The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-04-04

stricted, her home market free to all, and
her growing greatness surpassiDg all bel
rivals. The people of Allegheny will
then cease to tremble at the name of 9
corporation, when, in spite Of her Sena
tors, the expanding interests of her lead
ing city shall be advanced by giving her
the products of our own enterprise. Oh the
same terms she receives the wealth oil
| Ohio and other States. | am willing
that her people shall judge between her
confessedly able but. as | believe, illber.
al Senator and myself; and with them a.
lone. deep seated as may now be their
prejudices, would be content to trust
the complete vindication of the vote
shall cat on this momeDtous issue.
l submit. sir. whether these are not
views becoming men representing a great
Commonwealth. They may lot suit some
convictions created by local interests. or
local struggles, or local hatreds; tut they
are just, and to justice all our prejudices
must yield at last We should rem IN Der
teat We are leeislating for State teem-
ing with beauty and richness. and for a
people who are pleading to their local
General Governments for the privilege OF
developing our greatness. They ask
that when their industry has made new
field to bloom, OF a new mine to give forth
its wealth, they shall have the right OF
transit over their own tborougbfsre to
their home arket. without sn arbitrary,
and, at times, prohibitory tax being i'm
posed on them. But the Senator from
Allegheny answers practically: IL rep
resent the second com mercial city of the
State; my constituents want the fruits Of
your energy to enrich them; but. while to
the citizens of other States our capitalists
have opened free avenues of transporta
ton, every Pennsylvania must pay an
unequal tribute before be enters there. F"
The question was then further dis
cu--ed in opposition to the bill BY Mes
srs. Penney. Mott and Bound
Mr. MCCLURE. Perhaps a word Of
explanation is due to myself. as yell as a
word O: ad dnonition to the Senator from
North um berland, (Mr. Bouud.) 1t is
charged by that impetuous Senator that
this principle of unrestralned commerce
is but an Invention to plunder the State.
and impose new burdens upon the people.
Fl seems to have brought to the Senate
all the ardor, and only too much of the
recklessness. of the stump; and when be
sweeps such indiscriminate deDunclation
upon all who happen to be more liberal
than himself, think it well to remind
him how barshly his OVID words will
sound, when be sees the full extent of
their aim. | beg to remind him that the
removal Of the tax upon tonnage is not a
novel doctrine. 1t is taught by every
State to day but our own. and it has been
urged upon Pennsylvania by many of our
best men
I remember, sir, that six years ago
there was a man presiding over the desti-
nies Of this Com % oawealtb, confersedly y
pure in purpose, irreproacbably honest in
all his acts, and a man whose wise states
man.hip and intimate familiarity with all
questions OF State policy, made him second
to none 10 our Commonwealth. Uuder
his Aduini-trstion, bill was passed for
the sale of the main line of our public
improvements, to which be gave his
prompt and cordial approval. When. 10
pursuance of the law. be exposed the
main line to sale, one OF the canal com
missioners, slow to surrender SO rich
channel OF pecula alton, bad tested the con
stitutiopality of the act, and one OF its
sections had been declared unconstitu-
tional. That section repealed the tax up
on tonnage ip case the Pepnsy ylvania Rail
road Company became the purchaser. al
one and half millions more than The
maxium price to other purchasers.
To this the Supreme Court did not in
tcrpose any objections; but the sector
went so far as to release the railroad com
pany from all taxes upon it's property fo
State purposes, and on this point the sec
ton was declared null and void, and,
think, very properly. The works wer'
then offered for sale By the Executive
without the right to release any taxes un
der the bill, aDd the railroad comPan.
TeIuSeu ~ tbO =" .
we'll known that no man or association
of men, except the Pennsylvania Rail
road company. could or would buy tn
main line for So 100000. The Execu
tive, therefore, gave his pledge to tn
company that if it should become the pur
chaser of the main line, and thus arrcs
the plunderins of our treasury by aswara
of vampires under the Canal Board, b
would give the power of bis official posi-
ton in favor of the repeal of the tonnag
tax, inasnuch as BY the sale OF our I'm
provemeDt-, the necessity that created !
would cease | refer to Hon. james Pol
lock, the preceptor and Law partner Q
the youthful Senator from Nortbumber
land. True to that pledge, Governo
Pollock strongly urged the removal Q
the tonnage tax, in bis next annual mes
sage, aud be took precisely the same vIo'
of the question that ! have taken to
! night-a view which every nan wh
oil ms to have liberal and enlightene
appreciation of the interest OF Pennsyl Iva