ihts&it tn cawnmitiutt sali8i1uuv hi wav county n c tuksday juve 22 r 10 vol xi no 624 by at eli'tt suits in which the united states is a parly or interested and cause them nr either ol them lo report to him from time tn time any informa tion he may require in relation io tie same sie fi am he it further marled th»t all moneys recovered or collected by ihe solicitor ofthe t ensure or under his direction shall ba reported by him t tbe officer from whom the bond or other evidence of debt was received nnd proper credit be riven therein and ho blu.ii report iu like manner all cred'it allowed by due course of law or any suits under hi di rt ion | mr benton's speech substnuce of mr bentons speech made in the senate of he united states ha motion lor the reduction of the duty on salt being under con sideration hirtv pounds in the bushel for these la.vs reiki c mc bushel lo filtv six pounds nd the retail merchant md salt nianufac urer improving upon this hint have mad^^tr^ct^^hi^ioiwd six pounds i 3 1,1 gqod8 f_____l^i^i md reduce i ilium • '~ m^^^hi mr benton commenced his speech | 0 „ 0 | n ri . 0 p , r . ,., .- ighi vffynear by baying that he was no advocate for un one half and making the salt cost ne ar prr.rii.ible debate and had no ambition to |„ one hundred per cent mnre puttini sdd his nemo to the catalogue of bsrren u hi tpgolbor the dutv the me r ontois bin lhat there were rises in chani'f profit updo that djjly and he los which speaking did good .- eases in which in , hc bushel—and the duty ,,_ , ilim ,,., moderate sbllitlesptoduced great results | j shown to be mr four i er and he believed lhe quest in ol repealing ,-,. n t ; in ether words the i ia isfm rn t ihe salt tax to be one of those coses il th lue of the article and make i had^crtsinly been so in england the ie consumer four times as much as it ihe salt tax had been overthrown by the would ens without the tax this is a liibnr of plain men under circumstances rru ,! oppression op nth people un much more unfavorable in their under which ihev ought noi nib r withoul ne altlng thanexist here the f.ngliah - 1 cessilv nnd which there is nn necessuv tag had continued i so yeara it watcher „ shall he fully shewn for searfric anv ished by the mini-dry to whom it yielded longer r a million and 1 half nerling nf revenue i m r . ii entered into statistical details to it wae defended by the domestic salt-ma thaw the aggregate amount of lhis tax nets 1 whom it gave a monopoly n the mch hi d 10 be en mous and con home market ; it was e irsted by trery lo every principle of taxation eva llme,havingsubsisiedforfivegoneraiionsi if taxes wc eo normsar s to iusiifw it was fortified bv the 1 ibiti of the peo uie „ x ing of salt 11 1 vd the ininor pie who were born and had grown gray u i on 0 f foreign sail in 1 829 at six mil uuder it ; and u was sanctioned by thc nc lions ol bushels md numbers • ne vol cesililes of tho siate which required ev ift ofsfls.ooo and the tax at 90 cents ory resource of rigorous taxstion vet it * b ushe l,_ro,ooo : 1 merchants waa overthrown 1 and the overthrow we profii us ibat duty at so ne cent ie etfected by two debates conducted not 8000,000 and the secret or hidden i a x by the orators whose renown has filled in hqehapo of false wel k ht for ir u men the world not bv sheridan hurke i m sure nt die rale of 30 lbs in thi bushel end fox-but by pla uslnes men-mr ,» e . 0,000 here in is i,x_,i n calcraft mr curwen and mr i'-.i'-non ,„ „ lc „ 110un of ahmll „„ _, 1m trf rinse patriotic membera or the lirinsh a quarter of dollars upon an nioleco ■- parliament commenced th e war upon the i„g gris.oool and iha ertirl , .<■ british sslt isx in i8it and finished 11 in prime necessity and universal k 182j commenced with the omens and ing next after bread in , « , h e 08 auspices all gainst ihem and ended wiih irlo for human subsistence complele success i.iey abolished ibe the dit.ribmfon 1 mis enormous tax salt tax mrcr they s,..pt 11 all off upon the different serti - of i,,e union b.avely rejecting all compromises when was the next object of el's inquire a ihey had got their adversaries half van snd for this purpose hf viewed the unioil quished and carrying iheir appeals home under three greal divltoris-the north to the people until ihey had roused a i 1 . south and he west to tho spiiit before which the ministry q...iled noiitlteavr snd especially to soma parti the monopo ir.oi trembled lhe '..:„,,- f ii he considered ihe sslt tax to be nd ment gave way and tha ng fell lhis imrtncti but lather benefit and a mo ex nnplc is encouraging ; 11 is lull of con 3:y making business iho fis'iine al solaiion and of hope 1 it shows whsi teal lowjnoes and bounties produced thiaef and preaeverance can do in a good cause j feci in consideration of iho s.li dule it shows that the cause of truth and jus iho thnnors and r lersofflsh are al tice is triumphant when its advocates are | 0 wed money ou ... lhe treasure m th bold and faithful i leads 0 he convic » mou .