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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
lways was before in similar instances, in transferring the costs of the war to those classes of the people who have no means of escaping the dilemma. Patriotism is a word extensively mouthed, but its reality is oftener found among the ranks of the poor than in the circles of stock robbers and contractors. The law which went into effect yesterday requires the taking out of licenses by numerous classes of tradesmen. It imposes taxes upon manufactured articles, upon all browed since the first of August last, it levies a specific toll on carriages, pleasure boats, slaughtered animals, and an ad valorem duty on interest on railroad bonds, dividends, official salaries, and receipts for advertisements; it levies a tax on incomes above $600, and upon all legacies, &c., and it requires a stamp duty from medicine and perfumery manufacturers. The operation of the section requiring stamps on notes, checks, contracts, charter parties, and business papers generally, is suspended until the first