Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-09-10
WINSTON NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY sERTENBER 10 1853

p to his country and that he had done and wonls
do all that human nature IS capable Of, to ad
vance it's And further, in look in.
around the country we saw no man WHO was
tperfect, likely to do better than he. Blu
lit is little remarkable, that whilst the Presi.
|jent has been growing IL dIsfavor with the
Standard, IN all the outside world he has made
a name Of wonderful greatness. He hegan the
war with no men aud no means lie has car
rled it on for two and third years, during
which We have gained nsny brilliant victories
and las now great armies and abundance of al
the IN eriai Of war. We infinitely stron :
ger than ever before, and there is 40 lion in the
! path to Peace and lnden pedence but that whose
growis heard in the threats of domestic dis
sent!Cn.
Some Of the things of which the STANDARD
coH. plains were altogether Indispensable. The
colscr pt,on, hard as it was, was of these
E., Ise tax laws others. Aud we 40 not hesi
tate to say, that the ti:he law is not only nee
essar,, but is just Tne letter Of the Alabama
metsbef OF Congress, Mr.. Pugh, plainly show
ed It's justice. Instead of taxing real estate
whict. 2a-not be enthusiastically done until
census shall have been taken, and which wou Id
have been most unjust whilst such va st por-
tion OF that real estate lies idle in eonseq uence
OF its owners being in the army the tax IS on,
ly laid apon the produce of sach of the real
tate as is not idle. People say that it is 40
odious tax. 50 all taxes. Perhaps it is
less odious than the income tax, which prizes
into every honest mans business, makes him
tell how much he has earned, and pay heavy
tax upon his earnings. We cultivate no farm
aud h.se produce tithes to pay, but our
neiShbprs koow that no field laborers are ork
81 We snean with our hauds) are, and
we nave TO pay more than tithe Of our earn>
ings in taxes. Shall we complain? By no
m cans. Our country needs it, or it would not
call for It--needs it to defe nd us from the loss
of all, property. business, profits and all. And
onr country snail have freely whatever it de-
mands OF as. The taxes and the other call
upon incident to the situation of the country
may not, probably will not, leave enough TO
make both ends meet" But what Of that ?
Better that our country should take even the
whole than that We and the whole should fall
into the hauds of the destestabe yankees.
About this matter Of tithes we are mortified 10
See in the Standard, unrebuked, the proceedings
of meeting in Allegheny county, on the 18th
inst, in which, among Others, the following res.
olutons were adopted
''Resolv ed, That regret the appointment of
one Bradford, a Virginian, chief tithingman for
Norm Carolina.
Resolved, That we demand the speedy re-
nova! Of said Bradford.
Resolved That do not intend TO pay tithes
10 bradford Or any other PERSON. A
Resolved, That We highly appreei ate and ap-
prove of the course that w. w. Holden has
pursued in supporting the ri ghts of the peopIesF
and keeping alive the almost extinguished spark
Of liberty" s,4...e 4
Liberty What sort of liberty has the STAN
iari taught these people ?--(who by the way
iernand the speedy removal OF a man who had
already BEEN. days removed.) Safely the
Standard did not mean to teach them that 1ib.j
ssty consists ia refusing to obey a tax lava
;iearly constitutional law-enacted by the gov
srnmens whloh taey aad them selves erected for
hat and other purposes? If that be liberty
is government 9 And if this be a dsspe~ /:
ism as the Standard instrucss i1s readers, des-
'otisns allows their subjects to take strange
iberties. A despotisa! no freedom Of opinion
nd the persons who make the complaint de-
handing OF their government the removal of a
ak collector unacceptable, andFpanly tell
lg che government al the same time that when r.
appoints coectcr to suit their notions they 9
vor't pay the taxes to him s.. -s. - 81
). But to pass from this branch Of the Star
ards reply.
1t was not asecess sonists who took North | 7
;arolina out OF the old Unton, who joined her y
. the Contederaoy Nor was it tor anything y
nat the secessor sts of the cotton States had u
one or could do, that she vent out. She bad .
oldly, tnaufuily, and wisely, disregarded AMIR
nat, and soc would have disregarded il to this