On the record
The indirect are also traced to existing taxation, and their witnesses are crippled trade, unsettled values, oppressive prices, and an inconvertible currency, which of itself is a constant sacrifice.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner describes indirect sacrifices as the negative economic impacts of existing taxation.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Other voices in this conversation
