Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-17

-al interest anu grown OF winch bAs 10 Pafettei
.iuce the foundation Of the world, We have in |
three short years accumulated q debt of between |
.hree and four thousand millions Of dollars, the |
ike of which the world never witnessed. even /
IN the most populous regions Of the old continent.
England with two hundred years Of war accu- |
mulated debt Of four thousand one hundred
millions while We. 10 a three years var with our
southern brethren, have incurred debt Of three
thousand millions of dollars, besides destroying
the material interest and wealth of the country
to perhaps like sum, aud besides creating a
debt in cities, towns. counties and State OF one
or two thousand millions of dollars In addition.
II il mournful and one Of the most astonish
ing exhibitions OF human depravity the world
ever saw. that the people of the United States,
grown up under institutions guaranteeing to the
white population equality of rights and privi-
lege, should suffer the prosecution OF war for
the continuance in power of men who love them
selves better than their country, and their pock-
cts better than the life of the nation. ZAP
plause
Bu; we have other exhibitions of depravity
still more marvellous striking at the heart oil
the nation.
Last week, the New York Tribune, edited by
Horace Greeley, the leading star of the Republi-
can camp came out with an editorial article
headed Now let US 20 to work. implying that
the sacrifice OF hundreds of thousands oil lives,
the destruction of thousands of millions OF prop
erty, the filling Up of grave yards, the devasta-
ton of hundreds of thousands of fields IN the
fairest portion of the country, the depopulaton
OF the northern States the creation OF an altar oil
mourning in every household, was not yet the
beginning of what is to come. ct IN the lace
of all this he comes OF: and declares 10 the
American people that we have not come up 10
earnest, and requests the people to enlist, TO NIL
up the armies, and TO give OF their material
wealth in order to put down this rebellion. Is
there to be no end, nv fellow citizens, 10 the
calling for men for human Slaughter Are We
never TO reach the end of this wofu and desper-
ate contest! Are We to continue on week alter
week, month after month: and year after year in
the slaughter of bretbi en- because they differ
with us upon political question:
WHY sirs even Abraham Lincoln in his nau-
gural address takes the bold ground that the peo-
pie OF this country have the right to change their
! form of government either under the Consttu
ton by provisions therein set forth, or by reyolu-
ton. Let me read now paragraph from his IN
j augural address; and | will not detan you but a
very few moments:
This country with its institutions, belong TO
the people who inhabit il. Whenever they shall
| grow weary of the existing government they can
exercise their constitutional right in amending
or their revolutionary right to disDember or
| overthrow it,"
This ia Abraham Lincoln Applause. Now
don't &c with Abraham Lincoln as far as that
| think it would have been far better for ouI
Southern friends II they had submitted their Qnes
tons of division TO Commissioners to have been
settled; but they chose different policy, and We
have to deal with this question as it presents itself
and not as we would desire it
| You all know that the claiHor has been fol
more men ana a greater amount of money, will
Ii. tl.ae - rfaa
would but extend to Us the arm of physical
power and the purse We would put down this re
bellon and vet every step has only involved u:
in more difficulty and put further off the settle
ment of the questions that now agtate the coun-
try.
Gentlemen it was not my intention TO max,
these remarks, but at the request of some of IN,
friends have done so in this desultOry manner
hope, before we reach the day of election Il
have the privilege of addressing at least portion
of nv fellow citizens in this district, and to dis
cuss all the questions growing out of this war.
i The system of taxation is as arbitrary as il!ega
arrests. and not only in violation of State consti-
tutions but of the Constitution of the United
States Who pays the taxes? Here are mel
treasuring up wealth upon wealth-who are re
ceiying manufacturing assets of from % to 6O pei
cent. upon the capital nvested--and who nyes
their greenbacks in United States bonds and
ufaW interest III pOlu, WltDOut paying one Ceut U
tax. On this account the agricultural and me
chanieal interests of the country are compelled t.
pay an additional sum in order to carry on th:
war and fill the Golfers of the who are
treasuring up their wealth in this way.
One man 10 New York owns to-day five mil
lion dollars worth of government bonds. and he
pays no State, county, or municipal tax thereon
and vet you who raise bushel of corn or whea
you who are in any of the industrial avoca-
tons of life-y0u are taxed to the very bitter
end. The tax gatherer commences in the cradle
aud he follows you through every single grada-
ton of life unit: YOU reach the charnel house o.
DEATH and you taxed there. The tombstone
is taxed, and your estate after you sleep in dealt
is taxed. 1t is taxation from the cradle TO thu
grave, and it will be not only for this genera
ton but probably for all generations to come
for the people of these United States never car
pay that tax without making it grinding upon la
Dor and making the people hewers of wood anC
drawers of water. If England has to tax 81
heavily all her vast resources, and her aborer
are compelled TO sweat at every pore, to pay tn,
, interest on four thousand million of dollars a
the rate of two and five eighths per cent, why
sirs, how are we-crushed and bleeding, unde
the debt of this war-how are We to pay the in
terest on like sum at six per cent? Prosecute
this war a few years longer, and even the inter
est of the debt could never be paid by the indus
try of the people, and leave support for the In
borer and his family
thank you, gentlemen. for your attention