The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-09-06
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The Tax GatI,erer.

to the contrary, Notwithstanding, th,
above named animal has been Otter
seen and felt in Hancock county fol
more than thirty years; and thirty
years ago he used to bite harder thar
now He did not get so much bu
he had less to get from. Farmers al
over the county will bear witnes.
that from twenty-five to thirty years
since it was much harder to get Ia,
money than it is now. Within thu
last twenty years, a woman of oul
county asked me with q great deal o
feeling. whether a tax gatherer, il
the shape of Democratic slob, ha6
the right, as he threatened, to drive
her COW off for tax.
1t is true we have q great national
debt to pay-the bequest of slavery
But thank God, it is debt, and no,
slavery. We shall pay it, too, in
good faith, for the nation is not con.
trolled by Democratic regulators
nor are we so bad off, as to have to
sell honor To escape debt.
Within one year after reconstruc-
ton we shall be able to use in bust.
ness. without great imitation 81, ,000,.
100000 currency, and our tax being
paid at all seasons of the year, and
much (too much) paid in duty on
goods imported, we can pay the in,
terest and more than S100,000,000
of the public debt annually without
very great pressure. We can do it,
(at least we did DO it) and keep
money much more plenty, and busi-
ness as prosperousas before the war.
By continuing this five year we shall
be completely over the rub, and our
debt will become readily manageable.
Already the yield in our gold and
silver mines equals at least $780,
000,O00 a year, about doubled, be.
lieye in seven years. Our Pacific
railroad is well under way, and will
be finished in five years, probably.
With it finished, in ten years our pop
ulation will be more than fifty mil,
lions. Slavery being dead the pop,
ulation of the South will increase al
most as fast as the North. We shall
have a government no longer under
a curse, government having the re-
spect and best wishes of all enlight-
ened men. We shall have the bene-
fit of the trade between East Asia
and West Europe being, in fact, the
heart of the world. We have the
climate, the soil and the enterprise
to make our country contain two
hundred millions of people within the
life of the persons now born. If for
the next ten years we should be able
only. tc keep our disabled soldiers
and sailors widows and orphans, and
pay our interest we should do well,
and even then, before twenty-five
years pass, our children will laugh
as they read the old files of Demo
cratic papers and rejoice that the par
ty was tootteak to act.any but Cas-
sandals part. ..
But if it were more difficult to pay
our debts, we still would pay them.
What would tina. be to the pressure
that sent so many of our Democratic
friends to Canada during the war +?
It is hard to brave death on the bait lie
field. Many of us taxed ourselves
$500 year rather than go. Some
that would not pay, gave bail-leg
bail. Pendleton thinks those might
be pretty fine fellows. We might
say with Sly, "yery fne--would they
had staid away" No doubt they
suffered. There is an old law by
which " the way of the transgressor
is { (made) hard" 1t was unpleasant
TO leave friends, and q country that
never called but once for duty; twas
hard to meet the shame of running
away. But it was to them harder
still to fight. Did not the brave man,
too, love his wife and child? Surely
he loved his country, even unto
death. His sacrifice was great, great
er than money, and he felt it.
Citizens of Hancock, it is to pay
for these su ferines, so far as money
can, that this debt was contracted ;
it vas to pay for their food, their
clothing, their children's food, the
artillery that defended them and
saved us. What shall be done with
the man who would shirk the debt
and throw odium upon the stumble
puson" by whom the money is col
lected Shall we make him Presi-
dent No! Let him live privately in
his wrath to be despised by the hon
est poor man.
True, it was in part our rich men
who lent the government the money,
but it was rich men who believed in
the government. BUTT wasnot rich
men only. Many thousands who
had but fifty dollars within starvation
mark, lent it to the government.
Opposition to payment is of q piece
with opposition TO the war. 1t is ri
the same party should do both j; and
it is very fit that the party should be
small. Yours,
J.B.DUNN.
A Norwich paper commends sum
mer excursions because it is inJurl
ous Tn he ALWAYS quiet and comfort