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rsmm TOR THE FREE FRESS. ACROSTIC Come thou hast, ?.nd almost gone thou art,. Hail! farewell! you soon, tco soon depart; devolving time hurries thee swiftly on, In being to-day to-morrow, thou art gone. So flies, alas! the world away and thus The proud sons of earth all vanish must. Mighty God! how strange your works are oh! All, "all is vanity," sayeth the preacher so: Stop, stay, merry day oh, stay,dont yet go. Gone farewell! NIGHT THOUGHTS. CLIjVG jYOT TO EARTH. Cling not to earth there's nothing there However lov'd however fair, But on its features still must wear The impress of mortality. The voyager on the boundless deep, Within his barque may smile or sleep, But bear him on he will not weep To leave its wild uncertainty. Cling not to earth as well we may Trust Asia's serpent's wanton play That glitters only to betray To death or else to misery. Dream not of Friendship there niay be A word, a smile, a grasp for thee But wait the hour of need, and see But wonder not their fallacy. Think not of Beauty likp the rest It bears a lustre on its crest But short the time ere stands confest Its falsehood or its frailty. Then cling no more so fondly on The flowers of earth around thee strewn; They'll do awhile to sport upon, Bat not to love so i vvently. timate, that the North American of the United States, is among thej most heavily taxed animals of his species, and that he occupies in this respect, a middle position be tween the Englishman, who is taxed to the ultimate point of hu man endurance, and the French man, who is not very far behind. "I make this suinrestion, Mr. President, upon the authority of one or the most acute and practi sed statesmen of the age one whom we have long known, and under various titles, but best and longest under his old republican and revolutionary appellation of - m i -i -mm r i Oittzcii 1 alley rand. 1 ins vete ran statesman, in a late debate in the French Chamber of Peers, took occasion to class the burthens of the English, French, and Ame ricans, in the order in which I have stated them; and, strange as his classification appeared to me at first, I must confess that subse quent reflection and observation, deral legislation, ana uuurau of trade that quarter, whose cot ton, tobacco, and riceconstituting seven-eighths of the agricultural, and three-fifths of the total ex ports of the country, gives em ployment to numerous ships and mariners, of the East, enriches many of their merchants, and builds up their cities, and brings back the chief part of the imports which pay the twenty odd millions of revenue into the Treasury, which are elsewhere expended. Still the fifly millions are paid, and must be paid. It is a levy which no forco can resist, no art elude. The Sheriff is collector lor one government, and IXcccssity for the other; and both agents are equally inexorable. One com mits tiic body to prison for non payment, and the other applies to it, not the old Roman interdiction of fire and water, but the Federal interdiction of food and dottiest tion to twenty millions upon v perty in possession, is an .cn mous load for our population to carry, and that the Conrre,.. which shall relieve them half or two-thirds of it, will confer a national benefaction which vij entitle it to the glorious appelja tion of "blessed" The Conre" of 1332-3 may be that mosteitf able body provided the Con of 1327-3 shall make itself cipator in its glory by laying foundation of its work. To 4 that we must go to work at oucp and in earnest, upon these puLlc lands. We must rouse them from their dormant state. WL infuse new life and animation jalo the sales. We must force them to yield at least as much as wjj meet the interest of the debt fo il ve years. In a word, Mr. Presi dent this Congress must pass mv Bill. Then may we hail the q p roach of that auspicious & nen ine rsationai ucut . "It is in vnin tn sj.ivf th?ir tlio V J UUllli I VltUVllUU Uii t UUOVyl V UliUlly j - Kill W k T ' J V J V j ---w m. U(l much talking with the people, and duties are levied upon articles of 'icease to exist, and when the Tariff two or three thousand miles of an-j consumption, and that it is option-1 shall be taken up, not to alarm and nual travelling through ei'di't or al with the citizens to use them Or distract the country, not to arrav ten different States, has brought not. It is mockery to talk in that one half of the Union against i!i me to aenuiesce in its truth at way; for the duties of which I least so far as the aforesaid North speak are levied upon articles of American ot the grain-growing prime necessity, or ordinary com and planting States of this Union fort, and such as no family can is concerned. The secret of this live without upon sugar," teas, heavy taxation, Mr. President, and colfee; upon salt and spices; lies in the fact, that the citizens ot upon blankets and linens; upon the United States arc subject to( the working tools of the well man, be taxed, at the same moment, by and the physic of the sick one. It two separate and distinct govern- is in vain to speak of more econo ments, without having, what the mv and more retrenchment. . peopie oi iisia,- under the like cir- X hose negative aids ot family re- laxes. Mr. Benton, bavin? ptimsinnrps. nnno dom.nwi,i mum Urn i..,r c.;,. .... obtained leave to introduce a bill Mark Antony a double set of quisition. Every family that lives 'task to perform, and which shal in the fcenate ot the U. States, for Seasons and nf rrnns 1 1 nifiirni imnn itw Men iiuionn Im.i 1 n ... 1 r-rvi . ffm, t...- 4l.