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The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
the service or labor of any person for life, under the laws of any State, shall be taxed, on account of each person so taxed, the sum of ten dollars." He claimed that such a tax could be laid without in any way recognizing the offensive doctrine that slaves were property. It was simply a tax on person. Mr. Sherman (Ohio) believed that slaves were persons, and were entitled to all the rights of persons, and as such they could not be taxed in this way, and certainty the Senator from Massachusetts would not propose to tax them as property. Besides, if we undertook to collect such a tax, it would only fail on the loyal men of the Border States, and be looked upon as an indirect attempt at emancipation. He was willing to meet the question of emancipation openly when the time comes, and if he believed the Union could not be preserved without it, he would support the President in emancipation. The only practical way to tax the larger portion of the South was to tax cotton. On
The Daily Dispatch: June 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Virginians in the battle of Shiloh, (search)
Volunteers at the North. --The soil of Lincoln upon the Federal States to save the U. S. capital from "Stonewall" Jackson, created much excitement in New York. The N. Y. Seventh, the same regiment that visited Richmond, turned out 800 strong and were sent to Washington. In Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island a large number of troops enlisted to defend the "National" capital. It may be that "Stonewall" wont leave them a capital to defend.