The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-23
Nirbmun1 Dispatrb.
SATURDAY MORNING. NOV. q, 1881


SATURDAY MORNING. NOV. %. 1851.
A BIC SuM.-The New York Tribune cor
recting statement Of the New York Com.
anerciai, SAYS tina, the Yankees have five hun
dred Thousand men under arms--that the sol
diers of the old United States army cost al
least 81 900 per mau--:,nd that 1t IL not in the
Teas. probable that the Yankee army will cost
less per ,nan II. therefore sets down the
entire expense OF the Yankee Government,
for the army alone, ut $500, 900 ,0oO per annum
II gives 5000, 0O0, 900 more TO the navy and the
expeditions on foot or in contemplation, and
puts the whole war expenditure down At
oo,oo0.oo0 per annum. This is ronsng
sum--at leas, it seems so TO as but the Tn
hnse speaks of il ~ though there were no.
thing strange or unusual about it, II could
hardly speak with more indifference of the
receipts aud expenditures of small Yankee
fobbing store. Where it ia to come from we
are not informed The Yankees certainly
have bu, little foreign trade a, present, and
are not likely 10 have more than they now
possess for some time 10 come AT least.
1t II hardly probable that the negroes they
have set 10 picking ont aud ginning cotton on
Peri Royal Island sill furnish enough of that
article to bring any large importation in
turn from any country it may be carrid to.
and they have nothing of their own but grain
aud cattle To send abroad. OF course, the
custom house will not furnish such a sum- and
they must raise ii by taxes But will the
peopis pay these taxes Not unless
soldiers 10 the ltXgatherers. Even great
nations, ike Great Britain, will, accord
ing 10 Sidney Smith, bear ii very 1.eavy
load OF infamy, rather than Il very light bur
den vi taxation. Tory writers naintaiu that
the indisposition 10 pay taxes for the most No.
eessary wants of the Government, cost Charles
4 bis life. The Commons certainly refused 10
grant Lin supplies, and he was compelled to
raise them on his own authority, III order TO
carry on the Government. The Wing writer's
Ray Ii Is true that Parliament withheld supplies
IL order to make him concede certain rights
which he withheld. Be that as il may, taxa
ton seems to have lan at the bottom Of the
Grand Rebellou,@ rs Clarendon called it. or,
as The Wings Gail 1t, tho GLORIOUS Keyolu
tion." When Cromwell expelled the Rump,
and took matters into his own hands, he col
lected taxes easily enough, II IL true and he
did not wait Tor any Parliament or Council 10
lay them. lie laid then himself, and employ
I'd solalers To collect them. Now, If such IL
people de the English then were, Will sm,.sh ID
Government to winch they had become s,ccus
Iomed by the habits OF SIN hundred ears rath-
ct than pay triding ,aA, what Will ucha pack
of thieves ~ the Yankee na1ion uot do 10 get
rad Q; shcl. Il harden as = on, UJJ 900 entails AZ
e1ghi per cent, the interest alone viii amOuuL
he doubted every year for assuredly they Will
spend each succeeding year as much lis they
spent the Year before. How is lanhe ca doodle
dam to pay. THAT the question: Not By take,
we are sure
In 1873. ihe British Government spent
fl2. don, 900 sterling that is to say about $G.0,
tu0,noO This was the year the battle OF
Waterloo was fought, and it was that of the
largest expenditure Great Britain ever made
in Ii single year. She had in service, on land
and AT sea, more than million of men ana
she subsidized besides the million and IA halt
of Rus-iaIs Prussi.,ns. Austriaus SwcdeS,
Eavarianr, SaNons, batch, St, that eI. red
Paris after the ial OF Napoleon. Her rA-
ienditure Wac considered the most enormous
That was ever prompted by the madness and
ambition of minister. And vet il fell short
oil Yankee extravaganza in tue first wear of
Yankee rule pnre and simple, $40, 700 ,000.-
There Is, moreover, this difference between
the two cases. Only about one fourth Of the
British money, about $50 ,OO0, 600, or about
$ls0,O0O,O 600, WAS borrowed money. About
"a, 600 COO sterling was raised by taxation.
and the rest was All unexpended balance OF
the preceding year The Yankees on the
contrary, borrow every dollar they spend -
They go the whole figure. They contract IA
loan for 500, 900 900 at dash, and agree to
pay eight per cent. tor it.
We have before expressed the opinion that
this lavish expenditure was IL part of Sew
ards policy, designed TO make the Yankee
cities feel the less the withdrawal of the
Southern trade, by the introduction of these
enormous sums, lavished among them for army
and navy stores, and a general system OF
bribery. BY this plan il is hoped to reconcile
them TO the war, and 10 employ the ewarms OF
idle hands that would otherwise convert the
cities into 40 many scenes of pillage and
slaughter. How long this can last remains
TO be seen. That many thousands will be-
come interested in ,he public debt thus accu-
initiating, and that the resdest way to extort
taxes from them will be to give as many as
possible al interest in this debt is very pro-
babls Blu. there must he a settlement In
some way, some time or other.