Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-17

been expended on these cavairy regiments before
they left the encampments where they we're mus
tered into service and hundreds OF these horses
have been condemned and sent back g. Elmira.
and io-Annapcls. and - this CITY, 70 spend the
winter ANY day hundreds OF them can be seen
round this city. chained % trees. where they were
LETT % starve 70 death. Gangs OF two hundred
horses, IN various places, have been thus lett 70
Gle and rot. TIL the Committee on the District Of
Columbia have called for measure OF legisla
ton 20 protect the city from the danger % be ap
pretended from these horse Golgothas An ex
Governor Of one State offered - an Judge OF
another State 3 600 - get him permission 70
raise one Of these regiments OF cavalry, and
when the ex-Judge brought back the commits
sion. the ex Governor take Il 70 his room nc the
hotel, while another punderer sis at the keyhole
watching ike riastiff while he inside counts up
SO. 900 profit on The horses, and calculates so,
600 more upon the Accomplishments, and Oh the
other details of furnishing these regiments In
addition 70 the arms in the hands OF the coo 900
soldiers in the field, there are numerous out
standing contracts. made with private individuals
bot made upon advertisement. not made with
the knowledge of the public, but made by
members OF Congress, who know no more OF the
difference between one class OF than does
Methodist minister There outstanding con
tracts for the manufacture OF Springfield muskets,
the first one OF which can not be delivered m SIX
months from this day. There i a contract for
the supply Of one million and ninety thousand
muskets, at SIS apiece, when the same quality OF
muskets are manufactured az Springfield for
Sl3 80 apiece; and IN ex member OF Congress Is
now in Massachusetts,, trying TO get machinery
madeby which he will be able to manufacture in
some six months hence at sol aEiece those ritied
muskets manufactured 70 day in that armory for
Sl3 30.
Providence. before six months, will dispose Of
this war, or he will dispose OF u. Not one Of
those muskets thus contracted for, will be of the
slightest service in this emergency. or before tie
Providence of God, whether for good or tor evil,
will dispose OF il. | ask my friends from the
North and Northwest how they expect 10 benefit
by an armOry at Chicago. at Rock Island, and
Quincy when ,092 900 muskets will accord
ing to this contract, be thrown upon the country.
and that after the war Is over and at such an
enormous price, in addition To the other out
standing contracts for the manufacture. some
time hence OF 2T2 900 Enfield riiesl Besides
there are 10 ,543 sets of harness 10 be delivered
by and bv at the cost of : .97o 40. | have not
time 10 enumerate all these contracts. When
appropriated at the last session ct Congress for
this purpose. sou 600 GOO, thirty seven millions
and some thousand dollars had been already
pledged To cOntTIctOrs--nOt for the purchase OF
arms Tor the men in the field, not To protect them
in lighting their cOuntrys battles IN this great
emergency and peril, but for some future use
tor some future occasion, 10 meet some
present need of the contractors. | don't know
which at this moment And not only the ap
preparation of last session has been exhausted.
but 81 100000 put upon it. The riot OF the
18th Of April. in Baltimore. opened this ball,
and on the Dist OF April, in the city OF y ew
York, there was organized a corps OF punderers
OF the treasury. Two millions OF dollars were
intrusted to poor, unfortunate. honest, but en-
tlrely incompetent editor OF paper IN New DIRK
To dispense it IN the best manner he could.
Straightway this gen teman began 10 purchase
linen pantalU0ns straw hats, London porter dried
behring's aud such like provisions Tor the army
till he expended in this way $3.50 900 OF the
money, aud then he got scared and quit Laugh
ter There Is appropriation also for the sup
ply Of wood TO the army. This contractor is
pledged the payment OF s. a cord for all the
wood delivered To the different communicated
collected after the labor of the soldiers them
selves had cut down the trees To- clear the ground
for their batteries, and then this contractor EN-
poys the army wagons 10 draw it TO the several
camps, and he has no further trouble than to
draw his 81 for cord, leaving the Government
to draw the wood. Laughter. 1t costs two
millions of dollars every day TO support the
my in the field. \ hundred millions of dollars
have thus been expended since We met on the 22l
day of December, and all that time the army has
been in rep0se. What the expenditures will in
crease 10 when that great day shall arrive when
our eyes shall be gladdened with sight of the
army in notion DO not know. Another hun
dred millions will 90 with the hundreds more |
have enumerated Another hundred millions
may be added 10 these before the 4th of March.
What it may cost to put down the rebellion care
very little, provided, always that it be put down
efiectually. But, sir, faith without works Is dead,
and | am free 20 confess that my faith SOME
times fails me- mean my faith in men, not my
faith in the cause When the history of these
times shall be written il will be question upon
whom the guilt will rest most heavily-upon him
who has cOnSpired To destroy, or upon him who
has proved incompetent to preserve the institu
tons bequeathed TO us 10y our fathers.
1t is no wonder that the public treasury trem-
bes and staggers like strong man with too
great burden upon him. A strong man in an
airexhauSted receiver is not more helpless to day
than is the Treasury of this Government beneath
the eJhausting process to which il IS subjected.
The mighty monarch OF the forest himself may
hold bay the hercest. the mi shest of his Toes,
while the vile cur, coming up behind him and
opening his iangs, gives him fatal wound, and
although he may struggle ON boldly and valiantly
the lite blood Is silently trcklng from his heart
and he i At last forced to loosen his grasp, and
he grows faint and faIter> aud dies. The Treas
ury notes issued in the face OF these immense
OUTLAWS. without rev enue from custom houses,
from land sales. from any source whatever, are
beginning % fail IN the market. Already have
they begun TO sell II SIX per cent. discount at the
tables OF the money changers; and ut the very
time too. that We here exhibit the singular spec
tacle OF fraud. and of a struggle with the Com
mittee on NaYs and Means itself, in an endeayOr
20 it up and sustain the Government OF the
country. Already the sutler--that curse OF the
camps following the paymaster Is the shark
follows the ship. buying up for four dollars every
five dollars Of the wages OF the soldiers. paid to
them Treasury notes. have 40 desire 20 hasten
the movements OF the army, or 10 crtcise the
conduct OF its leaders. but in view OF the stuPen
douS draft upon the Treasury | must say long
for the day of striking the blow which will bring
this rebellion to an end. Sixty days longer OF
this state of things will bring about result one
WAY another. IL l. impossible that the Treas
ury OF tie United States meet. aud continue
To meet. tins state of things sixty DAYS longer;
and IN iCuomiuiou> peace must be submitted TO
unless see 10 il that the credit OF the country
is sustained and sustained too by the conviction
going forth from this hall To the people OF the
country that We will treat a traitors not only
those who are bold and manly enough to meet Us
face t. face the field OF strife, but all those.
also. who ciande-tiuely and steathily suck the
likelihood from H. IN this mighty struggle. " hat
ever measures may emanate from tie Committee
on WAYS and Means % meet and retrieve this
state oil things they will but tall Ike dead pail