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From the Concord Nv. H.) Standard.
Freedom for the Black Man-Slavery for
the White Man.

A large proportion of the laboring white
men and women of the North have been
persuaded into the belief, that the black
men held as slaves in the South should be
let free-that Slavery is a sin and curse,
and that the slave is dreadfully oppress-
ed man, and should be set free, and per.
mitted to take care of himself. And the
consequence of this belief, carried out in
political action has caused the disruption
Of the Union and the present civil war.
And what are now, and what IRE to be
the results of this greatest of all disasters
which can befall people? At present,
we are called upon to enter the camp and
fight in war brought about by these mis-
taken sympathies of portion of the PEG.
pie of the Republic for the black men of
the South, whose best condition is that of
Slavery. We are not called upon to sacri-
fee our lives only, but to contribute large
ly OF our property to carry on the war
War is the most expensive of all Injuries,
of all the enterprisesiu which human
beings can engage, war is the most costly
and expensive. And the war in which
this country is now engaged in order to
carry out the theories and DEGREES of the
North with regard to the Negro, bids fair
to be the most expensive on record It
has already cost more than S200,0O0,0 900.
1t will cost during the very first year of it's
existence, $500, 100000. Military Com
mittees of Congress have recommended the
organization of an army of 100000 men,
to support which they recommend an ap-
preparation of $500, 100000 This enor-
NOUS sum must be raised by taxation, and
by loan, mainly by the latter. Thus,
during the first year of the war, a debt of
nearly $500,0O0,000 will be created. IF
il continues one year longer, a sum equal
ly great will be added to the debt. If it
were to be closed the present year, debt
will have been incurred, from which the
nation will never escape. The. interest
will have to be paid semi-annually, and
that in addition to the ordinary expenses Of
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SATURDAY MORNING. v-No. 81

esSSa Increasing at' ;5lfo rata Of akort aSaib
zion a'dollars per day. And, as yet not
single cent is realized from the people and
paid on account of this very large sum
The whole of it has been raised on we'll
arranged loans, plausibly presented by q
very industrious and ingenious Secretary
of the Treasury. Capitalists, who had no
use for their money, under the promptings
Eof patriotism, gladly exchanged it for Gov
eminent loans and Treasury notes, which
have been created at various times and is
sued in almost every variety of amount, at
high and low rates of interest, and as cur
rency, sort of forced loan, at no interest
lat u. These have justly found wide ia
Tor, but none of them have been paid, and
Congress is even now hating, whether they
Twill or not authorize direct tax for the
payment only of the interest, at the end
of the year, on such an amount of debt as
the nation will probably then owe. 1.-THE
interest is not promptly paid as it falls due,
and by paying, we mean cash, through the
medium of the tax gatherer, and not by fur
ther borrowing, the credit of the Govern
t'nent cannot be maintained. And if main
tanned by direct taxation, what will be the
feelings and expressions of the taxpayers
There are complaints now that this move
ment is unwise, that that was wrong that
something other than was attempted should
have been done, just as the thing under
taken resulted, successfully or otherwise !;
but when to this contrariety of opinion and
complaining is added the failure to pay ill.,
terest on the public debt, or is coupled with
the annoyance of the tax collector, We may
imagine the effect ON the sock list generally.
10 us there is little in the future favoring
buoyant stock market, aud not few pos
rsstfllls. contingencies calculated greatly to
depress it"
Now, any can calculate the cost to each
man to pay the s500,OO0,O0O mentioned
in the above. But supposing the whole
sum will have to be paid by the 20,OOO,OOO
of people in the North, it will assess $25
to every man, woman and child. If we
take the usual average of five to each man
of family, the assessment, will be $125 to
each man. Dednct about one third of these
as dellnquents, or as not being able to pay,
and the true sum which the war policy will
extort from every man possessed of the
means from which the money can be re-
covered by process of law, will be $166.25.
How many farmers have that much to
spare after paying for the labor of gather
ing their crops? Two years of such war
will mortgage all the property of the land.
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~ Whilst the Confederate States are
abundantly able to maintain their indepen-
dence by force of arms, yet do they most
ardently desire peace. Said President
DAVIS, in his Message of April 29:-
Z" We protest solemnly in the face of
mankind, that we desire peace at any sac
rifce, save that of honor and independence;
we seek no conquest, no ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
no concession from the. free States. Ali
we ask is to be let alone; that none shall
attempt our subjugation by force. This
we must and will resist to the last extrem-
ity. The moment this pretension is abann-
doned, the sword shall drop from our grasp,
and we shall be ready to enter into treaties
of amity and commerce mutually bene-
fetal" .r -.....'.. i
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Executed at the shortest notice sand on the mos,
reasonable terms.

