The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-04-17
A Voice from MARYLAND

81 am Just back from u hasty
trip to Washington, and find my
self indebted to you for IL fresh
bundle of English newspapers,
which in these days of slavish
suppression arc very interesting. |
thank you very kindly for your
thoughtful attention. / can make
no return in kind, as any military
officer can shut up any printing
Office lie fails to approve. In Bal
timore the New Sheet and the South
exist, but are allowed no editorial
expression, and are obliged to be
content with the publication of
correspondence and news culled
from various sources. No original
matter unfavorable to the powers
that be- can appear, but it is
amusing to see their clcverness in
giving constructions TO thc.tho
Federal reports, and the promi.
hence q Federal defeat Obtains
They uncover a great deal Of the
wretched bounce which fills the
Northern press, wherein every
skirmish is magnified into a serious
conflict, and Federal victory either
boldly claimed or defeat softened
into "a retirement in good ORDER
Never was the rank folly of en-
forcing silence and calling it assent
ever SO strongly felt or seen before.
Under its operation, Maryland is a
slumbering volcano; Kentucky and
Missouri volcanoes in motion /;
while through the Northern States
real, earnest, self-denying patriotic
support Of the Administration is SO
rare that no instance has arisen TO
my personal knowledge. The
f%ercest invectives, the most ire
concilable hatred and determine
ton, are expressed by that class
of creatures whose profound safety
or comfort is not intended to be
intertered with by the prosecutions
of their plans. And next to them
come the contractors and others
allied in interest, whose fortunes
are aided, or whose placcmen find
Situations and support in the
swollen ranks OF army. navy, and
civil service. Does not the limited
subscription to the 30-100 United
States loan prove this? Of the
$3.50, O00, 900 the banks subscribed
tor, but $38, 000, 900 have been
taken, and an examination of the
lists will discover these Investments
have arisen from the cheap patri-
otism Of trustees, executors, guard
ians and incorporated companies
who risk the property OF others,
taking precious care of their own.
Just now | am looking into the
grand fog-bank of Federal finance,
vainly endeavoring to. see a chan.
, mel OF escape. In Congress it is Il
vexed question whether q food
Of paper money shall give tempo
!. rary relief, to he followed by GER
= tain Reputation, dishonor, and
, ruin, or whether a crushing tax
| shall come from a people hardly
able to stagger along under thu
q primary results of INSTRUCTED com
, merce and confused finance.
! cannot find any reasonable ground
to believe tho Western members o
!, Congress will ever vote for dircc
e tax-frstly, because they are small
men who dare not risk thei
: personal popularity in tn
coming election by any measure
bearing upon the conveniences o
their constituents; next, becaus
!, they must know hal their peopl,
cannot pay money. With the sta
Pile Of the West at present rates
i how vain to talk of money! Whel
+ an Illinois farmer uses his corn 70
fuel, or sells it for 10c. u bushel
, and his wheat for40c., what incom
has he, or what tax can he bear
. Already bold, outspoken addresse
r are made in public meetings in til
West, urging resistance to tn
o commercial domination of New
England, who, in the multitude o
her mechanical resources, ma
chiefly supplied the enormous Gov
ernment demands, shipping he
4 paupers and convicts into tn
army, and selling her production
at u rate that has thus far fattene,
a that gaunt Yankee into q mos
rosy and loud.voiced patriot.
1t is but too plain that, unde
d the system Of politics which ha
:. governed the North, the class G
men sent into public life are incom
Il petent for the most ordinary dutie
of statesmen, and that the FEEDERS
O. Congress does not now contai
those elements of genius and char
d acter from which men might hop
I. to obtain a deliverance from tn
r. perils into which the nation ha
been so madly and wickedly plung
|. ed."-London Times.
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