The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-08-21
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST q. 1868.

OF Grant, the assurance that their flu
| ture views of national necessities shall be
taken from the standpoint of the comman-
der who saved the country-all this isquite
unheeded. So is the threat from the other
side, given with the name of Seymour, that
everything shall be construed in favor of
the men who endeayoredt to break the gov
eminent to pieces, Popular will goes for.
ward blind to all, conscious only of its
stored up determination. individuals are
nothing. There is no charm in any name.
The contest of great principles must be car
RED to its final result. Such is the popular
temper. H., --, m, M,
Only the deepest sense of the outrages
against the country and its laws, as well
as against humanity practiced by the rad
ical leaders, could have brought the people
to this mood and wrought the conviction
that nolother danger is so great as for that
party to continue in power. Perhaps, also,
there is another thought active in the case.
There is a widespread uneasiness under the
burden of taxation Involved by the debt
and though both parties tend towards re-
pudiation, the people win have their re-
venge on the men who made the debt. and
who therefore put the country in position
to require reputation. Revolutions al
ways repudiate the debts of civil war
Such population is the basis of compro-
mise, for neither one side nor the other will
consent to repay, money borrowed to put it
down. Reputation is, then, very likely
the ultimate bourne of this impulse against
the republicans, and we shall yet see
Congress elected strictly to repudiate the
debt. In the meantine the same impulse
must act consistently in sweeping republic
canism from power ut all Intermediate
points, of which the Presidency is very
important one Pc
1t seems consistent with all the facts,
therefore, that the reaction against the rad
ical legislation and reconstruction shall go
on as it began, sweeping State after State,
and finally sweeping the nation and giving
us another President like Pierce--only in
stead of poor Pierce it will be silly Sey-
mour. Regarding the characters of the two
candidates, it readily occurs that the par
ties have respectively got the wrong men.
Seymour is the creature who should be in
the hands of the radicals pitiful tool to
be used as Pierce was used by the South
ern radicals, into whose hands he fell-and
Grant should stand at the head of the adj
vaneing democracy, to wreak its relentless
will against the radical power But taking
the men as they are and the situation as it
is, we can only hope that to whichever side
victory inclines it will give no doubtful
voice. Let the decision be positive-one
side or the othert-for therein is our only
safety. From an election that either one
side or the other can by any ingenuity dis
pute we will have civil war. Some of the
Southern States are preparing this possible
ity in making laws to take the vote for
President from democratic communities
and give IL to radical Lug iniauuIvo. onoulo
tbe renrbl;nan candidate be elected only in
virtue oil these manoeuvres it will take
another war to put down the protest against
him. Should the election turn on any one
of many such contingencies peace will be
farther away than ever, and, therefore, it is
to be hoped the Northern people themselves
will make the decision absolute.
Fromtle NJ Y. Herald, august 18th.
THE GREATEST TAXED COUNTRY
8ie4t IN THE WORLD.
10 If the temper of people is to be judged
by their patient endurance ofenormous tax
alton the people of the United States are
the best tempered in the world, for they
certainly are taxed more heavily than any
other people and make less noise about it.
We have estimated that taxation by the
federal government alone, independent of
State, county and municipal taxes, amounts
to fully fourteen dollars a hSad-man, wo-
man and child-for the whole population.
Take the case of laboring man with
family of five or six children, and it will
be seen that he pays about a hundred dol
lars year, which, on an average, would
be about seventh or eighth ofhis earnings.
Yes, the whole working population pay in
one way or another this enormous and pro-
portionate amount. of their hard learned
money. Nearly one days labor out of the
week the year round goes to the support of
the federal government. The local taxes
imposed by the States, counties and NUM-
CAPABILITIES amount probably to nearly as
much, for in the end, directly or Indirectly
all taxation comes outsof labor. Why, in
the city of New York we are taxed over
twenty-three millions a year-as much as
was raised and expended by the United
States government thirty years ago. But
tits the federal government we speak of
particularly now, 49,
The income of the general government
last year, reckoning from June 80, 1867, to
June 80, 1858, was over four hundred and
sixty millions This, too, in time of peace
and three years after the war was closed
If we take the British government, the most
expensive of any I'M the world, and which
has much larger debt than any other, by
way of comparison, we shall see that our
national revenue and taxes exceed those of
Great Britain. The total revenue of Eng
land from all sources rarely reaches eighty
millions sterling, or four hundred millions
of dollars. This is sixty millions less than
ours; notwithstanding the debt is about
double the amount of the interest bearing
debt of the United States and the English
have besides to support costly royal estab-
lishment, an expensive army and navy and
the vast machinery of government over
colonies and territories covering fifth of
the habitable globe. We might make
comparison with the other great nations and
empires of the world and show still great
er difference in the cost of government be-
tween them and this country but England
is The most costly and more to the point.
Yes, our republican government taxes the
people sixty millions year more in time
of peace than the monarchical and expen-
sive government of Great Britain does the
British.
Congress made pretence of taking off
ONE of these taxes during the last session.
1t was estimated they would be reduced
hundred millions or so but in fact the
reductiOu was made IN favor n few mann