Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-30
Anti-Tax Traitors.


The indianapolis Journal draws the follow
ing striking portrait of the anti-tax screechers
Of the North:
There is many a man in the world who
weighs dollars against any suffering, and ifhe is
well paid considers his life well spent. A roll
of bank bills, if it is big enough, will satisfy
the honor of his sesluced wife and make him
friends with the seducer. pile of eagles, if
it is high enough, will reconcile him to the
man who spits in his face, and kicks him into
the cutters He will chatter FOR damages
with one who has shamed him for life as il he
were higgling over difference in grocery
bill, and when he has got his bargain, will re-
ccipt in full for the ignominy and pocket it
along with his check. lie will acquit any
injury for proportionate price. What makes
other mon dangerous makes him greedy
Where another man would pay an insult with
a blow, he is content with bargain. Having
no shame, he has no resentment. Like Joe"
in the Rough Diamond" he don't care to be
revengcd on the man if he can only "gct re-
venge on bis wittles." Such men can be found
in any community, not unfrequently rich, and
occasionally, by handling their disgraces with
legal tongs, respectable. They are the men
who estimate the value of safe and free Gov
ernment by thousands of dollars; who rate the
right of trial by jury at so many thousands; the
right of electing officers at so many more thou-
sands; the protection of personal liberty at so
many thousands, and thus through all the list
of advantages that an enlightened Government
has over despotism. Up to a certain point
they are willing to pay for Government, but
when the expense goes beyond, they had rath-
er go without.
Government, history liberty, fame, honored
citizenship, ali that make men proud of the
country they were born in, or of the Govern,
ment they have chosen to protect them, are
nothing. if it costs more than the calculated
number of millions Of dollars to keep them
Let them 60" says our peace nErn. lit is pay
ing too dear for The whistle to keep them at the
ex pense of high taxes" This is the spirit,
both OF the arguments and ac,iOnS, Of those
who gable so constantly Of the "cost of the
war" To these mean souls pqsllr covers the
| glories and traditions Of our whole history,
ard il it Gusts FIVE cents ON the hundred dollars
more to keep in mems minds that Washington
was All American and our Government his
work, than TO let hi; nmc perish forever, they
would vote against tht tax. If it were pro-
posed that all who should surrender the right
of suffrage should be exempt from ty dol
lars tax year, they wnHd accept the exenIp
tion with delight. For u dollar or two o
taxes saved, they would just as soon pass fol
Mex;caps as Americans. and would prefer the
Mex can system Of secession ut will to pcF
manent Government that had power to colIec
taxes, and rurpnses TO apply them to. The
same spirit that makes them pardon insults
that they are well paid for, and accept sham
us profitable Investment, nlukes them ind &
erent to every sentiment of patriotism, of pri'l
in their country, Or confidence in their Gov
ernment. just us they balance personal homo
against compensation, they balance patriotism
against taxation. 1t needs but very little le
6ection 70 show a sensible man that thci
economy is as false as it is-lnean.