.eiaed Fitbert a rcsFqn. spa Winch our
public authorities beginning at point at
which Chaumette and the committee of
twelve, Of which he was a member, stopped.
For among other instances, it may be OBJ
served that until September, 1892, visits
to the houses of suspected persons were not
allowed to be made at night.
1t is worth while also to note the treat
ment of suspected persons in that unhappy
timo. communications from without
were permitted. The prisoners had the
consolation Of embracing their relations,
and the means Of procuring money. They
were also allowed all those accommodations
which could render their state supporta-
ble." So, at least, M. Theirs tells us in
his graphic history. ....ts
Our estate prisoner" our fellow-cit-
liens, the police commissioners, who are
confessedly imprisoned for no crime, but
are keptas suspected persons" ARE as
suredly less fortunate. No man among us
knows how they fare, and it is certain that
they are not permitted to enjoy the conso-
lations that cheered the Girondists, even
in the prison of the Luxembourg. For
sixty-eight years we have denounced, in
this free land, with one voice, the dealings
of the French government with its own
people in the revolution. We must learn
to change our opinion of that government,
or else we and posterity will have strange
opinions of our own government.-Bazti-
more Sun. ..,
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Critical.
Our Dixie.

For the Southern Kgis.
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-shse Ge1ctniaeity aassnntta asan ssssst;sa,
$1OO,OO0,000 per annum, will fall upon
the laboring people to pay. ,,aj sJo.l 81
Labor pays for everything. The work.
ingman, the producer of wealth, is doomed
to pay all the expenses Of all Governments.
All the taxes which the Government i'm
poses, in whatever form they are levied,
come from the toll and sweat of the labor
ing man. Whatever goes to support the
Government, in any form, comes from the
earnings of the laboring man, and SO far
deprives him of the means of living
Heavy taxation brushes him to the earth,
and has made him substantially slave in
all countries. 1t is the weight of taxation
imposed to support the ponderous Gov
ernmental systems of Europe, - their
thrones, aristocratic establishments, church.
es, armies, navies-all the machinery of
their artificial and complex SYSTEMS
which brushes the laboring men of Europe
to the earth, and reduces them to substan-
tial Slavery.
The present war promises to result in
imposing burdens upon the laboring white
men of this country which will lead to the
same results, which will reduce them to
virtual Slavery, from which neither them
selves nor their children will ever escape.
Therefore, in the misguided and foolish
efforts to libsrate the black men in this
country, the white men are forging the
chains of Slavery for themselves, which
neither themselves nor their posterity ever
can break. Let them remember that they
are waging the present war substantially
for freedom Of the black man, and the
slaUery of the ohite man. ... ........
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No NEW PoL1cY.-We cannot reproach
the authorities at Washington with the In.
itiation of a meao policy towards those citi-
zens who are suspected of being unfriend.
y to their system of government.
In September, 1893, the revolutionary
government of France, being at war with
Europe, discovered that it did not possess
sufficient power to control the actions of
Frenchmen who were believed to be dis
loyal. The convention therefore passed,
on the 18th, of the month, the famous de-
cree known, as the loi DIES suspects, the i'm.
prisonment of suspected persons till the
peace. The municipal council of Paris, in
the exercise of doubtful, but potent au
thority, set forth by formal notice des-
cription of the classes of persons to whom
the law was intended to apply. The clas-
sifcation was SO highly esteemed that it
was adopted by all the departmental Sec
tons of the republic.
Those were to be deemed, among others,
suspected: l. Who in the rr1blic meet
ings check their energy by crafty address
es, turbulent cries and threatening Ian
guage. 2. Those who were prudent in
their conduct, speak mysteriously upon the
misfortunes of the republic, affect to COM
misserate the people, and are always ready
to circulate bad news with an affected sor-
row. 3. Those who have trimmed their
language and demeanor according to the
course of events; who emphatically declaim
against the slight failings of the patriots.
4. Those who sympathise with such as the
law is compelled to prosecute. 5. Those
who, although constantly having the words
liberty, republic and country upon their
lips, yet associate with n,oderatists, and in
terest themselves in their behalf 6. Those
who have received the republican constitu-
ton with Indifference, and have exhibited
false apprehensions as to its establishment
and its probable duration. 7. Those who,
although they have committed no act a.
gainst liberty, have yet done nothing for
liberty, 8. Those who are in the habit of
speaking contemptuously ofthe constituted
authorities.
But yet these classes of suspected citi-
zens, who were liable to detention in pri-
son, had, as we see, the advantage of know
ing the precise reason for their detention.
For, unless they were alleged by the accu-
sation of the authorities to be included in
one of the classes referred to, they were
not liable to detention, even in that un-
happy time. Peter Gaspard Chaumette,
to whom the merit of the foregoing inge-
NOUS classification belongs, saw the pro-
priety of affixing some limitation to the
power of the government to which he be-
louged. Yet Gaspard Chaumette was GER
tainly good republican, for he was one of
the conquerors Of the Bastille, and did
much also that brought him into favor in
the year 1892. He is not one of our he
roes, however, and we do not, for historical
reasons, cite him as an example for imita-
ton, But We may name him as warn,
ing, for we assuredly sec in this country
the governmental power Of detention exer-
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From the Dayton (OhiO) Empire.


