ADDRESS
TO THE CITfZENS OF
WESTMORELAND, WASHINGTON, FAYETTE AND
ALLEGHANY COUNTIES.
REVENUE LAW
By JOHN NEVILLE, Inspector of the Revenue,
Survey No. 4, District Pennsylvania
(CONTI NUED.)
FIFTH objeCtion. 44 The duty in question is a lax on a D<>-
44 meftic Manufacture which good policy would rather en
-44 courage than consider as a fourceof revenue."
Answer. Congress have given strong proofs in every feflioo of
their anxiety to encourage manufactures of all kinds which pro
mise to be fuccefsful. When domestic manufactures aie in their
infancy, it is impolitic to make ihem an objeCt of revenue ; but
when they have attained to maturity, and the produCts of them
are in general consumption, then they become as fair objeCts of
revenue as any that can be imagined. No good reason to ihe con
trary can poflibly beafligned. No interest in the community is
injured by it ; not even, that of thr manufacturer himfelf, if care
be taken to lay a duty on the foreign manufacture of the lame na
ture. In the present instance they have gone further, they have
laid a duty on molafles of three cents per gallon, which being a
foreign raw material for diftillation,the manufacturer from na
tive materials will find it on reflection a solid encouragement to
him. Wherever the duty on the foreign manufacture is greater
than on the domestic manufacture, the difference is a bounty on
the domestic manufacture. It is a general rule, that the duty is
included in the price of the article. If therefore, that on the fo
reign article is greater than that on the home-made article, the
price of the former must rife so much the higher ; and the latter
by being able to be afforded cheaper, will have a proportionable
advantage in the market.
This principle is so clear and so well established, that it is not
poflible to understand and yet to dispute ir, and the confequcnce
of it is, that the law in question, instead of bearing hard upon
the domestic mannfaflure, is a positive, dire£f, and great en
couragement of it. If nine cents per gallon are laid on spirits
distilled from domestic materials, eleven cents per gallon are laid
on those distilled from foreign materials, and an addiThynal duty
of nine cents, making in the whole twenty cents per gallon, on
foreign imported spirits of the lame strength, and more on the
flronger kinds.
Spirits distilled from domestic materials go into market, there
fore with an advantage over those distilled in the United States
from foreign materials, greater, by two cents per gallon, and with
an advantage over foreign imported spirits, greater by eleven cents
per gallon, than if there was no duty upon any of them. Is not
this a solid encouragement to the manufacturer, and would it not
be full as reasonable to complain, that the proposed land tax was
a discouragement and unjust burden on agriculture, as that a con
tribution of lels than half ofthr foreign rate is a discouragement
to the making of spirits at home.
But in fa& the advantage accruing from the law to spirits dis
tilled from domestic materials is ftili greater than has been men
tioned. It is ascertained, that those stills which have full em
ployment, by paying sixty cents per gallon of the capacity of the
llill, do hot pay any more than about five cents per gallon on foi
rits distilled. F
Hence it is evident that the committee have, in this refpeft re
ally mistaken the true effect of the law, which, instead of injuring,
is calculated to promote the domestic manufa&ure : the fame re
mark applies to the presentment of the grand jury of a county of
South-Carolina, the only grand jnry who have noticed the law.
So true is this, and so well is it understood, in some parts of the
United States, that, if I am not greatly mifinformed, there are
persons who intend to begin new distilleries from domestic ma
terials upon a large scale, merely upon the strength of this advan
tage in favor of the country ftilis.
1 he committee point their complaint to the duty on spirits dis
tilled from domestic materials, and seem not unwilling that the
duty on spirits distilled from foreign materials {hould remain.
Will not this clearly prove to us, how liable weare to error, when,
under the influence of a local view of a fubjeft, we censure laws
founded on general information and a knowledge of the circum
stances of all parts of the community? In the States north of
Pennsylvania there are very few distilleries from domestic ma
terials ; but they have heretofore distilled from foreign materials
as much as is produced from all the distilleries of domestic mate
rials in the United States. The distillation of spirits from fo
reign materials is, to the New-England States particularly, a
manufacture ol the firft importance. What would those
Slates have a right to fay, if a duty {hould be laid on their manu
facture, and not on yours of the fame or a similar article ? They
would surely have a right to complain of the unkind partiality of
government. Ought not the citizens of these western counties
to be fatisfied, if they are content, that our spirits {hall pay upon
an average four cents per gallon less than theirs? and can you
doubt that the difference will promote your manufa&ure ?
