Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1876 — Page 4

AnisouiMM'inents.

The GAZBTTE Is authors*! to imnonnce the name of I'HHIH. K. ROUKKU^ »s a can't Male for Co'ity Tr.a»nrer, eubjectto the riecixlo- "f tho liemocrnttc nomlnatlng couventlori.

The OAZ»ri»i Is a thorlzod to announce the tirtinff U'. '1 I'JTVA K'l ns a. candidate lor Hie oc inh Kt io.i for''ounty 'lreasureBrMiiij'ict, in L'II- tie -is 011 01 tl-e Democratic County C'liivcn ion.

The (jnZ'i're Ih iiiit'iorUfii to auiioo-ice the nnmi O! J. 1C IJIJUKAN -H candidate fo U«i oi th«s V./o Clr.-iu'. ouri, subject. t" Iii'i 11i-f!i-• ifj• 1 th'j Deiuoc atl. Couiiiy Convinf.o

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Aodre all letters, W vi. (1. RAI.LACO., GAZKITK, TenO Haute, Ind

Tnursdny, Ma cli 2, 1876.

TIIK RIM ublican State platform of Indiana is nut he irlily endoiSid by the metrnpoliian pnrizm papers Tlie 8t. IjouiM (Jlol)e-Democrat ii especially severe in ita denunciation of it. It is 8af^ to say that it is not the key note of t,he N .timm! platform.

DON CAHL IS IH ni' ie for. We are not sorry for this. No more are our •compositors, ami as to the telegraph opeiators, we learn that they are .going to hold a grand unbone iii honor of the event. No youthful f»cape grace ever rejoiced over the •death of a rich bachelor uncle as these clauses do over the Don's discomfiture. lie has been fighting for many weary months now, in unheard of mountains, and before towns, which, before they readied the eye of the render,had tnade many people CN.zy, JMH! looked to the reaiier like the latter end of the alphabet on a spree. If Don Curios could only know how many hearts have been made to ache by his carryings on, he would ^o ott'and hann himself. He has been making war on the civilized globe. i!y the way, the Don is a disciple of the Express, and ha.i "fin pressed mmifv

Taxation.

Evidently the Express thiuks that taxation is a hliMM and a delusion, It imagines I here is no force or pre eision about it. It has been so long siui,c .i tubi,shed the delinquent tax list that it ha9 forgotten what a "persuasive c.ibs" theTieas urer is.

If our communl-tic neighbor fills to pay, next full, the tax levied upon its 'unwortrhii lul und-noto sacred above men, cows, hogs etc. "it will learn isdom in the school of better experience. It will find, first of all, that, if it does not pay by a certain day, ten per c'pnt. will be added to its tax. VVe have a faint recollection ofhaving heard tho Express rave and reud its hair at ten per cent.

Then, again, ifit does not pay that tax, wilh ten percent, added, by a certain other day, it will And »n advertisement iu the very excellent weekly edition of the QAZUTTK, announcing that a piece ol property, the title deeds of which the Express holds, will be sold on a certain other biy. If the Express should fail to attend the sale, and bid it in, some Shylocfe, probably .John Brake, will. And unless the Express makes its peace with

J. B. according ten per ceut, and pays certain ibiils, etc., all of which in the statutes, it will find that it is •no longer a bloated property holder, but a poor devil ripe for communism and carnage •Oh, no! There ia no precision about taxation. A man whose property is assessed lit $100,000 pays no taxes. «Oh, no! Oh, mv! Oh, pshaw!

to certain formulas, advertising is laid down

THE verdict in the Bubcock tria! •which was returned yesterday after noon, will be to many a surprise. 'Very many persons who have read the evideuce in the trial will be astonished at so ready an acquittal. Small doubt can exist that the letter •carrier, McGili, peijured himself. If .he did, it was by an understanding •with Babcock and his friends, ana establishes the fact that they were driven to this desperate straight to obtain an acquittal. It is by no means certain, also, that, the order of Attorney General Pierrepont reversing the custom of courts in the mat» ter of showing leniency to those who tamed States evidence, did not .frighten away witnesses who might have testified to Babcocks guilt. It was certainly in encouragement to an undetected rogue to come forward And testify to BAboceks guilt if that very testimony should send himself also to the penitentuary. Equally certain is it also that none but coconspirators could by the very nature uf the .case be familiaiv with the working of the ring. Possibly every person who kaew anything at all concerning the ring and its members did testify. However Pierre-

