Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-09

cial tax, ranging from one to fifty dollars,
while the proposed income tax will take
| from the already diminished earnings OF
every man three per cent, equal to fifteen
dollars on a salary of FIVE hundred dollars,
thirty dollars on salary of one thousand,
sixty dollars on a salary of two thousand,
ninety on three thousand, &c.--a very Sc
rious demand upon the labor of the coun.
try.
These questions are just beginning to be
understood, as is also something Of the
horrors and sscrafices of life which must
attend the war. We have had slight ex :
perience in that way in the battle at Bull
Run, but nothing to what must be exper-
fenced if hostilities are to be long contiu-
ued. The realization Of these things will
be broughthome to nearly every family; for
few will be found who have not to mourn
the loss, in battle or from the exposures
and casualties of the camp, of some friend
patriotically called to serve in the army.
These losses, greater from the latter men
toned causes than from battle, will demand
an hundred thousand victims, even if the
war shall not prove of long duration. Al
these thing might be suffered and borne, if
any great object aoere 10 be gained-any sub
stantial good accomplished. But in view
of such considerations as we have named,
and Of the general evils and horrors of
civil war, of such magnitude as that which
is just opening upon us, the people begin
to ask, what good is to come Of alr this?
what substantial benefits to posterity, to
ourselves or to the cause of human liberty
are to be achieved through such fearful
sacrifices. In many quarters, too, the more
practical question challenges attention
can we subjugate and reduce the enemy
against whom we are contending?
These are questions of no small impor-
tance, and are forcing themselves day by
day, more prominently upon the pulic mind
and producing convictions unfavorable to
the plan of the war party. The President
and his adUisers failed at the outset to COM
prehend the magnitude and ertent of the
reoolution sohieh has been inaugrated IN the
Southern States-failed to appreciate, if not
the cause Of this revolution, at least the re-
sources and ability which are brought to its
support. The leading war papers, since
the battle at Bulls Run, and the revela-
tions respecting the batteries and the troops
at Manassas, pulicly acknowledge their ig-
norance respecting the enemy's power
With these, facts and confessions before
them, the people, awakened to sense of
the dreadful errors already committed, de-
mand that war begun under a misappre-
hension Of the motives and resources of
the enemy, having for its prosecution no
we'll defined object, unless it be that of
overthrowing, in violation of constitution
al provisions, the domestic institutions ex
isting in the Southern States, shall cease at
the earliest moment that an honorable peace
can be obtained This feeling contrary
perhaps to the general impression, is stron-
ger in the country than in the large cities,
and is becoming SO much developed, that
it must soon find utterance in public ex-
preston, as we'll as in private conversation
and action. From all sections of the
country we hear of this growing sentiment
for peace, and every day serves to increase
and strengthen it among the masses of
the people. 1t has already become too
strong for suppression, and if we do OF
mistake the 'logic of events, will soon
become the controlling sentiment of the
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