Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-01-17
LETTER FROM w1LLIAm PENN
NUMBER ELEVEN.
WASHINGTON. Jannarr 1e. 1872

WAsHINaToN January 16, 1862.
II Congress should much longer continue
Its prohtless defamation on general matters.
instead OF applying itself to the work of
providing ways and means to sustain the
Administration in its prosecution of the
war against treason, it will need no propbetic
voice to tell the people that their liberties
their country and their great national power
will all soon be gone forever; and that what
is now the home Of the brave and the land
OF the free, will be but the charnel house ol
all our national hopes our personal privi.
leges; and our inherent rights. While
members talk, the country suffers While
they continue to dabble with their topques
in war matters, and interfere with exclusive.
ly Executive duties, instead of working after
the industrious examples set them by the
President and General Mcclellan we NAV
expect the interest which the people take in
the war, to languish, and n positive detri.
ment be inflicted upon the welfare Of the
country.
This continual, incessant desire for talking
in Congress is peculiarly exclusive Yankee
institution. 10 no other country on The
globe is so much loquacty INDUCED iu h,
public men aud statesmen. 1t seems strange
that, with all the powerful propeusities o.
the Americans to initiate foreign things anc
habits, our public men have never vel
made any advances in the proper direction
in this matter of talking. No stake seem;
valuable or important enough to induce oul
" orators" to torego their talking inclina-
tons even for day aud hence the interest;
of the nation sufer on and on, until exhaus
tion shall drive our legislators to a sense Of
their obligations to the people.
The financial embarrassments which now
impend, will be, unless speedily attended TO
as fatal to the hopes of the Union as the
rebellion. No special pleading, no after
legislation will ever he potent enough to re-.
store the confidence of the northern people
in the power of the government to maintain
itself, when once that confidence has been
lost by Congressional neglect or inertness.
Let them beware, then, how they triie with
people whose loyalty-although unques.
tiOned,-is gradually being overshadowed
by impatience and desire for prompt
speedy and effective action. The peonle
are willing to bear all the burdens necessary
to carry to a successful termination this war
for Liberty, but they are not willing that all
their paramount nterests-social and per.
sonal-shall be made secondary to tho whims
and caprces of body of men who give no
other evidence of their anxiety for peace
than the utteranee Of mere words.
Peace is boon that all men desire. No
people more than the Americans have a
keener appreciation of its blessings; but
now they say WAR. They mean war; and
through its bloody tracks they will search
Tor peace, and are eagerly awaiting orders to
snatch it from the crimson fields of battle
and they look with no little anxiety to Con.
gress to provide the means for tbom IN do
so vigorously and with despatch. But talk.
ing will not do it; nor will patching nm
tariffs do it; but there must be large, com.
prehensive and affluent provision made bv
which the financial resources of the coun.
try may be safely brought into requisitiop
against disunion. Let this be done. and
done quickly, and in less than three months
there will be such autter in rebellion as
never has been witnessed before since the
invention of rife, gun and cannon balls
WILLIAM PENN. ]