The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-29

therefore, tufned asde from the greet ooaeee
Of Maryland, Kentucky, and maeh q Lis
souri, and len those domains In the unsontested
occupancy Of sparse populations OF slave
holders and planters. Bat slave labor 10 not
very profits bic when employed in eulivasing
The cereals, either on thin soils, like those Of
Nsryland, or in inland districts, remote from
the ssaboard, like those Of Kentucky and
Missouri While tho actual labor Of the slave
10 these regions IL meagsrly rsmunsrative,
the value Of the slaves themselves, owing 70
the high prices impaired 70 them BY the cot
ton and sugar culture, raises the ad valsreM
Of assessment for taxation upon them to .
very high figure. So that tho slaveowner In
Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky, If sub.
jected TO Federal taxation, would be assessed
with very high taxable values upon property
indifFerently productive.
Even if relieved from this extraordinary
excess of taxation, the agricultural and gene.
raj industry Of those States could not sustain
the heavy taxation which the Fed eral Gov
eminent will be compelled hereafter to i'm
pose.
. 1t is to be presumed that these people per.
ceive these things; and tn at desire to 90.
cape the frightfdl burden of Federal debt,
will grow stronger and stronger among them
with each month, week, and day that passes.
The speech Of John G. Davis, in Indianapo-
lis, the other day, reveals strong sentiment
of dissatisfaction, even in the Northwest, at
the rapid increase Of the Northern debt and
the reckless wastefulness of expenditure that
characterizes the management Of the war. II
such sentiment has root in the loyal North
west, teening with population, and able to
sustain a heavy system Of taxation, what
must be the feeling, and what must it soon
grow to be, in the border slave States, whose
agriculture is 80 poorly able to sustain heavy
burdens2
Among the results of the North's stupen.
dous programme Of six hundred thousand
men-a programme that costs them two mil
lions day, which has run up their debt al
ready to portentous figures, and which has
laid the foundation Of an increase Of Federal
Indebtedness to an amount that must make
its people the heaviest taxpayers on the
globe-smong the results, we say, of this
ruinous programme, may already be accounted
the annexation of Maryland, Kentucky, and
Missouri to the Southern COntederacy, with
the hearty assent Of all their people. The
choice between an honest Government with
small debt on one hand, and corrupt
Government with u vast and increasing debt
on the other, will be too plain to leave room
for moments hesitation in the popular mind
The treacheries Of Hicks aud Crittenden,
and the sophistries Of the Louisville Jour-
nal and Baltimore Amerscan viii be una.
vaiing to mislead or 0bfuscate again the
Judgment Of a well meaning people. They
will rush from the Lincoln ship like rats
:.o1a q sinking hulk and prefer any politi
cal fate to that of people overwhelmed by
taxation.
1t matters not how long the Unionists of
these border States may delay this movement
and choice. They may not have as yet real
ICED the full truth Of their condition; but
that eccentric and uprelenting divinity, MEME
SIS, has already decreed, that the very armies
which the North have prepared at great cost
to enforce the loyalty of those border States,
shall be the means, through the frightfol
debt they have created against the Federal
Government, Of driving those scvereignties
from the Federal allegiance.