The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-07-21
HIGH TAXES.

A@A1@os
In addition 10 paying their proper
ton Of the tax, the friends of the
Union are made TO bear the responsi-
bility of whatever increased tax is
paid by the Copperheads. 1t is the
old cry of domagogues and traitors
against those who arc maintaining the
Government and the national honor.
1t is mino which all the traitors and
reasonable sheets in the North are
working. And they expect by tho
cry of high taxes to make the people
Desert the cause in which they have
sacrificed so much blood and treasure,
and to induce them to submit TO the
destruction Of the nation and the re-
cognition of the rebel Confedcracy.
There will be few men dcmoral-
lied by such motives, but high taxes,
and high prices and drafts, and all
other necessary burdens combined,
cannot turn tho American people from
their determination to crush the rebel
lion. If necessary they will continue
to demand higher taxes, and pay them
chcerfully. Those who grumble at
the pittance they pay to preserve the
Government and protect their proper,
ty, are not fit to be protected. They
should have taste Of invasion. II
the rebel cavalry should swoop down
upon them, drive away their stock
consume thcir.hay and grain and burn
their houses and fences, they would
then sec the use of giving hundrodth
part Of their property to save ninety
nine parts.
One Of the most provoking things
connected with this grumbling at high
taxes is the fact that many of those
who complain loudest and vote with
the enemies Of tho government, are
growing rich from the operation o
this very tax. Manufacturers whC
mako thousands of dollars by single
rise in manufactured articles, consc
qucnt upon tho tax, are complaining
at tho burdens of tho war. Tako, fol
illustration, tho one item Of whiskcy
Distillcrs who have mado ten, twenty
and thirty thousand dollars by a sin
gle rise in whisky, and this rise causcc
by tho tax, are voting against the gov
ornmcnt because of tho heavy ta2
upon the article they manufacture,
Traitors among us who arc laborint
} in the interest of tho rebellion, at
tempt to frightcn tho people at th'
prospect ofan enormous national deb
F consuming tho substance of this ant
succeeding generations. Now, W
: assert that our national wealth, in tn
ten years following the war, will be ia
greater than ever, and that the increase
in this wealth in ono year, caused b,
the abolition of Slavery will moro tlMl
: pay the whole national dcbt. Th
Census Tables show that il the pro
duct of tho Slave States in the yea
1859, had been equal TO that Of tn
Free States, in proportion TO the pop
=, ulation, the Increased value produces
. in that year in tho Slave States woul'
have boon S1,531 ,63l 900. In the dc
, cado from 1860 TO 1870, tho Increase
product of tho Slave States would hav
hocnsl7, ,S73, ,539,511, provided, thcpro
| duction in the Slave States had becl
) equal, per capita, to that Of the Fro
States. Thus the war, by abolishin!
l slavery, will increase tho nationa
$ wealth in ten years sufficient to pa,
0 tho national debt ten times over. Th
| nQtional debt for tho week ending JUL
= II, 1861, is published at Sl,79O,033,
} 500 81, Thus, whlo tho nationo
0 debt ia but little over seventeen hundrc
. and ninety millions, tho increased ma
. tional wealth caused by abolishin
, Slavery, will, in ten years, amount t
. over Screntcca Thousand eight hundrc
, and Sercaty.thrce millions of dollars !