Among the most important measures of the week is a bill reported in the House to provide ways and means for the defense of the State of Maryland by raising an amount sufficient....
Baltimore Weekly Sun, February 22, 1862, p. 2.
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The Mail says that the Legislature of Maryland has given full warning that not a cent of the Government tax shall be paid by her people. This is the first act of rebellion ....
The Valley Register (Middletown), August 23, 1861, p 2.
President Lincoln in his message to Congress has called for four hundred millions of dollars to carry on the war. Direct taxation must be resorted to. Sugar, coffee, tea, salt, the necessaries of life, will be taxed....
The Hagerstown Mail, August 2, 1861, p. 2-3.
