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