Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-01-23

twenty millions OF dollars have thus leen px Z
pended on these cavalry regiments before they
left the encampments where they were mus
tered into service and hundreds and hundreds
of these horses have been condemned and sent
back TO Elmira, and to Annapolis, and to this
city, to spend the winter. Any day hundreds
of them can be seen round this city, chained
to trees, where they were left to starve to DEATH
Gangs Of two hundred horses, in various places.
have been thus left to die and rot till the com
mittee on the district of Columbia have called
for a measure of legislation to protect the city
from the danger to be apprehendcd from these
horse golgothas. An ex-governor from one
state offered to an ex-iudge of another state,
five thousand dollars to get him permission to
raise one of these regiments of cavalry, and
when the ex-judge brought back the commits
sion, the ex governor takes it to his room at
the hotel, while another plunderer sits at the
key hole watching like a mastif while he in
side counts up forty thousand dollars profit on
the horses, and calculates twenty thousand more
upon the accountrements and on the other de-
tails for furnishing these regiments. In addition
to the arms in the hands of the six thousand
soldiers in the field, there are numerous out
standing contracts, made with private individ-
uals-not made upon advertisement, not made
with the knowledge of the public, but made bv
ex-membcrs Of Congress, who knew no more
OF the difference between one class of arms
and another than does a Methodist minister
There are outstanding contracts for the manu.
tacture of Springfield muskets, the first one of
which cannot be delivered in six months from
this day. There is a contract for the supply of
one million and ninety thousand muskets, at
$2S apiece, when the same quality of muskets
are manufactured at Springfield for Sl3 so
apiece; and an ex-member OF Congress is now
in Massachusetts,, trying to get machinery made
by which he will be able to manufacture in some
six months hence, at S2l apiece, those rhed
muskets manufactured to-day in that armory
for Sl3 30. Providence, before six months,
will dispose of this war, or He will dispose of
us. Not one Of those muskets thus contracted
Tor Will be OF the slightest service in this emer-
gency, or before the providence of God. whether
for good or for evil, will dispose of it. | ask
my friends from the North AMI Northwest how
they expect to benefit by an armory at Chicago,
at Rock Island, and at Quincy, when ,092 900
muskets will, according to this contract be
thrown upon the country and that after the
war is over, and at such an enormous price, in
addition to other outstanding contracts for the
manufacture, sometime hence, of 272, 900 En-
held rifles? Besides these, j,543 sets of har-
neSse are to be delivered by, at the cost of ST.
9IS,446. have not time to enumerate. At the
last session of Congress, for this purpose $780,
0)0,OO0 Of dollars, thirty-seven millions and
some thousand of dollars had been already
! pledged to contractors-not for the purchase of
arms for the men in the field, not to protect
them in fighting their country's battles in this
great emergency and peril, but for some future
occasion, or to meet some present need of the
contractors, don't know which at this moment
hos heon ovIoms,od b., si7 Ono 400 ,',,s o
il The riot Of tho 1o,h nr All IN PaI,;,Io.a 49,
onened ,b;o hoIl ord ~, H., d., - Al :;
tbo citv Of Now Yorl ,horo ,,os o.,,ap;.ol =
corrs of rlurdorors ~ ,Ln ,rooa,,x r., Ill
i;ons of doIi,rs ,.a.o a,,,r,,a,oJ ~ ,. -,
fnrtnnate bnncst In, ont;ral PDU,' obi
tor or a ,arar in Var VII, ~ d;si,onsa Il in
The host n,onrnr bo oonIL Stra;abtyyov his
on,+Ior,,r Lo,,a 70 ,,,,roLaso L. 9p,ar,ai,ons
otra,, bo,s Iendo,, - J.;ad I,drr~;r,as ard
sncb liz nrnv;sons r ,,o aru,r IN bs ex'
Dended in hi, wny 53g00O0 OF the money,
and then he got scared and oui daughter !
There is an appropriations also, for the supply
of wood to the army. This contractor is pledged
the payment of seven dollars cord for all the
wood delivered to the different commands. wood
collected after the labor of the soldiers them.
selves had cut down the trees to clear the
ground for their batteries; and then this con.
| tractor employs the army wagons to draw it tc
the several camps, and he has no further trouble
than to draw his seven dollars for cord. leav.
| ing the govergment to draw the wood. Gaugh
teri 1t costs two millions of dollars every da,
to support the army in the field. An hundre,
millions of dollars have thus been expended
since we met on the 22d day of December. and
all that time the army has been in repose
What the expenditure will increase to when tn,
great day shall arrive when our ewes shall b,
| gaddened with q sight of the army in motion
/ / do not know. Another hundred millions vii
90 with the hundreds more have enumerated
Another hundred millions NAV be added I,
these before the 4th of March. What it ma,
cost to put down the the rebellion | care yer;
little, provided, always. that it be nut down ef
fectuay But, sir, faith without works is dead
and am free to confess that nv faith some
times fails mel mean my faith in men. no
my faith in the cause. When the history o
these times shall be written, it will be ques
ton upon whom the guilt will rest most heay,
upon him who has conspired to DESTROY. Of
upon him who has proved incompetent to pre-
serve, the institutions beoueathed to us bv ou
fathers. 1t is no wonder that the public treas
ury trembes and staggers like strong MAJ
with too great burden upon him. A stron,
man in an air-exhausted receiver is not les
helpless to-day than is II, treasury of this gov
eminent. beneath the cxboustins, nroress :,
which il is subiected Tho m;gbty morarcb n
the forest bimself mo-, boId 81 hc,, ,ba 6aroos
and mightiest of bis foe. while ,be vile cnr
comino nm bchind him md onen;ng his fangs
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