Title
Taxation - Poverty - Wealth
Subject
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Description
This report would have been of interest and would have brought satisfaction to those Democrats who opposed the huge growth of federal power during the Civil War, including taxation and the issuance of greenback currency. The dire predictions of the effects of the national debt include longstanding high taxation and depression of purchasing power. Throughout the war, this newspaper's editor had speculated on the Lincoln administration's unconstitutional powers, and on their designs to seize or tax the mines of Idaho and Washington.
Abstract
The Walla Walla Statesman reports the conclusions of a "loyal" editorialist in a "loyal" journal, that the United States will never recover from the financial consequences of the Civil War.
Source
Walla Walla Statesman
Publisher
Walla Walla W.T.: R.R. and S.G. Rees
Date Issued
1865-08-11
Medium
Web
Type
article
Bibliographic Citation
Vol. IV, IV, No. 35, p. 1, col. F
Provenance
Washington Secretary of State: Historic Newspapers
URL
http://sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx
Start Page
1
End Page
1