Standard of union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 183?-18??, August 20, 1841, Image 2

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trovagaot appropriations had ntrt been made, surh as $25,000 to Mrs. Harrison, and many others, not called for by tlic exigencies of tlic country, there would have . been no occasion for this oiierous increase of the | tar iff. Hut who that is acquainted with the course of the Reformers in Geergia, could expect any thing better : from them, in Cougre»s? They promised the people reform, retrenchment, and relief—and then declared j “THEY OUGHT NOT, IF THEY COULD,” and doublet! our taxes; and the same course »«s naturally to beex- 0 EMO C R ATIC REPUBLICAN N 0 MIN ANON.jpe.ted of them, at Washington. * Should we not be thankful to tin* Recorder, (brine fol- if the vast amount of expense fcad not been incuredl flying colors. Rut gentle rentier, just look at the which is required for the payment of the members, andj proceedings of Congress—examine all the appro ver incidental expenses of tie Session—if tlic ex-! priatious. and yon will find that although Mrs. Har fflffLLEDGKVILLK : FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20. F«»R GOVERNOR. charlks j. McDonald, AND RELIEF. ri.*on received §25,000—although the Nobles of the land may get a mammoth Hank, and the federalists may get a N itionnl Debt; although the Northern manufactures may get a protective Tariff, to swell their gains, and beggar the South, the Cherokee vol unteers will never get paid for their “ dead horses” through the agency of Mr. Dawson—and that opin ion is now r becoming verv prevalent among intelli gent men of all parties. Finding that the “ dead horse” whoop was raised a little before they had gotten out of the woods, that subject has been suddenly dropped, and the public put upon a new cent. They have found it too slow, to and twenty five rents when it is duty free, and giviagj A New Difficulty.—The Postmaster Gen**,! one dollar and fifty cents, w hen it is taxed; and this is has at last got himself into a pretty scrape. J| ( , '.j! termined to remove the Democratic Posti, asirat Madison, Indiana ; but as usual, there were a sc^ ;j f Whig applicants for the oflice. Unwilling »t a |^ the responsibility of disappointing any of t|,se hn n . giy aspirants, Mr. Granger requested that a ♦'lection might be held in the county, and lie wou-l appoint the bnmbuggery of the party which promised so much of reform, retrenchment, and releif. There are other very important items in the Tariff bi'l refered to, which we shall shortly bring before the people, by which it will he seen that Mr. Dawson is identified widi the Trriff party. FEDERAL—WHIG AUDACITY. From tht Richmond Whig. “ We invoke the Whigs of the House, to whom I lowing respectful, and kind admonition.'' * We would i keep him up in the rare which he is running over the j recommend to the Standard, respectfully and kindly, Georgia course, and his friends have deemed itadvisa- j to reconsider his opinion” fee. Whal opinion? I he j h!e to give afresh impetus to his movements, by opinion that the tariff hill for which Mr. Nisbet voted, i mounting him upon a t ail car ; and in furtherance of i is an act of oppression upon the people? Iftheyde-jof that arrangement, it has been announced with a j sire our recantation in that regar l, they w ill never get j grand flourish, that upon the passage of the late Tar- it, for we do believe, it to lie, out, among the most out- j iff hill through the House, he had done a wonderful . , , - , , , . . .. I rageotis acts of the present Congiess, and stands proir,-1 service to the State, bv exempting rail road iron from the people have confided their interest and honor, to - ° - - - 1 ... ° * ~ 1 ° ... ... . . i j* * .a , • f a ... . . . , luciit for tts flagrant miustice. extinguish forth with tins firebrand thrown into their ■ . c i : ,r. n.. rr i i . , r - . . . , ; In return for the advice so respectfully offered us by midst by the Loco r oco faction. Arrest w ith a!. ,, , . , , , ' , , , ' . i i ,i i- .... m r, . ! the Recorder, we take leave to suggest, that when ibex strong hand the m ichiuaiions of tins fallen Faction—; , ... . . 