The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1865-08-31
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA THURSDAY, AUGUST 81 1863
Car sntaNed Nobility.

Congress has not yet we believe, grams
ted any titles of nobility, but it has
done something better, it has exempted its
bondholdors from all taxation. \ title OF
nobility would he at best an empty honor,
which The matter fact, Shoddyite would
disdan. but material, dollar and cent
advantage over his less fortunate neigh
bors, is a distinction exactly suited to his
money-getting, avaricious disposition.-
We used TO hear much about the three
hundred thousand southern oligarch5 who,
it was alleged, owned all the negroes of the
South; but they paid their taxes Ike other
men. and had no exemptions on any score.
We have now changed all this We do
not indulge in any such sh0n aristocracy y
as that Nothing short Of the real article
satisfies us. We have ey IN outstrippcd
England in this respect. No Peer of the
realm would think of being exempted
from paying his regular proportion to-
wards the support Of the Government. but
We have class OF men who look down
upon their eroveling, hard-working, tax
ridden ncigobors with incffablc indiffcr-
ence. The cry of the Revolution of l776.
was mo taxation without rcyroscntion,
but we have reversed this motto. It is
now representation u,iiout taxation-
Our untaxed nobility can vote burdens
upon their fclow-mcn, from which they
are free. There are some three hundred
thousand of these men, holding in their
hands about one-third of the wealth Of the
country. They can buy up legislatures.
they can subsidise the press, they can in
fuence every channel Of public opinion,
and does any one suppose they do not, or
will not :?
The peoples attention is being called
to this subject, as we'll it may. The IN
tored noGiiiy and their organs entrench
themselves behind the law of Congress,
and the alleged decisions of the Courts
said to be favorable to the nojd,ty. But
the people will get at this subject, without
wading through law books, or judicial
nonsense of any kind. 4 Gor1nmcat
yhosc .foandofton stone IS oYuoI rights
caanot conSttutionGHy make distinctions
Lctvcen citizens. 1t cannot tax one man
and exempt another. The Constitution
iorbids Congress granting any order OF
nobility, and if 1t be unconstitutional tc
confer an EN- oty tile, which really invadcs
no ones right and njures nobody, how
can any man dare to stand mp and tell the
public that Congress can violate the very
idea upon winch the Government was
founded and which violation strikes
down the rights, interests and welfare OF
ninc-tcnths OF the citizens? The State oI
New Hampshire has already taxed hen
untared nobility, and though the act has
brought fourth a howl from the Washing.
ton monster, who is trying to gulph down
all power, yet people every where applaud
the course of the Granite State. There Is
imminent danger, unless the people move
themselves, that this uatored uojId.y viii
tasten their fangs permanently upon the
country. They own or influence nearly
all the great daily papers, and they will
work with unsParing energy TO bind the
taxation to pay the public debt upon the
shoulders OF the laDoring and producing
class How terrible that burden will be
with onc-third of the property exempt
from taxation, can be imagined from the
foretastc the people have already had. As
the currency falls to q specie standard
this weight will be more aud more severe.
ly felt. Let the untaxc1 nobility take
notice that the people will not stand it
tllat no man eau be elected as a member OF
Congress hereafter, who does not go for
EQUAL TAXATIoN.-[ New York Day
Book.