Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-06-13
Gurrent Gopirs,
Cost of the War TO the Country.

: Cost of the War TO the Countr,
n The war is not going to be muo
Ol drain upon the country, for ih
q reason that it will send little none
!. out Of il, AS woullbe the case in for
It elgn war. A Vas! amount of none
will 10 spent by the Government an,
individuals, to be sure, but tbs countr,
will not be poorer, for it will ne
) 60 out Of it, 1t will emily be pu
INTO circulation among our own peo
, pie. The "money market" will no
be tighter, but easier if anything
than il was during the season @
doubt and incerli;ude through which
we have passed. Indeed, we think
1t susceptible Of demonstration that
the country, as country, will make
more money, because it will save
money, during the war than if peace
had been ained. This, for the
reason that the country is not spend
ing any money or very little-send-
ing comparatively none abroad for
foreign purchases, and, by so saving
it, IN aking as much as would have
otherwise been spent.
So when our next crop goes into
The market ak lis proceeds will not
oe required 10 pay our country out
Of debt on United States and 9th.
sr foreign account. Of Course that
crop will go TO market. Great
Britain will have it even at the
cost Of a tussle with the feeble,
distracted, and impoverished power
Of Lincoln. The industrial, ard, to
i degree, the commercial interests Of
The North are bankrupteG, and how?
As the hottest Abolition journals ac-
knowledge, by the withdrawal Of
Southern trade. Therefore, what
that country has lost, this country
has saved. The returns of the next
ciop, then, not hypothecated as usu.
al, viii be added TO what We have
already saved by not spending, and
money will be most abundan: in
the country. This crop will scarce.
ly be impaired, for il the midst Of
war our non-combatant labSriDg class
will till the soil rs usual.
Were We apa:tos the United States,
and the county was waging war
with some power, Mexico, Tor ex-
amp e, it would cost the country
1f the South much more than it will 10
fight the North, aud for this reason:
The Nertb, with lis keen scent fOr
profits, would furnish all be supplies,
AXE all the contracts for transport
ation. and every thing else would
BRING all the money spent in the War
nto Northern pockets. The South
Sould furnish more than her share
If the money, aud the men do the
ightiDg. At the close of the war I,
;he would Gud herself drained of
10th blood and treasure, while the
North would have actually made a
,reat deal of money, and shed very
little blood.
The Mexican war cost many mill ,,
ons of dollars, and who ma0e the ,
money? The North made all ex.
;ept what the soldierssspent in Mex
70 for tortillas aud aguadente. The
North aourished. throye aud iattened
IN the war. While the men Of the
South we're pouring out their life /
blood like water on the victorious fields ,
If Mexico, the men of the North
we're filling army contracts, and gloat- ,
Ug over their columns Of profits .
q the safety of their counting rooms. 4,
some of TIE most colossal fortunes :
# the North were accumulated or
orwarded during the MeXican war. {
The money which the South, as a |
,art of the nation, furnished the 2
government was immediately trans
erred to Northern pockets. Ia this
var, however, the money will be t
Kept in the country and spent among n
is citizens. 1t will only change b
lands, be kept in circulation, aod the v
ouniry will be none the poorer. Ii t
be citizens contribute a hundred
Millions to wage shis var, and it is
pent 10 the country. the country II
iii be none the poorer Mo. I'D
The abolition autocrat signs all
ispatches "Lincoln not Abraham :
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