7? , , , * . . ° t ... again charge us with otmi«'*.ns which thev may deem bent only on public mischief—and perfect (and do it i 5 . , r 1 . ,' " , ■>. , * ! • i i \ .i i • i r i • ■ i 1 ' adverse to llie public *’.’eal, to be fortified with proof to quickly) the legislation for winch they were convened. - 1 * 1 i o them the country looks—;t will hold them respott-; rp, • . ... . , , sible not only for w hat is done, bat for what is left tin-i question begins to annoy our neighbors; done. Tlic people have put the Loco Focos under : and altho the tariff leader in Congress, Mr. Fillmore them; they are their oversees, and it is their duty to \ of New York, declared that the 'Fariff on Tea and their villiana s—to lash them into good beha- ! CCff * e « >s/o runniugly dcvi-cd, that the people would <]...« i laa : ..... . -ii i • , , ! not know it, d thev were not told, yet there are those —or if that he impossible, to cut their claws and j w|)0 wiI , tell t | lc » - •- .. . a!' zv,. . cut to nns- j p ii tir n on tlieui ! *°"°' vers *^ essl upon 'em, | ^ of t | je p PO p| L . are too intelligent not to know the dif ference between getting six pounds of coffee fora dol lar now, and five pounds, when the tariff which these gentlemen supported, shall go into operation. curb 'four—oru matue nnpns:., u .., W n» S u llU| , , „ . . ... *■«» lllcir faags .Hat thev mat- he imimtct to „.i s . j ”'‘ 0 " Mr ‘ F,l,,nor< ;- chief! Put the gag and thuml.-scre.s I fo,lu “ e,s 1,es ’ rs - ' ,slx,: nl,d I’'-"* 1 "' deceived, and hold them fast ’till it thunders.!” We offer no comment upon the afbove. It is the offsprig of whig principles and whig violence, and only shews what that party would do, if it dared. The Richmond whig is the most able and influen tial paper of the federal party, South of the Poto mac. THE RECORDER. The strongest evidence which we have seen of the panic which is spreading among the coon skin parly in Georgia, is to lie found in the article of the Iasi Re corder, in relation to Mr. Nhbcl and the Tariff. Our readers are aware, that we have been pressing Air. Nisbcl upon the Tariff question, as well as Mr. Dawson; and dial they, with nearly all of the Georgia delegation, did vote for that most unjust, unequal, and o inoxious Tariff hill, w hich recently passed the House, ever hotly knows, and the Recorder cannot deny ; hut for the purpose of breaking the force of our re marks, and turning away the public indignation from Air. Nisbet, particularly, the Recorder charges us, yes charges ns, who have been—Democrats all the days of our lives, ami uncompromisingly opposed to the measures of old John Adams, to federalists and feder al! sin, with being “in favor of supporting the govern ment, by the old John Adams plan of direct taxation.” This wc deny, as gratuitous and unfounded, and challenge the Recorder, and all the world besides, to prove, that we have ever, by word or deed, favored the “old John Adams plan of direct taxation.” The Recorder knows better, hut Air. Nisbet was “/'/* a tight pluce,” and must be gotten out, “some hotr, or some hair else.” “ What can our neighbor or the Standard be driv ing at now, by assailing Mr. Nisbet, because he is the advocate of the old and uniform mode of raising the taxes for the necessary purpose of the government, by tariff duties on imports? Is the Standard in favor of supporting the government, by the old John Adams plan of direct taxation? There are only two mode-, the indirect tax, to be paid as advocated l y Air. Nis- PUFF 1IIM—PUFF HIM. If the whig Editors and letter writers were just ! permitted to have their own way, Air. Dawson would ! lie very soo i puffed into the greatest man in the na- ; tion. j They speak of his transcen'ent talents, and his mighty influence in Congress, and elsewnere, as if no body knew him but tlicm-elves. They puffed him at onetime, far a seal in the cabinet—at another, fora Foreign mission, and thirdly, for speaker of the House of Representatives, and talked of these mat ters with as much apparent confidence, as if it war- based upon even the shawdow of reality—Well! He was not placed in the Cabinet.—He was not sent upon a Ibreign mission—and he was not made Speaker; although the humbug part of the Speakership was very dextrou.