The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-15
Secession will Save the Expenses Of War
with the NoraA, and Leave a surplus.

Secession will Save the Expenses OF W ar
with the Nora, and Leave a surplus.
Among the most frightful evils which the
advocates of submission depict as following in
the train of secession are those offree trade and
heavy ta1es-free trade, as throwing the bur-
don Of the General Government of the South
upon direct taxation for its support and in
creased taxes, rs resulting from this addition
nj burden, and from the expenses of war with
the North, or of maintaining the Government
on a war footing.
Even now they represent the taxes of the
Confederate States as crushing in weight, and
it has been extensively circulated in some
parts of Virginia, that the capitation tax on
the negro in South Carolina is SIC. This
statement is but specimen of class of mis-
representations put afloat among the people.
The real fact is that the expenses of South
Carolina are, upon her present war footing,
less than those of Virginia. Even during the
present year of extraordinary outlay, they
will not exceed those Of ordinary years much
more than half million of dollars; and those
of ordinary years are but six hundred thou
sand so that all told for 1861 will not be ST.
use, 600. But the alleged tax of *16 n head on
her 400, 900 slaves would produce %, 432 600 on
one species of property; which proves the
monstrous character of the allegation. The
real fact is, that her tax on slaves is one dol
lar twenty six cents a head. The expenses of
South Carolina will not reach IL $50 900 under
all the charges of secession and war and
that we repeat, does not require rate Of tax
alton equal to the rate paid in Virginia. The
county of Halifax, in our State, with 90, 900
people, white and black, pays $51 900 into the
State Treasury; at which rate South Carroll
ma, with her 10000 inhabitants. white and
black, would pay u, 400, 900; which is more
than she actually pays in this year of her
heavy war outlays; and one hundred and
thirty per cent. more than in ordinary times.
The expenses of secession in all the other
seeding States, payable from their State
Treasures, will not reach $500, 900 for the
year and this will not produce an amount
for the whole of them much exceeding the
taxes paid by Virginia alone. In real truth,
the Southern Confederacy will be the richest
country on the globe, Astounding in precisely
those resources which Tighten the burden Of
taxation upon the people. Her single export
of cotton last year was SOL zoo, 900, and will
never hereafter be less than 5000, 900, 600. It
Is not the mere amount of this production
that makes it so admirable a resource to the
South, as that it is an export-a surplus ex-
p0rt-W6lcn commands It's price In money
paid down in cash, and brought into the
country. 1t thus fills the South with money,
thereby giving activity to all trade, furnish
ing ready salss to all property, putting an end
to barter, and filing the peoples purses
With money always at hand, or at command,
even heavy tax can be borne with ease
whereas. without money in circulation, even
n light tax becomes onerous to rich and poor.
1t is for this reason that taxation is treated
rs so small an affair in the cotton States; NO
one has ever heard complaint of the taxes
from those States, and would not, though
they were double what they are, for their
heavy foreign export of a cash article brings
coin into free circulation. Their taxes are
really, however, very light. The State taxes
of all the seeding States do not equal in
amount those of Virginia and Maryland alone
As subject of interest, in this connection, WEI
append statement OF the disbursements of
all the fifteen slaveholding States in 1850.
showing that, altogether, they are but Sl5,-
900 900 per annum: