, 1862-03-22
Ett Trihune.

CHE Ctibu'te.
SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1861
SWAT FOR THE WAGON"
The Tax-Gatherer's wagon We mean,
md when 1t comes We will see how the
concealed traitors who have opposed con
fiscation of rebel property, who have, by
their bad influence upon commanding gen
erals, restrained the movement OF our ar
mics, who have steadily and grossly mag
nifed the resources and strength OF the
enemy, and, by their various artihces, have
succeeded in p1unging the csuntry into
debt to an extent that no man can conten-
plate without an involuntary shrinking
from the assumption Of his part Of the load
when, We say, the etax-gatheier comes, these
men who arc now in high feather, in view
Of the prospective SUCCESS Of their plan
of exhausting the Tesources' Of the coun-
try and compelling peace on the basis
Of a new compromise with slavery, will
be looking about for places in which |
to hide their heads from the indignation Of
an abused and outraged people. Every
one Of them will be ready tosay and swear
that he was for confiseation all the while;
that he was for vigorous movement; that
he was for economy; and that he, II the
pesky " "aboli1ionists ~ had kept their ladies'
out Of the cauldron, would harc made
the matter all right; and the payment Of
taxes easyl We tell them and the Sena-
tors and the Representatives in Congress
who are hunting about for constitutional
and other excuses for hcaping all the bur-
dens Of the war upon the taxable property,
the incomes and the industry Of the coun-
Try, and for letting the authors Of.
the mischief off with gentle reprimand,
that their excuse viii avail nothing-th
they arc digging their political graves, and
that they need not be surprised to wake up
some fine morning; aud find themselves
tumbled in head, neck and heels, ready to
be buried up as dead things of no use, as
carcascs that stink in the nost11ls Of the
BODY polite Their apparent unconscious
ness Of what is ahead is amusing. They
seem to imagine that tho people, wrapped
up in the events Of the present, are not
looking ahead to see where the "coming
cut-place7' is We can undeeciye them All
over the country, indeed in every school
district. there are honest heads now lying
awake nights turning these problems ofcon-
tlsca1ion ,taxatiou, compulsory compromise,
national bankruptcy and individual ruin
over and over. All the wisdom docs not
dwell under hats that are labeled n G.
The hard-pated fellows who watch and
work sixteen, and pray and sleep eight hours
in each twenty four, are beginning to stir.
They are Of the Cromwcllian type-men
who despise vanity and love money, who
pray loud and fight hard. The milk
sops who hesitate in revolution like this,
when to halt is to peril everything, will
find them On their track by and by. And
the n:snamed Republicans, too, who deem
it their duty, as soon US man mounts g
pair of shoulder-straps, to gather around
him, to each slip a quill under his hide, to
blow him up as TIC butchers blow up their
veal, and then. when the air
has sweled his dimensions, to
imagine him de1ni-god, and to fall down
and worship him as one who can do no
w1ong,-they need TO be warned that they
have got certain 1rmiliat;ons to endure
that will not be pleasant, though
they may be profitable. They will
learn, by and by, that supporting the
Government is not necessarily to be done
by adopting every stupid crror Of its mill
ta1y advisers; that military men may have
faults indeed that some ofthem arc made
Of the very meanest kind Of clay; thai
ambition is not vice unknown in the ar.
MY; that generals are not unffcquently
Influenced by politicians, and that general:
and politicians converting, can make q
muss, That neither generals nor politician:
can repair. When the wagon comes, tho
Republicans Of whom we speaI
will be wiser. The schemes Of q %
litical party adverse TO the Govern
nent and to tie eause,-a party still
laboring in the interests Of Secession
and Siaycg-win then he apparent; th'
reasons for the delay, against which th'
President and lis truest friends hay
fought, Will be patent; and if there is no
q duckine Of heads when the bills are T.
be paid, we have been m;sinformed abou
the sensib1}ity Of The pocket nerve.
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