The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-24

ihlt'eu III the lfee states They have in
pressed thousands of slaves without the ~ ~
sent of their masters. Has this been W. lYu'
by our government in any loyal slave stst t', ,
In Virginia, in Arkansas, in Louis;ss
everywhere, the rebel leaders seize privs
property at their own prices for their use ;"
matter if it is the last bushel of corn Of
farmer or the only bale of cotton of a nan
soldiers wife. Has any one been so vronosi
in the loyal states
There general taxes are ten times as he,v,
as ours-and necessarily so, for their sla,s,
pay no taxes, and the poor non slavehodp,s
the working.luen of the southern states, az
taxed doubIy that the rich mans slaves M,
be exempt More than this, law of the reb:
Congress specially exempts from service n
the army every STAKEHOLDER who owns tweutv
slaves. Is any such unjust distinction !.
favor of the rich al the expense of the poo,
found in the loyal states d? But their genera
taxes are not all ; their state taxes have bee,
enormously increased and that while the rebg
leaders prohibit trade, and seize arbitrarjl,
on private property wherever they need i
We have before us an abstract of the pu
" schedule of (state) taxes passed by tb
General Assembly of Virginia last year. wi
iud general increase on all articles befor
taxed of not less than fifty per cent, and
great number OF new articles on the list, neve
before taxed and these not Injuries, rot Ii I
peculiar property Of the wealthy, but the na
essaries which every poor man uses. 90
every item of property, except slares," II,
rebel assembly largely increased the taxes
Under twelve years slaves are not taxed at
all and over that age they are taxed one dol,
ar and twenty cents per head, regardless Of
value Can any dhusionist point to an act
OF any free state legislature so shamefuny "a.
voring the rich at the expense Of the poor as
this
On the tenth Of January last, Govenor
Letcher called the sedentary militia of Viz.
glna-the mere remnant Of white working
men remaining in the state, between the ages
of forty and iorry,fve years, to rendezvous
forthwith in the city of Petersburg, for a SER
vice of six months, Has any such demand
as this been made in the loyal states
And how DO the southern people bear all
this oppression Our diffusionists attempt
to ala'm the nation by pictures Of discomfort
IN certain free states they hope to excite
such feelings by talking about them. But in
he South no such incrers are needed. The
cbel leaders have trouble on their hands
everywhere. The officers they send out to
nforce their oppressive CONSUMPTION act are
hot down by the people, who refuse to be
ragged like dogs into the rebel armies. In
he West, the Mississippians, the Tennessee.
ans, and kentuckiaDs IN Bragg's army have
'een almost at war with each other, and JEFF
JAWS had to 20 out there to quiet them. 10
Arkansas General Hindman's starving forces
re utterly dlsorganzed, and three hundred Of
hem are frozen to death. In Georgia and
North Carolina the people aud deserters from
heaTmy have taken to the mountains in organ.
1ed bands, and resist all efforts to capture Or
pbdue them, In North Carolina armed bands
ave violently released prisoners from rebel j
ais. General Lee has been forced to dis.
atch troops to East Tennessee, to suppress
q lnsurrectionary movement In Alabama
'ovenor Shorter calls for the militia to meet
nd quell tae domestic and social disturban.
es which may spring up In South Caro-
ma, even, according to rebel Generals proc
imatlon, " there are number of desertsn
'rles and censcripts, resisting the law"
Aud it is to band Of rebels whose crimes
nd lawless outrages have thus exhausted and
ppressed the people OF the South till they
turn rebel against them, that our sub
lss'onlsts ask proud and powerful nation
humbIy sue for peace. 1t is to rebel chiO'
no will presently be in danger from the very
eOpe they have too lonc commanded and