Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-10-08

maue any tax Imperative.
Two other exceptions we must make to the
new tariff Il levies $40 ton on the strongest /
manufactured hemP-hemp from Russia, whose
government is engaged in breaking down the
power Of the slave holders there; and thirty per
cent dd Valorem on gunpowder. Strong hemp
and gunpowder should be admitted free into the |
whole North for year or two to come. Our
interested economists even hold up for our terror
An extra duty on salt Of lS cents on a hundred
pounds. There is insult scorching, biting !
penetrating insult in this whole peddng talk OF
traitors in time like this. The audaoity is
ineasureeas, and the efiluence of every such
sentence is intoerable. Joseph Holt asks us-a
Southern man, whose forefDger weighs more in
the country's scale than an acre Of such friends
Of peace as are pOlluting type in our own
State to print their poisonous missives-Joseph
Holt asks US il, when the life OF the patient is
confessedly st stake, shall we be inhuman enough
s'to discuss the question of the physician's fee
before summoning him to the bedsidel" Aud
our new-hedged California friends of the Union
and peace hold up budget in which they call
attention to ls cents per hundred pounds on salt
Why, we will chew salt by the bagful (and sph
IL out rs we do the advice Of treason) il there is
no other way of getting that eighteen cents into
the Treasury to purchase cartridges and If we
are turned from our duty to the Constitution and
the land by this vile counsel of half whitewashed
traitors, the salt in has lost its savor, and is
good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden
under foot Of men," Yes, of JEFF. Davis men,
Think Of what our ancestors endured in the
Revolution They came out Of it, three mil
lions ofpeope, with nearly two hundred millions
OF debt Two thousand millions of dollars to-
day would not be such o debt on our nation ms
that legacy Of the Revolution. What would
Sam. Adams, what would thrifty Franklin, what
would prudent Washington. have said, il, mid
way in the struggle, committee, known to be
in the interest of the British Parliament, had
approached them with magnifying glasses to
read the tax bills with, and the appeal, "Stop
hghting-give the people tea and sugar cheaper,
and Let ue have POtger in the submissive Colonies
at peace !" Would they have gone out of Wash
iugton's camp with whole bone in their skele-
tons
Heavy as the Revolutionary debt was the
Constitution lifted it, hOated ii and melted itaway
in few years by the prosperity il poured like
magic over the land. Aud now, it is cheaper to
fight to restore the Constitution over our whole
domain, than to make peace and sec half the
country torn from it. Four years of desperate
struggle would not bring us so low as the country
was after the Revelation. Two years OF such
expenditure Of resources as the government
possesses, might cost thousand million OF dol.
lars. Suppose it should be successful, as il
ought to be and would be, in reducing the re-
bellion. The interest on it would be sixty mil
lions Of dollars year. And we should then
need only n small army and navy we should
have the resources of the whole country to help
recover from the losses of the struggle; and our
annual expenses might be hundred million of
dollars, besides the interest on the debt.
What if we make peace noi0l We have spent
probably two or three hundred millions already,
which would be dead loss. We should have n
hostile rival, flushed with arrogance, arming
frontier which we should be obliged to watch
and guard with forts and vast military power
Our Southern enemy would attempt leagues with
European naval States that would force us to iu-
crease our fighting ships on an immense scale
Mexico would claim our protectorate against
| slaye-holdtng cupidity, and our simple peace
establishment would cost ti0o hundred and ffty
millions Of dollars, besides the interest on what
the war has already cost. Aud then we should
have only two-thirds of the present nation to pay
the burdens. / was glad to see this view, which
had written two days ago, 80 ably stated in the
Bulletin last evening) 1t is economy to fight it
out and put down the rebellion. Our duty is
always the most economical And n two-y.ars'
war, successful, will save us a hundred million
: of dollars year in the future, besides saving
the Constitution, which is q fountain of benefit
incalcu!able and undrainabe.
: The peace men here tell US that the war make
our exchanges higher. Il is because their marty
! have pirates on the sea. Sweep them away,
: and our exchanges will be natural again. They
$ sympathize with California farmers thar ,Vheal
is SO low in New York, because the North western
: surplus does not go South. And their remedy /.
to acknowledge the South as a separate and
hostile power, that they may open their ports
Jorever TO foreign wheat and choke New York
with Western grain, year after year, We say,
fight and open the Southern ports as American
harbors again, and let trade resume its natural
channels. In fUe years, they cry in our ears the
public debt will be so, 500 900, 600. Very well /:
the interest on that will be $3.50 900, 600 Such
burden will be good comment in our history.
forever, on the doctrine of Secession. And If
we put it down, it would then be cheaper for the
country than 1t would be to stop now, with q
broken Constitution, and pay $3.50, 900 600 a
year Tor peace establishment, which would
only be perpetual provocation and peril of new
war with an insoent foe. And so, after a care.
ful study of the frghtful statistics of our new
theatrical Quackers, We say it is cheaper to fight
for the Constitution, aud the flag and the ma.
tion's unity, than to make terms with nbomina.
Bile treason,
And let us not forget this When the adyo
Gates for peace among us press their argument.
. upon us against war, be sure to remember thn
no war is so horrible as civil war. And the onl,
danger OF war on our soil. at our DOORS lies il
the triumph, next week, of the eager peace party
They are so devoted, of sudden, to the inter
ests OF California California owes her great
ness to the Union and the American Constitution
And what is their attitude towards these? ar,
their leaders for the Union? No; they plea,
with prophetic tax bills in their hands for al
acknowledgment that il is broken. Do they boy
to the Constitution No. They cheer seces
sion. They argue and 1eclaim that man owe
allegiance TO his State more than to the Nation
> = 10 ms Stdte-Aot the State where he lives
where the American flag covers and tries 10 en-
! noble him; where his prosperity wells up. on,
is assured and gnArded-but to the State i,
wnich ne was born; on which he turned biz
oack where probably he owns no property. anc
can be held for no duty in any hour; and "a,
which, probably, he is too much coward to re
turn and fight.
. lou have seen the game of " Simon" which
t children play. They sit in circle. and onc
q stands in the middle and says, "Simon saws mn {,
r aud up 90 the hands; "Simon saws down. and
J. Gown thsy go; "Simon says wiggle waggle," and
e all hehus ana hands wayer. That is the states
y manshlp OF the party that believes in State sn
b pTemacy, and does not acknowledge tbe soS.
g erelgnty OF the American Constitution Wbai
mas tine mead OF the spurious peace party himself
; conIessedT lie waved his finger and said mI
d g with my State, Kentucky aud she will bo out
Of the Union in two weeks" He was no pronbet
II nor the son of one. Kentucky is for Uuion. and
spurns Breckiuridge the traitor. But Calit,rnis
trusts nobody that plays the game Of Simon sav,
,r wiggle.waggle,' at the peril OF the Cons,itutio,
m She wants Governor who remembers bis oath
d and keeps his eyes on the Eagle and the stars
And only such man can sit in her chair o
# State, whoever may get there
To We do need peace party here; a serried
II serious triumphant one, that shall save the Stat,
ID against the civil gophers that are now undermin
If ing its prosperity, and pace man true to III,
d Union in its highest seat CipH war is our dan
j. ger. Let the candidate Of the Joab party ri
" umph, and set himself against the requisition