St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-08-11
NUMBER 80,


State. But in addition to this indi,
rect tax the people of this State have
paid into the National Treasury du.
ring the last four years, as we have
before shown, $1,000, 900 per aunun
for land, out of which they are strug.
Cling to dig support for their de.
pendent families.
Is it wonderful that we feel the
pressure of hard times in Iowa, with
the Democratic party pressing from
your pockets an aggregate of So ,60O,-
ooo per annum, to pour into the Treas
ury at Washington City to support a
government declared by Mr.. Toombs,
one OF the Democratic leaders on tho
hoor OF the Senate, to be the most cor
rupt at this moment Of any govern.
ment on the face of the earth If the
party intended to secure the destruc.
tlon of the government by the oppres=
sion of the people they could not be
more profigate in the expenditure of
the public treasure. A more grinding
tax has never been wrung from !,
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 at ten per
cent. interest. $500, 900 year-a sum
more than equal to the annual ex.
penses of your State government, il.
Guiding the construction of your Pub
lie Buildings, as estimated by those
who have been charging the Republic,
cans of the State with extravaganza
in the administration of its local
affairs.
9th. In this emergency a0Aat measure Of
rettef does the Democratic party propose
They propose to increase the taxes +!
this is their mode of relief They pro.
pose to increase the rate of duty now
paid on foreign goods, and to levy a
new tax on commodities now admitted
free giving the preference to those
which come in competition with tho
products of our own workmen in our
home market, and imposing it most
heavily on goods, such as teas and
coffee, brought exclusively from
abroad (See Treasurer's Report for
1878, page,T)
They propose to increase the rate of
postage on letters and newspapers
from forty to sixty per cent to be
paid as we have seen, principally by
the people of the free States, to en-.
hance mail facilities in the slave
States. Here is a record of the yeas
and nays in the t. s. Senate on this
proposition
| YEAs-M Messrs. Benjamin, Bright Brown,
Chestnut, Clay, Clingman, Crittenden Davis,
! Fitch, Fitzpatrick, GIeen, Gwin, Hammond
! Houston, Hunter, lverson, johnson OF Arkan-
sas, Johnson of Tennessee, Jones, Lane. Ma
son, Pearce, Polk. Reid Sebastian, Slidell,
Tocmbs, Ward and Yulec-29
NAYs-Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Bigler, Brod-
erick. Chandler, Clark, Coliamer, Dixon, Doo-
! little, Douglas, Durkee. Fessenden. Foot, Eos.
| ter, Hale Hanlin, Harlan, King, Pugh, Rice,
| Seward, Shields, Simmons, Stuart Trumbull,
Wade, Wilson, and Wright-2s. Gong Globe,
part :, % Session 3jth Congress page 1897
They oppose the restriction of the
public lands to actual settlers, and
thus place the pioneer on the frontier
at the mercy of LAND sharks who
amass fortunes out of the hard earn
! ings of the patient sons of toll They
oppose the Homestead Bill, which pro-
poses to give land to the iandless, for
settlement and cultivation, as freely
as they receive the air, the rain, and
the sunshine, as the Almighty design
ed when he created these broad prai-
ries and these fertile valleys Here
is the record of the vote in the L. S.
Senate on this beneticient measure
YEAs-Messrs. Bell, Broderick, Cameron,
Chandler, Clark, Dixon, Doolittle Douglas,
Fessendcn, Foot, Foster Gwin, Hale, Hamlin,
| Harlan, johnson of Tennessee. Jones. King,
Pugh. Rice. Seward, Shields. Simmonss stu.
art, Trumbull, Wade and Wilson-27.
NAYs-Alessrs Allen, Bates. Bayard Bigler,
| Bright. Brown. Chestnut, Clay, Clingman,
Davis, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Hammond,
Houston, Hunter, Serson, Johnson, of Arkan-
sas, Mallory, Mason, Pcarce, Polk, Reid, Sc.
bastaiu, Slidell, Thompson of New Jersey,
roombs, Ward, Wright and Yulee-30.
Every Republican voted for the
measure; every negative vote was
cast by Democrat.
They propose the occupancy of sew
eral of the more feeble Mexican States
and portions of Central America by
the armies of the United States, at an
additional cost of several millions per
annum, with view to their acqusi-
ton and conversion into slave terrific
ry ; and the direct purchase of Cuba,
at cost of at least one hundred and
twenty millions, to increase the num-
ber of the slave States. This is a
great southern measure, carefully ma,
tured and deliberately adopted 1t is
intended by this means to so strength
en- and fortify their system of slave
labor as to place it beyond the power
of freemen of the North to ever acquire
the control of the government The
initiatory step was taken at the last
session of Congress in a proposition
to place $50, 100000 in the hands of
the President to be used in facilitat.
ing the acquisition of this Island to
be followed 10y an appropriation Of
from Sl20, 10000 to $500, ,0OO, 600, as
the purchase price to be afterward
collected principally Of the Northern
people as the cost of their political
subjugation. This monstrous propo.
sition received the support of every
northern Democrat in the Senate. On
a test question "to lay on the table,"
the vote stood
YEAs-Messrs Broderick, Cameron, Chan
dler, Clark Doolttle, Fesscnden, Foot, Eos.
ter. Hale, Hamlin, Harlan. Kennedy King,
Seward, Simmons, Trumbull, Wade. and VII:
son-l7.
NAYS - Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benja.
min, Bigler, Brown, Chestnut, Clay, Cling
man, Douglas, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green,
Gwin, Hunter, Iverson, johnson, of Arkansas,
johnson Of Tennessee, Lane, Malloroy, Mason,
Polk, Pugh, Reid, Rice, Sebastian Shields,
Slidell Smith, Toombs and Ward-a0 Gong
Globe, part 2 2nd Session S5th Congress, page
1868.
Of course other reasons are ad.
vanced for the acquisition. 1t might
be dangerous to proclaim their pur-
pose to be. to neutralize the VOICE. OF
Republican Iowa in the. ITe1soa.Lhr ,
with couple of Creole Senators senate
! Eastern Cuba of Wis-ops;n from