The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-27


authorizing the TAX, invests tie President with
authority to divide che United States into collect
ion districts and to appoint collector and asses-
sor for each. Assessors in their turn are to ar
point assistant assessors, who are 10 20 into every
part of their districts and 10 require all persons 10
deliver up lists of their taxable property. Tho
collectors who are appointed are TO name ,heir
deputies. Provision is made for refractory mar
ties who may decline to give schedule of their
property, and the right of distress is granted
against the chattels of those who refuse 70 nov
There IS to be license for stills, an excis, m
spirits distilled or rec,ifed, On beer. ale nortar
and other home made or home brawad raior,
There is to be duty on Carriages and tax on
watches.
Thus 1t is proposed again 10 saddle the country
with an immense onerous tax not for the purpose
oil enabling patriotic citizens TO resist oppression
or protect themselves against foreign invasion,
but for the purpose of enabling the corrupt Ad-
mlnistration of q corrupt sectional party, who
have for years deliberately advocated and defended
the violation of the Constitution, to carry out
coercve policy, the inevitable result of which can
only be the final and permanent dsmemberment
of the Union.
During the revolutionary war. and in the first
Gays OF young and feeble government, direct
taxation was an evil to which it was necessary to
submit; but even then it was a burtben under
which the people were FESTIVE, and the first efforts
OF Inc Government were directed to its abolish
ment. JEFFERSON, in his first annual mes
sage congratulates the country on the fact
that there Is reasonable ground of confidence
THAT we may now safely dispense with all the
internal taxes, comprehendng excuses, stamps,
auctions, licenses, carriages and refined SUGARS
And in his second inaugural address, March 4tb
1906 speaking Of internal taxes he saws: "These,
covering our land with officers, and opening our
doors to their intrusons, had already begun that
process of domciliary vexation, which, once en-
"tered upon is scarcely to be restrained fr m reach
ling, successfully, every article of produce and
| properly"
In the year 1913 direct taxation was again re.
sorted to, for the purpose of providing revenue fol
| the support OF the Government, the customary re
ceipts from imports being entirely suspended Thi:
tax was, however, repealed soon after the declara
ton OF peace Since then the Government ha;
always favored the policy of providing for its ex
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ports, which is collected on our seaboards snt
frontiers, and paid by those only who prefer tt
add foreign luxures to their domestic comforts.
There Is probably no necessity at present tina
the tax should be heavy one, or one of lopt
duration. But as every day of the continuation
OF the war adds at least one million dollars to tn
steadily Accomplishing Indebtedness of the Govern
ment it is not difficult to predict that if It b
continued but few months longer, the tax will
not only be heavy but perpetual one. To tn
amount required to meet the deficiency cause
oy diminished receipts, must be added the in
creased assessment which must be laid upon eac
OF the free States, as will inevitably be the case
LOT the purpose of raising the necessary annua
amount. Nearly $40, 900, 900 are at present az
porhoned to the slave States, TO be borne by them
out as not only the whole $40, 600, oOo but an
additional sum required to be raised by direc
taxation will eventually have 10 be borne by tb
Northern States alone, it should be matter c
grave consideration with them as to whether the
will consent to tax themselves and their posterit
for the prosecution of measures, from which. eve
II successful, they cannot expect to derive an
permanent advantage. 1t would be wei
for them to reflect that this is but the BEGIN
ming; that the expense of every additional da
will have to be provided for in the same manner
and that, in case of largely increased nationa
debt, general tax on property and an excise OF
liquors will not be found sufficient. Other mode
OF specific taxation will have to be resorted to an
: the Northern people will find themselves harasse
by internal duties, not only on every luxury, bu
upon every necessary of life. Their business vii
be hampered with licenses and stamp acts; b
taxes on bonds, and stocks, and mortgages, an
f money transactions of every descriptions; and
finally, they may expect stamp tax on the news
papers and periodical literature of the day. Til
poorer classes will be forced to dispense with man
of the comforts which they are now enabled to er
joy, and will even find it more difficult TO procu,
The absolute necessaries of life. Their sources
Y information thus curtailed and their conditio
e impoverished by the necessary increase of expend
e ture, many of the now boosted freemen of Il
: North will be reduced to the abject condition
e the poorer classes of Europe