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iouts order, emanating of course President Grant, waa threat to any and ai! of them that if they testified -as to Babci.ok'a s-uil they should ha vmet* out to tiiero the px'renws' vigor oi tlv- law. This point d-»'s not prove B-ihe-.ek's ^uilt, huf dees show thai, ti esidi nt'e' n»j-*i!it to•*r»

la a sham and pretence, Of necessity ii must weaken the public confidence in Babcock and his friend, the President. 8 far as the Jaw goes, however, Babcock is innocent and must, preforce, be deemed an innocent man. I' is to be hoped he wil) mind liis manner?, and especially te more particular

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whom he

associates on terms of intimancy,and through the channel of jocular and mysterious telegraphic correspondence.

Tiio Communism of the L'xpr s*. The GA/.KTTE, has been very cori-sid-r:ite in answering thecommunislic iiiundn.m of the Express. We a-ked suveral questions of it yes'^rday, not one of which it fi'teniji t-d to answer. This is not as it should he. I* can aus ver all by a straitforward explanaiion of the plan by which it proposes to execute iis scheme. It. may not stop at venting its rage against loosely stated wrongs, and advocate the healing down of all those rules and regulations wiJlch constitute the laws of the land, and are generally supposed to be the safe guards of our liberty. To do that Is to play the part of an incendiary and to id vocal anarchy.

We uiidersiand tint it proposes fo abolish tiie uresent system of collecting taxes through civil officers, and bisetl upon assessment, substituting therefor martial law, drum head court, martials and "Provost Marshals and Itecuitiug Officers."

Moreover it pioposes no plan, othn er than each Provost Marshals own judgment in the matter, for making this impressment of "unworshipful and iKOsacred-above men, corn, hogs etc," bear equally upon wealth. That is to .say it, believes, with Proudhon 11iiit "property is robbery," and thinks it unnecessary foolishness to wasietimein trying to make the impressment» quitable. All people with property are robbers, with no rights which a "Provost Marshal or Recruiting officer" is bound to raspect. We understand that much of the doctrine of the Express, and we loathe and despise it. Any attempt to put such a doctrine in practice would be a crime.

Bui there are certain details of its system which we must insist upon knowing. VVe press these inquiries, ho mh we are aware of the fact thai to an-wer them is not as pleasant to the Express, as it'is to denounce existing institutions and raise a br«r» baric yawp about "the men who fought the battles being required to pay the two hundred per cent, which money exacted in the nation's time of trouble."

As a mere matter of curioM'y we call the readersattention to the fact, that the Express lias again lapsed from grace. It now denies inferential ly, the admission we forced from it the other day, to the eftect that the possessors ol property helped to Hght the nation's battles. But let that pass.

Wu want to know if tue Express would impress from day to-uay, by its" P, M.'s aud R. O.'s," sufficient, supplies to sustain the Government? By supplies, we mean everything the Nation needs, including the army, the pay of congressmen, judges, executive officers &c. This can be answer 1 yes, or no.

If yes, we understand its meaning well, and will only have to ask what it would do in that case to pay the interest on any existing debt. Would it impress from the people the money to pjy that interest, or would it im« pre-nthu bonded evidences of that debt in the hands of its holder?, and extinguish the debt by burning the bonds?

If it answers no, to the question first-asked, we then wish to know how would it raise the balance?

Would it kerp up, in addition to the force of "P. M.'s and R. O.'s the present system of civil service revenue officers' whose levies by taxation have been, by its showing, so unjusi? Or would it borrow money? ifit borrowed money, would it impress money owners, and compel them at the point of bayonets in the hands of "P. M.'s aud R. O.'s" to lend on the governmants own terms, as to rate of interest, tength of time, and kind of money in which the loan should be repaid?

If the government fixed its own rate, and compelled men to loau, what should be hat rate, and who would fix it? Should the question be left to the Express, and if not, who should determine it?

If men are not to be compelled fo loan thfcir mouey, at the borrower's option, but are left to their own option in the matter, what would the Express do, if the offer of interest it made was not accepted? Would it raise the rate?

If, after the raise, still sufficient was not forth comiug, would it taise agiiti, as was done in the matter of booni«» for soldiers?

