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MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT. OF THE UNITED STATES. To the Senale and House of Representa tives of the United Slates, -Notwithstandingihe urgency with which 1 have on more than one occasion felt it my duty to press upon Congress the neces sity of providing the Government who the means f discharging its rights ami main taining inviolate the public faith, the in creasing embarrassments of the Treasury impose upon me the indispensable obliga tion of again inviting your most serious at tention to the condition of the finances.- Fortunately for myself, in thus bringing this important' subject to your earnest view for a deliberate ami comprehensive examin ation in ail its bearing, and, I trust 1 may add for a final a Ijusi-nent of it. to the com tnon advantage of the whole Union, I am permitted to approach it with perfect freedom and candor. As few of the bur dens for which provision 4s now required to be made, have been brought upon the roan-try dunng my short administration of its affairs, I have neither motive nor . wish to make them a matter of crimination against sinyofmy predecessors. I am disposed to regard, as I am -bound to treat them, as laets, which cannot now be undone and as deeply interesting to us all, and equally imposing upon all the most solemn duties, and the only use I would make of the er TOrs of the nast is, by a careful examination of their causes and character, to avoid if possihte a repetition of them in future. TJie condition of the country, indeed, is ruch as may well arrest the conflict of par ties. The conviction seems at length to liave made its way to the minds of all, that the disproportion between the responsibili ties the means provided for meeting them is no casual nor transient evil. It is, on the contrary, one which, for some years to come, notwithstanding a resort to all reasonable retrenchments, and the constant progress of the country in population and productive power, must continue to increase under existing laws, unless we consent to give up or impair all our defences in -war and peace. But this is a thought which 1 Tim persuaded, no patriotic mind would for a moment entertain. Without affecting an alarm which 1 do not feel in regard to our foreign relations, it may be safely affirmed that they are in a state too critical and in volve too many momentous issues, to per tnit os to neglect in the least, much less to abandon entirely, ihose means of asserting our rights, without which negotiation is without dignity and peace without security- In the Report of tire Secretary of the Treasury, submitted to Corgress at the commencement of the preseirt -session, it is estimated that, after exhausting all the pro bable n-sourccs of the year, there will re main & deficit oraboutl 1,000,00. Tt. With a view partly to a permanent system of revenue, and partly to immediate relief from actual embarrassment, that officer re commended, together with a plan for estab lishing a Government Exchequer, some expedients of a more temporary character, viz: the issuing of Treasury notes, and the extei sion of the time for which the loan authorized lobe negotiated by the act of the last session should be taken. Congress accordingly provided for an issue of Trea sury notes to the amount of 5.000,000. but subject to the condition that tliey should not be paid away below par. No measure connected with ihe last of the two objects above mentioned, was in troduced until recently into the House of Representatives. Should the loan bill now pending before that body pass into a law for its present amount, there would still remain a deficit of $2,500,000. li requires no argument to show that such a condition of the Treasury is incompatible not only with a high state of public ciedit, but with any thing approaching to efficiency in the conduct of public affairs. It must be obvi ous, even to the most inexperienced minds, that, to say nothing of any particular exi gency, actual or imminent, there should he at all times in the Treasury of a great na tion, with a view to contingencies of ordi nary occurrence, a surplus at least equal in amount lo the above deficiency- But that deficiency, serious as it would be in itself, will, I am compelled t say, rather be increased than diminished, without the adoption of measures adequate to correct the evil at once. The stagnation of irate and business, in some degree, incident to the derangement of the national finances, and the stale of the revenue laws, holds out but little prospect of relief in the ordi nary course of things lor some time to come. Under such circumstances, I am deeply impressed with the necessity of meeting the crisis with a vigor and decision which it imperatively demands at thj bands of all entrusted with ihe conduct of public affairs. The gravity of the evil calls for a remedy proportioned to it. No slight palliatives or occasional expedients will give the coun try the relief it needs. Such measures, or. the contrary, will, in the