Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-26
The People Of the Northwestern States

Are beginning TO feel tile effects of high tariff
irsreases Ivy The immense amount Of capital ex-
ep,pt from taxation, is making them literally,
'.hcwcrs ct VOID and drawers OF water for The
sboldy arislocracy Of New England The produ-
cling easses eycrywhcre, ac paying from thirty to
fifty per cent higher for goods than they could buy
them, but for the tariff aud the poor, hard work.
ing man, after being lecc,d of this large amount
of his earnings, is forced, by Radical Congress,
to pay bis full proportion Of the tax which the rich
capitalist aud bond-hoder il excused from paying
by an unjust and ubiquitous law. We, of the
South are victims of the same policy, but, being
voiceless in the councils of the nation, il may be
decrled imperinenoe in us 10 complain, and our
only chance for redress of wrongs is through unity
of interest with the aGEiculturists Of the North.
The time was when the upper valley Of the Missis
sippi could find in the lower market for its sur
plus. The South needed, and could pay for it. But
that time has passed. Impoverished by war, and
dsiranehised by radical Congress stripped of its
labor and an Institution which poured wealth into
the IMP Of the North and regulated trade with
foreign nations the Northwest has lost its best
almost its ouly--cus,omer, and instead of prof.
table tn flic with the South II must now labor
hard and live hard to fill the Golfers of the manufac
turer and pay the taxes of the bond-hoder This is
the penalty they must suffer for their agency in the
desolatiou of the South the dissertation Of its do
nestle affairs and the violation Of the fundamental
principles OF the old Federal Union Of the States
f Prejudice and passion may, for the pressat blind
them to the true condition but few years Of ac-
cumuatng surplus unsaeable and worthless, and 9
grind ng taxation, growing more oppressive with
increasing poverty win efectualy open their eyes
f and lay bare the full extent of their folly
What is the remedy for these evils2 Free trad,
t and taxation of exempted bonds. This, it is true
will Eot pay the national debt, but it will give thu
i. producer more means with which to pay his pro
portion, and force the exempted capitalist to con
tribute his full quota towards the same object
The man with a million Of dollars, in bonds of tn
i government pays not cent Of tex, whilst tn
= farmer with his few acres and his stock, pays no
: only his own proper share but his full proportion
IS towards making up the amount which ought to b
IS levied upon the exempted million in the HANDS Q
Y his aristocratic neighbor. This is oppressiv
D enough, in all conscience, upon the farmer, me
Il chanic and day-laborer; yet in addition to thif
1t the Republican Congress says to these oppresse
!. poor mon--"the lords of the loom deserve pre-
d MUM for their patriotic efforts in behalf Of tn
Il manufacturing interest therefore, you must pa
e thirty per cent more for the shirt you than
d would cost but for this premium If this extr
IS per cent went into the national treasury it wou
not be so bad but it goes into the pockets of tn
e shoddy srs,ocacy and thus the effect of the polio
is TO make the rich, richer and the poor as poor
r the devil. ~ 90