„ ... „ in'end.d of he ft lion thai lhe american salt tux will alias dur paid by thorn ) but it nis been ptov the british lax did as soon as the people e d to oc twice as meeh the innnl allow shall see lhat its continuance is a burthen u ncc is about a_so,o and the ise _- to hen without adequate advantage to k , le 1 ,„„ from toe treasury sine tho the govcrnmenfrand thai ill repeal is in first imposition ol the sal duiv in u89 iheir own handa „ , hewn by the treasury returns t o im ciioritiu.'.s amount . if lhe tax wus live millions of dilliis imu.ili uf lhis ig lhe first point to which mr il.would.dircci drawn hv undue means as is shewn hy lho his attention lie said it was near 30 per report of ihe secretary of the tr.-..surv cent upon i.tvci pool blown and 400 per at ihe commencement of ibe pr_ei nt sc cent upon alum aali 1 but as the liverpool ion page 8 of the anndal report on tho was a very inferior sail i not much r'inances the northeast makes mucli used in ih west he would confine his salt at home and chiefly by solar cvapor observaiions to the salt of portugal and | ition whicp fit ii for curing bib and pro ilu west indies _ culled by tho general i vision much of it is proved by ihe re 1 name ol a loin the i in pint pi ice of this turns of ihe sail makeit in be used m tho s.ui i.i . iiiiiii eight 10 nine cenls a buso j fisheries st.bile he flthe li a are hawing bl of fifty ix pubnds each and the duty money from the treasury under the law upon thai bushel was iwentyoeots here which intend i to in.li nnlfy thorn fur was a i..x of upwards of iwo hundred per he duty p id on foreign it to this cent t inn ilie merchant had his profit section pl 11.1 union hi i uio salt tax ia upon the duty as well as upon the cosl ul not heavily ii li as a burthen llie article and when it wen 1 through the let us proceed to the south in ihia hands „. several merchant before it gol se cllon the are hu lew s it work and 10 the consumer each had hie profit .„. ounl , „• ulloena .-,. .„ there are no on ft end whenever this profit amounted fi.beries the consumer are thrown 10 ofiy percent upon the duiy.it w„s „| m o»i entirely upon the foreign supply upwards or one hundred per cont 11.1 , , r il iii.-llw .,<,• nn i ?_.. 1 11,11 10 11 us tne liverpool blown . hc duty 11 wasupwardaofono bundled ho imp.rtprl eof lhis is shodl is come per ccntuponihe salt ihen the taihf » bu.nel ; he weight and strength ., less law have deprn id c.n.ii ner of ihlrty u|,an that of alum solt ; and the tax falls four pound in iha bushel by substituting ,, ca¥i | y ul | directly upon ihc people 10 eirl '" :""'". snd ihat weight a n b wnole oflhelr consumptiea i is 4 '»'•" • " c rui weight ofa mea heavy burthen upon lhe siiuiu sured bushel of elum salt i eighty fuui ■••, w „„ poi 1 bul me british tariff laws fo ' "' , *'] z h z j '"""', _"""' view ibesake of multiplying bushels nod "''';'"' » m1 " "» found 0 be the run seat i ,-. ing the prod uf the ax ub.tl f e mosi oppressive opera loo of it luted weigh foi measure ; and our riff lm ' ' '° , d " m ,'" ue i'p 1 " '« hi « h '«* l„w copied after ihem and adopted bcr p rlm «. d «' '«"" i ''»»" ''- nd sllogelh . . r ci 1 . ., e . , or llllll inr uiu ol th irre nest niirnn standard of hfty-aix pounds in the bushc , , »>•■)■«. p.npnsee ... ,. 9 , ., , . for which s»ll is ll .'. „, led tiring firo here 0 ,.. s„,t of maryland rose .„/,,,., /, r , xfi ortatton foi ihi.pu?pose l s„i that he o.„i led the senator from , |,,,, : ig aupply is indispensable | and all missouri into 11 error in lelling him „„, s.li it ihe kind used i hn import some time back thut ihc weight 1 lum r.e of this kind from mc west indies salt was eighty our pounds subta „ llin , n,s ., bushel irom portugal quent rellecll had shown him lhat 11 0 ig h t cenu j luslltl a ibese priros lho wsi below eighty vvosi could bo supplied with lhis salt at mr b resumed his speech lie said now orleans if the duty was . olishedj ihc senator irom maryland was not so far bul in oaeiequonce ol ihe duly it costs wrong in his fir information is he sup 37 i 2 cents per bushel there being four posed that he mr ll was informed limes the import prioo of the article and irom her sources lhat tmk's island seventy five rri per bushel al louis salt weighed ubnv eighty pounds 1 snd ville and nihet central pane nf the valley he hud . 1 report b forotllm of a commll of he mississippi this enormous prico lee of ihe british house oi commons resolved into lis component pans it thus ui ule in 1817 by mr calcraft tho chaii nude up 1 i right or nine cents 1 bush man of tho committee on the salt duties >| for nie-_.ii 2 twenty cents for duly in which ihe weight of tbe beti bsy ol .; bight or ten cents for metcbantt pro biscay talt it listed at eighty four pound st at new orleans » sixicen or sevens hill let us as.umt the wiigluai eigliv teen cents for liei.1.1 to l u.villc s , 1,111 il ilul at thi'l weigh ji i incniiti ill eo 1 le , „ .,,. s forlhu scrpndl jvnohabii b low w has tin pleasure of lounolng to his friend cn . a a , v,r in *-,> feral that lie is n w openii if al bis old stand in ; ii r.n v im elegant aaao.i u n ul yew fa u'onabk bf c/n