Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-03-06

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condolences 10 The success Of the war. IL this
useful or sound political infbfhatiohf II 10 use
fol 70 the enemy; IL may be thought sound In
Richmond, hut not here.
Why doithese peace mon and jc6fs1is say no.
thing OF The suferinga Of the losses Of the mis-
management, ofthe dangers and defeats Of the
enemyf They profess great alarm at our @te-
preciated currency, they point 10 the rise In the
price Of gold--which their own gambling specu-
lntions and evil Representations have In good
part produced--but take no notice Of the price
OF gold or the state ofcurrenny among the reb-
els. They exclairnl that calico IL getting dear
with us but they never tell their readers that Il
has long been ten times as dear in the South;
they exclaim against a war tax which makes
coffee cost us thirty cents the pound; but they
do not mention that coffee is scarce at one dollar
per pound in the South. They cay leatheris is
going up in the North; but they never inform the
public that the corninonest shoes cost twelve 10
fourteen dollars, aud mems boots fifty dollars
per pair in Richmond; that half the rebel army
Is barefooted, and that shareholders are forced to
wear shoes never before used except by their
slaves.
Such eFen-handed di1usion OF knowledge
would not snit the purposes Of the gentry who
have come lately to be called diifusionists.
These persons, who are SO afraid of the enemy
that they beseech people Of twenty millions
to humble themselves in the dust TO a popela-
tion Of less than nine millions third Of whom
are friendly TO us, are fond Of declaming about
the immense sacrifices we have alreadE made
for the Union. We have made great sacrifices,
true-and the Union is worth them all, and more
too. We have suffered losses-but look little
at the enemy. ..fri-tf..s .-.l,. ..r
The rebel leaders have passed conscription
law-dnd enforced it--forcing every man between
the ages Of eighteen and forty five into their ar
mics Has that been done in the free states7-
They have Just added TO this clause including
IN new levy all men up to the age of fifty five
years. Has this been done in the free statesf-
The territory Of Mississippi has been laid on i'm
to districts twenty miles square, and a recruiting
colonel appointed for each district to enforce the
conseript and militia acts. Has this been done
In the free statesl tatei-F
They have seized and destroyed hundreds Of
millions OF dollars of private proper.y--sugar,
cotton, tobacco, turpentine, DC, against the pro-
testations of the owners. Has any such outrage
on private rights been committed in the free
statesr They have impressed thousands of
slaves without the consent of their masters.---
Has this been done by our government in any
loyal slave state?
In Virginia. in Arkansas In Louisians, every
where, the rebel leaders seize private property
at their own prices for their use no matter II
il is the last bushel Of corn of farmer or
the only bale of cotton of a a poor soldiers
wife. Has any one been so wronged in the loyal
states? - q"
Their general taxes are ten times as heavy as
ours-and necessarily So for their slaves pay no
taxes and the poor non Shareholders, the work.
ngmen of the southern states are taxed double,
that the rich mans slaves may be exempt More
than this larv of
exempts from service in the army every slave
holder who owns twenty slaves, is any such
unjust distinction in favor of the rich at the ex-
pense of the poor found in the loyal states?-
But their general taxes are not all; their state
taxes have been enormously increased, and that
while the rebel leaders prohibit 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 Assembly 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
taxed; and these not Injuries, not the peculiar
property of the wealthy, but the necessaries
which every poor man uses. son every item of
property except sidUcs the rebel assembly larRe-
ly increased the taxes. "Under twelve wears
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 diffu-
so shamefully favoring the rich at the expense
of the poor thisf 81 @ a-a -fii4i j-li q
On the tenth Of January last Governor Leteh-
er called out the sedentary militia Of Virginia
the mere remnant ofwhite working men remain
ing in the state, "between the ages Of forty and
forty five years, to rendezvous forthwith in the
city of Petersburg, for service Of six months"
Has any such demand as this been made In the
loyal statesf faHs- 7,ttd cf gHai TssHt.' ra
And how do the southern people bear all this
oppression? Our diffusionists attempt TO alarm
the nation by pictures of discomfort in certain
free states; they hope to excite such feelings by
talking about them. But in the South no such
meters are needed The rebel leaders have
troubleon their hands everywhere The officers
they send out TO enforce their oppressive con-
scrlption act are shot down by the people, who
refuse TO be dragged like dogs into the rebel ar
mics In the West, the Mississippians, Tennes-
seeans and Kentuckians in Braggs army have
been almost at war with each other and JEFF.
Davis had to go out there to quiet them. In
Arkansas General Hindman's starving forces are
utterly disorganized, and three hundred Of them
have been frozen to death. In Georgia and
North Carolina the people and deserters from
the army have taken to the mountains in organ
lied bands, and resist all efforts to capture or
subdue them In North Carolina armed bands
have violently released prisoners from rebel
jails. General Lee has been forced to despatch
troops to East Tennessee, 'to suppress an nsur-
rectionary movement" In Alabama Governor
Shorter calls for the militia "to meet and quell
the domestic aud social disturbances which may
spring up" In South Carolina, even, according
to a rebel generals proclamation, sthere are a
number ofdeserters, tories and eonscripts resist
ing the law,
And it is to band ofrebels whose crimes and
lawless outrsges have thus exhausted and op-
pressed the people of the South till they in turn
rebel against them, that our submissionists ask
a proud and powerful nation 10 humbIy sue for
peace. 1t is to rebel chiefs who will presently
be in danger from the very people they have too
long commanded and outraged, that these peace
men ask us to submit. Is this sound political
Internationally y Post
'H5 A Unionist Boiled 10 Death.
| The following statement is taken from the mar
rstiye Of Rev, J. H. Aughey, refuge from Mis-
sissippi: +, q al .sr 1iis .,a,,.
"a About three o'clock in the morning, he came
with two horses, one of which he mounted and