end, as is now manifest to all, too surely multiply its em barrassments. Relying as I a n bound to do, on the Representatives of a People rendered illustrious among nations by having paid off its whole public debt, I shall not shrink from the responsibility imposed upon ine by the Constitution of pointing out such measures a? will in my op-nion en sure adequate relief. I am jthe more en couraged to recommend the course which necessity exacts by the confidence which 1 have in its complete success. The resour ces of the country, i.i every thing that con stitutes the wealth r.ud stroi.gth of nations, are so abundant the spirit of a most in dustrious, enterprising and intelligent peo ple is so energel c and elastic' that the Gov ernment will be without the shadow of ex cuse for its delinquency, if the difficulties winch now embarrass it be not speedily and effectually removed.. Frn present indications, it is hardly doubtful that Congress will find it necessa ry to lay additional duties on imports, in order to meet the ordinary current expen ses of the Government. In the exercise of a sound discrimination, having reference to revenue, but at the same time necessarily aff irding incidental protection to maniif.4'; luring industry, it seems equally probable that duties 'm some articles of importation will have to be advanced above 20 per cent. In performing this important work of revis ing ttie tanffof duties, which in tlw present emergency would seem to be indispensa ble, I cannot too strongly recommend the cultivation of a sprnt of mutusl hrrmnny and concession, :o which the Government itself owes its origin, and without the con tinued exercise of which, jarring ad dis cord would universally prevail. An additional reason for the increase nf duties in some instances beyond the rale of 20 per cent, will exist m fulfilling the re commendations already made, ami now re peated, of making adequate appropriations for the defences of the country. By the express provision of the act dis tributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands among the Siaies, its operation is ipso facto to cease so stum as the rate of the duties shall exceed the limits prescribed in the act. In recom mending the adoption of mea sures for distributing the prtceeds of the public lands among the Slates, at the Com mencement of the last session of Congress, such distribution was urged by arguments and considerations which appeared to me then, and appear to me now of great weight, and was placed on llxj condition that it should not render necessary any departure from ihe act of 1&33. It is, with sincere regret, that 1 now percieve the necessity of departing from that act; because 1 am weli aware, that expectations, justly entertained by some of the States, will be disappointed by any occasion which shall withhold from litem the proceeds of the lands. But the condition was plainly expressed in the message, tind was inserted, in terms equally plain, in the law itself; and amidst the em barrassments which surround the country on all sides, and beset boih tbe General and the State Govcrmneuts, k appears to me, that the object first and highest in impor tance, :s to establish the credit of this Gov ernment, and to place it on durable founda tions, and thus afford the most effectual support to the credit of the States, equal, at least, to what it would receive from a dis tribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands. When the distribution law was passed there was reason to anticipate that there soon would be a real surplus to distribute. On that assumption it was, in my opinion, a wise, a just, and a beneficent measure.- Hut to continue inn force while there is no such surplus 'to distribute, and when it is manifestly necessaiy not only to increase the duties, but at ihe same time to borrow money in order to liquidate the public debt and disembarrass the Pub'io Treasury, would cause it to tre regarded as an unwise alienation of the bst security of the public creditor, which would with difficulty be excused, and could not be justified. Causes nf no ordinary character have recently depressed American credit in the stock market of the world to a degree quite unprecedented. I need scarcely mention the condition r-f the banking institutions of some of (lie States, the vast amount of foreign debt contracted during a period of wild speculation by corporations and indi viduals, and above all, the doctrine of repu d ation of contracts solemnly entered into by States, which, although as yet applied only under circumstances of a peculiar character, and gene-rally rebuked with se verity by the moral sense of the communi ty, is yet so very licentious, and in a Gov ernment depending wholly on opinion so very alarming, that the impression made by it to our disadvantage as a people, is any thing but surprising. Under such cir cumstances, it is imperatively tine from us to the People whom we represent, that, when we go into the money market to con tract a loan we should tender such securities as to cause the money-lender, as well at home as abroad, to feel that ihe most pro pitious opportunity is afforded him of in vesting profitably and ju 1 ciously his capi tal. A Government which has paid off the deb's of two wars, waged with the most powerful nation of modern times, should not he brought to the necessity of chaffer ing for terms in lite money m.