After successive raisings of the rate of inler»-M, won it, at the conclusion of the war, refuse to pay the rate ot iuterest agreed upon with the latest loaners, and compel them to take what it agreed to pay to those who loaned first?

If it did this l&tter thing would it not ne stealing, and is not a person who steals, a thief?

But, taking another hypothesis, suppose, when it wasiu the business of impressing money, that everybody in this country hid his money? What would the Express then do?

In our late war we borrowed much money abroad and were glad to get it. Moreover we put bonds oo the market bearing a certain rate of in terest aud when the money failed to return from them in sufficient quan tities to supply our needs, we raised the rate, recognizing a sort of absurd right in a man to sell the use of his money at his own figures or keep it, just a man does with bis "unworshipful, corn hogs etc," or with his muscle or bis mind.

Would the Express impress? money in the shape of forced loans from foreigners?

Has the Express eve" thought that that would biing about a war? Has the Express ever thought, that the American Ea»le, though a proud bird, probably could not conquer the whole E ir^oean ir»et p.gery?

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I! Express pver thought tea!

in tiit-'i iii et:a*.iMr: 'g txp*di:i'n. it would w-If be «idy volni)t'r*i? I?IJ. ti tip'v questions? Kxp' must ix lain its plan.

'Inapr8sing Money."

Under the headine, "As a Practical Question," the Express of yesterday, in a reply to some strictures of the GAZETTE on a previous article, stives utterance to sen iments as surprising as reprehensible. Lest We should appear to be misquoting or maligning our contemporary in what we shall say in opposition to its doctrines we republish its article entire, the reader may judye for himself.

Here it is: The GA/.ETTB is anxious t» know bow money or supplies could bo impressed in tim ot wf It seems plain to us that tbn Uovu nmont that uk»s men to shoot, could take provisions for tbetn to eat, clot ing for them to wnsr and money for other equipments if a call for voluntary contributions should meet with no adequate rn sponso. Tho s, me torce ot pro vest Marshals and recruiting officers thut kept the ranks ftileii, could hi:vc kept die soldiers supplied, and under the same stretch of law that suspended the courts and en.ancip'ited the slaves—that vauue but resistless and terrible authority known as tho war power. If tho pepte bad not, been so absoiced in tho worship ot mammon, this would have done. The south particularly did this in the two las' years of the war. The Confedernte Government, through its military officers stationed in every county of Ps territory, secured its tithe of all th&t tho land produced. But for this wise and just policy en the p*rt ol the south, the 'war could not have been prolonged as it was. The South was tearfully in earnest, and made all classes bear the burden. There were no shoddy fortunes down there, no contrast of magnificence and misery, such as we h«d in the North. If the cause of the South hnd not been so hid, she would have won, and by the very measure which our neighbor deems impracticable.

We should like to hfar from the GAZETTE, what there is so worBhipful^ or sacred about corn, or pork, or clothing or dollars above men, that the Government may impress the latter and not tho former. We perceive by the GAZETTE'S reverent a titude, that there is something peculiarly holy in property, absve humanity, and we yearn for the grounds of its adoration.

Withont any desire 10 picce out argument with assertion, we can truthfully say that we could be quite content to leave the question to the people in this presentation of its side, by the Express Its doctrine is Communism pure and undefiled. The sentiment of Proudhon that "property is robbery" expresses iis opinion in a nutshell. From that opinion the GAZRTTB begs leave to express its decided dissent. We regard the doctrine with abhorrence arid detestation. Why we so regard it we snail proceed to state. The position of the Express, is that in time of war, possibly in time of peace also, though we are not sure of that, but certainly iu time of war, tho government should abandon its system of taxation, and through the militajy get its supplies. In a prior article of this series, it denounced particularly tho wrongs which ilow ed from the Government borrowing money as Impoverishing the poor and enriching the rich. A fair inference from this statement and several oth ots to the edect that the supplies of the army should be impressed is, that the Express would carry on war ou the cash basis It uses the word supplies without qualifying addition, and must mean, pay focd and clothing for the soldiery together with ammunition and all impliments and enginery of war. At the conclusion of a war conducted afier the model of the Express it would maybe an end ofthe whole business and we might add that in all human probability the business would have made an end of it' But this is an opinion of the GAZETTE and not entertained by the Express.