-ly play ed off upon him, by the Ken tucky Dictator. Util had lie even possessed the qual ifications for that station, Mr. Clay did not intend to bestow it upon him ; not because he could not con fide in his principles—not because lie did not consid er him sufficiently federal, in bis views in regard to a National Rank, a National Debt, and a Tariff,) .... ...... but because he knew the people of Georgia to he Re- ! . W bON bel, ‘ >ve<l "* l!,c unconstitulionah- publicans, and that the timecoukl not he distant, when j ol a ^* a,,k » "’I'™ ,,e a resolution in the Sen- tlie force of their opinions would be brought to hear I a,C ^ Jt ‘ or g‘ a > '•* 1334, that a United States Lank taxation. Upon that subject, the Southern Recorder discourses as follows, in a letter of one of the Editors from Washington. “To Mr. Dawson the credit is due, for having rail road iron excepted from duty. This will likely' save to Georgia alone, §100,000 or more, by the time the present works in progress are completed.” We ask, emphatically, what man iri his sober sen ses, will ascribe the honor and glory of exempting rail road iron to Air. Dawson? when it is kuown, to have been heretofore, generally, if not uniformly ex empt, and w hen, from the deep interest w hich most of the States have taken in the construction of rail roads, no hill to tax rail road iron, could tie passed in Con gress ? And yet, in the face of ail this, Air. Dawson is to run away with the credit of doing a thing that he could nut have prevented, if his life had been at stake. » But where is the evidence of his mighty efforts to exempt rail road iron from taxation. We have read no speech, we have seen no debate, in which lie has reflected peculiar honor upon himself, or entitled him self to the appellation of a public benefactor, ill the premises. And so etuis another of the humbugs by which it has been attempted to puff Mr. Daw son into impor tance, and to secure for him, the office of Governor, at the coining election. In conclusion, we may he permitted to ask the friends of Air. Dawson, what service he rendered to the people, upon the uiicoii-titutionul and outrageous donation of §25,000? And wliat lie was doing when that iniquitous hill to distribute the proceeds of the public lauds, was passing through the House? or how he can look the people of Georgia in the face, alter voting for a tariff to drag ten or twelve millions from the pockets of the South ? not to mention the Rank hill which t ides rough shod over State sov ereignty, and claims tlie right to set up corporations within their limits, without their consent ? THE SUGAR AND SALT TAX. AIr. Dawson voted to lav a Tariff Tax upon su gar, of 20 per cent. *1 k embraced in the same bill which Taxes Tea, C«iffee, coarse woolens blankets kc. The aristocracy think sugar is too sweet for poor folks—therefore they Tax it as a luxury. This is another item of tlic relief wdiicn was prom ised in 1840. But what will the people think of his voting for a Tax on SALT? Is salt also a luxury? It would seem that the w higs in’end to make it so, by laving a Tax on it, to the tune of 20 per cent. the candidate who gol the majority of thr People 0 „ his side. Well, an election was held Six U |,j^ • an, but no choice was made; anolhr trial among THREE Whigs resulted in iirx choice,Alien a com^ took place between ONE Whig and t-’e present I) cm . ncratic incumbent, and the latter ,ot a majority 0 f 127 votes! We are curious to km« how Air. Gran, ger w ill get over this difficulty .—deck. Jtff, rsoviet. The proposal of Mr. Allen, made in the Senate 0 f the United States, that all executive business, except such as relates to treaties, slould be transacted with open doors, strikes us as perfectly reasonable. In our relations with foreign nations there may sometimes be reasons of pdicy, of public safety Jr public interest, which forbiJ an immediate disclosure of the deliberations of the Senate acting as the Pres ident’s council. Rutin regard to home affiiis, cer tainly no such reason can exist. The people’ who elect the Senate ought to know precisely in w hat man ner each member has comported himself, what he lias said, and bow he lias voted. It is a principle of our institutions not to g.ve power without exacting re sponsibility ; hut this privilege of secret deliberation and secret voting, confers power upon the individual member without making him answerable for its exer cise. Pow er thus exercised, is neither more nor less than tyranny. The Squalor, speaking and voting in secret, may commit the most flagrant and wanton in justice ; he may assail men’s characters with the grossest slanders , lie may give the most capricious votes; yet no man out of the body to whom lie be longs, though they may see the effect of his profliga cy, shall know w ho has perpetrated it, nor