The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-11-13
LETTERS
Addressed 70 His Excel.ensy. Abraham
Lincoln, President u s. A.
LETTER III.
HI Nh III.

OIk:- LIE Icdt SlHte anu SUI
of the American nation,
or nations, IT you please, are of the
most deplorable character. Your
people are in the constant habit Of
saying that "the American Consti-
tuition and Government are the
most glorious that God ever gave
to man." This may be true, or IL
may not. How men who have read
but little, and never lived under
any other Government, can tell
which is or is not the best Governs
ment, l stay not to ask. 1t is, how
ever u fact, that you have sound
and good laws IN the States. but.
these laws, to a considerable extent,
are neither enforced or obeyed, and
the heavy, severe, intolerable tax
alton which has now been bequeath
ed to the American people by your
Cabinet and Government, will crush
this country, and in time reduce it
to ruin. There is no other nation
under HEAVIER that is so hurdcned
by taxation as the Northern States
of America, and the consequence
will be, the utter, total, everlasting
ruin Of hundreds of thou .amdS Of
individuals and struggling families
There are scores of thousands in
the Northern States, who, like my
self, haze all to buy ami nothing to
sell, except the fruit of their ed
ncation and brains. and they are.
after all. the life-blund OF yolir
country. and yet, they are now COM
PEELED by the pressure brought to
bear upon them 10y war of ven.
geance, tn pay two dollars now for
what they could hny for one dollar
Just one year ago, aud sill they
have not one cent more coming in
than they had last year! How are
these clerks, lawyers, laborers, me.
chani;s, teachers. and editors Uf
newspapers tt live? ltell yon, sir,
that the thing cannot he done! F!
| You will, in conjunction with your
Abolition Cover nOrs of States, have
to erect ten thousand more Lunatic
Asylums for the reception ut those
| honest mon and women vino will
he driven mad 10y yonr policy AMI
;axes, and ten Thousand additional
PenitentiarieS will he required fni
the reception of those vii" vii
b. driven t adopt some unlawful
AMI illegal means, just to proc'rr
mush and milk. Oh, sir, Ia the
thoughtful, contemplalive and hon
est mind, the state of your govern.
ment and country is heart'rending,
ominous, appalling, dalnning =
money is not to he had! change j.
not to be had excepr at II high anI
ruin0ns prelnium-men caniioI pay
their leOts for want of change
Society is fast rushing to u bank
rupt hell, amt men, like myself, arr
doomed by a partisan abolition pol
lev to perish IN a ditch. or die ia !
poorhouse. More of this in my
next. I-hold both the NORTH ah'
the South guilty before God. OF ii,
ruin which has been brought npoI
the civilized world BY an American
war. which could have been pre-
: vented but for the hot-lieade
. men of the South and the demo
&, of numbering and damning Aboli
t litionism in the North.
Sir, | have this day travelled fror
r store to store, in oIr little city, t
get change tor 4 five dollar "gree
back" but could not procure it. an
consequently | could not get pa
for my newspaper. Sir. I've are t.
tally ruined, aud the winter an
e necessitated bankruptcy which al
just upon our heels, like dovourin
tigers and hungry lions, willstart.
aud confound all nations. and leay
OuI country in the vortex of flu;
destruction, to be the sport of en-
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