In this mailer of raising men and money there are just four possible operations not counting the plans of the Express.. Men may be asked to volunteer their services. A call for volunteers was made by our Government. It was made to all classes, and we believe it has beer, agreed, that all classed responded. That source of supply failingthe Government resolved upon a dratt, It has also been agreed that all classes were drafted alike, though the Express seeks to make it appear that the Government cringed to money or vowed before it, in permitting men to the sub stltutes or for taking, as it did for a time, a specified sum of money which Congress In view of the necessities of the Nation considered as important as the services ofthe men. In reference to money, it might have asked for vol* uutary contributions. It did not however and nobody proposed it, as we have said repeatedly before, It didjnot ask for money because no pody supposed enounh could be rais ed that way. Moreover nobody ever imagioed that there would be any fairness in that process. Generous men, and enihusiasticaly loyal men would perhaps contribute, thr mean or miserly ones, and those lukewarm in loyality would give but little. The government protected, and protects all, Therefore, all should contribute. Moreover, even the generous and loyal ones, would not have contributed freely because ofa feeling of the unfairness of the request. Government is a business not a pastime, and a matter of the intellect as well the heart. Government did not ask fo- voluntary contributions, for the same reason that no business establish^ ment, the profits of which are proportioned among the members according to a specified arrangement,rely for the expenses or any deficiencies upon voluntary contributions. Any business man who proposed such a plan would be deemed by bis associales a fit subject for a de lunatico inquirendo. In a word tbe voluntary contribution plan of eupplying the Government was never tried or never proposed, because it was manifestly tooprepos teriously absurd for consideration. There is and can be bntoae. opinion upon tbfs ^object.

Now for foiced contributions, taxation is a forced system of raising revenue. The Express can test this proportion by failing to resp-ud to the annual invitation of, for example TBP ENUUFY Treasurer IOPRM at h'"s ffirw anuVeff/e 3 cl'iico of th« country fort iXi'.s By xes, :he city gains its revei i• »•«, 5):e lowii.sWip its. By

paid, and tba revenues of 'he state raised. In that way too, the iiitim secures the money to maintain it self. It has been said that no two tilings are so sure as death and taxts It might b" added nothing as so inexorable. The system upon which they a'e levied isan elaborate one, thought out and perfected in lime oi peace aud quiet, and bas^d upon the theory of making all species of properly, and all sorts and conditions of men contribute to the support, of the Gov ernment, which protects them in person and property. We do not they are not pretend to say that our system is per-! wbb can feet. The GAZETTE believes it lull of errors, and particularly in the way in which our tariirduties are levied. That, however, can be remedied at the ballott box, if tbe people will it, and there exists an absolute equality between all men,rich and poor alike.

During our war the Government raised i:s revenue by import duties, and interna1 revenue taxes. liie import duties were levied largest upon luxuries and smalkst upon neoes-

saries,

JOIIN JONES, aDd John Smith are two Americans. In a period of peace John Jones has been thrifty and hard working, John Smith lazy aud shiftless. The first John, has earned and saved, we will suppose, $10,000, tbe second has earned and saved, sav $1,000. The thrifty John has. we wiil further suppose, invested his money in hogs, which he purposes fattening and selling. The lazy John, has his mefnsincasb. War is declared at this juncture. We leave it to the readers option, to suppose either that Dotb volunteer, or both are drafted into the service, It must be understood at the outset, that these are representative characters, and cover thoiiS ind of John's^ and Samuel's and Petei's and William's, and all sorts of other names, up and down tbe length, and breadth of the land. If at this point, any perverse reader will insist upon supposing that in every case, the lazy John must, onecessity, be so patriotic, and loyal, and self sacrificing, and earnest, thai he will enlist, and that tbe thr fty John must, necessarily, be so disloyal, and unpatriotic, and selfish, and cowardly, und craven, that he will not eniist, we niivise that reader to stop here and seek re/tige in a lu natioasylum. His mental Gn-jmiza-tion wid notsfand the rude blasts of truth that blow'to and fro »(:o the eanb. «.

