Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-03-13

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/ March, 1868, AZ ~ O'Clock NJ.
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TELL THE WHOLE STORY
Why do the peace men and journals say
nothing Of the losses, Of the mismansgement,
dangers and defeats Of the enemy, They
profess great alarm at our "depreciated cur
rency,' they point to the rise in the price Of
golj-wbich their own gambling speculaiions
and evil representations have in good part
produced-but take no notice Of the price Of
gold or the state of currency among the rebels
They exclsim that calico is getting dear with
VS., but they never tell their readers that it
has long been ten times as dear in the South /;
they excaim against war tax which makes
coffee cost US thirty cents the pound bu.
they do not mention that coffee is scarce at
one dollar per pound in the South They
say leather is going up in the North but
they never inform the public that the COM
monest shoes cost twelve to fourteen dollars
and mems boots fifty dollars per pair in Rich
mond ; tha, half the rebel army is barefo ',ed,
and that shareholders are forced to wear shoes
never before used except by their slaves.
Such even-handed diffusion Of knowledge
would not suit the purposes Of the gentry
who have come lately to be called diffusion
lists.
The persons, who are so afraid Of the enc
my that they beseech people Of twenty mil
lions to humble themselves in the dust to a
population OF less than nine millions, third
Of whom are friendly to US, are food Of de-
claiming about the immense sacrifices we have
already made for the Union. We have made
great sacrifices, true-and the Union is worth
them all, aud more too We have suffered
losse,-but look little at the enemy.
These rebel leaders have passed a couscrip-
ton law--and enforced t-forcng every man
between the ages Of eighteen and forty-fye
into their armies. Has that been done in the
free States They have just added to this a
clause including in a new levy all men up to
the age Of 6hy-fve years. Has this been
done in the free States; The territory Of
Mississippi has been laid off inte districts
twenty miles square. and a recruiting colonel
appointed for each district to enforce the con-
script and militia acts. Ha. this been done
in the free States
They have seized and destroyed hundreds
Of millions Of dollars Of private property
sugar cotton, tobacco, turpenune, &c ,
against the protestatious Of the owners. Has
any such outrage on private rights been com
mitted in the rec States They have i'm
pressed thousands Of slaves without the con
sent Of their masters. Has this been done
by our government in any loyal slave State ::
In Virginia, in Arkansas, in Louisiana,
everywhere, the rebel leaders seize private
property at their own prices for their use I;
no matter if it Is the last bushel of corn of
a farmer OF the only bale OF cotton Of poor
soldiers wife. Hss any one been 30 wronged
in the loyal States
Theis general taxes are ten times as heavy
as ours--and necessarily 30, for their slaves
pay no taxes, and the poor non-sluveholders,
the working men Of the southern states, are
taxed douby, that the rich maus slaves may
els Congress specially exempts from
service in the army every STAKEHOLDER
who owns twenty slaves. Is any such
unjust distinction in favor Of the rich
at the expense Of the poor found in the loyal
States But their general taxes are not all ;
their State taxes have been enormously in
creased, and that while the rebel leaders pro-
hibit trade. and seize arbitrarily on private
property wherever they need it. We have
before US an abstract of the new schedule Of
. (State) taxes passed by the General Assem-
bly, OF Virginia last year. We find general
increase on all articles before taxed OF not
( less than fifty per cent, and great number
Of new articles on the list, never before tax
ed and these not luxuries, not the peculiar
property of the wealthy, but the necessaries
which every poor man uses. "On every item
OF property, ercea siaues,' the rebel assem-
bly, largely increased the taxes. "Under
twelve years slaves are not taxed at all, and
over that age they are taxed only one dollar
and twenty cents per head, regardless Of
value" Can any diHusionist point to an act
of any free State Legislature so shamefully
favoring the rich at the expense of the poor
as this
On the tenth Of January last, Governor
Letcher called out the sedentsry militia OF
Virgnia-the mere remnant of white working
men remaining in the State. between the
ages of forty and forty-fve years, to render
vous forthwith in the city of Petersburg, for
a service of six months" Has any such de-
mand as this been made in the loyal States
And how do the southern people bear all
this oppression Our difusionists attempt