- i;'. Un der such circumstances- as I have a. tiled to. our object should be to produce with the capitalists a feeling of entire confidence, by a tender of lhat sort of security w hich in all limes past has been esteemed suffi cient, and which for the small amount of our proposed indebtedness wi 1 unhesita tingly be regarded as amply adequate. W bile a pledge of all the revenues amount to no more than is implied in every instance when the Government contracts a debt, and although it ought in ordinary circumstances to be entirely satisfactory, yet in limes like thee the capitalist would feel better satis fied with the pledge of ir specific fund, ample in magnitude to the payment of Ins interest and ultimate reimbursement of his principal. Sue!) is the character of the land fund. The most vigilant money deal er will readily pprceive, that not only will his interest be secure on such a pledge, but that a debt of Si ,000,009 or 520,000,000 would, by the surplus of sales over and above the payment of the- interest, be ex linguished within any reasonable lime fixed for its resump'ioii. To relipve the Treasu ry from its embarrassments, and to aid in meeting its requisitions nntii time allow- ed fjr any new tariff of duiies to become available, it would speni to be nce?snrv to j fund a debt approaching to SlS,O00,O00; and, in older in plare the negotiation of the loan beyond a reasonable; 'doubt. I submit to Congress whether the proceeds of the sales of the public lands should not he pledg ed (or the payment of ihe interest, and ihe Secretary nf the Trpnsury he authorized. out ot ihe surplus of the prc.eeds f suc'i sale-, lo purchase the stock, it can be pro cured on such terms as will render it bene ficial in lhat w,ay to extinguish tin debt and prevent the accumulation of such surplus while its distribution is suspended. No one can doubt that, were the Federal Treasury now as prosperous at it was ten years ag . and its fiscal operations conduct ed by an efficient agency of its own, co-ex-iensive with the Union, the embarrassments of the States, and corporations in them, would produce, even if thpy continued as they are, (were that possible,) tfTifMs far less disastrous than those now experienced. It is the disorder here,- at the heart and centre of the system, that paralyzes and deranges every part of it. . Who does not know ihe permanent importance, not to the Federal Government alone, but to every State and every individual within its juris diction, even in their most independent and isolated individual pursuits, in the preser vation of a sound state of public opinion and a judicious administration here? The sympathy is instantaneous and universal. To attempt lo remedy the evil of the de ranged credit and currency of the Stalps while the disease is allowed to rage in the vitals of this Government would be a hope less undertaking. It is the fid I conviction of this truth which emboldens me most earnestly to re commend to your early and serious con sideration the measures now submitted to your better judgment, as well as those to which your attention has been already in vited. The first great want of the country, that without answering which, all attempts at bettering the present condition of things will prove fruitless, is a complete restora tion of the credit and finances of the Fede ral Government. The source and founda tion of all credit is in the confidence which the. Government inspires; and jus! in pro portion as that confidence shall be sliakrn or diminished, will be the distrust anvmg all classes of the community, and tne de rangement and demoralization in every branch of business and all the interests of the country. Keep up the standard of good faith and punctually in the operations of ihe General Government, and all partial irregulari'ies and disorders will be rectified by the influence of its example; but suffer thai standard to be debased or disturbed, and it is impossible to foresee to what a degree of degradation and confision all financial interests, public arid private, may sink. Iu nch a country as this, the .Re presentatives of the People have or.lv to will it, and the public credit will bs as i:gh as it ever was. ' My own views of the measures cslcula led to effect tins great and desirable ithjeci, I have thus frankly expressed to Congress, under circumstances which g've to tic en tire subject a peculiar and solemn ineiest. The Executive can do no more. !f the credit of the country he exposed to ques tion; if the public tlefences bp broken down or weakened; if ihe whole aduiinisira ion of public affairs be embarrassed lor w-.nt nl the necessary means for conducting them with vigor and effect, 1 trust that thi De partment of ihe Government w ill he found to have done all that was in its power to avert such evil;!,. and will be acquitted of all just blame on account of them. JOHN TYLCR. Washingron, March 25. 