Bit we diitrtss iu Peiiditic 'ur lunatic la mi asylufi:. n's

•^I tii.-1 Mvi.M*n of the iiniry re.ei h'r enlist, or ar* dnr.f.e i. Now, U»e wi'dest miso TIC tion- hat a

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who will say tl at a "Provost Marshall" should be txrttiW loose upon the land to Impress suppl es from the property ot ths two John's, at home, lor ihe suppurt of the wo Johus, iu the field? Thrifty John's property is in hogs. Though they may represent years of toil and trouble, though tl ey may be the hope of thrifty John's support 'or himself and family in iheyeats to come, they are l.ot .-acred. The Express has said it and it must be so. Bui our present purpose with thrifty John's bogs is to make the statement that a species of property ake unto themselves, winas and fly.

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"Provost

Marshall" comes along. It is no part of bis business, according to the Express, that any means should be taken to find out what proportion his wealth bear* to the united wealth ofthe people, to ascertain how much should be impressed from him. The

M. comes along and impresses tbe bogs of thrifty John, who is ell fighting for his county.

I/azy John's means is in money. thou

and those who used the iti It is an easy thin to wrap a ported articles paid the tax. Accord-! sand dollars in a napkin and bury it. ing to their consumption of these:The P, M. comes along to l*7.y articles people paid taxes, and who John's place, and, finding no lung used most paid most, who used least lint he needs, takes nothing. We lea^t, who used none, pai«l aisHtiflut1, it will be paiti no t«x as all. During our war there was an income lax aud small incomes were exempt al'ogether. Poor people paid none this. It has since been abolished. But il cau be imposed again ifthe people will it, and since we believe it was a good law, we think it should be again imposed. Then whiskv was taxed, and taxed heavily. We presume that mighi he considered a luxury aud for one the GAZETTE entertains smail sympathy for the poor down trodden communist" who groans and sweats and swears at thegovernmeut for taxing this. Again tobacco wi taxed, aud that heavily. We fail to see in that a discrimination iu favor the of rich as against the poor. Bank checks were taxed, and the poor Communist is there again wnh out our sympathy. But we nerd not multiply examples. This system of taxation, full of defects as w^e believe it to have bosn, aud to be, is still the creature of the people. The*y can change it at,will. They can make it as thorough as possible, and tiring under its operation every species of property. If property is taxed, we presume it will bear hardest upon the yich, since as we understand it, the crima of the rich is in owning proper'y. Well, this system or any other system of taxation which the people may devise iti time of peace, with all its rules and regulations for its enforcement, with all its safeguards against fraud, with all its elaborate contrivances for preventing the escape of property and with its schooled and trained set of officers for its collection, the Express proposes to throw overboard when we first rude blast of war is blown. It will not tax whisky or tobacco, or bank uotes, or anything else. It will tax nothing. It will merely send out—we quote from the Express—"the same force of provost marshals aud recruitiug officers that kept the ranks filled," and says that they "onldhave kept the shld er« supplied." It quotes the Confederate government as an example lor imitation It complains because, here in the Norih, where law was regnant, our forces in the field triumphant, our credit good, the necessaries of life in abundauce, and the peeple,— as the Express has often said In its advocacy of greenbacks—so ttnprpcecleuteleally prosperous, tbat it holds I hat era up ES a model, we did not do as the South did in its dt sp ratio:i, when its army was defeated, imports closed, its credit wonhless, its money a proven fraud, its territory despoiled, its people impoverished and its army in rajrs and starving. This is apiece of absurdity, too monstrous for argument. The'best example for the Express is the Commune of Paris, during the late siege. There "the same force of provost marshals and recruiting officers lhat kept the ranks filled," in the eminently just fashion of shooting every fellow it found in the streets who wouldn't join them, not only could but did keep the soldierj supplied. They impressed money. They impressed clothing, and pork. In history it reads ili.it they robbed bauks and groceries and clothing stores, but that is because the historians are not communiists. They impressed also whisky and got drunk on it, and then impressed petroleum, aud burned bouses and palaces and public buildings with it. In fact they tjled to destroy every evidence of that wealth, which it was their chief complaint, that others than themselves possessed, apparently lai bued with the insaue idea that to destroy the property of others wastoenrieh themselves. And this law les-ness the Express proposes for 'aw, this Hiiorchy for orde*.

seen,

tuat men's same, under

natures will remain the

ihe new order of things, as they are now, and that lazy John would not write home to his wife from the army, telling her not to hide tl.e mouey, but to give it all up. This is a very considerable awump' O 1, considering our belief to be thai, when peopiesaw the Government playing the role of ajhighway robber and pursuing the doctrine that, they should take who h^ve the power, aud they should keep who cau, thej' would become very devils ot duplicity aud dishonesty. This fiction of the two Johns, is a supposed case, but it is not altogether a fancy sketch, and it could be matched in thousands of cases all over the laud, by the reality, if this proposed system should be adopted.

