The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-23

,so,s,,e,s sl,s soyAtar question: Cur rights
have been fraE1pied ons our very Dfea1 y !
taken from DIS by this oncrous tnxation. :, !,
air am r,rnsticai soystern1ans and Know tug
labor and hardsbips of thnt allfe. We nave,
70 face the cold blasts Of the western WINGS nc
and the driving spray of the oceans loan 70
sral,Ie me TO sustain our larniiies aud our own
lives. The people represent are as Pasrr
ntie M those from the valleys and mountains,
even Mt. Sinai itself; they fought, died, ana
HE'D for theIr country In the late war, Gnu
now YOU propose to crush them down wIIn
vour onerOus taXations. You have as mucl
r;rbt to tax the birds in Shenandoah ahu
Fauauier counties as you have 10 taA sno
oysters. If you tax one tax the other. lou
saw they all belon. to the State. In ques-
tions that did not comprehend, Mr. sPsAh x,
Err, during the last session, always Foseu
with those intelligent gentlemen who aIo'
| I followed that party which looked 10 the
| best.interest Of the State. Yes, sir "heh
the bondbolders swarmed around thS cap
| itoI last session like Joshua and his army
around the gates of Jericho. the "oystefme1
stood by them and fought to the last diten )
but now they are, going back on u.s.
| and want to tax our very iite-Dioou'
| There are some gentlemen here VINO thlnh
they know all about the oyster. NOW, siI'
| will tell a few facts that no man can 9'ih.
saw. be he a. Solomon, Jeremiah, OF
Daniel, If q man plant fifteen hunareu
bushels of oysters he is fortunateii ne rear
;zo eirht.bundred bushels therefrom. Ihere
| il n disease among oysters known as Tie
| oreen oiH which is more destructive 10 toen
at times than the smallpox would be III tnls
House flor | believe everybody has bee y,
| vaccinated), Let us have the old oyster olli
rather than this burdensome, hateful, con-
| temptible one. 1:o,,rr,
Mr, CARTER refuse to yield, MIR. SPEAK
Err. The wicked wish to flee when no man ll
pursuetb. Laughter AS. l said, sir, tn.s
fax on our livelihood is monstrouS, Is UNJUST
and VIC will not submit 10 1t. UnWlsc leSSls-
lltion is n bad thing to start, and this House
has already started il. If this Is persisted III
the tidewatermen will leave the State. .,
IMr. CARTER here told an anecuote Illus
trative of the situation
Mr., GRIFFITH: Dir. SPEAKER, L call the
member from Northampton to ORDER. lie l.
not combining himself to the question.
The CHAIR The point is not well taken.
Dir. CARTER: Mr.. SPEAKER, my speech may
not be so eloquent and rhetorical as thai one
delivered by the gentleman from We$fmofe-
land some days ago, when he spoke in sucn
eloquent language of the Formidable pn'-
lanx of the mountains and the valleys" but
it has as much common sense. Laughter!
As was saying. sir, if you insist on this bill
as 1t ia, with its burdensome and unjust TAX,
I will advise my constituents to go to Mary
land, where they can get their rights. DIS
miss this bill and let lis have the old one as
it now is, and the State will reap much
larger revenue. My people are not
going to submit to this iniquitous tax, ana
If you impose it, there will be worse
war than war of words. Why will yen
not send this bill back to the committee
Are you afraid to trust it to an investigation:
This bill calls for the last pound of flesh, ana
the last drop of blood, aud tell you, sr, we
won't stand it, We are determined to hynt
this bill from Gully to turn'p patch:
We have as much "gas" as the mountain
men, and intend to use it.
Mr.. CARTER concluded with some rather
severe animadyersions on the illiberallty, as
he termed it, OF the mountain men, ana hopea
the House would dismiss the bill. /.
The pending question, being to reconsider,
was then put and rejected.
On motion of Mr.. RDDLEBAKGER, the Holse
adjourned at p. NJ.