shall he he held accountable to those who confer upon him the ircle of -e- They begin up this way, to talk a great deal about I Cm - V ’ « complete and uncontrollable a despot the October election, and I think 1 met about three! a . S 0,, ? an ?. , " l»^‘verJived—as any member of more for- Forihe Stand.ml of Union. The following extract from a correspondent of the Savannah Republican, shews for what purpose the whigs are supporting Mr. Dawson. They want him to windtip the Centr'd Rink, the peoples institution, ami if that is done, «>f course to sue every one, and make a great harvest for the Lawyers. The writer says the Rank is insolvent and corrupt, and the people must he taxed to pav its debts, and that the loco focos have stolen the money of the Rank. If lie knows tiiese facts, why dont lie expose tin* robbers and have them punished. It srtikes me, that Air. Dawson wont thank this writer for his intended kindness, hut presuming that he knows better w hat are the present views of the par ly, than Air. D. can, being at Washington, 1 take it for granted, that it is the policy of the w higs, to destroy the Central Rank, aad sue every man, who owes it a dollar. People of Georgia, stand bv your institution! BALDWIN. *• The Central Bank currency is considered the best, all say they would not have that, if they could get any thing else. Thev say the people have got to, and nmst redeem this, and they may as well begin now,! ,HMU \ u,,,ua ‘ J I ,e u> , l,,ose 1 comt r "P as wait to he driven to it. j ver - v a " ,b ? r, V l,e ab " ses - . U ll1 "" ‘ The position of the Whig pa tv at th : s moment i s well calculated to make every reflecting man and enquire.—A. Y. Courier ( ff'hig.) We think so too.—Hurt. Tunes, ( Whig.) pause .• October election, andl chink linctnbo.it three i “ "J? ""S* 1 *,! 1 * lt<* c-er .ivrd—as any tes ns many Whigs ns Loco Foes. The. nl! say i "'.'.'.V'TI"" ''“,"",“ ,5 Fe "' aml ele, ‘ ll,e ... r.. i* i .1 nr, • *. mutable Council of 1 hree. times tiny are going to vole for Dawson, h >tli Whigs and • ... .... Locos, for they say if they only put Dawson in as I t *'. r,;,,n ! ’ h "\ tl,e , h, * Ueii ,!c J ree , ot state Governor, they will be able to 'wind up ti.e Centra! ! n ^' ss,t - v ^njust.fy such a depart lire from the spirit Bank, redeem the credit of the State, and bv this We b( > ai>t tliat < )l,r officers are means let GEORGIA be herself again. The'y say ° Ur a " C " ,S ’ a,,( " , ' t ° l,r n . ,ast, ’f S ' iut WC mabe , " em they expect to be taxed, to raise funds to pav the debts T '"T”*, " " fr,VC ‘ ,he,, I 1 lc;,ve t0 , W,t,,dn V v . | ... . themselves from onr superintendence, and to act in ol that well known tnsolrcnl and corrupt institution i , , ... , , „„i „n a,, „ • ,| . . mi i • i i l darkness, allowing us only to see what is done, but and all they fear is, that the tax will lie levied unequal- !.. .. ° . r i„ . I. , ... , P1 7 | hiding from us the doer. \\ e make them our mas- ly and not oil all classes alike. They seem to have . , 4 , . . . , , . . .. • -,i n •’ - , , ters when we give them authority to do anv thing for taken a notion that it wiil all come out ol the plan- ^ . 4 * „ .... . r , which we cannot call them to account. It is (or this ters, when it ought to he so fixed as to come mostly! . , ( . . , . .... .. c . , r» . i J I reason that we should tie glad to see the limits of si- out ol those who owe the Central Bank the most, or • l- .* i • i i . . I,. . , . crcsv m executive business narrowed as much as pus- u ho have had ihe most extensive accommodations. „ , . | . i i i .-it silile. »V e see no reason, for example, why all one? 1 hey think it unequal and unjust lor the poor fellows palpably and effectively upon Mr. Dawson, and the whole Georgia delegation. Under this view of the subject, Mr. Dawson wo$ not the man for Air. Clay, and accordingly, he took up one, upon witont lie could rely implicitly, to execute his commands, and whose constituents would he more likely to sustain him. Hence John White of Kentucky, was selected, and Mr. Dawson w as put off, w ith tie empty applause of magnanimously yielding to tie wishes of his | party. All these high expectations liaviig failed, it was I found necessary to do something to recommend : bet, or by direct taxes, as pursued in the times of John ||j t u { 0 t| ie confidence and support of the people of Adams; and as the Standard reprobates Air. Nisbet*s - - views, he must