It would to be stir?, be a mockery of justice. It vVould offer a piemium for rascality, and place truth at a discount. It would sow injustice, and reap a whirl-wind of anarchy, confusion, and strife. It would plMi! dragons teeth that would grow into armed men. It would nurture and sustain hatred.

We have asked before whobelievtd in this princip.e of "impressing supplies." We will answer our question. For ore the Express. For another the Journal, who endorsed the doctrine, aud for a third the Evansville Courier. Will these doughty champions of Communism stand steady to the legitimate conclusions ofthe doctrines they preach?

4lm|ireesii Mouey

Whew the GAZETTE answers tho Express in nearly two columns devoted to hits at communism, Proudhonism, etc.. io simply begs the question. Wo have a bis ted that pioperty nhould have borne its full share of the burden and trouble of tho war, just as tiesb and blood did. We have not asserted nor to we beiieve, that the results would have been delightful, or even pleasant, to the wealth of tho country but we belifve that it would have been just. Wo would be glad if the GAZETTE would come down from its wild shooting and respond to a question propounded by us on Friday, which it has not \et attempted to answer, to wit:

4What

is tier.- so worshipful about

corn, atd hogs cr cloth, or do'lais above men that the Government may impress the latter and ntt the former?"—[Express,

VVe beg pardon of the Express, but when we bit Commuuism or Protid honism, we do not beg the e|uestion or evade it. The doctrine it preaches i« Communism. Proudhon with his reckless assertion that "properly was robbery" us its Prophet in France during tbe bloody era of the revolution, and the Express is his Terre Haute disciple in this peaceful Centennial year of the declaration of American Independence. This cannot be denied, though it may be disowned, and we sincerely hope will be repudiated and repented of, tin a sin againpt all law, either human or divine.

Our contemporary either cannot,or will not, but certainly does not understand what property is. Apparently it believes it to be a hated object, against which the aimless wrath of every person, not possessed of it, should, of necessity be directed Moreover, and tbis strangest of all, it seemsto think it, a something de tached from human beings. We had not thought, at tbis late dpy, it would be, or could be necessaiy w,i.ofine a term, which, lies at the root of all prohlemsr of political and social economy. Property, is the joint product ot man's mind and muscle, the object of his desires, and the minister of his wants. It, a»d the live* of its pov sessors, are the joint and exclusive objects of our governments solicitude the things for the preservation which our government was filmed, and is maintained It seems almost puerile tc mention so tundamental a doctrine, and one so universally believed, but the strange attitude of the Express, proceeds frcm a confused notion of it, and so we have thought it necessary. And now for the vauilted question of the Expresa. "What is there so worshipful, orsacml about corn or hogs, or clothing or dollar: above men that the government may impress the latter, and not the former." Tbe question is an absurd one, but we will answer it. Corn andhogs, and clothingand dollars, are wor sbiptul and sacred, above men, and can not be justly impressed, as the latter cau be, because taeu are indivisable uuit?, and corn, and bogs etc., are not. \ou cannot seod tbe great toe,lor the still greater ear,— if he should happen to be a communist—of a man into the army, but you can fax and supply tbe army with an equitable proportion of any mans hogs, corn, etc. You must impress the whole man if you impress him at all. If you don't need every bit of property in the whole land, but only a part, if you have particle of justice about you, yon will not take all of one mans and nothing uuothers, but must, bysomt^just plan seek fc ascertain esK-h man's n.pori'on ofthe burden, hxso.-s h, fix it, aedget it by co.'lscti»!j. In tiutii, Ih- question vt"? ba'-»: answered can no: be aked "Without

