21 FEBRUARY 1874, Page 14

THE SURPLUS AND THE FAMINE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

SIR, —Your correspondent, " An Income-taxpayer," is in error. Our fathers did not pay to free the slaves, they borrowed, and left us to pay. Let us show a better example to our sons, be grandly generous, but pay it out of income, and devote the surplus to its assigned work,—the reduction of the Debt our fathers handed to us to discharge.—I am, Sir, &c., JAMES BEAL.