The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-18
Taxation.


ington, has refused to pay his tax,
amounting to seven or eight dollars
quarter, and has written the Accounting
Officer a long letter arguing against the
eonstitutionality of the act OF course
the rebellious Judge will be brought to
terms t
The President himself, who is exempt
ed specifically by the law, has ordered
the same deduction to be made from his
salary, as ifa tax was imposed on it. "
We fear the refusal of Judge Merrick
to pay his proportion of the tax necessa-
ry to sustain the Government, is but
solitary drop preceding heavy shower.
The teachings of the Butternut leaders
throughout the country can produce no
other fruit The mass of the farmers in
most of the country townships honestly
believed that all they had to do to become
exempt from the provisions of the obi
ous tax law" was TO vote the Butternut
ticket and secure the success of the But
ternut democracy Blinded by the ap-
peals of demagogues, they lost sight Of
their duty to their country, and would
look at nothing save what the war was
likely to cost them, in pecuniary point
of view. sa.rygla er rorY
They have secured the triumph of the
Butternut ticket, but will they avoid the
tax? The interest on the public debt
must be provided for or the Government
is ruined, the tenure of property destroy
ed and the mighty Republic becomes a
dissolving mass Of warning factions The
credit of the Government treasury notes
must be sustained by providing for the
interest on the bonds into which the notes
are convertible, or every particle of cur
rency from one end of the land to the
other will go by the board and universal
bankruptcy and financial desolation
sweep over our entire country. That
the taxes will be the heavier from the
success of the Butternut ticket we hon
estly believe; that there will be neces-
sity for another draft, there is no reason
to doubt The rebels will take fresh
courage from the success of those they
undoubtedly regard as their friends in
the Northern States, and they will pro
long the contest in hope that when the
Congress elect assemblies in December
1863. it will take steps to acknowledge
the independence of the Confederate
States. That we are not mistaken in
this conclusion, is evident from the re
port of the committee on Foreign Affairs
; of the rebel Congress, in which they re
commend their President to offer to the
Northwestern States the free navigation
to the Mississippi and favorable CONNER
cial relations, on condition that the!
would secede, from the United States
| The Committee say: -s' -s-
1t is gratifying to discover that hiql
spirited and intelHgent public men IL
sererdt of the Northwestern States hdrt
of late become exceedingly actire in thet,
eIsdeduors to discourage and suppress til
! .ferociOus acar spirit heretofore ragin.
among their fellow citizens, and tha
their honest and patriotic efforts have
been already attended with the mos
marked success. aka2 sllIst
Such proclamation as that recon
mended in the resolutions referred {,
this committee, it is confidently believed
would have tendency greatly t
strengthen the efforts of the advocates o
peace in the Northwestern States, be cal
culated to bring those States quickly in
to amicable relations with the States o
the South, scithdrap them ultimately al
| together from their present Injurious pc
+ iticdI connection pith the States Of til
North and East, aoith 1chich they har
really so little ta common, and thus ena
BILE us to dictate the terms of Just ant
honorable peace from the greaf. .co;::.1sei
-ciGI emporium of that region tdroeql
ohose influence mainly hes the Uicke,
and unnatural Tar been thus Jar kep
IN progress. T.. =.
T. If the expectations of the rebels il
this particular are realized, the North
ern and Northwestern States will have t
pay the whole of the vast debt aceumu
lated during the war. The manner il
which that debt will be provided for, vii
furnish occasion for bitter strife be
tween the East and West, of which tn
South will take prompt advantage, an,
the result viii be the horrors of wa
around our own fresides. The objec
Of the South is to withdraw us ulti
mately from our present injurious politi
cal connection with the States of th
I North and East Is not this the pre-
else doctrine enunciated by Mr.. Thoma
| a. Hendricks and, his associates in tn,
Sfh-ofJanuary Convention? We shal
take pleasure in laying before our read
ers the comments of the Southern paper
on the recent elections, and we predic
| .d,4 4bosa n0r,noa,fz viii l.