Year: 1867

Christ the only true and living way;
His precious blood on Calvary was given
Making them heirs Of endless bliss in heaven.
And cen on earth the child of God can trace
The glorious blessing, of his Saviour's grace.


For them he bore


His Fathers frown;


For them he wore


The Thorny Crown;


Nailed to the Cross;


Endured its pain,


That his life's loss


Might be their gain.


| ----- Tncn haste TO choose


That better part,


Nor ever dare refuse


The Lord thy heart,


Lest he declare,


~ know you not;'


And deep despair


Forever be your lot.


Now look to Jesus, who on Calvary died.
And trust on Him alone who there was crucifed.
Who are Responsible for High


Taxes?


Evil deeds always return to plague the
doer. Our readers must have noticed
that the rebel loving press of the North
are unitedly clamorirg about the weight
of taxation. They studiously keep out
of sight the fact that they caused the war,
that they created our debt, that they made
heavy taxation a necessity. This is
thoroughly understood 5y the people,
and is one of the causes of the detesta-
ton in which Copperheads are held.
No honest man pays taxes in these
days without heartily exccrating the
whole gang of the disloyal Democracy.
And he is fully justified in doing so.


But there is another point to which
we would direct attention. This same
party not merely created the debt, but it
did its best throughout the war to make
it as burdensome as possible. Bu-
chanan's Secretary of the Treasury
struck the first blow i'm that direction.
And he succeeded so well that he had
depleted the Treasury, and almost de-
stroyed the national credit before Lin
coins administration was. inaugurated.
From this premeditated blow the co,ln-.
try never fully recovered Resides I'VE
find, and all will remember, that
throughout the whole war the Copper
head press in every part of the North,
and the whole body of the party, sys-
tematically and persistently, and by ev
cry available means, sought to destroy
the public credit. They told us ali sorts
oflies in regard to the first issue ofgrccn-
backs, they refused to accept them in
payment, they talked about their worth.
lessness, they offered to take gold at
long odds, they purchased gold at heavy
premiums, and in every way sought to
decry and make odious the public issues
Of which they had created the necessity.
They did the same in relation to the
subsequent issues, and also with regard
to interest-bearing bonds. Their lead
ers organized cliques with all the capi-
tai they could muster, with the single
purpose of depreciating the currency, re-
ducing the value of public securities,
and increasing the premium on gold.
With their operations in New York at
the Gold Board and "Change" through
out the war, the public is to painfully
familiar. 1t understands the operations
of the "Bulls" in gold throughout the
whole war, and it knows full well that
they were the chiefs of the Coppeaheads
who were engaged in trading not only
in gold, but in the lifeblood Of our 10y
al soldiers. The great difference be-
tween the value of currency and gold
was made thus inordinate by the efforts
of these vampires. Gold, we believe,
would never have got above fifty per
cent. premium, but for this incessant,
awful terrible Copperhead war upon
the public credit. Had the pre-
tended Democracy been truly loyal, our
public debt, to-day, would have been a
thousand millions less than it is. In
deed that is too small an estimate. Their
loyalty would have enabled us to close
the war within two years, perhaps in
one, and so would have brought the
debt down to a mere nominal sum COM
paratively. But if the war had lasted
the five years it in fact did, and the De-
mocracy had sustained the public credit
half as energetically US they sought to
destroy it, our debt to-day would have
been fully one thousond millions less
than 1t is.


Their course in regard to public credit
was consistent with their support of the
rebels and their hatred of the Union.
1t was consistent with nothing else.
They are doing the same thing still.
They are injuring public credit by their
absurd schemes and declarations, in re-
gard to taxation and the public securi-
ties. Their whole policy on these sub
jects looks forward to absolute repudia-
ton, not only as possible, but as SO desr-
able that they are schemeing to make
sure of it if they can attain the power.
Their platform in this State proposes to
repudiate it in part by violating the or
iginal contract. 1t declarses that bonds
shall be taxed which the contract ex-
empted from taxation.