The Republican press and orators, during
the last Presidential campaign, prophesied
that the election Of Lincoln. -.
"Will give peace and quiet to the coun-
try, of which it is sadly in need:
That all branches of industry will re-
vive, business will be good, and wages
high - .-
That it will kill off the heresy of Sc
cessiou for all time to Gomez"
That it will strengthen the Union, re-
store confidence and friendship between the
people of the North and South -
That I" he will have an economical and
pure administration, and so conduct affairs
as to reinaugurate the times of the earlier
Presidents .-.,.,
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS pRoPHEsIED.
The Democratic press and speakers, on
the other hand told the people that the
election of Lincoln,
Will result in the disruption of the
Union:
In the destruction of all trades and COM
MERGE: ...s
Widen the breach between the North
and the South
Throw the laboring masses out of en-
ployment: '' '+
Bring down price produce, increase
the taxes of the people
And worse than all, would be likely to
create long, bloody and expensive civil
war between the sections.
Reader, Lincoln was elected. Judge
for yourself whether the Republicans or
Democrats were correct in their prophecy.
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Our Dixie.
Away down South in the land of cotton,
Where the good old times are not forgotten,
Look away, look away, look away, look away
Where corn instead of cotton is growing,
And off to the wars her men are going,
Look away, look away, look away, look away
Then shout and sing for Dixie,
Hu-rad hurrah
Well take our stand with gun in hand
And fight for the South and Dixie.
The rife in the Southern hand,
Will drive all Yankees from the land,
Look away, sc. -,
The fight at Bethel it begun, 81. ..n" .H
They say it ended at Bull Run,
Look away, &c.
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &c.
Old Lincoln he is looking blue,
And Scott the bluest of the two,
Look away, &c.
They could not stand those batteries,
Which some one says were Gen. Lees,
Look away, &C.
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &C.
A Yankee on the Southern soil,
Will make che blood of Southron boil,
Look away, &c.
The serpent ruled in Eden's bowers,
And old Abe Lincoln rules in ours,
Look away &c.
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &c.
He seems the devils duplicate,
His other self-his other mate
Look away, &c.
Then cheer for Davis, Beauregard,
Who Lincoln's way to Richmond barr'd,
Look away, &c.
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &c.
Oh Dixies land will shortly be,
The glorious land of liberty,
- Look away, &c. ".-'-',-' $500 '.o-' -
Where men are equals brothers-friends,
And tyranny forever ends,
Look away &c,
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &c.
The braves" marched into Bel Air one day,
Our soldiers gums to take away
Look away, &c.
In Maryland they'll not as many find
AS at Bull Run they left behind,
Look away, &c.
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &c.
The Bel Air ladies had their fun,
They brought the troops wooden gun,
Look away, &C.
The Yankee boys were somewhat scary,
From such they fled at Harper's Ferry,
Look away, &c.
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &C.
"On to Richmond" Greedy said,
"The blood of old Virginia She'd"
Look away, &c.
And Abe has left full many a gun,
And soldier dead around Bull Run,
Look away, &c.
Then shout and ring for Dixie &c.
In years gone by the nation found,
That Dixie's land was holy ground,
Look away &c.
Oh Dixie is the land for me,
Then shout for Dixie-Dixie free
Look away, &c.
Then shout and sing for Dixie, &c.
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Vs. The Wisconsin Tribune thus gra-
phically describes the objects Of this war:
"We believe we but echo the sentiment
Of the entire North, and many loyal sons Of
the South, when we say, make no compro-
mise with traitors except at the end Of
hempen cord; settle forever the question Of
chattel slavery; and make our nation q
nation of freedom" -..--t.,...-..
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c. A Cincinnati paper speaks Of Owen
Lovejoy, che yociferous Abolitionist from
Illinois, as man of Immense lung power
and very little brains. His speeches, can
be heard for half q mile, and are not worth
hearing any distance. ''' o t'D''of''-' ''S
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Mlist&IIaufous>

