The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-07
From the Philadelphia Evening Journal.
Peace..-Again. -----

ny nOt Z Hedce! OiIncu tiles there Ger
tainly are-grave ones-but we incline {
think that those, which are apparent. ar
not the most form midable, and that the rea
obstacles, which we do not in any way un.
der rate, are kept out of view studiously.-
The apparent difficulties are threefold senti
5 mental, practical, and mercepary. Of th,
, last, we shall say little or nothing; for, de-
string to discuss the question of possible
paclhcation calmly, and, if we may say so
lJudlclally, We cannot trust our temper in
considering the element of the war excite
ment which springs out Of the compost oil
corruption, and is represented by jobbera and
contractors, and shoddy deale rs, and m ere
official dependents. We hear of the luxuri.
Gus lndulgencies of this sort of men-of their
purchases of jewelry and trotting horses-of
silks and shooting farms,- the services of
plate, presented by themselves to them
selves,-we hear of all these sort of things,
with simple wonder that the patience of the
people can bear it as it does. The talk of
prosperity is revolving. 1t is so illusory.-
The poor widow, who has to support herself
and educate her children on a limited in
come, and sees the necessaries of life rising
in price, and her resources whitfield away bv
taxation, or sinking in the swamp of a de-
preciated currency, may be pardoned for
looking unkindly on the prosperous con-
tractor or jobber who sells bad muskets and
worse cloths at high price; and the mo-
ment be paid rushes with frantic energy
to change ms greenbacks for any sort of real
estate, or diamonds, or something permanent,
and the green backs go back into the COM
munlty to take their chance in the dark fu-
ture. IT they can be so shuffled as to light
among the poor, fnanciers will think it
clever oper alton. OF this element of war, we
repeat, we cannot speak with equanimitv.-
We honestly believe that within a year,
whether the war goes on or not, any man who
has made money out of it, who has had
contract with the Government, or made !
dollar profit out of the blood and sorrow of
the hour, will be marked and prescribed and |
avoided as unfit for social intercourse, and |
an enemy of his country. And so we dis
miss it and them.
The "sentime ntal" difficulties in the way {
of peace so long as they were fresh and gen
uine were quite formidab But they have
wilted away into mere slang. They once
were words of weight and influence, and
stirred the popular heart. But, let any one
walk our streets now and see the city under
bare poles-with no EN- blems of nationality
lying, except over over Post Offices and Gus
tom Houses-or newspapers where the pub
lie printing is done, or the exemplary Club
up Walnut street. where social discipline is
10 strictly enforced, or the League, where,
behind lace curtains and in front of General
Jackson's portrait, Bank Directors, Contract
'rs, and small lawyers, and partisan Judges,
iaily and nightly meet to scold end slander,
md vituperate and heat themselves into
tate of eruptive loyalty. Those ouly love s
md reverence the flag who keep it as they 9
would holy memorial of the past, in sacred
II -, IA l. L. I - &
t over dinner tables and at boarding house c
windows, and over counting house counters. q
So with the other words or ideas we have q
eferred to, which make up the aggregate of =
var sentimentalism. When, as we have t
aid, they were fresh and genuine, they
onstituted a serious impediment to a settle
1ent of existing difficulties. Believing, as i
1e do, that change has taken place in this t
lass of difficulties, and that a genuine, hon. =
st, active war sentiment no longer exists, T
re categorise these obstacles with the mer- t
enary one, and pass on to real and practical P
ifficultes. 4
The first which the extreme war men sug-
est is that of boundaries, which we shall
OF consider DOW, for there is one less obvi- "
us but quite as difficult, which, if the dis .
lssion of the subject is to be fair one,
Mould be disposed of first. 1t is that of the 2
'ebt, and especially the portion of it which .
part OF the atmosphere we breathe-the
lrrency. Let any one-be he war or a u
eace man-meditate on the frightful reality y
lat from the moment he wakes to active
ldustry until he lays his anxious brain on u
is uneasy pillow at night, be sees nothing s.
every operation of trade or business-but ."
overnmeut paper money-dirty or clean, y
-eat or small, ragged or whole. 1t is all
Ii r Il I.
is the only standard of current values
he grocer who sells pound of tea for
ollar is paid in a greenback, numbered
!, ,1S8, or some other euorm mous series. with
red Latin seal in one corner: "Ihesanr. a
aer. Septent Sigil" that looks like Doc b
,r's prescription, aud being translated m cans m
at is the Northern Treasury to which the e.
uff belongs, and a picture of Secretary e.
base in the other, with arms folded, q
Milling on the ocean of paper. This is what .
3 has to take in payment, and If he hap
sns not to be on the alert, and receive a ST
,te out of which a scrap has been torn, or n
orn, or nibbled, the banks wont take it, Sc
Id he loses his tea and bis money. The o.
orkman who made his bargain for dollar
day, when twelve honest copper or nickel ca
'uts would buy yard of muslin, is paid re
1T a dollar when the same article costs nmi ~
Iree times twelve. The poor servant wo- 1
an who deposits her gold dollars and silver a q,
aives with promise of four of five per "a "a
mt. of the same kind in the was of interest, "
st instead deprecated paper. and if she oe
raws her principal, m ust take that in paper 70
70. The creditor class, in their turn, fare al
o better-for they lent honestly and fairly th
Did and silver. but now if their debtors bV
noose to persecute them with payment th
lust take paper too, and bear the loss as ri'
est they can. The new terror OF life is that th
mortgage at the sight of his debtor th
. is bad enough to have his half yearly al
,isery of inteIest-but payment in full is al