Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-01-17

THE FINANCES. is good deal ex-
ercised about the immense frauds by which
the treasury has been emptied and also about
the means Of filling it again. There are sew
eral schemes for issuing paper money and
making it equal to gold and silver but this
vegetable gold" can never be made equal to
the genuine metal. The means to supply the
! enormous expenses Of the war must come ont
of the land and labor, the bone and muscle of
the country. This may be fun for the Office
holders and spectators, but it win be death
to the prosperity of the people. According
to report Of Quartermastcr General Meigs to
the Secretary of War and other authentic
documents the daily expense Of the govern
ment is more than three millions Of dollars,
i'or about eleven hundred millions of dollars a
year. This is about twice as much as Eng
land expended in the most expensive year of
her wars with Napoleon. 1t is enough to buy
up three such States as Maryland. They spend
as much now in four days as lasted a whole
year in J. G. Adams time, when his admin
istration was accused Of extrayagance And
yet in tie face of this frightful expense, of
which Maryland viii have TO pay her share or
repudatc, Coy. Hicks recommends the State
to raise and keep on foot Is, 600 troops. Ac-
cording to a statement made in late speech
Of Thaddcus Stevens az Pennsylvania, each
infantry regiment Of thousand men costs a
million, and each cavalry regiment million
and a half Of dollars Then if Gov Hicks
proposition is carried into effect the State.
would be burdened with an additional tax Of
fifteen millions Of dollars. Can we pay it?
The present direct State tax. is about $3.50 0O0,
and yet at one time, there were efforts in
many parts Of the State to rcpudiate it.. Can
we pay thirty-three times as much, besides
the direct tax which Congress is about to i'm
pose? A man who now pays S. State tax,
would, on Gov Hicks plan, pay SlG5, and
that would amount, on average, to more than
the rent of all their land in this county. Are
we willing to give up everything we have to
enslaye the South, and Gil the pockets of the
vile pluuderers and spectators who have emp
tied the treasury, and will empty it, as fast
as it is filled by the labor and industry Of the
people2
"BErrrn LATE THAN NEVER. "-Fhe follow
ing card was published in the Pine and Palm,
Boston newspaper, devoted to Abolitonism
and Haytien colonization, by James Redpath,
an Englishman by birth prominent distur-
Der of the peace in thg Kansas tSoubles, a lea
der in the John Brown treason, and generally
one of the most furious and bloody fanatics
who has infested our country for some years
past.
al Preparatory 'ord.-IIaving become sim
cercly convinced thar many Of the political
doctrines that | have advocated in my wri-
tincs are dangerous and abhogrent to the
higher insight the murderous policy, for ex-
ample, of melting slaves to insurrecton-
which / have urged repeatedly and with ter
pb1y mistaken zeal wish to announce here
that | will retire from any participation in
the management Of this Journal, excepting for
the purpose to retract past errors, until such
time as feel that have attained q clearer
and more human and Christian view of the
duties of the freenen TO be enslavcd. | repu-
diate my war doctrines utterly and forever.
JAMES RrDfATHi
But while Redpath is recanting and1epent-
ing his villany, We find another Engishman
named Chcever, who has been preaching trea-
son and murder in New York city for several
years. permitted to occupy the hall Of the
House Of Representatives in Washington, to
spout forth his vile, incendiary and treasona-
Bile doctrines. In.his sermon, besides attack
ing the administration in a violent manner,
he called fopthc utter destruction Of the gov
ernment and people Of the slaveholling States.
These are forcible arguments, indeed, for
forming the Union on its old basis We think
that Mr.. Seward doctrine Of imprisonment
could not be put in. force on more proper
subject than the Rev. Nr. Cheeycr
Gov LErcuea's MEssAaa.--Tho message Of
Gov. Le;cher to the Legislature of Virginia,
on the 9th instant, dwclls butltncupou mat
tiers Of purely local concern. II takes in fact,
the shape Of Declaration Of Independence,
secitcs ;he acts Of tho Federal Government
which has made reunion with tho Northern
States an impossibiliiy, and paraphmsug the
original Declaratiouof independence by the
united colonies, pursues the parallel ''of re-
peated injuries and usurpations,' in justif-
cation Of the attitude assumed by the South,
and as a reason why the war should be pros
ecutcd on The part Of the Confederate States
until their Independence is acknow lodged.
The Georgia resolutions which Governor T..
transmitted, NJ the same time, to the Legisla-
ture, declare that Che separation Of the Con-
Tolerate States from lhc United States Vs. and
ought to be, final and irrevoeablei and that
the state Of Georgia wilt never entertain pro-
posals for restoration or reconstruction Of
Che late Union.
TIE MISSISSIPPI ExpgDiWoy "a part Of which
has gone on q trial trip mp the Tennessee rive
er, and the remainder reported 10 have sailed
southwark or to be about to sal-fs OF i'm
posing magnitude. It consists Of seventy