of course be in favor of the other. It is very strange that at this day, onr neighbor should become the advocate of the old explored system of raising taxes directly on the productions of the far mers of the country; a system which fastens on the country, and in every State and county, a whole ar my of supervisors and United States tax gatherers, to the utter annoyance of our population, at a tenfold ex pense to the people, and which by over-running the j courage the hope that the volunteers were to he paid was unconstitutional and impolitic, and voted accor dingly. His party have repudiated tlie doctrine that such a Bank was constitutional. Now, suppose the Legislature of Georgia, at its next session, should be in fin or of the establishment of a National Bank, and a branch in this State, upon the ground that the mother Batik, and every thing connected with it, was constitutional, and suppose that Mr. Dawson should he in the Executive chair, (which we admit is hardly a supposahle case) would he veto a hill, or resolution, declaratory of such sen timents ? And what would be his position if he did not apply the veto power ? To please die coon shins, lie must go in favor of the I nd all. To act consistently, he ; advocate the nnawsfitidiona/ilt/. who have never been favored with a loan or discount, to be taxed, and made to assi>t in refunding what those Loco Focos (Democrats as they call themselves,) have stolen. There will be no mistake about Dawson leading McDonald 5000 votes, at least, and if you on the seaboard only keep still'necks, all w iff be straight as a shingle on that point in October.” BALDWIN. Georgia ; and the plan was therefore adopted, of giv- „ .v ’.. . . .. * b Bank, branches a mg hnn all the credit, of every measure in Congress, ’ , , : ., t ? . must continue to w hich Ins friends were pleased to cm.- d r for the in- , , - . . . . .... . . ... .! and therefore deny to Congress the right to charter terest of the people, or out of winch, they believed .... * ° - • .... * •' i * . . , J ; such an institution, political capital could be made. ... .. . . s \< n.„, i r n,, c \ , r , „ . . . „i Now, who is in a predicament here r Air IJ\W- Thc first move was, a puff upon the “ dead horse , , / , . , , ,, , . . r i »*r r* . ! SON, or the coon skin legislature, who would be so question. A report from the War Department—or; , ’ - . ; 'L,.,, ... ... - 1 clamorous for a Bank. Will our neighbors tell us rattier an extract of a report, was published in some ,,, . e . . .. , • ' ’ . r . ... . We hope so. of the leading whig papers, containingnotmng to en- ! 1 lions of the appointment of public officers should nos be discussed and voted upon in open session. It will be said that if this were to lie the case, the Seiwtnp might be deterred from acting according to the con viction of his conscience by the fear of awakening hitler personal enmities. But he is no more exposed to this danger than the President of the United States Idmselfi must he. The President is compere I to re- ject solicitations for oflice by thotisaiu s y t the law , . , , , , -. ,, does not think it necessary to interfere to secure hii.i At a meeting of Merchants and others, friendly to I , . . * ... ... , ° , - , . , . , from personal enmities, if a candidate nominated: a sound currency, held in tins place, on Wednesday,: . ' , , , .. , ... , , .... «> o ii ii i ' to an office be rejected lor any charge of misconduct, the lltninst. I Itomas i>. btubbs, t«sq. was called to ........ . . , . . . ' , , , . , ... , o it is fmt tost that he should know ol what tie isaccus- the chair, and Doctor W m. G. Little, appointed sec-; . . .. , . .. . . , ,r ed anrt be allowed to prove his muecence, to the . . . , . , • world at least. 3 1 lint .Mr. Allen is behind the age in his de-ire t;e t conform the practices of the Senate to iIip principles . r . of |iopuf:ir liberty. We are travelling iit the other inclemency ol the .. 1 r . direction ; instead ol giving greater publicity to the proceedings of public bodies, and making their mem- re t ary. The object of the mectin the following resolutions was offered and unanimous ly adopted. Resolved, That owing to the weather, this meeting do adjourn over until Saturday, 21st inst. at 3o’clock, P. M. at which time the Plan- t : . i i . .i ' . t„ • . hers more completely accountable to the people, »e ters, Mecli tines, Merchants, and all others interested; ... ' • L ,..