Litchfield Enquirer

Perhaps the Loco Focos are not aware that no longer ago than last year, Honest Levi, Mr. Van Buren's Secretary of the Treasury, recommended a tax of 20 per cent on Tea and Coffee, which he classed under the head of "Luxuries." The following is an extract from a report made by him on the 18th of January, 1841.—Yarmouth Register.

"Suppose, then, that there should be selected from the free articles, those which may be regarded most as luxurious, though not in every respect belonging to that class: such are Tea, Coffee, and Silks: should we then add to them others, conflicting with similar American productions, such as worsteds, linens, &c., and the aggregate deducting the amount re-exported would be $25,026,448. A duty of 20 per cent on those, after paying the expenses of collection, would yield about the same amount of five millions. This seems to contain the general data for the most eligible and unexceptionable revision."