The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-29
National Taxes

Pendleton, Vallandigham and other Ohio
Copperheads, in their public harangues, read
the following figures to their audiences, the
object being to pave the way for repudia
ton:
AMOUNT OF TAXES COLLECTED LAST YEAR
In the United States. ....... $3.50, 900, 900
In Great Britain 49, -. 480, 000,0 900
In France ............... 390,000,000
THE TAX BASIS OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPER
In the United States $40, 900, 900, 600
In Great Britain. ......s... 36, 600, 900, 600
In France. ... 40, 900, 900, 900
In presenting these figures the Copperhead
orators forget to explain several important
circumstances, which omissions we will sup
ply.
LIST The revenue collected for the fiscal
year ending July l, 1866, amounted to 1858
032, 629, Of which S67, 119, $50 were receiv.
ed from the sale Of old war materials and
premium on gold sold, making the actual
amount obtained from taxation, $3.50, 913,
251, which is one hundred millions less than
the Copperhead statement.
I'd OF the money collected for the fiscal
year 1867, no less than $3.50, 900 of it
was expended III paying off the soldiers and
sailors of the army and navy who were dis
banded IN consequence Of the subiugation of
the Democratic rebellion.
Sd. Since March, 1866, Congress has pass
ed two bills repeating and reducing taxation.
The relief thus obtained is not less than
$50, 100000 a year. Some estimate it at
500, 900, O00
4th The revenue for the fiscal year ending
July l. 1867 amounts to $475, 900, 900 from
all sources including premium on gold sales.
With this money the Government has been
supported, the interest on the public debt
paid. and the principal of the debt reduced
$145, 100000. The whole reduction of the
debt from its highest poin5 August 81, 1866,
to this time has been $245, 900, 600, If taxes
have been high for the past two years, the
people have the supreme satisfaction of
knowing that the soldiers and sailors who
put down the rebellion have been paid off !;
vast mass of unsettled war claims have
been lquidated, and the National debt has
been reduced ten per cent. The last reduc-
ton of taxation, which includes one-half of
the income tax, has very materially light
encd the burden on industry, and general
prosperity prevails throughout all the States
which remained true to the Union, and the
subjugated rebel States are rapidly recuper
ating.
5th. The value of the property Of the
Northern States alone, at this time, consid-
erably exceeds the figures above given,
which are based on the census of 1860. The
census TO be taken three years hence will
exhibit more than thirty billions worth Of
property
9th. The agricultural products of 1867,
will equal in value the aggregate amount Of
the National and State debts; and the prod
ucts of mechanism, Mines forests and fish
cries will fully equal in value the products
Of agriculture. The public debts, therefore,
only equal six months earnings Of the
American people
Lastly. Whatever increase of taxation is
required to pay the principal and interest of
the National debt, the Democratic party is
alone responsible for it. No Republican
State rebelIed or seceeded; no Republican be-
came rebel, or fought against the Union !;
| the whole Republican party were true to the
| Union from first to last. All the States that
seeded were democratic" States the on
Iy men in the South who advocated secess-
ion were Democrats; the men who main.
tanned the rebellion for four years were
Democrats; the men in the North who sym
pathized with the Southern rebels and kept
up a fire. the rear on the defenders of the
| Union, were Democrats and the Northern
Democratic opposition to coercion of the reb.
els prolonged the war two years and added
one half to the expenditure of blood and
treasure. And had it not been for the prom
Use of Northern Democratic aid, the South.
ern Democracy would no. have dared to
venture on rebellion. All that portion Of the
Northern Democratic Party called Copper
heads, are morally as guilty Of rebellion
as the Southern wing of that party who
bore arms against the Union When any
Copperhead has the mendacity to pratt
against the national debt and high taxes
fling in his teeth the undeniable fact that ht
is one of the guilty wretches who inflicted
the rebellion on the country. Chicago 1rjb
uae
The brave General Howard is about t,
be disposed from the head of the freedmen
.,....-, - =, IL.