Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-22

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digaliiy. The great Eastern cities lent you
$4,000, 900 Congress yoled, first, the sum
Of S260,000,0 900, and next $4,000, 900, then
SlO, 100000 next go, ,00O, 900, and, in July
last $I50, ,000, 300 In TreasufY. Y.notes and the
Secretary has issued alSo paper postage
currency" In sums as low as i've cents limi.
ted in amount only by his discretion, Nay,
more already since the 4th OF July, 1861,
this House has appropriated ~, ,400 000, 900,
almost every dollar without debate, and with.
out q recorded vote thousand millions
have been expended since the 18th ol April,
| 1861 and public debt or liability Of 81
800, 90, 900 already incurred And 20 support
all this stupendous outlay and indebtedness
q system of taxation, direct and indirect, has
been insugufat0d, the most onerous and ,un.
just ever imposed upon any but conquered
people
Money aud credit, then, you have had in
prodigal profuson And were men wanted
More than million rushed to arms ? Seven
ty-five thousand first, (and the country stood
aghast at the multitude,) then eighty-three
thousand more were demanded and three
hundred and ten thousand responded to the
call The President next asked for four hun
dred thousand, and Congress, in its generous
confidence, gave him five hundred thousand
and, not to be outdone, he took six hundred
and thirty-seven thousand. Half of these
melted away in their first campaign; and the
President demanded three hundred thousand
more for the war, and then drafted yet anoth-
er three hundred thousand for nine months.
The tabled hosts of Xsrxes have been out
numbered. And yet victory strangely follows
the standards Of the foe. From Great Bethel
to Vicksburg, the battle has not been to the
strong Yet every disaster, except the last,
has been followed by call for more troops
and every time so far they have been prompt
ly furnished. From the beginning the war
has been conducted like political campaign,
and it has been the folly Of the party in power
that they have assumed that numbers alone
would win the field in O contest not with bal
lots but with musket and sword But num-
bers you have had almost without number
the largest, best appointed, best armed, fed,
and clad host of brave men, well organized
and well disciplined,e ever marshaled. A navy
too, not the most formidable perhaps, but the
most numerous and gallant, and the costlest
in the world, and against foe almost without
q navy at ALL
Twenty million people and every element
of strength and force at command-power,
patronage, influence, unanimity, enthusiasm
confidence, credit, money, men, an army and
navy, the largest and the noblest ever set in
the field or afioat upon the sea-; with the sup
port, almost servie, Of every State, county,
and municipality in the North and West
with Congress- swift to do the bidding of the
Executive without opposition anywhere at
home, with an arbitrary power which neither
the Gar of Russia nor the Emperor of Aus
trla dare exercise; yet after nearly two years
OF more vigorousiprosecution OF war than ever
recorded iR history; after more skirmishes,
combats and battles than Alexander, Cesar,
or the hrst Napoleon ever fought in any Eve
years OF their military career, you have utter
ly, signally, disastrously--I will not say igno-
minously--tailed to subdue ten million
rebels, whom you had taught the people of
the No III and West not only to hate but to
despise. Rebels did say2 Yes, your fathers
were rebels, or your grsndfathers. He who
now before me on canvass looks down SO sad
ly upon u.s. the false degenerate, and imbecile
guardian of the great Republic which he
founded, was rebel. And yet we, Graded
ourselves in rebellion, and who have fostered
and fraternized with every iinsurrection in
the nineteenth century everywhere through
out the globe, would now, forsooth, make the
word rebel" a repoach. Rebels certainly
they are but ell the most gigantic warfare
OF modern times have, through your incompe.
tency and folly, ayailed nothing to crush them
out, cut off though they have been by your
blockade from all the world, and dependent
only upon their own courage and resources
And yet they were TO be utterly conquered
and subdued in six weeks, or three months
Sir, my judgment was made up and ex-
pressed from the first learned it from
Chatham: "My lords, you cannot conquered the
South. You never will II is not in the ma
ture of things possible; much less under your
auspices, But money you have expended
without limit, and blood poured out like water;
defeat debt, taxation sepulchres, these are
your trophies. In vain the people gave you
treasure and the soldier yielded up his life,
Fight, tax, emancipate, let these" said the
gentleman from Maine, (Mr Pike,) at the last
session, by the trinity OF our salvation" Sir,
they have become the trinity of your deep
damnation. The war for the Union Is, In
your hands, most bloody and costly failure,
The President confessed II on the 22d of Sen
tember, solemnly, officially, and under the
broad seal of the United States And he has
now repeated the con nlsssion The priests
and rabbis Of Abolition taught him that God
would not prosper such a cause. War for
the Union was abandoned war for the negro
openly begun, and wlth stronger battalions
than before. With what successP Let the
dead of Fredericksburg and Vieksburg an
sWer
And now, sir, can this war continue p
Whence the money 10 carry IL on2 Where
the menP Can yon bonoR2 From whom
Can you tax more2 viii the people bear il ?
Wait till you have collected what is already
levied. How many ID lions more of illegal.
tender to-day iotiJ one per cent. below the
par OF gold--ean yoa aost 7? Will man enlist