- . . c are contriving metiiods to hale their doings Iron) tte tr in the circulation ol a sound currency in our btate, are invited toateud. land with these excise officers, forms a perfect army of dependents on the federal government, and is directly conflicting, if it would not overthrow the influence of the States. Surely our neighbor has not reflected on this subject, or has given an imperfect and unguarded judgment in regard to it. We would recommend to the Standard respectfully and kindly, to reconsider his opinion; and we have but little doubt, that further re flection will make lum recant opinions which are so much opposed to the feelings, the good sense, and the interests of our people. But if the Standard is determined to make war through, Air. Nisbet, on the good old system under which the country lias so long and so greatly pros pered, why then we will only add, “lay on AlacdtifT,” and let the people judge who strikes the hardest blow's.” It is not by the perversion of facts, iucontrivertible, lor their losses, but ou the contrary, containing char- j THE TEA TAX—AND AIR. DAWSON. ges of fraud and corruption upon the whole army,! Our fathers went to war with Great Britain, to officers and men This report was attacked, as j throw off llie Tea Tax, and Air. Dawson has voted; fraught with injust and unfounded charges against ; for a Tariff bill to Tax Tea. our gallant volunteers, and in tiie ibsence of informa- He lias gone farther, to vote for a tax upon Cr>F- : tion to the contrary, was charged to the present Sec- j FEE, by which, as soon as tin* hill goes into operation, retaryof War, Air. Bell. Nnsooier was Mr. Bell’s! and that may be shortly, a dollar will hu}’ just one name mentioned in connexion w th the report, than ! pound less, than it does now; and Tea in tlie same out popped the whig papers, w ith wliat they consid- proportion — 1 **— ‘ “ r —*- 4 releif. He has at the same time, voted to exempt jewelry— j flue watches, breast pins—gold chains, and all these extravagant ornaments of the rich entirely from taxa- j tion, w hile the poor man is compelled to pay TWENTY , TER CENT, upon his Tea and coffee. Let the people look at these things, and remember that this is the same Mr. Dawson, who talked last year, so pathetically, abont the “SHERIFFS HAMMER.” We received a few days since, through the polite ness of Air. Dawson, a copy of Air. Fillmore’s Speech upon the Tariff' hill. Air. Fillmore is a Northern Federalist, and a w arm advocate of a high protective Tariff, and his opinions are a very certain index of the Tariff' party. We have read ilie speech, and and that is another act of reform and erod the astounding disclosure, that the report w a not made by Air. Bell, but by his predecessor, Air. Poinsett, and almost split their sides with laughter, to think how, with the assistance of Air. Dawson’s running, they had trapped the Democratic Editors. They seemed to satisfy themselves, that because the report was made by Mr. Poinsett, that Air. Dawson was wholly released and acquitted of his promise to obtain pay for the “ dead horses,” and w a§ accord ant members of Congress are to he justified in selling; inglv applauded for his unsuccessful efforts in their their constituents to the Tariff* party. Lis not by | behalf. But we replied, if the report was made by perpetrating an outrage upon our principles and our Air. Poinsett, so much the worse for Air. Dawson, actions, that Mr. Nisbet is to he sustained in Taxing j It proved that he had slumbered over the claims of the clothing, tlic blankets, the Tea, and the coffee, cU the volunteers, and had taken no steps to wipe out the poor laboring man, to raise money to waste upon ' the stain which Air. Poinsett had cast upon them. this illegitimate session of Congress, aad to squander That if he was truly their friend, and had taken up' were forcibly struck with the following remarks: $25,000 to make the rich, richer, and the poor poor-J their claims in good faith, lie should have taken mea- I “We can hardly justify ourselves in Taxing the 1 er—a Tax to put eight dollars a day into his own 1 sures as soon as the new cabinet came in, to have the i necessary food and clothing of the poor man, both of pocket; to pay himself some TWELVE HUNDRED DOL- report of Air. Fo n ett re-examined, and a countcrone 1 w hich are indespensihle to sustain life, and still ex- LARS; for eighty or ninety days service in this most