The aggregate annual value of leather, boots, shoes, and other manufactures of leather; of hats, caps and bonnets; snuff and cigars; paper and playing cards, manufactured in the United States, are estimated by the last census at fifty-three millions, a tax on which of ten per cent would give 5,300,000 On the same authority, three millions pounds of spermaceti and wax candles would yield, at five cents per pound, 150,000 Three millions two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of refined sugar, at the same rate 160,000 Five hundred tons of pig and bar iron, nails and brads, at two dollars per ton 1,000,000 The gross amount of spirits and beer manufactured in the United States, is stated in the census at sixty-five millions of gallons; but the happy influence of the Temperance cause has probably reduced this amount to less than fifty millions, a tax on which of ten cents per gallon 5,000,000 ---------- $16,070,000 I have inserted only such articles as were heretofore taxed, and have no means of indicating such other as might be added or preferred; nor must I be understood as recommending any specially, or in reference to the rates of duties to be imposed on any one. It has been very generally asserted that men of property were averse to the war because the losses and burthens which it must occasion fall exclusively upon them; and that poor men were generally in favor of war, because they had nothing to lose.