Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-05

ual burdeni Look at this estimate Of snuuai
expenses-iDcouplete and moderate:
An army sfiOo.Ooo nen will cost, per snnun -, ,oo
Interest on o.. 900 Ooo 900 at pr 100000
Civil expenses &C the Government l01ovvU
Navy .'..-...........-.s....' $1,000
Pension Last --.--.---..-.-.-' S''o'''VOS
Rf ss5e. 600 600
Dcaue, r.c.lo.s from .eu..ons lo0. 600 100
Leaving TO be raised BY d!rec, $3.50 900
IndiaDa's portion of this annual tax can not
be less than SIS .OOU.O 600 This is more than
three times the entire funded debt OF the State,
which, in the time of our greatest prosperity,
was considered a grievous burden. Three
fourths OF the tax heretofore levied for State
purposes have gone 10 pay the interest on our
debt Of seven and one half millions. and now we
are 70 pay for the General Government annually
more than three times the whole amount Of
principal, while our State tax can not be dimin-
ished. and our county and municipal taxes are
largely increased. Can We pay IT aid prosper!
Can We pay il at all. with one-half Of the coun-
try burden, and held BY force tc the other half'
The laboring classes-the poor--the humble
how will il be with theml
The whole reward of their daily toll is eaten
up BY the increased Goa, OF living. This is the
way be pays his taxes. He does not band bis
wages to the tax gs,herer; he pays TO the mer-
chant. the shoemaker, the grocer, the baker, aud
the butcher. When he buys his wife calico
dress for S.. which ~ould have cost before the
var 81, he pays 81 Of taxes for the sup
port Of the government. The same rule
holds good with every necessity Of life. The
tax commences away oh with the manufactured.
and increases at every stage until IL reaches the
consumer, who ia the end pays il all And this
( is not for day OF year. There is no good
time coming" when the wearisome load will be
lifted OFF This generation will pass away, but
! upon It's children the terrible incubus will rs.
main. Instead of liberty, peace. happiness and
prosperity. there will be for Us and our children
despoiism. turmoil, misery and poverty. should
Mr.. LINCOLN succeed in his programme of terri
toral Integrity and the abandonment OF slavery
But how if he should fail! If. despite of all ON
eXertious. after all our sacrifices of life end
| money, should in the end be compelled to &C
knowledge the Southern Confederacyi This j,
at less. not impossible. Then there would be
foreign nation on our border who would owe
their national existence to no kindly feeling, nc
conciatory word, no friendly act of ours. Thei
recollections aud ours would be Of war. desola
ton and implacable hatred. We will have beer
defeated-for failure is defeat-humbled and i'm
poverished Let the curtain be drawn over tn.
picture Of our degradation.
Turn to view the result should tn,
Chicago nominee be elected. His programm,
will be cessation Of hostilities and attempt {,
restore the Union by compromise and cancellation
or, failing 10 that. taking the last extreme--rec
ignition. And portray the result of an Unior
restored by mutual concessions, The consent 0
both parties and the scquiesceuce OF the people
Then shall We return to our first love War
with all its horrors shall cease As of old, an
, gels shall hover over all the land, and proclaim
Peace on earth--good will tn men" Th
CHASTITY wound. no matter by whom inflicted
will be healed. North and South alike vii
strive 10 forget the hideous nightmare which, 70
four years. has held the nation in an attitude o
horror II shall pass away as a dream. or be n
tnembered only terrible lesson TO all tim
and to all the world. The old feeling will re
.urn Our pride, our glory. our liberty, and ou
Union shall be zone and inseparabe" forever
No standing army, no restless subjugated PEG
pie, no States pinned by bayonets to an Unio
abhorred, no arrests for opinions, no baste:
no copperbeads. no sbolitionists. no rebels, bn
one united brotherhood of American citizens
This is no fancy picture. 1t will be the resu
OF the election OF Democratic President. Ever
Democrat afirms it. aud he knows whereof b
he atfrms May God, in his infinite mercy
/ grant this consummation.
But suppose that negotiation should fail. an
, a Democrat should recognize the independents
OF the South. There would be two nations sid
by side, dwelling in peace. with every induce
ment to make that peace perpetual, and to en-
. courage lsudable competition in the advance
ment of liberty, prosperity. and national great
q ness. The memory of our common glory, SOL
row for our mistaken war, the sublime spectacl
of two late belligerents endeavoring in the lgi
. of reason to compromise difference which We
unfortunately aggravated-these would belong
both. A common language. a common religion
similar institutions and laws, contiguous Location
= constant communication, and the thousand liz
Of kindred which even yet draw human hear
togsther-stretchiug il we're across 1t
4 awful abyss of war which yawns between, a
these would unite to bid us live in harmony an
& peace, and make the American name, wheth,
North or South. ia the future As in the past.
II glory and pride.