St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-05-22
TIE NEGRO TAX.

Inc senior editor Oh the DoyieStown Dem.
ocrat. Bucks county. Pa. is now in com.
mand OF regiment, in General Mcclellan.
division. To show the feeling of himself
and his fellow Democrats Of Bucts
county. we copy the following well-wrt-
ten article I'VE have never dared :,
hope that the interests OF the country could
be benefited by the II publican party, or
tina, any wise or beneficial policy could be-
either conceived or executed by the dis.
c"rdant, fanatical anl Heterogeneous ele.
ments which composed that party. Ru,
we had hoped, that while nothing coull
be expected from their wisdom, or pa,r;.
otis,n, that the drsirc &c place and of NOM
err would restrain the leaders from devils
ing schemes. which while they woull he
runious to the country: w..uli. be fatal to
themselves. This expectation has, howcy-
err, been utterly disappointed, for schemo,
nonstrous in is object, terrible in its con.
sequences, odious in its every feature
has been the fit product Of party whose
principles and leaders have done so mucb
| TO ruin the Republic. Negro emancipa-
ton, as it is called. is this pr,cinus frui, OF
nor less than an agreement uron The
part OF the Government of the United
States to purchase the negroes Of any Slave
State. that is willing 70 cmancipa.c liz
slaves. In other words it has been re-
solved By Congress that he Government
shall be converted into slave agency to
purchase neg, ocs at the market price and
that price is To hc wrung by taxation
from the pockets of the taxpayers Of
the North. who cmancipatcd their negroes
without demanding or receiving n dollar
OF COMPENSATION from the ". s Govern
mcnt. They sold them Sortll at their full
value. The filth of the government has
been solrmnly pledged to make thi. pnr.
chase of negroes by resolution which
passed the Houses of Congress at the suc-
gesti"n of Pr, silcnt Lincoln and il was
20 adopted III opp >ii;on to the votes and
opinions of e few Democratic members Of
Congress who have seats in either lIousr.
The whole scheme is the peculiar property
Of the Republicans. who have the sole
honor OF originating and adopting it. II
is scheme worthy efthc party from where
It came. As if the taxes to sustain the
war. which every patriotic ci;;z"n will
cheerfully psy, were not sufficiently bur-
d"nsome, NJ If ruined trade, depressed iu-
dustry. and stagnant commerce. were bur.
dens too little, the people are to BE- taxod
still further, tn rails" the millions thai will
20 required 10 buy worthless negroes. in NJ
d. E to crafty af v f,na,ical bnliuntioni...,
whom 1t is the interest of this Republican
, Administration to c"nriliatc. The faith
of tho country, and the money Of the Tux
payer. are thus rrcklcs.ly pledged bv a
Republican President aud Congress to ihs
ssupcndous outrage; ana the Republican
press arc loud III thcir approval Of the
! measure.
But the wrong docs not end here
What is behind is worse. For the Il.
pense Of buying the negIoes, large as it
&ill be, is Only an item in the bill, which
the burdcncd taxpayer will hare to foot in
consequence Of the purchase The negroes
thus bought by the Governmental ami
young iHGrm aud ablc-will spread al
over the North They will com pete with
the white laborer--they will lower the
price OF wages both for men and women,
and even for mechanics. They will en-
ter our public schools--thcy will be ini-
prisoned in our jails--and they will swarm
our aims houses, and We will be taxed
to educate and nurture their young, as
well as o'provide for and bury their oil.
These const qncnccs arc incvitahlc-fr
every emancipated negro will rush to the
North--as the Israelites Of old went to
Canaan, expecting to fnl land flowing
with milk and honey Whcn once here
they will be too poor to 60 back. and we
will have to provide for them. The white
citizen will and must be taxed to support
the emaneipated negro, whom he has
bought and paid for and when grooming
under the burden. let him remember thai
Republican President originated, Re
publican Congress adopted. and q Rcpu'-
i'can press applauded this INDUSTRIOUS
scheme of robbery. We have nc fear that
1t will be forgotten. II will be rememher'
cd when the time Of our criminal courts !,
consumed in trying ncgro eriminals-and
our eoanty expenses are increased by 'he
cost OF maintaining those prisoners IN Inc
Jail aud the penitentiary. 1t will be re-
collected when the expenses of our aims
houses are doubled BY the negro inmates
who will flock to them Il will no, be Tor
gotten when the white laborer's wages are
diminished one-third by the competition %
the negro. with WHOM. be will be comr''
led to work side by side a. his daily labF'
Aud it will be r, ccii,c when treble t"A'
es are demanded by the collectors, III ~ o..