The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-01-29


one million and ninety thousand mUskets
at twenty. eight dollars apiece, when the
quality OF muskets are manufactured al
Springfield for thirteen and half piece
and an tx member of Congress is now in
Massachusetts, trying to get machinery made
by which he will be able to manufacture in
: some six months hence, at twenty one dol
, lars apiece, those rifled muSkets manuiactur-
ed to day in that arinury for thirteen and q
half
, Providence, before six months, will dis.
pose Of this war, or He will dispose OF US
Not one of these muskeis, thus contracted
| for, will be Of the slightest service in this
emergency, or oe fore the Prov idence Of God,
whether for good or for evil, will dispose Of it.
! ask my irienos from the North and North.
west, how they expect 10 benefit by an ar.
mory at Chicago, at Rock Island, and OF
: Quincy, when l.092 900 muskets will accord
ing to this contract be thrown upon the coun
try, and that after the war is over; and at
, such an enormous price, in addition to other
outstanding contracts for the manufacture,
some time hence, OF 2620OO Enfield rifles?
Besides, there are rs, SAB sets OF harness, to
. be delivered by and by, at the cost of ST.
978, ,446. have not time to enumerate all
these contracts. When we appropriated at
the last session of Congress, for this purpose
$20O0O,0OO, thirty seven millions and some
thousand dollars had already been pledged
TO contractors not for the purchase Of al ms
for men IN the field, not to protect them in
fighting their counIry's battles in this great
emergency and peril, but for some future use,
some future occasion,or to meet some pressing
1 nf ba / ft-h,n
at this moment. And not only the appro
priat;on OF last session has been exhausted.
but S17 100000 put upon it. The riot OF
the 18th Of April, in Baltimore, opened this,
ball, and on the 2lst OF April, in the City of
New York, there was organized corps Of
plunderers OF the Treasury Two millions
OF dollars were intrusted TO the poor, unfor-
tunate, honest, but entirely Incompetent
editor Of paper, in New York, to dispense
it in The b st manner he could. Slraightway
this gentleman began TO purchase linen pan.
taloons straw hats. London porter, dried her
rings. and such like provisions for the army,
till he expended in this way $3.50 600 Of the
money, and then he got scared and quit
| Laughter.
There is an appropriation, also, for the
/ supply OF wood to the army. This contract
or is pledged the payment Of 81 cord { or
all the wood delivered to the different com.
I mards- collected after the labor OF the
soldiers themselves had TO cut down the trees
to clear the ground for their batteries, and
this contractor employs army wagons 10 draw
it to the several camps, and he has no fur.
lher trouble than 10 draw bis 81 for cord
leaving the Government to daaw the wood.
! | | . ttro Il ~
ry day to supper the army in the field A
hunGred millions OF dollar. have thus been
expended since we met on the 81 day Of De-
cember, and all that time the army has been
IN repose. What the expenditure will in
crease TO when our eyes shall be gladdened
with the sight oIan army in motion, do not
know. Another hundred millions VIII go
with the hundreds more have enumerated.
Another hundred millions may be added 10
these before the 4h OF March. What it may
cost TO put down the rebellion care very
little, provided, always, that it be put down
etfectually. But, sir faith without works is
dead and am free to confess that sometimes
fails mel mean my ata in the men, not
my faith in the cause. When the History OF
these times shall be wiitten, 1t will be
question upon whom the guilt will rest most
heaviy--upon him why has conspired TO de-
stroy, or upon him who has proved incompe
tent 10 preserve, the institutions beqnealhed
TO US hy our forefaIEers. 1t is no wonder
that the public treasury trembles and stag
gers, like strong man with too great a bur.
den upon him. strong man in an air ex
/ hausted receiver is not more helpless than is
the Treasury of this Goyernmt mt beneath
the exhausting process to which it is subject
red The mighty monarch of the forest him
self may hold at bay the fierceSt, mightiest OF
his Ioes, while 'hc vile cur, coming up be-
hind him and opening his angs, gives him
fatal wound, and although he may struggle
on boldly and val antly, the lie blood is
silently tIicklng rom his heart, and he is at
last forced to loosen his grasp, and he grows
faint, and falters, and dies.
The Treasury notes issued in the face OF
these immense outlays, without q revenue
| from the custom house, from land sales, from
any source whatever, are beginning TO fall in
the market. Already have they begun to
sell at six per cent. Discount at the tables of
the money changers and at the very time,
| too, that we here exhibit the singular spec
tacle oil fraud, and Of struggle with the
committee OF Ways and Means itself, in an
endeavor to lift up and sustain the Govern
Inent OF the country. Already the sutler--
that curse OF the country--is following the
/ Paymaster, as the shark fellows the ship,
buying up for iour dollaas every five dollars
let the wages Of tie soldiers, paid TO them in
| Treasury notes. have no desire to hasten
| the movements Of the army, or TO criticse
| the conduct Of its leaders, but in view OF he
| OF a lfc.,
ssyzthat long for the day of striking the
blew which will bring this rebellion to an
end. ia @
Sixty days longer OF this state of things
will bring abaut result one way or another
| Ii is impossible that the Treasury Of the
United stae can meet. and continue TO
meet, this state OF things sixty days longer;
and an ignominious peace must be submitted
to unless we see TO il that tie credit oi the
country is sustained, too, by the conviction
going forth from this hall 10 the people OF the
country that we will treat as traitors Dot
only those who are bold and manly enough
TO meet US face to tace in The field tt strife
but all those, also, who clandestinely and
Estealthily suck the lie blood from us in this
mighty struggle, What=yer measures may
| enanate from the committee ON Ways and
Means 10 meet and retrieve this state o
things. they will but tallahke dead pail up
on the public unless they give this assurance,
that these extraordinary and extreme meas
tuies to resuscitate,s revive, and repleaish the
Treasury are not made TO fill lurther and Ion
ger the already gorged packets Of the public
lunderers. How, han . we 10 contribute
IN thismitter to revive pubic conf lenee in
onr public men, if il be not when these az.
preparations como up that, we probe them,
that we ascertain whether there ba anything
in them that At this moment can be spared.
Our pressing duty now IS to protect and save
the Treasury from further wholesale or other
system Of plundering. PA 4. Il
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Ma. HorT AND THE GARNET alt is said
Mr.. Holt was asked 10 accept al place in the
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