Your distance from a market, cannot, as is alledged, render
the duty more burdensome to you than to others. As to the part
which you shall consume at home the effect of the law will only
be to add the duty to the price, and the fame thing willl happen
every where else : as to what you may fend to a distant market,
the expenceof transportation will be no greater by the dutv than
it was before; and as you will find an increased price there, in
proportion to the duty, you can lose nothing ; you will even gain
whatever the makers of lpirits in the vicinity of those markets
are able to add to the price by way of advance to the duty.
It appears, then, that you will not pay a larger part of the du
ty than others, unless it can be {hewn that you drink more ardent
spirits than your fellow-citizens in othei parts of the country.
This I hope and believe is not true. It would be an indecent
imputation against you, which could not fail to excite your in
dignation, to represent you as the least fobcT and temperate part
of the people of the United States.
If it be said that other parts of it drink other liquors in greater
quantity, it may be answered, that this is not the cafe as a general
rule, and that as far as it is true, the difference is much more than
made up on the higher duties which are laid on those articles.
Fellow-citizens, I know too well the justice and generosity of
your tempers, not to be convinced, that you will fufficiently feel
the force of this reflc&ion, when it is brought into your view. If
it {hould be even true (as it does not appear to be) that you pay
something more in proportion of the duty in question, than your
fellow citizens in other quarters, how lon* a lift of articles is there
upon which those fellow-citizens as consumers pay heavy duties,
which either affe£lyou not at all, or very little indeed.
Sixth objection. 41 The scarcity ofcalh renders the duty a par
-41 ticuJar grievance. It is questionable whether all the circulating
" ' n 'he country would be fufficient to pay it."
Answer. This, if true, is an objection, not to the particular
duty in question, but to any other duly or tax whatever. It can
not, therefore, be urged as a special or particular objection to this
particular tax. The people of tbis part of the country do not ex
pert to (hare in the peace, security and prote&ion of government,
without contributing any thing to its support. They expect to be
guarded from foreign subjugation, and from savage depredations;
but they are too just to admit that the money ought to betaken
out of the pockets of their fellow-citizens throughout the Unittd
ON THE
States, to Day the troops for their defence, and to purchase their
produce for the subsistence of those troops, without bearing any
part of the burden ; or it must be alledged that you are totally
unable to contribute, and will accept protection from the reft of
tfye people of the United States.
Such expe&ations, fellow-citizens, arc really the amount of
the objection lad stated. You are too reafonablc, and have too
much honed pride and spirit, to be willing to owe your security
to the bounty and protection ot others, without contributiug
your proportion of the neceifary means.
(to bf. continued.)
Bank of the United States.
December 3, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Bank of the United States
will be opened on Monday the s'h indent.
Transfers of the fubferiptions to tne itock of said Bank may
then be made.
On Monday the 12th instant, deposits will be received, and on
Tuesday the 20th initant, discounts maybe made.
By order of the Prelident and Dire&ors,
JOHN KEAN, Cajhier.
All Bills or Notes efFered for Discount (hall be delivered into
the Bank on Mondays or Wednesdays, the Discount shall be fet
tled on Tuefaays and Thursdays, and (hall be made known the
next succeeding days.
At a MEETING of the DIRECTORS of the
BANK of the UNITED STATES,
December 5, 1791.
RESOLVED,
THAT the payment of the portion of the Capital Stock of the
Bank of the United States, confiding of Specie which will be
due on the several Shares on the firft Monday of January next,
may be made at the refpe&ive Banksof Majfachufetts and Nezv-York.
Provided, That any Stockholder claiming the benefit of such
payment, {hall, on or before the firft Monday in January next,
exhibit to the Cashier of the Bank of the United States, a Certifi
cate signed by the Caftiier of the Bank into which such payment
fliall have been made—any thing in the regulations heretofore
eftablifhcd to the contrary notwithstanding
By order of the President and Directors,
BOULTING CLOTHS.
An cxtenfivc Aflo r tment, of verv superior texture, fultable for
every branch of the business, just imported from Amsterdam,
and for Sale by
DANIEL
No. 114, South Front-Street;
Where Millers and others may always be ftipplied with the best
Cloths, and large allowance made to those who purchase in quan
tities to fell again.
Also for Sale, a Quantity of Particular
MADEIRA
Of the firft Quality, fit for immediate use, in Pipes.
Philadelphia, December 6, 1791. [tawim]
IMPERIAL HYSON,SOUCHONG, and BOHEA
REFINED SUGARS,COFFEE, &SPICES,&c.&c
Of the firft quality—by retail,
No 19,
Third-Street,between Chefnut and Market Streets.
A few TICKETS in 3d and la(t Class of the
NEW-JERSEY LOTTERY.
