The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-10
KEEP TBEFoRE THE PEOPLE.

tax.
That the tax bill was drawn by Thadde-
us Stevens, an A6ol5sion Republican of the
blackest stamp:
Ieq That it is for $3.50, 100000, which at 6
per cent, is the interest of 81, SOC, 600, 900,
which must have been what the Repubaicaa
Committee Of Ways and Means supposed
the national debt TO amount to, or what it
would amount to before the close Of the fs-
cal year.
tid That of this tax the people Of Pennsyl
rania will have to pay at least 81 ,000,00
yearly, or about $2l so to each tax payer,
supposing the number to be 100000.
r That If the debt was S2,500,000, 900
last winter, or if it will be that by the first
of July, on any basis of calculation assu-
med by the committee, it viii be at least
81, 900, 100000 more at the close of the
war, if it should, close within year, maxi
ing grand total debt of 50, 500, 900,
and adding S60,000,00o to the tax bill;
making Pennsylvania's share s31 100000,
or thirty dollars to each tax payer, to be
handed over to the collector every year.
"a Assuming the national debt, then, to be,
at the close Of the war, SO, 500, 600 900, the
States share of it would be about $3.50, ,000,-
900, to which add the existing State debt,
and we have about $500, 600, ,00Jas the grand
total of State indebtcdness--$130 to every
man, woman and child in the Common
wealth. And remember further, that
Abraham Lincoln, Republican, or, which
is now. the same thing Abolition President
of the United States, has issued bis proc
lamation declaring his purpose TO emanci-
pate all the negro slaves in the u. States
those of rebels to be freed without compen-
tsation; those of the loyal to be paid for.
There will, therefore, be at least one
fourth of the slaves to be paid for-that is
about one million. These, at the compen-
sation paid to slave owners in the District
of Columbia, (three hundred dollars, would
cost the nation three hundred millions of
dollars more. And then. President Lincoln
is deternaned TO colonize the negroes--four
millions Of them in all. How much more
would that cost, supposing that it could be
accomplished?
y Not a cent less than 81, ,000,0 100000.
Keep il before the people, then, that
The WAR DEBT and the NEGRO
DEBT that this Abolition Administration
will entail upon the nation, if ii is not check
ed by chanSe in Congress, or by other
means, before its designs arc accomplished,
will not be less than
.lsy asli oe $4,000, ,000,000!l!
OF which Pennsylvania share will be about
$780, ,00o,000!!!
- ~, --,1,,oL 4ba ,,-ou1I he
,qIs.a7e S27,O00,OO0lll
In addition to the State tax now imposed
topay the expenses of Government and the
interest on the forty millions Of dollars State
debt. o
Or, in round numbers, each fax payer
would have to pay yearly thirty-eight dol
lars and fifty cents national fax, imposed by
this Aboition-Republican Administration.
Keep these facts before the people, and
keep before them too the disgrac.5'uI fact
that the President Of the United States, an
Abolition RepuJlica'a, declaresin his Eman-
cipation Proclamation, that this Government
VIII do no act or acts to repreSs SIave rebszl-
ton.a These are his words: Wa
'That on the Est day OF. January, in the
year Of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves within any Sfate, OF any designated
part Of a Stale, the people whereof shall
then beinrebellion against theU United States,
shall be then, thenceforward and forever
free; and the Executive Government Of the
United States, including the military and
naval authority thereof, will recognize and
maintain the freedom of such persons, end
.ciU do no act or acts to rep,eSs such per-
sons, or any of them, inANY EFFORTS
THEY MAY MAKE for Meir actual
freedoms ~ go - s'ae
Remember that this cold-blooded invita-
ton to instruction and butchery comes from
ethe Republican President of the U. States,
and that every vote cast for Rep&5IiGan
candidates for Congress or the State Legis-
lature, who stand pledged TO blind, un-
Questioning support of the Administration,
viii be vote in favor of this atrocious dec
laration, and of increased debt and taxation
to maintain the supremacy and infamous
policy of the Abolitienists. 'e
People of Pennsy ylvania awake! Arouse
to action! Strike down the nefarious, incen-
diary, blood-thirsty Abolition party. Strike
for Congress, for the Legislature, for the
Constitution and the Union, as they came
from the hands Of the Fathers, and as you
should transmit them to your posterity!
Patience is exhausted, the country trem-
bleszupon the very brink of ruin-the con-
stitutiona Liberty of the white man is threat
enal--the equality of the negro is proclaim
.eds's Strike, en--strike all, and strike