The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-04-23


pendituro Of the public money,
\ 10 Senate Executive Document No 10
on page Is, we find that the Secretary o
the Treasury tells US that there has beer
expended for public works from June 80
+ 1865, to June 80, 1873, in the six New
England States, Sl9, lSG,GO2 80; in tn,
I've Middle States S2l lS0 1891; Will,
during the same period thOrc was only c1
pended in the States of Virginia, Yves
Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgu, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
Louis lna, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri
Kentucky, and Tennessee the sum Of 80,
1Sl,5OG.5l There has been expended
in my own State, West Virginia, the smal
sum Of S. 5,OO425, while during the sanC
period she has paid into the national TrOs'
Sury for internal revenue tho sum of SG,.
255 COG l6 Is such legislation just ahd
equal? y, but We arc told that this inter.
ual.revenuO tax is upon the Injuries, such
as tobacco This Isl great lallaOy 1t is
direct tax upon the labor, The industry
of the people Go into tho tobacco folds
on hot broing day aud ask tho tobacco.
raiser ii he the labor in which he is cnga.
ged Is luxury, But this urjuss lCgisla.
ton doeS not stop here Tho tobpcCo
raiser is not even permitted 10 sell bis to.
bacco in the leaf to bis country merchant
for the nccessalies, of life unless Il tx-is
frst paid; he candot sell il tl the sheriff to
pay his taxes!
Nor is this ALL. We find by tho Report
Of the Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
for the year 1868, pgo S2l, that there
was collected from the cotton growing
States as tOx upon raw colton for tho
years 1896, 1867, and 1868. tue tnor.
nous sum $Gi, go G8l SO by law us
oppressive, tyrOnnical, aud unconstitution.
al MS ever passed legislative body,
There Is also now lying in the Treasury
of the United States the sum Of $l4, 4lO,.
40 II, the proceeds of the salcs Of capIur.
cd nod abandoned property 10 which tho
Government lays no claim
There is now due from tho United
States and passed to the credit Of the va.
rious southern contractors for carrying the
mails before the war the sum of S3tl,.
O7S 81, and there is as much moro duo
that has not as yot bccn examined, This
amount Of nearly 100000 thus faf has
been virtually cOufsCatcd 10 view Of all
these facts that have thus hurdodly
grouped IS9geAcr is isNanysgoudT the
4 le,s.j \ *; J. n, ,ll liinil -,
should Be such al1aiyersaElemaOd Tor ro.
flicf; formOro money; for Initiation, il you
please?
One more instance Of this partial aud
oppressive legislation, We have hereto
fore saown'that during the years 1866
1867, aud 1868, when tue South was i'm.
povcrshed.almost to to starvation, n Tax
was imposed upon raw cotton, By which in
those three years there was collected from
the SoHtberp people The enormous SUN Of
SCI ,G70,6Sl So! Yet by the same. law,
when the Northern manufacturer had man-
uIactured this same cotton into fubrics aud
exported it out of the country, he was al
lowed drawback equal to the amount Of
this tai imposed. Yctno drawback was
allowed tho producer il heexportcd The
practical operation Of such a law was simp.
iy to transfer this SC4,G70, ,6Sl So from
the pockets Of the impoverished southern
producer 10 the pIeiboric pockets Of the
northern manufacturer
| 1t seems to Inc that the present contest
stands thus Tho moucyed power holds in
its clutches the natioDal.Uauk circulation
aud the legal tenders they owe no one
they have nothing to sell; hollands, wheat,
corn, cotton, tobacco or cattle. On tho
other hand VIC have the landed interest,"
those who have lands, wheat, corn, tObac'
co, cotton, and cattle for salo
If We have greater circulation, more
money, the landed power aud the ngricuI'
tura interest will be benefited; they will
receive more for everything they have tc
sell. The contraclionSt, the monoyed
power, wiFhes to increase the value Of theil
dollar; to mako u given amount buy more
laud, cotton, tobacco. wheat and coru, and
TO compel the debtor to give moro of these
articles to them to pay their debts; and
they deuOuuce all as corrupt who will mol
aid them.
The contest which We now witness is nc
new struggle 1t took its rise immedi
ately after the formation Of our CoDstitu'
tion-the moneycd power under the lead
erShip Of Hamilton, and the landed inter.
est headed by their noble and trusted lead
cr Thomas Jefferson The contest is mos,
trutbfully and graphically described byc
President Van Buren 10 bis work cntitled
Political Parties in the United States.
No one is more desirous Of returning
10 specie or hard money standard than |
am; but that is impossible at this time and
under the present system Of national legis,
Ia,ion. A very radical change must take
place; aud no one will more checrfully as