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cases be under constraint — in all it amounts to a tax upon the rich for the support of unemployed laborers. The merchant prince. Stewart, who has made most of his money by his Southern trade, is reported to have offered a million.--Mr. Wm. B Astor is put down for four millions contribution and ten millions loan.--These may be exaggerations; but can the gentlemen repeat? Revenues by duties are at an end — Lincoln confesses he has no resources. The Government, for the future, will have to b, the Federal expenditure has exceeded seventy millions. This in time of peace. In a state of war, and with an army of 100,000 to defend Washington, the outlay will be doubled or trebled, or quadrupled. Who will foot that bill? How far will Mr. Astor's mite tell? "These gentlemen will be nicely caught, when, after having spent all their money, the subjugation of the South is as remote as ever — and they shall still have their hungry subterranean on hand with nothing to feed them with."<