The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-18

The Richmond Wing does not like the
rebel tax bill, by which Sl50,O00 GOO are
this year to he raised. 1t 5aysthe taxes
trc to be Paid by a portion only Of ten
States. The seven Atlantic Gulf States
will have TO bear the principal portion
and large tracts Of these are ovcrrun bN
the enemy, aud can pay nothing IL
thinks it only decent that the represent
atiyes Of Kentucky, Missouri and Ten
nessce should not vote ON the bill, as
their States will contribute little or no.
thing. The Wing adds: The narrow
belt first adverted 10 is 10 pay all, and Al
the same time TO feed the army Con-
cinna,i Gazette.
That is good. Tennessee is told that
she ought TO have no vote in levying the
Confederate tax TO support the Contede-
rate Government, although she has had
her citizens slain and captured by thou
sands, her crops seized by Confederate
authority, and her whole surface desola-
ted by the presence of war. She must
submit TO the Confederate Government,
but she shall have no vote in adjusting
its taxes-taxes, too, which she must
certainly pay, ultimately, if the rebel
lion shall prove successful. There is
fairness, liberality and equality with a
witness. This is the free Government,
the Southern Rights Confederacy," into
which the arrogant cotton States invited
Tennessee, with a bayonet at her back
q pistol at her head, and a dagger at her
throat. This is worse than taxation
without representation. 1t is tyranny in
a most insulting form. The representa- ,
tives of Tennessee may look on while the
representatives Of the cotton States vote
the tax upon her, but they shall not vote
themselvesl Have Tennessee secession.
lists lost all their pride that they will
submit to such insulting oppression as
that proposed by the Richmond Wing ?
Nothing more than decent that Tennes,
Gee, Kentucky, and Missouri shalt not
vote on tho bill Why is not Virginia
deprived of her vote also? She is over
run by hostile armies. A new State
has been carved out of her territory, and
yet this mouth. piece of the Richuond
dynasty says nothing about depriying
Virginia OF her vote. That would be
depriving the scions of the First Fami
lies of their divine right to dictate and
domineer. If Tennessee has not a right
TO vote on the question of Confederate
revenues, what State has? She has
borne the burden and brunt Of the war.
Her blood has been poured out like water
in this damnable rebellion. The Con-
federacy has made her bankrupt. The
garden-spOts of her soil have been swept
with the bosom OF desolation. The very
clouds seem to weep showers of blood
upon her soil, from which go up the in
Vulnerable cries Of her slaughtered sons,
10 heaven, imploring the vengeance of
God upon the heads of the leaders of
this rebellion. But. in spite of these
fearful sacrifices, this i~nsolent Richmond
organ tells her that she must be silent,
for The sake Of decncy, when taxes are TO
be leyiedl Alb, the phrase that "Cotton
lie King" is a hypocritical one. The
Kings Of the rebel C%oufederacy arc IN.
cotton States, and woe tolhe Border States
aud to Tennessee, if they place Them
selves at the mercy Of these arrogant
and imperious despots Of the Cult,