Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-07-25

notes Of one two, aud three doAr1 The Tax bs, In.
augnrating at one blow tax on revenue, tAx onre.
ceips, stamp tax and tax on manufactures tann
rased TO almost prohibition rates The Treasury turued
into bureau Of deposits The Inauguration OF national
paper currency which the Government declines to re-
ceve In payment Of duties Lastly at the last moment
the transformation of postage stamps into legal curn
equivalent to the creation Of hducary circulation de-
scendng sufficiently low to replace copper money.
There has been seen In 30 short time 90 COM
pete a subTerson of the economical and commercial
condition Of country free 10 those who take for their
motto serve AdulAton Of whatever Is done at wash.
ington and who 70 into rapures over the Dement'S Of
the system with which those in authority have endowed
But were without the teachings Of history,
what We have seen thus far does not give US much
promise for the future. We do not admit that the
resorted to meet the necessities OF the tmes
the only ones even the best that could be found
More foresight at the start and less obsnacy in con-
ceaing the real demands Of the war until the last mo-
mspt would easily have placed dangerous resources
at their disposal while little ref scon would have
suggested other means oil raising revenue.
We were very near winding up the list Of the princi
pal acts Of this Congress by law which, II passed,
would have been the browning point of the mistakes OF
the session.
Except for little technical difficulty, raised at the las.
moment Congress would have recognized and admitted
into the Uniop the Safe Of KsnaWha, composed Of the
Western counties Of Virginia. This act nothing ess
secession. The fact that the House perceived this
chsracterIss In the most startling manner, the temper
Of mind that has presided over all It's stngs. In vain
do We look for trace Of general principle Of
duct-of one fixed system-of any one plan, carefully
mltured Everyhing bears the impress of ncoherence
and hurry Votes have been cast In the passion of the
moment, or under the spur Of necessity, and
bills piled up, without any one caring
to consider what TO be their results as a
whole. The consequences Ia, that almost without
knowing it. the conditions essential TO the existence OF
the country have been completely upturned and the
Constitution tempered with in twenty different Ways
they have opened the road to formidable Capitalization
invested the Administration with almost boundless
power soon to sw the seeds Of endless struggles be-
tween it and the S:aes-created in word, all manner
OF troubles for the future without pGrryipg efectuA
o1e single present danger. While they constantly talk
Of reconslrucng what onss existed, they to have
made Il their particular business 70 make ct recon
sructon impossible and While declaring that are
no longer party distinctions, Republcanism has had no
thought other than to AggrandiEl its party Ard
it is this selfish all abs orbing idea that must nod
the explanation Of ineIcusabe confusion OF measures
that do not deserve the name of egsItion Had they
been less eager take advantage of their ephemera
power the msOrity OF the Congrets would have kn)vr
that far from saV the country, they we're comprcm-
ing her every interest," her prestige in the eyes Of the
World and every guarantee for the future, political
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