1842. ELEGANT EY TRACTS. Is NOT TtlK TRUTH THE TRUTH. Fulls'off. What Mr. Badger said against Mr. Van Buren. unjustly, applies with such ecu liar aptness lo His Exeelleno)- the Gov ernor of North Carolina-, lhat we cannot forego the re-publication of the following extract from tbc Granville Speech only substituting lor "Mr. Van Huron," "o.vr Gjvcrnor" and for the public "Ganhur" t Washington City, tin: lee Home at Raleigh, Thorn is nothing to spoil the parallel, except iIihI ,ir. Van Buren wa abused because Congress, not he, had then, and before &, have since employed a Gardner; but Governor Moretiead took the responsibiluy of building ihe Ice Ihuse, without any Into about it, that we know of. Hut to the extracts. They must be a treat better ihan Hard Cider. Mr. Cad ges speaks! Hear him ! Raleigh Standard. "How stand the c se with Governor Morehead? Of his public services wha' memorial does his country exhibit? What testimonials are registered in our history? l hat mt asurcs of Executive or Legisla tive wisdom have owed their origin or im provement to him? Alas! to all such in quiries a barren none must be the answer! True, he is called a Republican. But in what tloes his conduct agree with Ins pro fession? Let any man who is willing to judge men by their poings and not by their savings, a-k him if lie is a republi can in his routine'. "Is it oot on the contrary enormously extravagant and aristocratic? Would any man who is the friend of economy arid a lover of the people would such a man al such times (hard times) draw upon ihe pub lie to Bt'iLD as Ice house at all? If his salary would not defray such charges, would he not dispense with such luxuries and bring fits expenses within his salary? Or if he w:i a rich man, like Governor Morehead, would lie not, as oilier Govern ors have done before him, use his private funds. to support his unnecessary extrava gance? 11 so, what must we LUitik of one who with these professions of economy on his lips, and posse-sed of a vast fortune, as well as receiving a large" official income, burdens the Slate with the expense of an Ice House in cool his Hard Ciderl Can we help thinking that such a man!? prac tices and his professions ' are in dire-t op posilior, that he is no patriot ami loves ihe peopl only J or what Me can git out of THEM?" Did any body eypr l;now a Cap madp for one head fit another so handsomely, without more altering? I!). LINCOLN ;TUY, WI5U.VJ54IJ.VY, APISIL. G, 1843 Democratic Republican Nomination. For Ciovemor, LOUIS D. HEX RY, of Cumberland Couxty. rr. V :irf ntitbo: ired anil HI'StT reques-etl to announce lijr.irf Col. T. N. Ilermlon as "jufjuss a candidate for Brigadier General of the 10th Brigade of North Car olina Militia, to supply the vacancy occa sioned by the resignation of (Jen. Sesgle We are authorized ami requested to an nounce Col. J. G. Bvxu.n. a candidate for the office of Brigadier General of the 10th Brigade of North Carolina Militia, to sup ply the vacancy occasioned by the resig nation of Gen. Seagle. 07" We arc authorized and rpqneled to announce Ctd. J. J. Bauringer. of Lin coin County, as a candidate for Brigadier General of the 10th Brigade of North Car olina Militia, lo supply the vacancy occa sioned by ihe resignation of Gen. Seagle. rP requested to announce tpsf&Z? Capt. B. M. JKTTON 2iJztt2ff &S a candidate for Lieu tenant Colonel of the 70th Itegiment of N. Carolina Militia, in place of Col. F. A. Hoke, resigned. IJcjzi'JcraJic Sceting. There will be a meeting of the Democratic party of Lin coln County, at the Court House in Lincohiton, on Thursday the 2Sth of April next, for the purpose of ap pointing delegates to the pro posed Democratic State Con vention to be held at Salisbury on the 23th ot May next. We hope our friends will turn out vcll on that occasion. Old Lincoln, being the giant of Democracy in thcWcst, must appear in full strength in the Convention. MR. HENRY'S APPOINTMENTS. fijOIiis S3- EEcnry. the Democratic candidate for Governor, w ill address the people At Bnrnsville Yancy County, on Tues day rCourt week the lCth of April. At Morganton, on Wednesday Court week the 20th of Arril. At Kiitherfordton, on Wednesday rCourt week the 4ih of May. At Shelby Cleaveland County, on Tues day fjCourt week the 10th of May. Jctj"U ill the Highland Messenger and Rulherfordton Intelligencer copy the a bove ? We will do as much tor them, or their party, whenever an occasion presents itself. ERRATUM A mistake occurred in our advertisement last week nf .Mr. Henry's appointment. We then stated, that Mr. Henry would ad dress the people at Buritsville, Yancy Co. "on Thursday fCourt week the 12th of April." It should have been "on TUES DAY &o.M LINCOLN TON MALE ACADEMY. The examination of ihe pupils attached to this institution, will take place, we arc rcqnosted to sjy, on Friday next, the 