The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-04-19
Some of the Results OF Republican

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We take the following excellent article
from the Providence Post:
Not one year have the Republican party
been in power; and what, we ask, has been
the result of their rule2 Their leading
men--we mean their Northern leaders
from the start, set themselves violently
and obstinately against granting any coin
promise, any concession, either to avoid
the war, or to secure on the side of loyal
ty the powerful and influential States of
Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee
One result has been, in consequence of
this Republican stubbornness and bad po-
licy, the growth of the rebellion into an
almost resiStlesS revolution. Out of this
result have followed other results, such as
a caamitous interruption of trade and
commerce., of agricultural aud manniac-
tafi>::/' >n'2rspiiS and Of every kind and
branch Of peaceful industry the wound
ing and Imprisonment Of thousands of
men, and slaughter Of other thousands {;
the giuoning and dc>ulating of vast
number of happy and holy homes; the
stirring into furious activity of what in
ilhll 10 ilNlNG llS'IllSll1 lut u CdllOl VI
an immense army and navy; the whole
sale ruin that has marked the marchngs
Of this army aud the successes of this na-
Wy; aud, not to enumerate the other re-
suits. that one which Is the most dcplora-
DIE of them aN, the destruction of the Old
Cnl0n. We say the Old Onion iur, e10
We may restore the Union, or, more cor
V.4pflu small ,nf tLn | ,,inn
yet never will come back that cOrdiality
of sections towards each other, or that
love OF national Institutions, which existed
aud ilourislrd under the Old Union that
our fathers fashioned with their hands,
AK. .SaSiswed with their prayers, aud cor4
srlIAtel WIN lhvir blood. The supreme
cy of the Constitution may perhaps be
reesrahliShel, but not by the voluntary
allegiance OF the citizen will it be main-
tained, but only by the force of the sword.
Another result of Republican rule, or
rather, misrulc, is All enormous cXpendi.
ture Of money. Throughout the long Sc
rics Of years of Democratic rule, only
from forty to sixty millions Of dollars an
nually were required in order to carry on
the Government; and that amount was
raised by easy imp0stS, and never by di-
rect taxation. Now, under Republic, an.
ism, it has cost and is costing all of two
millions of dollars a day to pay govern.
ment expenses; sixty millions OF dollars
Il month; seven hundred and twenty mill
ions Of dollars year. And as much as
this, certainly, it will cost, as long as the
war small continue.
Were the rebellion Subducd tomorrow
the expenditures of the Government, ac-
cording to the calculation Of the New
York 1lweS must equal twice and per.
haps thrice the average for years past. -
We shall do well if we get Oh with 5000.
900, 900 annually We must keep up fol
years large standing army, which cost,
81, 900 year for each man, rank and file
We shall not hereafter be content with d
powerful navy. We are to render impreg
nablc, if possible, all our important har.
bor>. The civil list grows apace with our
increasing years. We shall have, on the
first Of July next, an annual interest ac
count of $40, 100000. For the present
consequently, we must bid adieu to the
golden era in our history in which We
were scarcely conscious thatwe mad a gov
crnment, so lightly did its burdens res
upon us, aud enter upon that in which the
almost sole problem Of statesman will bt
to make the credit balance the debit side
of the national ledger!
But the Republican result that is now
staring US directly in the face, is the start
ling fact Lhat our enormous expenditure,
can only hc reimbursed by direct taxation
The Treasury Department demands tive
hundred millions of dollars year frou
direct taxes, in order that the government
may pay the interest on its former loans
and 50 strengthen its credit as to venture
into tie market fOr further loans, and st
be able to issue to the public few hun
dred millions of Treasury notes.
Two hundred millions of dollars veal
are demanded, and must he raised by di
rect taxation! Already has been crcatcc
public debt of over seven hundred mil
lions Of dollars! A. long as the'war i,
continued, over seven hundred millions o
dollars must he yearly expended BY ant
by direct tax Of four hundred million,
OF dollars, and even more, will be rcquircC
annually, solely for interest! ..
We ask our readers to consider serious
" with themselves and with each other
these results of Republican rule; these
results that are consequent upon that war
which the Republican members Of Con
greSs obstinately fused even to attempt
to avert