Where the War Party is Carrying Us'
We make the following extract from the
Philadelphia Ledger. Let the people re-
feet upon its contents. They know as we'll
as we can tell them that thousands of peo-
pie who never made eight hapdyed dollars
year at their occupation are now making
thousands out of the war. OF course then
will not stop to count the cost to the poor
man, the necessities of whose family require
him to sweat under the heavy burden for a
mere living.
"The stock market is depressed and in.
active. The whole days business is in
cluded in SIC, 900 of bonds and 305 shares;
distrust of the future is the great feature
of the market. Nobody seems able to see
very clearly the end of our political diff
culties, while almost all are willing to ad-
NIT the result is more indefinite and more
remote than even the more cautious were
willing to acknowledge a month or six
weeks ago. Nothing but the great abun-
dance of unemployed capital can account
for the frlnness of the stock prices With
rapidly accumulating national debt, and
business paralized as was never known be-
fore; it is surprising that buyers of stock
securities can be found at existing prices,
or indeed at any price, for however low
they may seem, there is much reason to
fear that they will go still lower. 1t is es-
timated that within the present fiscal year
the public debt of this nation will be swelled
to nearly or quite five hundred millions of
dollars. For the last two months it has
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A FEW MORE of those Superior Grain
"A Cradles left on hand and for sale at
Lapidum by B. +. HEATH.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-27
Geo. Ill. UulIOu.

The following extract from a letter IN
The Mis- QUIZ Democrat, refers unmista.
kably to Mr.. Ballou, of Dubuque,
and who WAS wounded in the battle OF
Springfield
recognized among the wound d a
printer from Lock port, n. Y, who was
wounded in the vicinity OF the lungs.
He fou,d his way to Iowa on the out
break OF the rebellion, aud "went III"
He requested that his name would not
bc mentioned as be desired that bis pa.
seuts " ould not be informed Of his situ-
alton. His story is interesting. Our
party had retleated nom v.ece OF
woods, when upon looking around ny
trend say Il gun pointed toward him
from the ldentlcs spot previously occu-
pied by him. He commenced loading
his gun, when at the instant c was
shot. La the excitement he fired off the
ra'nrod anil fell fal,ting to the ground,
and was carried Oft by his comrades. At
lbe no pilal in Springfield he was lett,
but overiIearIpg man tell the physi.
clan to write IN case friend OF his
should DE, our narrator judged it was
about ;'met leave. Wrapping hlau-
kst about HIM he assumed to be among
the well ones, and thereby passed the
seat'nel without difficulty. lie proceed
&c two miles before reaching the rea,
wagon OF the baggage train, and when
taken aboard coon tell into dehrious
state. lie said be would die rather tt an
remain in the hands OF the rebels.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-27
(Fson he Ssess City Register
ARaRWea(o.

