Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-04

probably, and not nearer-Grim>s' Ssoiaioa SFsecA,
Coacvsss,eael GLOBE. p. 3s7s, Afy 81. "a
Again.
predict thar our indebtedness viii amount Ii. end
Of the year TO sl.5os.oeo 600.
When the leaders have desired large appropris-
tons by Congress. they have repeatedly stated.
upon the floor. that our expenses we're ss much
as three millions Of dollars per day. tCongres-
sional Globe. Jan 18th. 1892; April 9Th. 1862:
Feb. 9th, 1862: FEB 2ath. 1862 This would
make the aggregate of over one thousand mil
lions per annum.
IL is now fifteen months since these immense
EXPENDITURES began, and would therefore give at
that rate about fourteen hundred millions Of dol
lars. If the war was 60 end - dsy this would
not be all, for there would resi- upon US an obli-
CATION 10 provide Tor disabled and other soldiers.
and families of soldiers to m indefinite amount.
So that the end cannot be seen IL may he safely
stated that the child Is not vet born that will
cesse To meet the tax gathei er in hi- ever return
ing rounds. exaciinr the annual products OF our
toll, for whatr fto pay the just expenses-the
PATRIOTIC SOLDIERS
OF the war--it will be rendered without muir
muir, by all good citizens But if il is not for the
OF the soldier. and is To satisfy unjust de
mands, then the toll worn taxpayer should
in addition to the immense sums necessarily
raised for the war. have carelessy, or criminally,
suffered unjust debts to accumulate.
The appropriations for the Army alone, for the
year beginning the lst OF July, 1862. are at the
rate of $500 for each soldier, assuming that we
continually have a standing army of over six
hundred thousand men. and the expenditures
have been at greater rate for the past year.
The soldier don't get il: every man knows that.
What becomes of il? Who takes II Is il stoeng
Committees raised by Congress, and Commis
sioners appointed by the President. have reported
facts s'abiShing system OF bare faced rascaIty.
in handling the money OF the people that never
had parallel in any Christian nation. Some OF
them, il Is presumed. are of SO monstrous a char
acter, that the President has refused TO have them
published. by responding TO a call to that effect,
that the public interest torbids
Official duty, obligation. and oathS, have been
hut ropes of sand in preventing officers OF this
Administration from Selling the public moneys.
Public contractors have in every possible way
cheated the GOvernmeni-the people; and thus
DELAYED the war. Scarcely an article be
named for the use of a soldier. or an army, that
the finger OF fraud has left unframed. Wagons.
hor~es, provisions, clothing. camp equipage.
arms. ammunition. have all been furnished of Il
worthless character. at enormous prices. through
the perhdy OF paid officers and inspectors In
quiry has been, 10 "A great exteLt. smOthered, and
punishment in case awarded. because connec-
ton in the Illegal transaction can be traced directly
To those in authorIty-even to members of the
Cabinet, as shown by the report of the Naval
Committee of the Senate, and the speech OF Sen
ator Hale. The Chairman of an Investigating
Committee declared in his speech, in the House
Ith OF February. 1862:
The mania stealing appears through all
the relations Of the Government. Almost from the Cen
eral 10 the drummer boy from those nearest the throne
; very who deals with The Government appears
feel dere hat 1t would not long survive, and each had
a common right to plumber while it lived.
The example ha> been set ia the departments Of Tee
Government. As general thing. none but favorites
gain there. other obtain
which bear enormous profits.
Senator Hale, in speaking of the fraud of Nor.
gam the brother in law OF Welles, the Secretary
of the Navy, by which he pocketed $40 900, says:
have doubt that if some of the investigating Com
actions compared with which SO 900 a small
and that it will be considered call up
these petty offenders ih't have taken only $4,000 and
deal with him hen there others going oil staggering
under the load of huRdreds Of uouSdnds-
So Dawes, of Massachusetts, states that the
evidence shows plundering in the first year of
Lincoln's Administration TO amount greater
than the whole expenses of Buchanan's Admin
istratlon for year.
These are Republican authorities, and are fully
sustained by the general facts, namely, that the
pundering has been so extensive; that each sol
der in the field has cost the Government twice as
much, per annum "a during the last war With
Great Britain, or the war with Mexico.
As before stated, these frauds have been traced
to members of the Cabinet SO strongly that one
-Cameron-resigned, after which. the House of
Init.
him-but showed their servilitv by refusing to
censure Welles for he was yet in power, with
patronage to bestow.
With these facts staring him in the face. the
President. instead of causing offenders to be pun
ished with kindness towards Cameron truly re
ireshng, assumed his unworthy acts and appoint.
ell the offender To still greater honors. No man
is prosecuted. no man is punished for the crimes
that backen humanity ilseli--that starve and
freeze our brave soldierS-that leave them, rs the
Ith Indiana was lett TO trace the road with blood
from their shoeless feet. in puI suing the enemy.
But we told. lit is no time now 10 inquire
into these things Better say, ut is no time
now to steal No loyal man will steal from his
Government directly from the soldiers Indirect
ly: and if any man does he should be exposed.
that ne may he punished. if the authorities will
mete out punishment, and if not. that he may be
kDDNB anu aNblbtl ~ one tfIplONti III TIE Ducl
of aiding the rebellion.
A COMMITTEES On War Claims, whose reports
are, by the President. great extent refused to
the public, have shown that Senator Simmons OF
Rhode Island. an original no compromise man,
has been selling hm-elf-that Is. for his influence
with the Administration in procuring IA contract
for his friends At high rates they were to give
him part-only fifty thousand dollars-one dol
lac on each musket they were to make
1t would lie supposed 10y all honest men that
such knave and hypocrire wou be kicked out
OF the Senate at once. He is Republican,
majority of the Senate are Republicans. but We
believe not thieves. Still they shielded this thief
and thus made themselves parties 10 his crime
Having thus briefly. yes briefly indeed. from
the vast material that is before US, considered the
points proposed to he included, we are prepared
examine whether, in our judg ment. the course
pursued has been the proper one
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Ii is clear to US that every wise and cool head
ed statesman. who had at heart the 'perpetuity OF