The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-02-11
Direct Taxation.

ES- The CiuiIian replies to our cor
respondent b." and assumes that he is
a Republican, and very much pleased
with the idea of taxation. To ease
the troubled soul Of our Democratic
late fiercely Union-cotemporary, we beg
to say that 81" is not voter, and has,
we think, decidedly Democratic proclivi-
ties. The article evidently, as most peo-
pie will comprehend, was written to show
how fully an old writer comprehended
and detailed the effects Of war upon a
nation. 1t was only in further illustra-
ton, we apprehend, that our correspon-
dent speaks Of cur taxed railroad ride,
and taxed gold watch.
But our neighber must needs 90 on
and draw parallel between the expenses
of JIMMY BUCHANAN's administration of
S8o,000,O0O a year and the So, 900, 600
per day of Mr.. LINcoLN's administration
We wonder if it never entered the fer
tile brain of our neighber that the two
millions per day under the Republican
administration is but a legacy left by
that said Democratic administration Of
JIMMY BUCHANAN =? We wonder if it new
er occurred 10 him that the infamous in
surrection which is costing the govern.
ment the two millions per day, and the
nation the paralysis Of a large portion of
its industry and the destruction of its life.
had its inception under the very nose,
and was advanced by the connivance, of
JIMMY BUCHANAN and his Democratic
Cabinet? We have no desire to follow
our neighbor into party elimination and
recrlmination relative to our present strue
gle, but we must express our astonish-
ment that any Democrat can be so obliy
ious of the facts, or have the effrontery
SO to ignore them, as 10 attempt to charge
this war and lis cost to the account Of
Mr.. LINcoLN's administration.
Our neighbor is about as truthful as
he usually is, when he says that the Re-
publlcans have said nothing relative to
the frauds in army and navy contracts
which have been developed Everybody
else knows that Republican Congress
has been interchangeable in ferreting out
corruption, and that the Republican
press has been most active in urging for
ward the investigation and applying a
corrective. Whether these swindlng
contractors have been Republicans or
Democrats neither we nor he. probably,
know; certainly, zoe don't care. We know
that every one Of them deserves hanging
higher than Hannah.
But war is an expensive paslime, as
all nations have found, not only from
what is used, but because Of what is was.
ted. But there are greater evils than
war. The disruption of our country, the
destruction Of our nationality, the break
ins up of Republican institutions, are in.
fnltely worse than the spending of hun
dreds Of millions of dollars, and no patri.
OF will stand carping at the reduction in
Wheat or in Pork, while his sympathy
and his influence should be given TO the
preservation of the government Our
neighbor may be very patriotic man
he certainly ought to be for he joined
the Union party last fall and howlcd long
and loud enough for it-but his sneers
at the possibility of reconstruction of
the Union, and his carping at the effects
of the war upon produce, with a view,
doubtless, to arouse prejudice in the
farmers, seem to most people to mark
him as being in the category Of the Ma
MONEYS, the MooREs aud the THoMAsEs,
and we guess be never heard any one
accusing them of being very lively pat.
riots.