The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-02-04
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notes; and the Secretary has issued also .
paper postage currency" in sums az low
as Eve cents, limited in amount only BY
his discretion. Nay, more; already since
the 4th of July, 1861, this House has
appropriated 81, ,400, ,00O, 900, almost every
dollar without debate, and without re-
corded vote. A thousand millions have
been expended since the 10Th of April,
1861; aud public debt or liability of
of $500, ,000, 900 already incurred. And
Ito support all this stupcndous outlay and
Indebtedness, system of taxation, direct
and indirect, has been inaugurated, the
most onercus and unjust ever imposed
upon any but conquered people.
Money and credit, then, you have had
in prodigal profusion. And were men
wanted? More than a million rushed to
arms? Seventy Eve thousand first, (and
the country stood aghast at the multitude,)
/ then eighty three thousand more were de-
manded; and three hundred and ten thou
sand responded to the call. The Presi-
dent next asked for four hundred thousand,
and Congress, in its generous confidence,
gave him five hundred thousand; and, not
i 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 draft
ed yet another three hundred thousand
for nine months. The tabled hosts Of
Xerxes have been outnumbered. And
yet victory strangely follows the standards
Of the foe. From Great Bethel to Vicks-
burg, the battle has not been to the strong.
Yet every disaster, except the last, has
been followed by a call for more troops,
and every time so far they have besn
promptly furnished From the beginning
the war has been conducted like political
campaign. and it has been the folly Of tho
party in power that they have assumed
that numbers alone would win the field in
a contest not with ballots but with muskct
and sword But numbers you have had
almost without number--the largest best
appointed, best armed, fed, and clad host
of brave men, we'll organized and we'll
disciplined, ever marshaled. Anavy, TOO.
not the most formidable perhaps, buti the
most numerous and gallant, and tho cost
liest in the world, and againsta foe almost
without navy at all.
!, Twenty million. people, and every elc-
ment of strength and force at command
: power, patronage, influence, unanimity,
, enthusiasm. confidence, credit, money,
E men, an army and navy, the largest and
| the noblest ever set in the field or 96oat
5 upon the sea; with the support, almost
!. seryife, of every State, country, and tknni-
e cipality in the North and West With :
I'll Congress swift to do the bidding a. the
: Executive; without oppositio1 any ker6
d at home, and with an arbitrary power
d which neither the Gar of Russia nor thu
}. Emperor of. Austria dare exercise; yet af.
d ter nearly two years of more Vigorous
prosecution of war than ever recorded il
,sl history; after more skirmishes, combats
: and battles than Alexander, Caesar, or the
= first Napoleon ever fought in any Eve
!, years sf their military career, you havs
y y utterly, signally, disastrously II win moi
- say ignominiously-f:,il to subdue ton
J. million ssrebbels, . whom you. had taught
- - the people Of the North and Vest notonly
- to hate, but to despite. Rebels did say
!, Yes, your fathers were rebels, or you
os gran ifa Tiers. He who now before me OF
10 canvas looks down 80 sadly upon us, tn
ii false degenerate, and imbecile guardian o
,t the great Republic which he founded, wa
y rebel And yet we, cradled ourselve
ot in rebellion, and who have fostersd an
ly fraternized with every insurrection in tn
~ nineteenth century every where through
- - out the globe, would now, forsooth, max
!. the word .rebel'' reproach. Rebel
81 certainly. they are; but all the persister
- - and stupendous efforts of the most giganti
vo warfare of modern times have, throug
,t your incompetency and folly, availed moth
~ ing to crush them out, cut of thong
III they have been by your blockade from .
%. the world, and dependent only upon thei
,.t own courage and resources. And yet the
70 were to be utterly conquered and subdus
1s' ,. in six weeks, or three months
ds Sir, my Judgment was made up and e.
IN pressed from the first learned it fro
he Chatham: my lords, you can not couqus
ras America" And you have not conquere
nd the South. You never will. 1t is net
IRE the nature of things possible; much 10
IN. under your auspices: But money 70
,as have expended without limit, and bloc
, il poured out like water; defeat, debt, taxi
e ? ton, scpulchers, these are your trephie
nat In vain the people gave you treasure AZ
,ti- the soldier yielded up his life. "Egh
de- lax, emanclpatc, iet tncSe, naiu sn9 -
ell tleman from Maine, (Mr. Pike at the Ia
led session, 'sbe the trinity of our salvation
re- Sir, they have become the trinity Of yos
,ok deep damnation.I The war fer the Unic
us, lis, in your hands, a most bloody and cost
,es. failure. The President confessed It I
ON the 22d of September, solemnly, oficiall
ey.l and under the broad seal Of the Unit,
nal States. And he has now repeated &
nv confession. The priests and rabbis
nts Abolition fought him that God would a
ton prosper such cause. War for the Uni
ing was abandoned: war for the negro open
you begun, and with stronger battalions tn
per before. With what success? Let the de
all at Fredericksburg and Vicksburg answ
had And now, sir, can this war contin,
ties, Whence the money tocarry it ons WIZ
The tue men? Can vow borrow? From who
last Can YOU tax moreP Willthe people b
vid- liz? Wait till you have collected what
tate lrcady levied. How many millions M