Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-02

really due WAS paid, the officers may have
kept thrce-fourths, or thirty-seven millions,
and paid one-fourth into the Treasury.
Some Of the Radical organs try t. break
! the force OF thehe facts !s hIamiuG Pre>i-
! dent Johnson !; alleging ;ilat he is rrspon-
slh'e for the misconduct Of his subordi-
hates. But this excuse will not avail them.
The present officers are Radicals generally,
appointed by lIr. Lincoln. When the
! Radicals quarrelled with 3.r. Johnson,
! fearing that be would remove their friends
from Office, they passed an Act of Congress,
over his veto, ,!cprivinG him OF the right
to remove any officer. When an officer
was, however, guilty of n misconduct, he
| was permitted to suspend him until the
Senate mi ght act upon his case. There
Was q man, named Cailicott, in high favor
with tho Radicals. He was once Demo
crat, but being a member of the New York
Legislature, and the body being tied be-
tween the two parties, the Radicals, to get
| control Of the Legislature and elect O SGna-
tor, bought this individual by making him
| Speaker, and giving him sum of money.
Being their own property he was highly
valued, and given an important official po-
sition in the g Whiskey Ring" His frauds
! became so notorious that he was indicted
in the Courts of the United States. Presi-
dent Johnson suspended him in his Office,
+ but the Senate was not then willing that
such pet should bo sacrificed, AND WOULD
NOT ACT IN THE CASE. At length his case
was disposed Of in the Court He was
convicted and sent TO the Penitentiary.-
| He lay there more than two mOnths-if the
papers Of his State are to be credited
before the Senate would consent to his re-
moyal from office. In the better times of
the Republic what would have been
thought of such a case
The recent change III the tax on spirits
shows the motive which governs the Radi-
cal party now controlling both branches of
Congress. Every still now set up, whether
running or not, must be listed, on pain of
the owner being imprisoned and of paying
| a fine of five hundred dollars and forfei-
lures. Before he distils a drop he must
pay four hundred dollars for q license pay
two dollars per day, and fifty cents per gal
Ion. This tax will not be felt by the large
operators, who make many barrels daily =;
but small 0istillers cannot bear it.
It will thus happen that large quantities
of fruit which, distilled, might enable the
people to pay their taxes, &C., will be lost.
This arrangement was made at the instance
Of the large operators who wish to monopo-
lie the business of distilling, and who
could afford to bribe the members of Con-
| SfOSS. 4uo COuut1J WILL NO AOOuCU WILL
adulterated Liquors, nevertheless.
THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF TAXATION.
The whole system of taxation, as now
exercised, frightful as it is from its magni-
tude, is more oppressive from It's inequali-
ty During my whole service in Congress,
fellow-citizens, [ kept up constant strug-
gle against certain wealthy classes in the
Northeastern States, who were continually
l. ,<>4f
own shoulders, and to mako money through
the action of the government They seem,
at length, to have consummated their OBJ
jects, through the instrumentality Of a pill
ant and corrupt Congress.
Tobacco and Cotton alone, of agricultu-
raj productions, are especially taxed, be-
cause they are mainly Southern produc
tions. The culture Of cotton had been so
much crippled by the emancipation acts
that it needed encouragement, but they
preferred to 6reah q bruised reed!
AS the cotton crop formerly furnished
more than half the exports of the coun-
try, afforded the means of obtaining for
eign goods without the necessity of send
ing specie abroad, it was worth a hundred
times as much to the country as the Cod
fish which they hire the New Englanders
to catch, by bounties from she Treasury
4 large production of cotton now would
benefit not only the Government but the
whole country, South and North.
THE CONDUCT OF THE RADICALS TOWARDS
THE MANUFACTURERS FULLY ILLUSTRATES
THEIR PURPOSES.
Those Manufacturers have, as you know,
always been clamorous for protection, in
the shape of high taxes Oh imports from
abroad. Their wishes have been fully
gratified by the Radical congressman, and
| while the revenue from the tariff taxes Is
three times what it ever was formerly the
manufacturers are receiving 6 proportionally
more. On many articles the TAN Is
EQUAL TO ONE HUNDRED PER
CENT, and hence y0u are compelled to
pay double the former prices for what
you buy of the Merchant. There has,
however, been imposed on these mauufac-
| turers themselves the small tax Of M7eC
per cent. On their productions.
| At the last session of Congress, they in
ducod that body to repeal this tax, and
relieve them of all share in supporting
the public burdens. The Treasury III this
way loses SIXTY MILLION Dollars
/ ($6O, 900, 000). These people require that
the whole country shall be taxed for their
benefit from fifty to one hundred per
cent, while they are not willing to CON
tribute any part OF their profits, and the
Radical Congress has sanctioned their de-
mand.
THE WEALTHY BOND HOLDERS PAY NO TANES.
The bond holders are another class
equally favored. During the war the Gov
ernment, to raise money, issued Bonds
bearing six per cent. interest, which in
terest it agreed to pay in coin. The
Bonds were bought up by the capitalists,
in some instances as lOa0 us thirty oe cents IN
the dollar. When the war closed, besides
these Bonds the Government had outstand
ing large quantities of Greenbacks and
other paper, bearing DO interest. AS ii
had no interest to pay on this part of its
debt it ought, for the sake Of the taz-pay
ers, to have been kept in that shape. They
have, however, Systematically converted il
into these interest-bearing Bonds. What
would be thought of man who owed 8
thousand dollars in such a form as that il
bore no interest, who should voluntarily
change it into debt bearing interest, sc
that he would, in addition to the princi
pal, have to pay annually sixty dollars al
, interest?
Again, while these debts were in tht
shape of green backs, they rendered money