man i*. and the uature of the material objects which supply .his wsi.ts. i'heie is M.d cm" be qii" 'i"* r. n- tin worshipful and, MOTed abtiVe «.t.u i,. rst. pt.s.iiuie co«. .c son cau exist between two such diverse things. Both are worshipful and sacred things. Life is dearer than property. Nobody doubts that. There is no use of raising a racket over that trite axiom It has not ling to do with the question. Both life and property are "worshipful aud sat red." The iatter is the prop und sia of the former, and only lesssaereii than it. It is not a question of rich and poor. All have something which they can rail their property, and which is "worshipful ami sacred." A poor man's bog, or his bag of con is es "worship'ul and snored" a|thing tohim,moreso in fact, than the rich man's dtove, or well tilled crib. It is not as dear as his life,but it is frequently dearer to him, and justly so, than another peisou's life, as anybody can practically and very easily demonstrate, by prowliug around, at nigh', time, say, and aticmptiuu to impress either hogs or com. Tho argument would proceed from the mouth of a shot gun.

Government nteJs men in tiuoe of war, It wants persona! services. It wants the whole man and not piece of him. Out, therefore, of all its citiisens, it makes the levy. By reason of humanity it exempts infancy, and old age, women, and the broken iu health. Out ofthe residue it fills its ranks, by lot, the fairest way known of men.

Government needs supplies, TheEx press wants them impressed. Such things as hogs, corn, &e., being nol "worshipful or sacred atyve men," ae cording to its creed, and very difiereut tilings according to ours, perhaps it would draw lots smong men to see which (.lies Hiould give up all of their "unworshipful and not sacred hogs, corn etc ," Jto sustain the GOVH ernment, to the exclusion ofthe rest. Perhaps it would exempt from this "impress" men wealthy, but too feeble of body to serve as soldiers. Perhaps it would exclude women possessed of an abundance of "unworshipful and not sacred above men, hogs, corn etc." ex mpted from personal services by a wise at holy regard for sex. Perhaps it would exempt rich youth and weal'by old age, from this impre« ol "unworshipful and rot sacred above men corn, hops, etc," who wero released from personal sorvlce in the field, bccausaof the feebleness of childhood or decrepitude of age.

These are all ways of impressing "uuworshipful and not sacred above meu, hogs, corn, etc.," and ways,too. exactly patterned after the fashion in which "worshipful aud sacred" men are impressed. Moreover "worshipful aud sacred men" are compelled to glvo up their entire bodies. Can "unworshipful and not sacred, above men, eorn^ hogs, &c." do le?s? Tho saintly of Proudhon, and his disciple, the Express, forbid.

But, though this is treating "unworshipful, and not Hicred above men, corn, hogs, &c." exactly as men are treated, tbis is not the plan of the Express, It would abolish the existing revenue system entirely. Though carefully planned by Hamilton, and elaborated by a longliue of illustrious successors though embodying the wisdom and experience of ages, and not to he cast aside in the time of peace—for tbe Express has uot said that it should be cast as de then—Ibis exteusive system for imposing the burdens ot tbe Government upon thepeoplejustly, must at the first rude bfist of war be cast en tirely aside as rubbish In its t»tead we are to have substituted—wo quote verbatim from the ExpreSsr—"the same force of Provost Marshalls aud Recruiting officers tbat keep thu ranks filled, cun keep the soldiers supplied." And thl* delightful set of irresponsible milit. r.v officers are to wander about at their own sweet will, anil impress supplies. They must not assess prop^ ert,y, or maker.liy attempt to proportion the burdens to tbe backs of those who are to bear them. Tbat would be to imitate the present system, and our Terre Haute disciple of Proud hon, says, "Government fhould have impressed its supplies, aa i-t impressed Its men," and it scatters the crushed fragmeuts of our revenua system to the four corners of the earth, with tbe twice repeated interrogatory, "are corn, and hogs, and clothing, and dollars, fco much more worshipful and sacred, above meu, that one may be impressed, aud the other not?"

We have but one question to ask in conclusion, aud we ask it of the Terre Haute Journal, and the Evansville Courier. The former said of the original article of the Express that it was the best thing ever penned for that paper, and the latter queited it entire, saving that it clearly expressed what it bad beeu for years tryiug to say, and met with its hearty approval. We ask those papers now, if they have followed tbe elucidation of it, as drawn out in the Express by tbe GAZETTE, anel if they still endorse the doctrine? When this note of woe shall mature on a day of violence, as it did once before, as the Journal hasjevery reason to recollect in its own case.will they stand steady to their endorsement and take the responsibility of endorsers. Let us hear from you Messieurs Cotnnuini.s's. -OT-

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