TO BE SOLD,
On the Waters of Tye Rivek. a Branch of James River, in
the County ot Amherft, and State of Virginia,
About 7,000 acresof rich Land,
Well adapted to produce every kind of grain and grass a fanner
can wish to cultivate, distant from navigation twenty miles.
For terms apply to JAMES ROSE, residing on the Land.
Amherft County, Virginia, Dec. 10, 1791. (4t)
TO B E SO,L D,
BY JOHN CAREY,
No. 26, Pear-Street,
A COLLECTION OF
Scarce and Valuable
BOOKS,
Which may be fccn every day, until five o'clock, ?. m.
Among them are the following :
Folio. T TOMER. Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, Eufebius, Sozo
rl men, Theodoret, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Pater
cuius, Plinv, Concordantia Lat. Concordantia Gr. Thesaurus Ci.
ceronis. Biblia Junii andTremcllii, Bible de Martin,Wells's Maps.
Scapula:— Phavorini—Martinii—Hoffmani Lexica, Voflii Etymo
logicon, Antiquit. Ecclef. Britannic®, &c.
Quarto. Pindar, Cyropaedia, Bentley's Horace, Terence and
Phiedrus, Ovid, Juvenal, Manilius, Ciceronis op. om, Csfar, Su
etonius, Julius Pollux, Hederici Lexicon, Voflii Ars Gram. Cluve
rii Geographia, Justinian Code, &c.
OElavo et injra. Homer, Anacreon, Aristophanes, Longinus,
Theophraftus, Hefiod, Poeta: minores Gr. Ifocrates, Pbalaris, va
rious editions of Horace, Virgil, Terence, and Ovid, Tibullus, Plau
tus, Lucan, Martial, Claudian, Val. Flaccus, AuConius, Buchanan,
Salluft, Curtius, Flows, Juftiti, Val. Maximus, A. Gellius, Hill.
August. Scriptores, Englijh and French Tranjlations of some of the
Claflics, a great variety ot Greek and Latin Grammars, &c. See.
$3" Catalogues may be had of MelTrs. Rice& Co. Booksellers,
Market-street, or of JOHN CAREY.
OSober 31. (cptf.)
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY, some time in Augull 1 789, a yellow NEORO
MAM, named Abraham, late the property of Nathaniel
Wick/iff, deceased—about forty-five years of age, about five feet
eight or nine inches high, pretty well let, with a iarge wooll> head
and large beard, walks with his knees bent, often complairs of
pains in his feet and ancles—by irade a bricklayer, Hone inafon and
plasterer. He is a very handy fellow as a houfe-waitcr, arid is fond
of such bnfinefs. He is a great dilTembler, and no doubt pretends
he is a freeman. He has been eloped so long thai no description of
his prefeut clothing can be given. It is supposed that he went to
the Northern States, as he often mentioned having friends there.
Twenty Dollars reward will be given to any prrfon that will fe
curefaid Negro in any jail, so that the fubferiber may get him
again; and reasonable charges will e paid—or Thirty Dolled
will be given if heis brough' to Prince Willum County, \'irg i;ia,
to Mr. John Kinchelor, hy
CHARLES WICMUFF, Ad." : r.;(l.ator,
O&ober 12, 1791
292
JOHN KEAN, Cashier,
Y S O N,
WINE,
American Lead Manufactory.
STEPHEN A U S T I N, & Co. "
HAVE just now opened their Lead-Warehouse, two doors
south of Walnut-street Wharf, adjoining their New Faftorv—
where they have now made, and ready for faie, a general adort
ment ofSHOT of all sizes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the
production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed a
number of experienced English workmen, they warrant it to be
equal in quality to any manufa£tured in Europe, and at a reduced
pr ice from the foft of imported.
They also continue to manufafturc all the above articles
Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addreflfed to either of the
above Factories, will be thankfully received, and execntcd on the »
Ihortcft notice.
N. B. Wanted, indubious, sober, Labouring Men, at the bid
Mines, where constant employ, good wages, and other encourage
ments will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and
houses for their reception.
For further particulars enquire of Meflrs. Moses Aust i n & Co.
at their Factory in Richmond, or as above.
Philadelphia, December 3, 1791
George MEADE
Has for SALE, at his Stoies on Walnut-Street Wharf,
A FEW pipes of 3 and 4 years old bills of exchange Madeira
WINE, which he will dispose of by the pipe, hoglhead or
quarter calk.
London market Madeira WINE, 5 and 6 years old.
Old Sherry WINE of the firft quality, by the hogfaead or
quarter cask.
