. . . doesn’t much like our endorsement of its suggestion to levy the war-tax on those who caused it. – We didn’t expect it would, inasmuch as, according to our calculation, about three-thirds of the whole tax in our state in that case would be chargeable to the Herald and its admirers. The Herald adds: “And by the way, we hear already that Abolitionists and Republicans in this State who have been the foremost for war contemplate a resistance to the war-tax. What think you of that Mr. GAZETTE? You need not feign to believe that this is untrue, for it is a fact.” It may be a fact, as you say, that you hear such things, for if your columns present any evidence of what you hear, nothing like Gospel truth ever comes near your ears. The Herald doesn’t assert, however, that it believes the fact it professes to hear, and we doubt even if its brazen audacity will induce it to make that assertion. There is some limit to even the Herald’s capabilities, and it will hardly dare asseverate the falsehood it insinuates in the above.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 2
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