Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-09-19

holders. and tho honest farmer, mechanic,
and laboring man will, ii the project succeeds,
for all time to come, have to pay the addi-
tonal burden for the support CT these poti-
cal bloodsuckers either in the shape of Tar
if or direct Tax. Are the honest yeomanry
of this county prepared fo- such state OF
things? But there are no 'Seceshers' here
it is Peace party to stop the war and save
the taxes for the support Of the war Sup
pose the war was to stop now, what would
be the result? Eleven States have seeded
from the Union and say they neither desire
nor intend to come back; and they are to be
let alone. Then the country IS divided into
two governments; secession is an accomplish
ell fact, and there will be a double set of Off
GERS and q double amount of taxes must be
raised to pay this double set Of officers.
But this is not all the two governments
will be to great exten: divided by an imag-
mary lne--the boundary lines Of Missouri,
Kentucky and Virginia. Forts will have to
be built all along this line--a large standing
army will have to be raised to man these
forts-arms and ammunition will have to be
provided for the defence of these forts--Ca
valry and flying artillery will have to be
greatly multiplied, and this will inevitably
keep up perpetual border warfare and keep
up as perpetually the taxation. Who is to be
benefited by it? Political tricksters and TO-
gics in the shape Of Senators and Represen-
tatives with their officers-foregn ministers,
consuls, commodores. captains, md-shipmen
and other officers in the navy-majors, brig
adler generals, colonies, lieutenant colonies,
majors. captains, licutenants, &C.. of the ar
my--engineers, &c. All these must be paid
and by whom? Farmers, mechanics, labor
ers, have you thought of this, and are you
prepared to pay this additional amount of
taxes and entail it on your children forever
The blessings which we have enjoyed I'M
der this government were purchased by the
blood of our fathers, not for as alone but for
our children to the last generation ! 1t is our
solemn duty to transmit it as We received it
--unimpaired and unbroken to our success
sors, and this we cannot do by assisting the
accomplishment of secession under the name
If peace party" Neither do we lessen our
own taxes. The serpent in the Garden of
Eden told our first parents they should not
die, but acquire full knowledge of good and
evil by eating the forbidden fruit. The Peace
party tell us they are not sccessionists, but
want peace to prevent taxation. Our first
progenitors acquired the knowledge Of good
and evil, but most Of the eril without which
knowledge both they and we would have been
better off, So it will be If the Peace party
prevails, we will have the present tax replaced
by heavier and perpetual one. The peace
party only has existence in the State of Ma
ryland, and that for the purpose of carrying
the State election and seeding the State out
Of the Union, thus transferring the war from
the Virginia to the soil of Maryland. Ye who
are disposed to be peace men are 20 prepared
for this state of things? Are you willing
that what has been and is still doing in Vir-
gina shall be enacted under your own eyes
ard on your own hearth stones? Are you
willing to be torn from your homes and fam
lilies to fight against the Nalona! Govern
ment, to have your crops, your cattle and
horses taken from you, and if paid at all to
be paid for them in "Confederates Bonds"
more useless than the old Continental bonds
and shinplasters? Every man who votes for
a peace party candidate for any office, is aid
ing tho secessionists to accomplish the above
state of things and the destruction of our
country as a respectable nation. Then look
to it that neither personal feeling nor lying
persuasion bring to you the knowledge of
perpetual taxation, as eating the forbidden
fruit brought into this world the perpetual
knorledge Of epl. MORE ANON.
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