North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-25

Die BOND hOlders-that they do not well
come with enthusiasm the taxation that
consumes the yearly saving of the peoples
industry. 1t may be that the Democratic
sense of obligation is not increased by the
reflection that the national debt was in
large part incurred in building up vast pri.
vate fortunes for Republican favoritcs, that
this debt represents to great extent the
successful robberies and frauds of Republic
can leaders and the price paid for the poll
teal support of venal Democrats, and that
in many cases the government got only
thirty-fve to forty cents for what the peo-
pie are now required to pay one hundred.
Democrats may not, perhaps, pay thou
sand forms of taxation with thrill of
pleasure as each impOst and ass ssment is
drawn from their pockets. Morris it any
increase of satisfaction to them, nor, we
believe, to. Republicans, that the revenue
machinery is controlled by some of the
basest and most unprinciplcd creatures
that ever abused an odious power. And
when they find that for the oppressians
and exactions of these petty tyrants there
is no remedy, no appeal to the law, no
resort except to the arbitrary discretion of
their oppressors, system not loyal itself,
instruments of its execution. (
n But Democrats do not forget that ma.
tional honor and national prosperity de-
mand the payment. of the debt. Those
concerned for the preservation of the pub
lie faith should recall the fact that about
all the National and State debt that ever
has been paid, has been paid under Demo
cratic policy and stewardship. A frugal
economy and provident husbandry of re-
sources, as clearly distinguish Democratic
policy, as lavish and spendthrift waste
of the public money, and the reckless null
DUPLICATION of debts and taxes, mark the
ascendancy of the Republican party.
The people will not be likely to seek re-
lief in reputation. They will not, unless
Republican administration makes the bur-
then intolerable. Those are the true re-
pudiators, whose administration compels
to that dire necessity. The men who gov
ern the peacable and law abiding people Of
ten States by standing armies, and by
swarms of political and partisan emissaries
in the pay of the treasury, are preparing
for reputation. A war expenditure of
10000, 900 a year in time of peace, over
and above the interest upon the national
debt is what forebodes national insolvency.
The blasted prosperity Of the South, and
the consequent drying up of the springs
of Northern industry, ten States made a
burthensome charge upon the treasury,
while a proper policy would make them a
very India at the doors of northern produ-
GERS, are the measures of a mad misrule
which threaten to make default in the
payment of this debt and taxation not
choice but necessity. Twenty thousand
officers swarming like locusts, and gnawing
with omnivorous taxation at the substance
of the people, will not be endured when it
is seen that they are collecting hundreds
of millions to subserve corrupt extrava-
gance, partisan seltishness and party hate.
A party that taxes the whole people to
Cypress large portion of them by military
power, which expends hundreds of mil
lions of revenue to colonize and control
the South for its own partisan purposes,
which grants largesses by the twenty or
thirty millions annually, to secure the sup
port of the banking interest, and which
subsidies the great manufacturers by
granting them a carte blanche to put in
their pockets special taxes upon consum-
ers, fully equal to what is paid into the
public treasury, will, ere long, leave no
resources for paying the national debt. A
party which spends as if the treasury had
no bottom, and taxes the people as if their
resources had no limit a party which us
es the money extracted from the people
for revolutionary and unconstitutional pur-
poses, is making the most dangerous argu-
ment for reputation.
The tax warrant that comes to seize the
property of the people must be a legal
warrant. Schemes outside of the Con-
stitution and which are founded upon a
"repudiation of that supreme law, can
make no lawful requisition for our money
Republican leaders and presses confess
that Congress has assumed a power over
all Southern States in derogation of the
Constitution. The federal government has
no authority to call for taxes except under
the grants contained in that Instrument
If Congress enters upon ''outside' schemes
to gain and hold partisan conquest of
the South, the people may think fit to no.
tify these adventures that they must get
the needed taxes "outside" of the people.
This unlawful diversion of the resources
drawn from the taxpayers is, to that ex-
tent, a republican reputation of the high
er obligation to apply those funds to our
national debt. The Congressional war up
on the South since the cessation of hOstil-
tiles in the field, has cost taxpayers not
less than five hundred millions in direct
taxes, and has occasioned business losses
vastly greater. 90
Congress has no right to compel North
ern Taxpayers to pay the expense of gov
erning the Southern States by standing ar.
| mics, or otherwise The expense is as
needless, as it is unlawful. When the US.
urpations of Congress commenced on this
subject, the Southern people were peaceful
and law abiding. State governments adopt
ed by the people left no just cause for the
interference Of the federal government
Paying all the expenses of local govern.
ment, the State cast no expense upon the
federal treasury. They were prepared to
become large producers, and their revived
industry and developed wealth would have
been tilwarted by Republican partisanship
| To treat the Southern people as alien enc
mics, to suppress their State independence
to threaten confiscation, to degrade the
whites into political inferiority to the ne
groes, to1impose upon them the coarse des
potism of profigates like Sickles and i'm
beetles like Pope, has impaired nationa
resources and enormously aggravated ON
sacrifices. a
The people will soon begin to reflect tina,
these are not objects which call for melt
ing down the prosperity of the whole coun
try, and running it in flood through the
Treasury. They will see that the corrup
ton, the waste, and the illegal cxpendi
lures of the Republican party, costume thu
capital and production Of the country al
most as fast as war expenses. And unless
Republican measures can be reversed, AND
their leaders expelled from power, the peo
pie will be driven 70 contemplate the dis
grace of reputation as an incident of tn,