Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-09-13
{Signed)

tSigned) S. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
HOw Disunion-. Would Affect Tax
| Payers. .. ..
Though civil war Is always nope calami-
tous than a foreign war of equal magnitude
the difference does not lie so much in the er-
pense as in the wounds inflicted on fraternal
sentiments. A great foreign war which calls
forth the whole military str9ngth of the nation
imposes as heavy burdens on taxpayers as a
great civil war. If, therefore, the preservation
of the Union should. by, upholding and aug
menting our prestige as great and undivided
nation, able to protect its honor and forInida-
Bile to its foes, s I'VE us from even one war with
frst-rate foreign power, the expense of the
present contest Tould not, in a peeunary view,
be bad investment. War is always possi-
bic accident of national existence; but a great,
powerful, and formidable nation is less liable
than weaker one to &c. embroiled with other
powers 1t is great thing to be 50 strong
that other nations are reluctant to offend US
We have now passed nearly half century
without an important foreign war, and, if we
come out of this civil contest victorious, we
shall not have one foreign war in the next
half century, where we shonld BE liable to
have half dozen if the Union were cleft into
two mutually jealous fragments, which would
tempt foreign powers TO be in olent ard ag-
gressive by the double motive of our compara-
tive weakness and the hope of making the
southern republic their. r.all5s
The southern consedcracy once established,
we shonld find it q touchy, contentious neigh
Dor, from which we should be separated by
no well defined geographical boundary. The
most important nayigabe river on the conti-
nent debouching into the gulf through its ter
ritory, the rights of the fertile Northwest
would be liable to perpetual @b truetions and
infringement, while the different thrift system
of. the two republics would create difficulties
and stir up bad blood along. the thousand
miles of frontier without airy i,Itural barrier
Slaves would escape across the border, and in
n'iulSi caisec be pursued by their owners, keep
ing aiiYc old resentments and sortress from
which this war has proceeded. Not to emu
mcrate further, the occasions of difference
would be perpetual, AMI it would be little
short Of d miracle if we did not have ut least
If we conquer them now we shLll be spared
this enorinors .drrin en- our resources. The
expense of this one war will save the cxp,nse
OF many future wars with the Soltl, as well
as many with powers that have always been
foreign, Judged simply from. the financial
point pfyiew it uouE be Nore0 than f lily, ii
would be madness, to grulgc the expense nee
'3gsary to .qCuduGt -tEis war to a successful
issue, when the inevitable consequence Of fail
ure will be a succession of foreign wars any
one of which may create SIS heavy public
Eurdcns IS tliiS', ~ -- Ia
The country mas thus Elt.sIceee'lel in car
rying out its traditional psIicy of avoiding en-
tangling alliances with foreign powers This
r@ise policy, which has freed us from any par
ticpation in the intrigue5 of ETropeln poll
tics, and kept US aloof from E irop AN wars.
could not survive the dissolution of the Union
five years, The southern confederacy, destitute
0f navG lDr the protection Of its commerce,
would Immediately offer to some Of the mari.
time powers important commercial ad@irttzScS
as the price of an alliance. It's government
would soon have such intimate relations with
some Of those Of Europe that we should, per
furcc, ..bc drawn into the vortex Of European
politics as means of roiirg tie influence of ii
'elslous and ,anibitious. Ilei$hbor. But when
our nation al honor cr ational safety becomes
involved in the question OF the balance OIL
power in Europe, no one needs to be, told that |
We sliall dtd:e entered Cl,d career that will be
attended with heavy expenses.
Fifteen or sixteen years ago our government
offered to pay Spain hundred millions for
Cuba. There has been no time since when
The nation would not have incurred the ex
pcnse of war with England or France rather
thaf haze allewsI either Of those powers. to
get possession c: that island. The reason is, !
that its possession by any frst-class power
would De perpetual menance 10 our. com
merce, The ocean route to California aud the
commerce. cf the Mississippi valley pass be !
tween Cuba and Florida, which are but little
tfstance apart But If it was worth nj HENS
to prevent one side Of this channel from heing |
occupied by hostile power, is it not, worth |
an effort to prevent the hostile occupancy OF
both sides of it Z? AN the reasons which led !
Us to purchase Louisiana and Florida at a
heavy expense are reasons why We should not
allow them, with the whole gulf coast, to pass
out Of our hands-reasons thet deriye adli- |
tional force from our acquisition Of California,
autl from the certainty that, if the South /
should achieve its independence, the efforts
which itsistatcsaen have been so long making
for the acquisition of Cuba would be red CUB
led -. sa 1 81 a hs
II tic 4ebcllion suecee DIS, the South will, in
all likelihood, draw Missouri with her out Of
the Union. With that state we should lose
the overland route to California, and be shut T
out from all our western territories and Pacific I
which alone are worth more than
the cost of the war. iia .e'
To say nothing, tlieh,oof the higher consid.
srations Of patriotism aud national honor, and
looking at the whole subject from merely |
point ofisiew, we cannot. aff5rd9to /
let the rebels succeed. e However great may T
be the expense of the war, the burdens it lays t
on the shoulders of loyal taxpayers are a bag
lttlIe compared with those which would follow
a pprls;ttteot dissoldtior of the Uuion.- Nj
Y. Nv o5d - Ersy5 ta a-a oti .-a }-i JIG /
B4IrIMoRE, Srptelnbcr Il 44Ctr. Wool has
ssted a general order on lac Hatteras inlet !
yiutorvs He gays we also captured a ten inch
81 pieces olnAQn, IA brig loaded
with cotton, a sIoop lead Of rrupisions and
stores, light boats, and l60 bags coffee, etc. !
There will he a concentration of regiments
1t Camp Dennson at once, It is the best
amp of instruction in tie State. The accom-
nodltions for Gre t<oors' are ample and ex
,e1lent Cincinnati, which is the great depot
# supplies, is close at hanl AMI then if our
Southern border is to be defended, the troops
viii be near the scene of their duties.
cttcr from john q, Heenan, il which Ecsoff-
.rs 10 IicLt- Mace the chamnion of EngGlnd