The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-01-28
NO. 797.

Il ne hence, oi !.2 900 Enfield rhesl Be-
Sides tb Sc, rs 81 ; sets Of harness are 10 be
delivered by an by. at ths cost OF 4l,97s,-
440. have no time TO enurnerste all these
contracts When We appropriated, at ths last
session of Congress, for this purpose, s20,-
100000 Of dollars, thirty seven millions and
some thousands OF dollars had BEEN already
pledge to contrsctors-not for the purchase
Of arms fr the rnen 10 the field, not to pro.
tect them in fighting their country's battles
~ this grea, emergency and peril. but for
some futurs occasion, or to meet some present
need of the contractors, don't know which
at this moment. And not only the appro-
praion of last session has been exhausted but
l7,OO0,OOO pu, upon it. L q riot Of Of tho
10Th Of April IN Baltimore op'ned this ball;
and an the 2lst Of April, in the city Of New
York, there was organ'z.I a corp. Of plunder'
crs OF the treasury. Two millions Of dollars
were entrusted TO poor, unfortunate, honest,
hut entirely incompetent editor Of a paper in
New York To dispense it in the best manner
/ hc cuu d. SlIaghtway this gentleu an began
! to purchas' linen panlaIoons, straw hats, Lon.
don porter. dried berrings, and such proyis.
ions TOR trs army, ill le expended in this
wlv 1890 900 Of tho monev, AMI then he
got scared an quit (Laughter) There il an
appropriation, sls', for the supply Of wool to
the army. Tns contractor ia pledged the
payment Of seven dollars cord for all tho
wood delivered TO tho different commands,
wood collected after The labor of the soldiers
th mselves had cut down the trees to clear the
ground for their batteries; and then this con-
tractor employee the army wagons to draw it
to The several camps and lie has no further
trouble than TO draw his seven dollars for a
cord, leaving the govcrnmen. to draw the
wood. (Laughter) 1t costs two miIir ms OF
dollars every day to support tho army in tho
field. An bundled millions Of doil"rs have
thus been expended since We mot on the 22l
dav of December, and all that time tho army
ha. bren in respon.c. What the expediture
will increase to when tue great day shall ar.
rive when our eyes shs be gaddened wi
sight of the army in motion, do not know,
Another hundred millions may he added to
the before the 4lh Of March. What it may
COS: to put down tn. re ellion | care very lit
lie, provided always that it be put down ef-
f-crually. But, Sit, faith without works ia
deal, and an to confess that nv faith some.
times fails mel mean my Faith in men, not
in tho cause. When the history Of these
times shall ba written, it will be question
upon whom the guilt will rest most heavy
upon him VINO WAS cousprad to destroy, or
upon him who is iucom etent 20 preserve, the
Institutions bequ"alhed to Il, by our fathers.
1t is no wonder that the public treasury trcm.
bIo. aud ,tagsers like strong nan with too
great burden upon him. a strong man in
an air Exhausted receiver is not lesS hepleaa
to ,sv than is the treasury of this govern.
IN, ut, beneath the "xhausting process to which
it il III j cited. The mighty monarch Of tho
forest himself may hold at bay the fercest
and miyhtiest Of his FOES, while the vile cur,
coming up behind hlm and opening his fangs,
gives him a fatal wound, and although he NAV
struggle on boldly an ! yaanly,. the lifcbood
is silently tricklng down from Ssts heart, and
he is at last tor,c TO loosen his AfEaSs aud he
grows faut aud t,lt"rs aud dies. s-3Nr iScasu-,
ry notes, issued in the face Of these Immense
ou'ays, without n revrnue fIoySensioul
houses, from Ian sales, from any soIhe whst,
ever, are beginniug to pail i'll the rnarlset,--f
Already have they begun TO sell at six per
cent discount at the tables Of the money
changers; At the very time. too, that We here
exh.bt the sngula- SIP. caclo Of fraud, and of
slrrgE,a with the committee of Ways and
M''btlN l'FCii, III AlI iu'ithN'l w wv w
Sustain the government "f the country. Al.
ready the sullcr-that course of the camp -is
fro"ing the paymaSt"r IA tho shark follows
tia, ship, hnyine up fn tonr doIlmra every five
dplitrS of the wages OF tn" soidler', paid t"
,hrm in treasury notes. | have no desire 10
has, N The movements of the army, or 10 crit
l-r the con uct cf its Leaders, bat in view Of
tpG stup n lou> drafts upon the treasury,
mu,, say hat long for the day Of sir king
he blow winch will bring this rebellion 10 an
rn !. SKY liv> oagcr Of this state of things
will bring about a result ono way ~ another.
Ii is imprSsJ,c that the treasury Of the Uni
ter S'at,s can mcc aud continue 20 meet,
'hi, state of things Sky days longer, and an
i'm pminiou, poscc must be- submitted to un-
l.>s W. see to il that the credit af the country
is sustained, and sustained, too, by the couvc-
tlon going forth from this hall to tho people
Of tho co iuIrv, that we viii treat as traitors,
MT onlv those who are bpll and man ~ enough
to meet us face 10 face in the field Of strife.
but all those, also who clandestinely AMI
ieaIlhily sunck the life blood from US IN this
mighty struggle. Whatever measures may
emanate from the Committee on Ways and
Mans to meet and retrieve this state of things,
they will but fill like dead pail upon the
public uuIoss they give this assurance, that
these extraordinary anG extreme measures to
= sus ntatr, revive and repIrnish tho treasury,
arc not made TO fill further AID longer the al
really gorgad pockets Of the public plunder-
ers. How, then, are We to contribute in this
matter 10 revive public confidence in our pub
lie men here, if .tbe not wher these appro-
pristIons come up that We probe them, TINT
ascer ain whether there b, anything 10 them
that =, IT, Same momert can be spreajl -
Our pressing duty rs now to protect and save
the treasury from further VIII lesale or other
system Of plundcring. In conclusion, he ar.
guel against paying for printing the treasury
notes. 0 the ground that the contract WAS
improperly obtained.
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