The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-01-30

Wultu, ne VIII Oc NbiV To manufacture III
some six months hence, at S2l piece, those
riCd muskctS manufactured to-day in that
armory for Sl3 SC Providence before six
months will dispose of the war, OF he will
dispose of rs. Not one of those muskcts
thus contracted for will be of the slightest |
service in this emergency, or before the .
providence ofGod whether for good or evil, /
will dispose of it, ask my friends from
the North and Northwest how they expect
benefit by an arnury at Chicogo, Rock .
Island, and al Quincy, when ,092 600 mus
kctS will, according to this contract bc
thrown upon the country, and that after the
war is over. aud at such an enormous price,
in addition 10 other outstanding contracts |
for the manufacture, sometime hence, Ot |
272,0 Enfield rifles? Besides these 15,3l3 |
sets of harness are tn hc delivered 10y and /
10y at the cost of 81 93TIl0. have not |
time to enumcratc all these contracts. When |
we appropriated. at the last session of Con |
gross, for this purpose S20,000,00O; thirty |
seven millions and some thousands of
dollars had been already pledged to contract !
ors--not Tor the purchase of arms for the |
men in the field, not to protect them in
fighting their countrys battles IN this great !
emergency and peril, but for some future
use. for some future occasion, or to meet
some present need of the contractors | don't
know which ut this moment And not
only the appropriation of last session has
been exhausted, hut SIT 900, 600 put upon it.
The riot of the 10th of April in Baltimore
opened this ball; and on the 2lst of April, in
the City of New York, there was organized
II corps of plmdcrcrs of the treasury. Two
millions of dollars were entrusted to a poor,
unfortunate, honest but entirely incompc-
tent editor OF paper in New York, to dis
pcnsc il in the best manner he could
Sraightw0y this gentleman began to pur-
chase linen pantaloous, straw hats, London
porter, dried herring, and such like provis-
ions for the army till lac expended in this
way $500 600 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 contractor is pledged 10
the payment rscvcn dollars a cord for all
the wood delivered to the different com
mands, wood collected after the labor
If the soldiers themselves had cut
down the trees To clear the ground for
their batteries; and then this contractor
employs the army wagons to draw it to the
several camps, and lac has NO further trouble
than to draw his seven dollars for II cord,
! leaving the government to draw the wood.
laughter. 1t costs the government two
millions OF dollars 10 support the army IN
the field. 4 hundred millions of dollars
have thus been expended since we met on
the 22d day of December, and all that time
the army has been to rcposC. What the
expenditure will increase to when that great
day shall arrive when our eyes shall be
gladdcncd with sight of the army nmoton,
know not. Another hundred millions will
go with the hundreds more have enumcrat-
ed. Another hundred millions may lac add
nI t1 IpI a. / tl
What it may cost to put down the rchcll-
ion care very little, provided, always, that
it be put down clicctually. But sir faith
without works ia dead and am free to con-
fcss that my faith sometimes fails mc--l
| mean my faith in men, not my faith in the
cause. When the history of these times
shall be written, it will hc question upon
whom the guilt will rest hcavy--upon him
who has conspircd to destroy, or upon him
who has proved incompetent To preserve
the institutions hcqucathcd to MS 10y oW
| fathers, 1t is no wonder that the public
| Treasury trcmhlcs and staggcrs like a
strong man with too great II burden upon
! him. strong man in an ajr-cXhaustcd
receiver is not less helpless to-day than is
the Treasury of the Government, beneath
the cXhausting process to which it is sub
! jcctcd. The mighty monarch of the forest
! himself may hold at bay the iierccst and
mightiest of his foes. while the vile cur
coming up behind him, and opening his
iangs, gives him fatal wound, and although
he may Struggle OF boldly and vaGantly, the
! life blood is silently tricliling from his heart,
and he is at astforccd to loose his grasp,
and he grows faint and ialtrrs and dies
! The Treasury notes issued in the face of
! these immense outlays without revenue
! from Custom-houscs, from land sales, from
any source whatever, is beginning to pail
! in the market Already have they began
! to sell at six per cent, discount nj the tables
of the money changers at the very time,
! too, that we here cNhibit the singular
spectacle Of fraud, and ola struggle with the
! Committee of Ways and Means itself, il an
endcavor TO lift up and sustain the Govern
ment of the country Already the suffer
/ that curse of the camp-is following the
paymaster, as the shark follows the ship,
! buying up for four dollars every five dollars
of the wages of the soldiers, paid to them in
Treasury notes.
have no desire to hasten the movements
of the army. or 10 CritiCsc tho conduct of
its leaders, but in view of the stupcndous
drafts udon the Treasury, must say that |
long fnr that day Of striking the blow which
will bring this rebellion to an end, Sixty
OuNE lplGtI b llS Sl'ilt Ol lllllES W AlI W h'S
about result one way or another. 1t is
impossible that the Treasury of the United
States can meet and continue to meet, this
state of things sixty days longer, and an
ignominious peace must be submitted to un-
less we see TO it that the credit of the co,ntry
is sustained, and, sustained, too, by the
conviction going forth from this hall 10 the
people of the country, that we will treat as
traitors, not only those who are bold and
manly enough ia meet us face 10 face in the
field of strife, but all those who clandeStine-
lv and stealthily suck the life-bloOd from
us in this mighty struggle. Whatever
measures may emanate from the Committee
of Ways and Means to meet and retrieve
this state of things, they will but fall like a
dead pull upon the public unless they give
this assurance that these extreme measures
to resuscitate, revive AMI replenish the treas
ury, are not made 10 fill further and longer
the already gorged pockets of the public
plundcrers. How, then, are VIC 10 contri-
, butte in this matter Ia revive public
confidence in our public men here,
, if il be not when these appropriations
come mp that we probe them that we aseer'
tain whether there be anything in them
that at the moment can be spared? OuI
J pressing duty now is to protect and save
Z the Treasury from further wholesale OF
other system OF plunderug, In conclusion