8ih of April. Parents, guardians, and the friend of Education generally, are invited to attend- C7 Mary 1 1 inkle, convicted at the last term of our Superior Court of murder in the first degree, and upon whom the Sn tei ce .f the law was not passed owing to her peculiar situation, has given birth to a daughter. - Both the mother and d lu'ghter we understand are doing .as. wen as couio be expected." Jl Sign. The principal Whig piper in j Western Carolina, ihe Highland Messcn ger, comes out openly lor a pro'eclive tariff and . a yationnl Hank. Are the people of the moumains ready for thUT THE RUTHtlRFORDTON LNTELLIGEX CER AND OUiiSELF. Two or three weeks since, without any call from us, ihe Editor of the RtitherforUton Intelligence! came out and gave a reason Tor net co ing an article of ours, written some months previously in reply to one of his, in relation to tbc funeral expen ses of Gen, Harrison. His ohjoetioii to our aiticte was in the language employed he had never been in favor (he said) of umig hard names, Mich as Whiggery;' 'Loco Foco,' Federal,' Mt narchial,' &c.f instead of argumtpts. In our paper of week before last, we replied to him, anil showed that his reason was an after thought, not justified by the fuel?; for, that our article contained no langiiage at which the nicest feelings could take offence, that. so far from this, it was the most courteous, and conciliatory -political article we had ever penned, and was fiec from all and any of the opprobrious epithets which he had named, as applied to himself er any one else; and that we had, in every instance in which we had occasion t mention him in that article, called him our friend. And how are we met Why, with little csndor and less tact, the Editor makes the following reply; from which it w ill be seen, that in attempting to escape from one difficulty, he plunges into another. He says, "T this, we reply in the first place, lhat onr allusion was not entirely confined to the employment of language used in lhat particular article, but had reference also to ihe general course pursued by the gentle man towards this journal. Ami in the se cond jdace, we remark, that although ihe Editor would induce his readers to believe, lhat neither of the terms complained of was contained in the article, yet e are of opin ion, that he is mistaken; and we here re quest, (as the article Is not before its,) that he will be candid and fair enoni!i t, say, whether ihe term "monarchtal" is not in the article referred It)." His "allusion,' he says, "was not en tirely confined to the employment of lan guage used by the way, here seems to be a pleonasm employment of langwage ltscd? in that particular article, but had reference to the general course pursued by ihe gentleman toward this Journal." We will now give his own words and leave the reader to judge what his allusion was: "As the gentleman bad copied our article in his, we felt a strong desire to recipro cate, by inserting his reply in our columns, and we were only prevented by the em ployment of language by him which from our feelings, we could not imitate in an swering his reply; for we never have been in favor of the practice that prevails be tween the parties in thi country of using hard names in ridicule of each oilier, in-, stead of argument, such as Wliijjgery. 'Loco Foco, 'Federal, 'Monarchial, Sic. tSlc.' Is there any reference here to onf "gen. eral course" toward the Intelligencer? Is not the "allusion" on the contrary, to the particular article which he was trying to excuse himself for not copying? Now we have too much charity to charge the Editor with knowingly telling an untruth, but ver ily he hath a very treacherous memory. Again, ihr Editor of t!e Inn lligencer is. or pretends to be, under the impression, that we were mistaken in asserting "that neither of the terms complained of wa contained in the article," and asks ns to be candid and fair enough to say w hether the term 'monarchial is not in the article re feried to." In reply, we say that we were not mistaken; and most solemnly aver, that neither the term 'monarchial , (Quere, monarchical?) nor at.y of the others com plained of, was to be found in the article. But, in conclusion, we repeat what we have before said, that if one, or all. of the epithets complained of, had been found in our e.rtirle, it would not have justified the Editor of the Intelligencer in refusing to give it a place in his columns ; because, he is in the habit of admitting Whig commu nications, containing wort! of a like char acter. If he had been truly desirous . of reciprocating the courtesy of a hro'her Ed itor, by copying his article, he could not have refused to do so on so flimsy a pre tence, as lhat it (the article) contained a few harmless party epithets; especially, when he is in the habit of receiving into his columns matter containing words of a similar character. No; he had a stronger reason for ft is course : lie omit ted to reciprocate our courtesy because he felt that we had the advantage of him in the argument he had