profitable to all, ex
e cept where avarice usurps the place of refec
u ton, and desperation destroys all sense 0
+ discretion. 1t is high time for these men u
e abandon their Vaccinations, to learn wisdom
J. from some source. They have disturbed TIN
= quiet of the State too long already, by infam
ing angry controversies, and creating contend
- ing factions, and all for what? asking to b,
'' pensioned of on the toll, sweat and distress
. of the poor man, who has the misfortune t
> own piece Of taxable property. Now ther'
l. are not fools enough in Minnesota to submit
to anything of the kind 1t is one of thos,
sanguine anticipations which can never be re
: allied They had better abandon the thin,
. with grace than force it forward to direc
u issue with the people. SENEx.