The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-07-12

/ 900 direct loss to the Government At once
/ Next year it is estimated that more thar
/ SIPS, ,009 900 viii aocrue TO the Government
/ from the new tax bill, which, with Q depre
/ ciated currency, will fall short Of SO, ,000,-
] 000. But the Government has q very large
] family to provide for, which during the last
! year, has cost about S700,O00,O3l Now
mark. If the national currency were as
good es gold, as it ought to be, aud as It
would be, if the balance Of European trade
we're not against US, S350O0O,OJJ would
purchase as much as 500, ,J0J090, and the
Government expenses would be reduced IN
that ratio. In short Il would be g clear
annual gain to the Government Of $3.50, 900, :
900. Now by " hat rule Of finance can 1t be
profitable to spend $3.50, ,000, 900 for SIS, ,O00,-
0O02 These facts need no comment, and
win not intrude upon the time and patience
of an intelligent elear-minded audience, IN
attempting to prove the truth Of an axiom,
You can plainly see that the revenues Of the
nation are not TO be injured By this move
ment but on the contrary, will gain an im-
mense advantage. 1t matters very little
whether the Government receives one dOllaT
from customs, provided the people are taxed
in other ways to meet its demands, and who
is so devoid Of common sense and patriOt-
ism, thathe would not sooner pay one dollar
to our great and glorious GoYernmeRt, than
ten, City, or one hundred dollars to specula-
tors, as We are all doing now Therefore I
declare, that it is for the interest Of the
Government, as well as the individual, TO
stop as quickly and as promptly as possi-
bic, the importation from foreign countries
Of articles whose places we can supply by
our own skill and industry, or, which we can
do without. This viii still leave . sufi7
eient trade with foreign powers to secure q
sale for all we wish to export and save IN
the nation the gold, which is the basis for a
circulating paper currency. We shall al be
benefited by this, and the financial safety
and honor Of the nation be secured. But an
inaudidle whisper is passing over the land
and this Importers have whispered, and the
timid and feeble minded family echoed, that
Foreign Powers may make war upon Us, If
We do not buy their goods. angles and
ministers Of grace defend Us Are we pay
ing tribute? Can it be possible, that,We,
whose forafathers laid down their lives to
break the thraldom Of taxation, are paying
half million day to foreign powers that
they may keep their armies from us2 Are
we, poor affects, with the true nobility Of
our mothers all crushed out, with cringing,
servile smile, Offering bags Of gold to friend
lg i'nsUtraL powsrs9 over the water, and
with "bated breath" begging them not make
war upon US Shades of our grahdmothers,
come 20 our resoueG Shelter with your no.
bic wings your trembling, degenerate des-
cendants, who are to-day selling the free
dom for which you paid so dearly. Ladies
Of Delaware county, can we bear this as
-persion No. Let Us to-day rise in our
might and send it over the Keystone State,
and let it be echoed from Oregon TO the At
lantic, and from thence over the waters, to
be re-echoed in the columns of the London
Times, that there are in America women Of
true nobility who dare say to France and
to England 'Millions for Defence but not
one cent for tribute" r-.---