- i'fl,, . . . . ' v iu uiiouia i-nw.i no wn uiuiiuo, HUd viiiii lltJil IIWUI IIIU UUUV Ul UiC tne graduation ot the price of the the duplicate demand. They are since been reduced to its 'people, instructed by their" wishes, rublic Lands, prefaced it with taxed by the Federal Government, establishment' lo its mimmumvatl amenable to their will." RD1TIP. rpmni-L'o (i-iint tirlii.U A. .4.' . . . . i nv.u .uiilu c ua- in uuues upon imports, to ho a- oi expenditure, and its pcssimitm tract the following: moUnt of twenty odd millions, of enjoyment. Still, every one 1 believe, Mr. i resident, that which go into the Treasury, and has to yield its proportion of these by the operation of this bill, m eight or ten millions morein the thirty odd millions to the Federal conjunction with other measures, shane of now m force the public debt may that sum, which go into the nock- the Sf.itcs. For ever hundred now be paid ofl in five years and cts of the retail dealers. 5y the dollars worth of ibrei-i. .roods or tlie people relieved from the an- Siaief!mwiininiii!,tiinr,. i :.. .. .-":.?, ..... . nual levy of twelve or fifteen mil- as nearly as can be ascertained, pays, in addition to the" value of Z I k, t i i "ioH o uooui twenty millions more; in all. the article, a tax of thirtv-f.vo or the debt would enable the Federal. he different forms of State taxes ,forty dollars to the Federal Gov- ncrt lint : iiirili I . Vi i 1 umiLUl,m) iaAUSi taxes, corpora- eminent, besides another little tax morn llian hnlf c xwi - - - -v tH'v other, but to reconcile all hearts, to excite ail hopes, and to call forth universal beiiedietioiK Then shall we see the day when this subject, so pregnant with the seeds of bitter contention, shall be taken up with unanimous consent, and for the joyful purpose of ex punging a long list of articles from its ample catalogue. What these articles shall be, is not fbr?Kti say, but far that most happy Con gress which shall have the "ratelul more than half of its present rove hue, and, of course, to abolish taxes, in the shape of duties upon comforts and necessaries, to that amount. The blessings of such a dispensation would need no re commendation from artsofsneerh to render them acceptable to the licenses, working upon roads, ser ving on juries, supporting church es and charitable institutions, and a, long list of et cetcras. "The aggregate of the whole annual levy, under the exactions of the dunl ! . x "u..iiimiiiHa, may rwwri tc tnu juupiu oi wen oe, as supposed by Citizen SI . s'n,g aim planting Talleyrand, auouUiity millions of i-iiuk: nr inin ii.ti ...... ... 11 11 v States of this Union, with whose condition I am best acquainted. Unhappily, they have at home, in the decaying condition of too ma ny of their towns and villages in the melancholy aspect of too ma ny of their farms and country hou sesa sufficient commentary up on the amount of their taxes, and the necessity of relief. 13ut to gentlemen who dwell in more fa vored parts to Senators who come from the East, where com merce collects her accumulated treasures, where multiplied Hanks diffuse an abundant paper curren cy, and where the policy of the Federal Government causes to be expended the chief nart of the ro. venue which is elsewhere collect ion taxes, poor taxes, taxes upon of ten or twelve dollars upon that sum, in the shape of mercantile proht, to the retail dealer. dollars! An enormous sum Mr President, for a nonnlation of twelve millions to pay, even if tney were all tax-paying people, which they are not; for some are paupers, and pay nothing; many arc poor, and pay but little; and two millions are slaves, and are paid for by their owners. I re peat, Mr. President, that fifty mil lions would be an enormous mv for this population to pay; even if me ourtnen ot it was equally dif fused, which it is not; for, it is in contestable that an undue propor tion of it is levied upon that quar ter of the Union whoso lah tributes most to the support of iiik vjovernment, and whose riti. Izens receive least from itthat Important Decision. An it1.- portant decision has lately been made in JNew-York, which will be of interest to the numerous lenis- For everv hundred Native bodies, mmnrdlr MvemU rr in this country. 1 he Senate o: New-York has lately recognized the principle, we believe, far ih first time in the Union, "that s Court has not the power under any circumstances, to compel tne attendance of members of the Le gislature as witnesses, during a session, but that in conformity to parliamentary tisnse, as abundant ly established by the proceeding or i lie House ot (Jommois, tlu they were secure againt the ope ration of any civil process what ever. 1 he principle we believe, Will frnnnrnl ir wi .,h,itt,wl fi house revenue a sum in itsclfjcorrect, as securing to the pro The amount of this superincumbent, superstruetive, and, I believe I might say, supercrcscential tax, in the shape of mercantile profit up on taxes, cannot be less than one third per centum, or eight or ten millioi is uuon our nresnf riKtmn A w..v vukivlll the labors of their representatives peace. od to fcimu 7i - i-ive least irom it- 10 sucn nentlemen it nmv nnt nnortA. i bean act of supcroroSa,io . fc lour times as great as that direct lUA U1 )Udr y wnicn over- tree irom arrest, pv-fpnt in catf turned the second President of of treason, felony, or breach d' vuiuii, milieu ins pcuiy, anu marked an era in the history of mis country, which is still refer red to as one of oppression on the part of the (Government, and ol suffering on th0 p;irt Qf tie pCope I hope the Senate will not misunderstand me. I do not draw this picture, for the purpose ofov. citing dissatisfaction with our pre- iiuu or unties. i am one of those who contributed to PSlf.Mh- lish it, and am willing for it to re main unaltered until tlie occasions which called for it have passed away, ixit t is not to be dis An Indian Surgeon. Dr. JJ cob Jimison,a native of the ca tribe of Indians, has been ap pointed surgeon's mate in tlie U States' Navv. nnil h;is rncciVf'' orders to report himself for scr vice at tlie public station nearl1 Iadelohia. Dr. T h.e mfhv g ' r V m K M K.K s V w - collegiate education, and rcgl'ir' ly graduated as a Doctor ot 3J dicine. When wc live, lnt ns live V for be a man ever so rich win'6 or...u ,1.1 . .1 IUiU1 ever iitn soi I lo,l l;lt tinny null.ona upon he lights his fov, death mav cu .UK.Io coiwumpiioit, ma-ldi- his door before it bo burnt out..
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