The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-01-16
WHAT HAS EEEN GAINED.

The Chicago Times, of last Monday,
has an able article on the expenses Of the
war. and the future expenses Of our gov
eminent, which We copy. The RESPONSE
bility for the enormous expenditures, to-
gether with the immense loss of life, is
put where it belopgs-on the Republican
leaders,
Until the beginning Of the war. sixty
millions Of dollars per year was sufficient
revenue for the mos, ample needs Of the
government. The expenditures OF the
government are now, and will be so long
as the war continues. at least sixty millions
per month, or seven hundred and. twenty
millions per year. Says the New York
Times:
60 Were the rebellion Gu bdued tomor-
row these expenditures mus, equal twice
and perhaps thrice the average for gears
past. We shall do well if we get on with
5000. 600, 900 annually. We must keep
up. for years. large standing army,
which costs 81 600 year for each man,
rank and file. We shall not hereafter be
content without powerful navy. We
are to render impregnable, # possible, all
our important harbors. The civil list
grows apace with our increasing gears.
We shall have, on the first of July next,
an annual interest account of $40. OUO. 600.
For the present. consequently. we must
bid adieu TO the golden cara in our history
IN which We we're scarcely conscious that
we bad a government, SO lightly did its
burdens rest upon us. and enter upon that
in which the almost sole problem of
statesman will be TO make the credit balance
the debit side of the netional ledger
This is picture which few contem-
plated when the northern republican lead
ers would grant no compromise and no
concession, either to avoid war, or 10 hold
the powerful States Of Virginia. Tennes-
see and North Carolina in the Union to
help the government in a war against re-
belllOn in the more southern states. The
Republican leaders, least of all, contem-
plated it, but had they, no doubt their &C
tion would have been the same When
have they counted the cost or cared for
the cost Of any action of their own. unless
it threatened damage to the Republican
party
Remember. We are not yet in the second
year of republican rule. Contrast this
first year.-with its expenditures of over
seven hundred and fifty millions, and with
all thu future expenditures it has imposed,
with the long series of years of demo
cratic rule, which imposed no direct taxes
and only demanded forty to sixty millions
from imposts and tell us what has been
gained by the triumph of republicanism
And remember, that this enormous expen
di.ure, past. present and prospective. is
amcng the smallest Of The consequences of
the Republican triumph. Greater than
this is the interruption of trade, manulac-
lures. commerce, agriculture, and every
kind Of peaceful industry; greater still is
the loss of tens of thousands of lives; and
greatest OF all is the destruction OF the old
Union for the old Union, with ali its cor
diallty Of sections towards each other and
love of its institutions. will never be re-
stored. The authority of the government
may be re established over all the States,
but it will be the compulson Of the sword
and not the voluntary allegiance Of the
cilizcn.
What has been gained by the triumph
Of republicanism? What has not been
lost by it?"