taken a false step, which he knew be could not defend. This we believe is the whole secret of his sud den backing-out from the contioversy. I.let In;i:i Tcxn We are indebted to the Ilaoburg Journal foT the following chcciing news from Texas, The news from the Kepnhhc of Texas is more than cheering. Instead of 14,01)0 Mexicans having crossed the Uio Grande, it lorn out, that there were only about 600. Indeed, it fpems that Mexico will . be invaded i;itead of Texas. The Sin- gle Siar Banner" is waving proudly over Texas, and ere long it wilt be firmly plant ed on the "ltlace of the Montezumas." The tide t f war lias changed in favor of the voting Kepuhlie. , lie rrff-r our readers to the letter of President Houston below: also Jo the Id ler of our Mobile correspondent. We hope to give our readers in the next Jour nal, some good news from Texas. City of Houston, March 17. 1842. Dear Sir The news by express from Austin up to the 13ih instant, is that the enemy have evacuated San Antonio, after having plundered the place. Tliey were laden down with baggage and marched slowly. Col. Hays is harrassing them on tlit ir march They only march aboul eight miles each day. The troops from Austin and thoe on the fionlier are march ing to overtake lhem. War shall now be waed against Mexi co, nor will we lay aside our arms until we have secured the ri cognition of our inde pendence. Until then, I will never rest satisfied, nor ill the people of Texas. We invoke the Cod of Armies. Your friend, HOUSTON. Correspondence of the Journal. MOBILE, March 24. The Iat Texas news is, that the Mexi cans have abandoned San Antonio, the Texians in pursuit. Houston has deter mined n an off-iisive war, and has issued a proclamation for volunteers from all qtiar ters. He has raised the standard, and the people are rallying for -i march to Mexico, already six thousand strong. The rescue of the Santa Fe prisoners, and the recogni tion of lex i an iiidepeudf nee are their de termination. -"Victory or death, and mi surrender," is their motto, and the booty captured is to be the volunteers' pay. Ci it Texas, while you are young. From the Georgia Journal. USURY, &C. To illustrate the ruinous effects of thii curse opon the imhistry and happiness of the people, we give some calculations made by a friend. If they are correct, and we do not doubt but lhat they are below the mark, the5' are enough to alarm and startle ever' friend of Republican govern ment. What SHrer means to establish that most hateful of all forms of government, a monied aristocracy? Usury is indeed the sure process by which the rich be come richer, and the poor poorer. But to the calculation it is made for three years, 1839, 1810, and 1841. We will suppose $200,000 to be the capital begun with in Putnam, Newton, Bibb or Muscogee. We lope none of our tender hearted Shylotks, the 20 percent, gentlemen, will take tdlcuce at our assum ing such a sum to be employed at Usiny. The sum taken is less than what is used iu some counties illicitly. Now the interest is taken out in advance. at 20 per cent, gives Usury for one year, $40,000. Subtracting 4 0,0 0 0 we have $100,000, which is actually loan ed as 200,000. The interest of 010,000, which is also loaned, gives SS.OUO; but the 88,000, in turn, become a new capital, ami it is loaned at ihe same rain u brings 81,600. Thus, at the end of ihe year 1837. we have shown a capital of $200,000 produce at Usury, $49,GOO, without going mio such fractions as hundreds of dollars. For 18 40. Capital to begin S2ia,G0O The Usury for that year taken out in advance is 49,920 Which leaves . . $193,080 a sum loaned out as $249,000. Now the Usiny taken out produces by a new loan, S3.9S1. That again loaned out produces $1,9'J6, Thus the aggregate of Usury for 1840 is $01,900. For 1841. Capital to continue opera tions on for this year, is 6311,500 Usury lor lhat year taken out in advance, is . . G2.300 Leaving . . . 249,200 which is loaned at the beginning of 1841 as the sum of 311,500. Usury on the Usury taken out gives the sum t.f 12.4G0r That again loaned anew produces the sum of 3,492. Aggregate of U-urv for the year 1841, will liieii be 77,252, which added to 4311.500, makes thr sum id $388,752. Here is an illustration of three years I mercy, and kindness, andforbmrance, of Usurers. A clear gam of 5Ib8.752 in three years ! ! ! Or, in other word, a tax upon Ihe industry, the sweat, the blood, the education, the happiness of the people ! TO PY THIS HATEFUL TAX WOULD REQUIRE SIX THOU SIXI) TW O HUMJHEI) MXE. TV H.H.ES OF COTTON AT TIHUTY DOLLARS PER RALE. Outfht the press, then, from interest, or any tuber cause, to be mute when such an incubus is resting upon the energies of our people? Temperance in all thing m the injunc tion of the Bible. W commend to those whose cormorant sppotite foi gain lead lhem into a daily violation of the law, as well a the dictates of humanity, io no I longer make broad their phylacteries, nor to pray al the coruers of the street?, with
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