Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-03-22
Strike the Balance.

can thus sums up few of the terrible
results of the great rebellion and its guilty
c.use-Slavery. It is Sad but truthful
picture Of the fruits Of this gigantic wick.
edness, which has risen up upon the sol!
Of the American Republic, to blast its
peace and destroy the hopes Of mankind fer
sges yet to come:
Because Of .Saoery everything i. ta.red.
We n1ise in the morning aud enrobe our
selves 10 taxed cotton and woollen gar
ments at twice their usual prices We
shave with taxed soap and coab eur
hair with taxed comb dolefully gazing
in q taxed mirror. We put On our taxed
boots, of horse hide, for, alas, the glories
Of patent leather are among the memories
Of the past, and walk ovev taxed stair
carpet to the region where, with adue re-
gard for the economy 0! taxed fuel, our
frugal breakfast is spread. We drink our
taxed coffee, q decoction of chickory,
French, BrOadbent and "oid rye" in
which is mixed our taxed sugar, with a
taxed spoon out of a taxed cup and al
though inwardly cursing the bitter fate
which condemns Us to such stuff, are graf
ified to know that Sir William Hamiton's
remark, "ihat a man S Intellect depends
on the amount of coffee be drinks" is not
altogether true. We sniff the aroma of
forty FIVE cent butter, and, thinking it
strong enough to bear the tax, revenge
ourselves upon the gravy of taxed sau-
sages, with the fear of rise in price on
the passage Of the dog law. We write on
taxed paper with taxed ink, aud print on
tie himsest of trash which monopoly and
exercise will enable us to furnish to the
many-headed monster, ycept the public
We priu, taxed advertisements and pay
for taxed dispatches; ride in taxed car
riages, behind taxed horses, hi,ched in
with taxed harness. Our incomes are tax
ed and our outgoes are taxei, aud when
"life's f full feSer is over, by the aid of
some kind physician's taxed medicine, we
are boxed up in taxed C, fin, aud pay
our heaviest tax Of all to the inevitable
exciseman-Death.
Thi; is only small part Of the account
debted against the cause of the war-the
root Of the Reoellion-Ihe cornerstone of
the Gonfederacy-Slagery.
We have to set down to the account
millions of blighted hopes, and broken
hearts, and desOlste homes and happy lives
aud honor able ambitions thwsrted, aud no. !
bic careers ended, and brilliant iutelects [
couded, aud souls gone as'ray. There are
widows and orphans tears enough to
weigh down all the gold the accursed in-
stitution ever was worth, by the estimate
Of its own wOrshiPpers in the palmiest day
of Yancy, Wise aud Kci,,. Compensa.
ton? Slavery ask for compensation
[, i. We, the suif rers, that have right to
demand compensation Of Slavery. We
that pay the tax, have right to ask Sla.
very 10 unburthen US Of the enormous
debts it has saddled upon US. I'VE,
whose dead children lie on the fields Of
Shiloh and Gettysburg, may well say to
H,,n t-,ly a:
loved ones. Who shall pay the orphan
fr father gone ? Only the Great God
that holds the even scales of jls,ice 10 his |.
mighty hand can tell how enormous is
the debt due to the American people this
day by Slavery.
Maryland has claim Of her own By
which TO offset all demands for compenss-
ton, independent Of her share in the great
general account we have just related. Ma
ryland has double the agricultural area of
Massachusetts, more than double the shore
lire, finer and healthier climate, more
cosl, iron aud other mineral resources,
greater water power and equal commercial
facilities. Her early settlement entitled
her to a speedy proportiona'e develop,
reut as Massachusetts,, with the same ad-
vsntages; tut as Mary laud has greater nat
rral advantages, she ought to have dcvel-
opsd more rapidly. There is but one rea-
son why she did not, and that reason is
Slavery. 1t acted as an embargo on imi-
grafton. 1t prevented the settlement of
people aud the investment Of capital. As
consequence We fad the value of real
aud personal estate in Massachusetts, in
1860 was Ssl5, ,237 ,433, and that of Mary.
land only $376,9l9,9ii. Deduct the lat
ter from the former aud we have balance
to charge against Slavery Of si3S .3l7 ,4S9.
A FU REMARKS BY JOSH BILLINGS
Moral sSashuu consists in asking a man to
do what be augbt to do without asking,
and then begging bis pardon if be refuses
to do it,
bav finally kum to the konklusion,
that good reliable set ov bowels, is worth
more 10 9 man, than eauy quantity ov