The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1862-11-15
cHATTAN COG A.:

The startling intelligence which appeared ID
our teIegraphic columns op yesterday morning
fell like a clap Of thunder upon the Yankees.
It certainly anazes us in Dixie. Mcclellan
removed Itcould not be possible. And yes
it is possible. and more than possible, for ID is
fact. But yesterday the word of Caesar
might have stood against the world NV
lies he low FOX Greeley and Sumner and GerHtt
Smith TO spit upon.
The events Of revolution are strange Only
a weekago The New York Herald boldly An
nounced that the little Napoleon was 0dre
more in the saddle, Richard was himself again.
It proved however. i brief delusiOnl The
elections settled his bash. The radicals co lld
ot'stand Meclelan and defeat too. 10 be-
ing unable q beat the democrats, they chopped
off the head IOf their idol out Of spite. .
This piece Of basty temper isFliksly to ply
almighty smash with the Potomac army
When people lite their nose to spite th4ir
face, no good comes Of ii Burnsides, the
new Napoleon, IS = very line man Perhaps put
he wiIIfind. Jordan a hard roafto travel.
Our Pnly fearE arc that this business 3EHI
ret stissA 1t is pretty sur. to raise a Will
Wind, and II The dnaRsaiiers should come DOWN
heavily IN the Government the Gorilla may
he compelled i restore the little Nap9Iepp.
In any event this deranges The Virginia
campaign considerably. f Thess march to Rich
,eond has certainly redeiYea a check which
will cost much time and labor to overcome.
Barpides is an old line Democrat. Bit
since tlel waar began he has spid ont body a4d
soul to. The Gorilla. lie and Lincoln have befa
constantly ellcek-by.jo,vl. lIe.is therefore is
clear an exponent as any Republican. PER e.
Whcn the Democrats begin 10 elalaor. Lincoln
will say i give yo. Democrat II l tie
away Mcclellan behold Burpsidcs." Bat tie
trick viii not do Though BnEii.si,les was a,
4Demoeeal l,s is not eonsiderFd q party reprs-l
5sen,aliec, and heneel party leaders are fould
10 cry o,.t cruelty him 81
We1vzsl ,isein all joy Of this tie prettiekt
little seelmnlase Of tlle5seasoit,'.
In our former articles We have enaeaF-
ored to show that taxation is the only adj
quate remedy for appreciated currency,
and tlat,i IS eminently wise and just. The
questo1 next presents itseIf-should this
Tax be levied upon the corpus Of the prep
erty Of the country, without regard y itslE
productive value during the war, or should
it be levied upon the proseeds/zof the
property; or, in other words, upon incomes
The objection tolevyins taxes upon property
itself, instead of its proceeds, is that there
is much property that is now yielding no IL /
come at all. and therefore it would be unjakt
to make the owners Of this property pay al
heavy tax. A man, for instance, on the
Mississippi river may have one hundred
thousand dollars worth, of land, but as an
his negroes have been taken from bim BY
the enemy he may not be able to make amy
thing on his plantation OF again, soldier
III the army may have left some property
al home, which for want of his personal
attention will not yield more than enough to
supp0rt his family, whilst lis neighbor, who
has no more property, stays at home ard
gives his farm his personal care will make
three or foufS times as much. Now, would
il be Just and tight to require the man gwh0
makes only enough to support his family
to paw as much as the man whose income Us
three or four times as great Again, the
money dealer or spccuAtOr, who has but
little visible property, but who is never
theless making two or three hundred per
cent per annhm, ought to be required TO
paw his Just proportion of the taxes of the
country. The truth is, that, as our Govern
ment has Is buy nearly everything that it
needs from the people at home, and but very
little from foreigners, our people can afford
to pay back TO the Government nearly All
that the Government has to- pay out. For
illustration, take farmer who has horses,
mules, corn, wheat and pork to sell to ne
Government Suppose he has to pay
twenty five cents on every bushel of whe4t,
l.hres dollars on every pork hog, and fifteen
cents on every bushelof G pm. These would
be said to be heavy taxes; but how would
it work The farmer could sell has hogs toI
the Governments at from twenty to thirty