The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-27

pensions to the widows Of our soldiers"
Many similar quotations could b given, but
this is sufficient to show that the purpose exists.
1t is part of the avowed platform of the copper
head-rebel party. That party has its advocates
and friends ia Baltimore county They have a
Ticket in the field for which they claim your
votes. Whether openly or secretly, they are all
supporters Of the Same evil cause. Beware, peo-
pie Of Baltimore county, lest you be deceived by
them. AS you love your country, as you hope
for the prosperity Of your children and childrens
children, do not vote for any party that favors
an increase of the burdens of taxation by the
adoption of the Rebel debt or the payment OF
emancipated slaves. Vote for the candidates
that favor the adoption of this amendment, and
when it becomes Law, no State win have the
power to tax you for a Rebel debt or for enaan,
cipated slaves, and the whole question will be
But there is another view to be taken of this
matter. = You increase the burdens of taxation
in another way by supporting the copperhead
Ticket.
The national debt Is three thousand millions
of dollars. On this sum we pay an average in
terest of seven per cent, which amounts to two
hundred and ten millions year. This interest,
with the principal, the people in some form OF
other, must pay And the reason We are conf
PEELED to pay this high rate of interest is because
the world lacks confidence in our securities. -
We have not offered any guarantee for payment
of the debt, except public sentiment, aud that ia
constantly changing amid our fiuctuatipgp olitics,
We cannot command money at such low rate
of interest on such uncertain security. AS we
have shown above, the copperhead party is al
ready advocating either reputation or an az
sumption Of the Rebel debt. If She very men
who by their Treason we're the cause Of the debt,
are at once restored to power, we may expect to
find the credit of the government declining aud
government Bonds sinking below par.
BY adopting the amendment the national debt
is put beyond the reach of population Our
securities are established on safe basis. Capt.
talists will be anxious to secure our Bonds aud
our immense debt for which VIC pay seven pei
cent. interest, can be exchanged for loan a.
five, or perhaps even four per cent The reduc'
ton in the rate of interest will save us in taS
from sirty to serenity millions a year. And If we
are fifty years, as we probably shall be, In pay
ing off our debt spe shall saUe ocor three
thousand fve hundred millions Of dolsoysl In
this reduction the people of every section will re-
ceive their proportional benefit. LISA matter
that comes home to the pocket of every taxpayer
in the county. To vote for a party thatis in ia
vor of paying for emancipated slaves and for
paying the Rebel war debt is to hang about our
necks milestone of taxation that will grind uf
to the earth. To vote the regular Union Ticket
is TO vote against an increase of taxation for The
benefit of the late Rebel slave-owners, and to put
our debt on such basis that sixty millions Q
year can be saved in interest alone. Can any
honest, intelligent man hesitate, especially when
the Union candidates are men so eminenty
worthy of the positions which they ask 2