Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-21

vine, tobacco, sugar tea aud coffee. After
zoo years of experiment in raising public
income, the English heye lfnally set up
their principal machinery tor its collection
in custom houses and distlleries. Let us
initiate their proven wisdom
Secoadly, there is no reason TO apprc-
1end that the interest Of the National debt
will be burdeusome to tic speople and op.
pressiVe to the deyeitaae6t of the re.
sources of the countfy-bs bscalse after !e
gisIatlon has readjusted tbs Internal Taxes
and Excise, and remodelisd the Tariff so
as to throw the weight { tho debt on
luxurics and accumulated weslt6. ewbsrs
It ought to be thrown ana made to rest
lightly on the necessaties 81 life and on
daily labor, 1t can almost holly Tighten
the burden by difIsing n q ifnsinR it
year after yeaE, m6re and tiof6 every year.
over larger population, through greater
production, increased wealth, and increas-
ing incomes. Time will effect this uuaided
Legislation and associate action can rapidly
hurry this diminution of the debt and Of
the weight of the interest. Organize i'm
migratiOu-remoye to the United states
the cotton manufacture of fEugland-brinp
here large part of the silk and muslin
manufacture of FrRuce-ths iron make and
the cutlery manufacture Of Britain-lift
up and bring here large portion of the
mining population of Europe-set il down
10 PeunsylVania, Virginia, and that farther
imperial domain which extends through
seventeen degrees of longitude, and six.
teen degrees of latitude, aud contains an
area of more than million square miles
literally crammed with gold, silver, cop
per, lton' coal, lead, tin, salt, quicksilver,
SyPsum, ! aspnaltnm and marble, and which
asks only an amount of labor relatively
eqGsl 20 that expended ON California, to
Sle4u AouF hundred millions per anuum
out OF tWo minerals alone-gold and sill.
VGr. 10 aid OF this organised immigration
readjust tho import duties 40 ns to ms ke
it more profitable for the Lyopa weNvers
and the Spitalields and Manchester amin.
neTs to take up their looms and weave in
America than to manufacture where tbev
are and squeeze through our custom.
houses. Diftuse the burden of the interest
OF our debt, abroad as well as at home. bv
imposing export duties upon products that
europe has got to buy of us in spite of her
selt-on our cotton, tobacco, petroleum
and 6readstutfs. There will be fnterna,
tioRnl justice as well as political economy
in summoning the nations which armed
clothed and fed the rebellion, lent it money
and built, manned, supplied and refitted
the corsairs which swept the commerce
Of the United States, fer four years. from
all seas. TO help to pay the debt which thev
helped to create. This summons. tbropoh
the imposition of export duties, thev win
have to obey. They can't help themselves.
Tbey have got to have our four great
steples-and they have got to pay our
price for them. We say nExport Duties,n
q knni2 etStation of the
United States torbids them. We use the
words only to, convey. an idea, and because
of their popular sfgnificance. Excise dn-
ties of sufficient amount should be levied
on these staples where produced. They
would carry With them these taxes il thew
went abroad. If they were consumed at
home the laws would see TO it that by
suitable drawbacks or lighter taxation on
the manufactured article the domestic iu-
terests of the country were sufficiently
protected. The rebels, in copying aud
improving upon our constitution, wisely
omitted the clause fOrbiddiuR export duties,
intending to make Eugland and France
pay the cost of their war and the expense
OF establishing and maintaining their Con-
federacy, ont of taxes upon the cotton and
tobacco they would have to buy. The
policy of export duties upon products of
Indispensable necessity to foreign coun.
tries is so manifest, aud in our case so
manites'ly just, that the duty of revising
our constitution in this regard will strike
all minds, unless the necessity for the re-.
vision can be obviated through our Excise
system as above proposed.
We repeat that there is NO occasion for
anxiety about the burden of the principal
or interest of our debt. Wisdom in Con-
gress, generosity and patriotism in poli-
tics. generosity and forbearauce among
competing interests, will difuse and tighten
the load, and make it grow less and less
every year, till its weight shall be no more
than every citizen will gladly pay for the
ment, protection of labor and security of
property. a greater load than this have
the English, with half of our population,
and not quarter of our energy and inge:
uuity, easily borne, and grown enormously
rich. What they can easily do, Americans
can 1oubly do.