i OUT Lest iDsue Wills ~ spoke Of
the candidates nomissted BY the Des-
meioes Couye nt,on 81 the gath ult, we
did not place their names at the head Of
our columns, because We did
not think that the Convention
~ss regularly called, or thst II
~ss policy to make nominations at that
time. The proceedings looked to NJ
like the action OF the Breckinrldge eie'
ment, which last year introduced dis
cord into our ranks, and secured ons de-
,eat. The resoiutioss wers ili-timed, and
calculated U embolden rebellion, and
| discourage The 0oyerpnsst 10 il effests
| 10 sustain itself 10 the present emergen'
cy. The resolutions cmbody compro-
| mise, when JEFF Dsvis and the entire
! southern press tell % that the only
compromise which the South will accept
is its recognition as an independent gov
| eminent. Can such be the compromise
favored by that Convention I If not
| Then Why resolve an imposslbility! The
Convention determine that The loan
voted by the last Legislature IS "uncon-
.ttutional." We have always argued
and believed, as a Democrat, that our
Courts are more appropriate tribunal
han party Conventions tor settling the
validity or nudity Of law. Besides the
action OF that Convention mutually con-
tennis those Democrats who voted for
that loan, among whom were some OF
the best men in the party. This was
not only unnecessary, but wrong and Nh
Just.
At the present time we have enough
to do TO uphold and preserve the Gov
eminent from rum. THIS is work call
iug for the united effort Of sIl good and
loyal citizens. We cannot assent to
An, thing tha, does not contemplate such
Al end. However much We may differ
about men or local matters, let there be
no division upon the main question or
,isunion. Let us unite in berving the
arms and cheering the hearts OF our
brave men who are fgh ing the battles
of our country. We aIe anxious that
the Democracy shall not be betrayed in.
TO false position upon this question.
1t is with pleasure, therefore, that We
to-day publish the regular call for a
Democratic State Convention, to be held
at Des,noines on she 29ih inst. The
call is signed by eight Of the eleven COM
mit,eemcn-a fact that in itself settlers
the question OF regularity. We hope
this call will insure fnIl Convention
that sound, Democratic Union resou-
lions will be adopted, and that the mem
DRY OF our late glorious leader and the
nations abie-t statesmen, Stephen A.
Douglas, aoiU not be utterly forgotten by
u COnUeutsOu cOnUeued bit three
months after Ills death. Let bis friends
at least equal his enemies in their re-
spect tor his memory.
ltma,ters little SO lar as concerns present
duty, whether or not this war might
have been averted by timely concession.
The goldon opportunity OF compromise
is now passed away. Nenher regret
can recalls it. We are in the midst OF
var aud must act as the emergency re-
quires. To us the path of duty seems
p!aln. |, is TO stand BY The Government
whether right or wrong, aud to oppo
all enemies, whether foreign or domestic.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-27

Tue DESTRUCTION OF Wasurxcrox
COMMUNICATIVE Washington cor
respondent OF the Philadelphia Press
writes:
Il am informed, through more than
one reliable source, that Jeffet son d avis
strongly contemplates an INVASION of
Washington-not to hold the city, but
to destroy it. He nesitates no, on ina
biily 10 do it, but on the loyalty of
Maryland. Strenuous exertlons are
progressing to secure q change Of senti-
melt 10 favor of Secession. TEat &C.
ccmplisbed, the movement Of his army
wonld be upon the capital, with the des.
Perate determination 10 mcte out its fate
ct Hampton"