The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-04-30
.waia Gor the Wagon

.'WaiG Gor the Wagon
The Tax.Gatherer's wagon We mean, and
Y hen it comes We will see how the concealed
traitors Who have opposed conhscation OF rebsl
property, who have, by their bad influence up
On commanding generals, restrained the move.
ment of our armies, who have steadily and
grossly magniied tho resources and strength OF
the enemy, and, by their various srtlfces, have
succeeded in plunging the country into debt 70
An extent that no man can contemplate without
an inS oluntary shrinking from the assumption oil
his part Of the load-whcn, we say, the tax
gatherer comes, these men who are now 10 hign
feather, in view of the prospective success OF
their plan OF exhausting the resources ot the
country and compelling peace On the basis oi
new compromise with slas cry, will be looking
about for places ir which to hide their heads
from the indignation OF an abused aud ost'
ragged people. Every one OF them viii be rsady
to say and swear that he was for conhscatiou all
the while that he was for vigorous movement,
that he was for economy; and that he, II the
pesky " "abolitionists" had kept their ladies ost
of the cauldron, would have made the matter ail
right, and the payment Of taxes easy! We tell
them and the Senators and the Representatives,
in Congress who are hunting about Tor constltu-
tional and other excuses for hespng all the bur-
dsns Of the upon the taxable property, the
incomes and the industry Ut the country, ana
for letting the authors OF the mischief with
gentle rcprmsud, that their excuse will avail nc.
thing-that they are digging their political
graves, and that they need no, be surprised 10
wake up some hnc morning, and ind themselves
tuwbled in head, neck and heels, ready 10 DC
buried up a. dead things Of no use, al careases
that stink in the nostrils of the body polite.
Their apparent Inconsistencies of what's ahead
is amusing. They seem TO imagine that tho
people, wrapped up in the events OF tne present.
are not looking ahead to see where tho com
ing.out place" is. We eau undeceive them.
All over the country, indeed in every school
district, there are honest heads now lying awake
nights, turning these problems Of conhscatios,
taxation, compulsory compromise, naiiorh
bankruptcy and individual ruin over and over.
All the wisdom does net dwell under hats that
are labeled n. @. The ha-d.pated fellows who
watch and work sixteen, and pray and sleep
eight hours in each twenty -four, are beginning
to stir. They are Of the Cromwelan type
men who despiss vanity and love money, who
pray loud and 6sht hard. The milksops who
hesitate in revelation like this, when TO halt 10
70 peril everything. will find them on their track
by and by. And the mienamed Republicans,
too, who deem it their duty, as soon as a man
monnts . pair Of shou!der-straps, to gather
around him, To each slip quill under his hide,
to blow him up as the butchers blow up their
veal, and then when the air has swelied his di-
mensions, to imagine him dem;-god, and TO fall
down and worship him as one who can do NO
wrong, they need to be warned that they
have got certain humiliations to endure that will
not be pleasant, though they may be- profitable.
They will learn, by and by. that supporting
the Govcrpuent' is not necessarily 10 be done
by adopting every stupid error Of its military
adviser; that military men may have faults, in
deed that some Of them are made Of the very
| meanest kind OF clay that ambition is not a
vice unknown in the army; iha, generals arc
not un.requcntly Influenced by politicians, and
that generals aud politicians ce-working, can
make muss, that neither generals nor polit-
| c,ans can repair. When the wagon comes, the
Republicans Of whom we speak will be- wiser.
The schemes Of political party adverse TO the
Government and to the causs,-a party still IA
boring in the interests Of Secession and Slavery
will then be apparent; the reasons for the delay,
| against which the President and hs truest
friends have fought, will be patent; and il
| there il not ducking Of heads when the bils
are to be paid, We have been misinformed about
the sensibiliiy Of the pocket nerve.
But wait for the wagon! when that arrives
with a tax gatherer inside, there will be general
squaring Of political accounts. We assume no
responsibilities for balaucies that viii be SET
down against the names, civil or military, Of
those who have made this q war of inaction, "a
the end that the Government AID people borne
down by debt and delay, may accept new
compromise with man selngl The Tribune il
| for going ahead. We are for beating the enemy,
| whether slavery is saved or not We are for
victory without bankruptcy. And as soon - tha
wagon with the tax gatherer comes, all men, aaye
those who love slavery more than their own
money, viii be with us.-Chieogo Tribune.