made by Air. Bell, in accordance with the justice oU empt TEA ami COFFEE. Let us also consider uncalled for Session, while thousands, and tens of the rase. Has Air. Dawson done this? No. And that the duties on these articles, by the proposed bill, thousands, of the liouest and industrious people of w hy has he not ? Because he cither believes in the are so light, that those who luxuriate over a good cup Georgia, who have been laboring and sweating in ! truth of Air. Poinsett’s report, or he has been wilful- their fields, at their forges, aud work shops, for the 1 lv, and culpably negligent of his duty, and hispledg- same period, and who have not seen five dollars iu ' es to the volunteers. money during all that time, while he, Air. Nisbet, j Our own view of the subject is this—that he ought lias been luxuriating at Washington City, faring to have introduced a bill in Congress, containing an sumptuously every day. And because, we have ex- appropriation to pay the Florida volunteers for l»or- ercised the independence to disclose these things to the ses lost in that service, and th ti to have had their people, we are accused of favoring the views of oU j claims canvassed, and to have stood up like a man in ■ will never know it,” and it would not be justifiable to John Adams. ! their defence—hut the beginning and end of all his . tax “llie necessary food and clothing of the poor man, : Away with such stuff. We are as much in favor of i labors amount to a short resolution upon the War De- j and still exempt Tea and Coffee.” This is going up- j collecting a revenue to support an economical gov- ! parttnent, which brought out the famous report of Air.! on the principle, (hat if you rob a man of one half of; ernment as the Recorder, «>r any one else, but we do Poinsett, and the publication of a jnirt of that report, i his means, it would be very injust, not to take the mg constituents. At the proem session a rule un adopted, prohibiting the calling of the yeas ami nay- on amendment* to Bills before Congre-s. By thi- in genious devise the members may vote down llie m< -t reasonable proposition a- fast as they are brought up. ami yet the constituent* of each individual member may he kept perfectly ignorant of the part lie is ta- | kiiur. Air. Alien might ns well come into the Senate witfi a nuked hat ami p’usli breeches as w ill, hi- obsolete notions concerning the a< countability of public -.gents - ,, . , to the people, lie will soon find that lie is terribly of Rejireseutatives, and w hich will no doubt pass the . . , • ... i ia ,» 1 . ’ , , . • behind the reigning mode ; the dominant party nave Senate, is a whig measure, aud adopted, at least in ... , • ■ . , . , .. . i - i . .. 1 ’ rv-i * . -.r no sympathy wiili his notions; lie mu-t wait a year or the House, exclusively bv whig votes. I his tariff ;• . - . , • n is . • two till the fashion changes.— Lmmng rust. bill, which purports to be lor revenue, is the entering ; ° w«i 8 e for a protective tariff., the session of j w , he auenlio „ „ f rM(J ,. r ,|,e Congress, fins is one of the relief measures so pom- ^ of a . n)emb( . r fro ,„ ,„ diana . , V . admire Resofreit, That all die editors of our city be re spectfully requestod to published in their respective papers the above proceedings, so that the planters and people at large, may have due notice. The meeting then adjourned. THOMAS B. STUBBS, Chair’n. Wji. G. Little, Sec’ry. THE TARIFF BILL. The tai ifi’bill which has recently passed the House pously and repeatedly promised by the w higs during die political contest of last year. Coffee and Tea are taxed by the bill: two articles of consumption in the country which have become necessaries of life, and indispensable to the enjoyment of all classes of our citizens, rich aud poor. By this bill the revenue will be increased ten millions of dollars. The people of the independence of Air. Profit.—Constitufioealisf. