The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-09
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Q. 1857.


3 Advice.
One disadvantage to any community In
having its laws made for Il by legislators
of itself over whom Il has no con-
troll, Is that those who make your laws
will invariably eat your bread, strip your
bach, end pick your pocket. This is our
case at.present.
That ,bsnsvolent philosopher Mr.. GREE
LEE {whoes s1ertions are not wanting to
muict' ~ thss moment by . tariff law) has
been again giving his advice TO the south
ern people through the medium Of a letter
to . man In Georgia. Fer It is n Of the
consequences Of defeat to be made the
constant subject Of advice. Those who
pick your pockets, strip your back, and
eat your bread, are e~ternally offering you
the best advice-advice to be modest and
rational; especially advice to be industri-
ous-this Is the grand point, because those
who make your laws for you can take
good care that your industry shall be for
their behoof. This Is just Mr.. GRRELEY's
idea in writing to the Georgian. "Your
southern people," says he, "begin at the
wrong end %; that is, in showing so much
anxiety to have some hand in the making
of our own laws. "Go to work." he says
in a tone of rude but paternal severity ;
go to work, every man, woman, and
child Of you; and resolve this season
" to make more corn and meat than you
" ever did before" etc. The counsel may
be good in itself; but our fatheriy ao-
wiser and his friends at the North, where
our laws are made, may so legislate tna1
Georgians shall not be able to AFFORD 10 eat
the yery corn their own industry mas so"n
and reaped. They can make Georglans
nav so dear for clothing, for hardware, Tor
hats aud shoes, yes, for stamped paper and
lucifer-matches, that it will take nearly all
the price Of the Georgian crops TO pay LOT
those things. And that this is, and always
will be, the very object and determination
of legislators who impose taxes without
representation, is Of course certain. Such
Is the constant and settled purpose Of every
legislative body that has the power of ef-
fectipr il. Such was the purpose Of the
English Parliamenttowards America before
the revolution. Such is now the constant
aim and successful practice OF the same
English Parliament towards Ireland-the
latter having but a dSusive semblance of
representation in that Parliament: and the
consequence is that Ireland is a store-farm
for her g sister island" and starves herself.
Epelishmen make her laws, and, by strict
consequence, eat her bread.
Mr.. GREELEY exhorts the Georgians,
"Mlnd your own business, and pay no at
"tention to Congress-plant your corn and
"cotton; and care nothing what Congress
"may do or leave undone. Let Congress
"make what laws it will and take its own
"time for them" Modest and candid this,
in our benevolent adviser! AS if it was
not this very Congress itself which he and
his friends are working so successfully as
a machine for taxing US to the quick and
stripping us to the bone. Conceive some
philanthropic and paternal thief putting his
hand into your pocket as you sit at your
daily labor aud saying to you soothingly,
Work away, dear friend, at your honest
trade; bend your mind to your industry
put your earnings into this pocket, and
don't mind my fingers that are fumbling
there they are the fingers of a friend.
This is precisely Mr.. GREELEY's advice to
the G~eorgians.
Of course southern men must work so
do the Irish and must live upon what
residue Of the fruits of their industry may
be left them by those who make their laws
for the profit of other people. They en-
dure this condition Of things while they
must; but in the mean time it is the COOL
est possible impudence in those VINO tax
US without representation and govern us
without our consent to exhort US 70 IN
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