Three and 4 years old Lisbon WINE, of a superior quality to
what is generally imported, by the pipe, quarter cask, or laiger
quantity.
Choice old Coniac BRANDY, by the pipe, tierce, or larger
quantity.
A few quarter chests of firft quality Hyson TEA.
He has }uft received by the Pigou, Loxley, master, from London,
a few quarter casks of old Madeira WINE—And
Bv the brig Mercury, Capt. Stevens, from Dublin, a few boxes
of Irish LINENS, low priced and well aflbrted ; a few bales of
red and white FLANNELS, and some GLUE.
A few boxes of Spermaceti CANDLES of the firft quality, and
Burlington PORK of prime quality.
He has also to dispose of, a quantitv of dressed White Oak
STAVES.
He means to keep a constant supply of Firfl Quality Madeira
and Lisbon WINES, and whoever is pleased to tavor him with
tneir custom, may.be aflnred of being well served.
He will, through the Winter and Spring, buy und reded HAND
SPIKES. He is purchasing FLAX-SEED and BEES-WAX, and
will give the highest price for them.
N.B. A few hampers of excellent London PORTER and
Taunton ALE, just received, and to be difpoled of
Philadelphia, November 16, 1791
Public Securities,
Bought and Sold, on COMMISSION, by
SAMUEL ANDERSON,
Chefnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97.
John Pintard,
SWORN BROKER Sc AUCTIONEER,
PURCHASES and SELLS
PUBLIC DEBT of every defcription,onCoff«»i^7cw,
at the. following rates:
ON the specie amount of all sales at au&ion, one eighth per
cent.
On ditto at private sale or purchase, one-halj per cent.
On remittances, ditto.
Receiving interest at the Loan-OfKce, one percent, on the
amount of the interest.
For making transfers ac ditto^feventy-five cents per transfer.
(£3T Such persons as may incline to favor the subscriber with
their orders, may relv on their being executed with punctuality,
fidelity and dispatch. His long experience and extensive dealings
in the pnblic flocks, together with a well established correspon
dence throughout the Unued States, enable him to conduct his
operations with peculiar benefit to his employers.
JOHN PINTARD,
New-York, No. 57, King-Street.
Oflober 15, 1791
TO BE SOLD,
THAT beautiful and elegant lituation on the banks of the Po
tomack, adjoining the town of Alexandria, whereon the sub
scriber now resides; about 25 or 30 acres will be fold with the
improvements, which are a neat and commodious two story house,
compleatly finifhed from the cellar to the garret, a kitchen, laun
dry, meat-house, dairy, two story barn, and ice house, all finifhed
in the best manner, together with several other neceiTary outhouses,
the yard and garden neatly paled, and a fkillful gardner now em
ployed in putting it in fine order; the land well enclosed with a
post and rail fence ; a well, and springs of excellent water—the
profpefl is equalled by few, and excelled by none in America—
its contiguity to Alexandria, the Federal Town, and George-
Town, having a fine and full view of each place, mud render it in
a few grrat value, being in a line of communica
tion from Alexandria to the other two towns. Should a purchaser
offer before the 15th of February next, a cheap bargain may be
had. An indilputable title, clear of all incumbrances, will be made
bv the fubferiber. I will also fell with this piace, 220 Acres of
Wood Land, about 3 miles distant, which will suit well to sup
port the above in wood and timber.
December 14, 1791
Holy Bible.—Royal Quarto.
MR. THOMAS, of Worcester, Mallachufetts, mod refpeft
fullv informs (he puhJic, that he has this day completed the
Old and New Testaments of his Royal Quarto Edition of the
HOLY BIBLE. The" Apocrypha and Index, &c. will be finilh
ed with ail the dispatch the nature of the work, will admit.
Such Gentlemen as hold Subscription Pafers, he begs will
return them to him at Worcejler, or to him and Company at Bofion,
by the lad day of November next, and as much sooner as they con
veniently can.
He is happy to inform the public, that the work lias been exa
mined by many gentlemen, clergymen and others, and has met
with their highest approbationboth as to the execution of the
printing, its correftnefs, and us chcapnets compared with EnglilK
copies of the fame size and quality.
As this verv laborious and exceedingly expensive undertaking,
is carried on solely at his own i oft, he is led to hope that all those
who wish to pofiefs a large Family Bible, will so far encourage this
laudable undertaking of their countryman, as to add their names
to the fubferiqtion.
Worcejler. Sept. 29, 1791
ICP 7he price of {!:■}
On; half to b? t>
(ep 6w.)
BALDWIN DADE.
ISATAH THOMAS
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