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Aug. I.ltMI. Afessrs. Gales & Seaton: I ask a smally space in your columns to explain a vote given by me on the passage of the hill “relative to duties and draw-hack-, ami which vote is liable to mirepresentation I voted this country will recollect the bills have already pass- i for the passage of the bill merely to have an opportu- ed, to distribute the proceeds of the sales of the pub- j nit v to move a reconsideration and on that motion to lie lands among the states, to borrow twelve millions ' express my dissent from many of it, provisions, liav- of dollars, and to increase the public expenditures to! ing been cut off from saying a word or offering an an extraordinary extent. Let the people recollect all amendment in the House by the operation of the pr<- tliis, and compare with the promises made last year ! vious question. I was disappointed even in that, an- of an economical administration of the government, | other gentleman obtaining the floor, moving a recon- of immediate aud efficient relicffrom embarrassments I sideration, and again calling the previous question and pecuniary pressure. of Tea or Coffee, will never know it. This is the way, the Federal—Tariff party arc try ing “to pull wool over the peoples eyes,” by so dis guising there object, that people will he made to bear a heavy burden without finding it out. Just listen at the audacity of this federal blood sucker. “He says those who luxuriate over a good cup of Tea or Coffee j King, Meriwether, Nisbet, and Warren, voted for the In the passage of this tariff hill in the House of Representatives there is something very remarkable, which the people of the south cannot fail to notice. Tlic yeas amounted to 116, and the nays to 101.— Among the yeas not one democratic member is to he found; hut we regret to find that of the Georgia Delegation, Alessrs. Dawson, Gamble, Habersham, denounce, and will continue to denounce that policy 1 in some of the whig papers of Georgia ; although it which wantonly, and unjustifiably creates the necessity has been since announced, that he had carried an for a Tax, and then scores it on to the people, without i appropriation through the House, for that object, and mercy and without measure. j that the “dead horses” would he soon paid for. A Let the Recorder distinctly understand, that it is i shout was raised upon the occasion, and “ hurrah for Dot to the mode of laying on the lax, that we object, j Mr. Dawson,” was the order of the day ; and some j are such fools, that they cannot tell the difference be bat to The AMOUNT; and the circumstances under; people, we dare say, were soft enough to take it for J tween getting six pounds of coffee fora dollar, when w hich the burdens of the people arc to be increased. ! granted, and to set it down as true, that Mr. Dawson | it is free of duty, and five pounds for a dollar—when If this extraordinary Session had rot h’en convener’; would come out of the "dead horse” scrape, with ! it is taxed—or getting a pound of Tea for oue dollar balance. But here comes the conclusion. “These are du ties which will never be felt by the consumer. Were he not told of it, he irouUl never tnwic it.” This is takiug the broad ground, that the people bill ; Mr. Foster was absent. Among the nays, the 85 democratic members present are to he found, with 16 whigs, among them Mr. At.FoRD, who deserves the thanks of his constituents for this vote. From Virginia 7 whigs voted for the bill; from South Car olina, the only whig representative voted for it, Air. William Butler; and from North Carolina, 6 whigs voted for the bill. The bill could not have passed if the southern whigs had voted against the bill as they should have done.—Aug. Constitutionalist. 1 I was in favor of imposing duties on the luxuries, not on the necessaries of life. Tht* hill was hurrie through the House with haste unprecedented in t ** annals of American legislation, and by a txratmira. exerci-e of power grossly violative of the oft-asserte principles of the Whig party. Not a single anunt ment of importance was allowed to he voted oil > veas and nays, and thus individual responsibility avoided. I thought that, if the majority were favora ble to all the provisions of the hill, the minority ougn to have been permitted to say a few words on imp^ taut amendments, or allowed the still more hum ^ privilege of recording their votes. I will not tre*p»- on your colnmns Ly giving in detail my objections the bill, or bv descanting on the dangerous . queuces of such ha*tv and inconsiderate action, liter will I express iny abhorrence of the : ntroducU°n of this system of “Alexican legislation” in a coa0 J boasting of its scrupulous regard for equity and J J These ate matters for discussion before t “■ The Tobacco exported form the U. States in the year ending 30th Sept, 1849, amounted to $9,894, 957. tice. People. Respectfully, yours, GEORGE K. PROFFIT.