The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-02-12

many times, than at the beginning. Not a
State has been restored, not any portion of
any State has voluntarily returned to the
Union. And has anything been wanting
that Congress, OF the States, or the people
III their most generous enthsiasm, their
most impassioned patriotism, conld bestow?
Was it power! Aud did not the party of
The Executive CT ntrol the entire Federal
Government, every State Government,
every county, every city, town. and vii
lago in the North and West? Was it pat
ronage? All belonged to it. Was it in
tlueuce? What more? Did not the school,
the college, the church, the press, the Sc
cret orders. the municipality, the corpora
ton, railroads. telegraphs, express compa
nics. the voluntary associations, all, yield
it to the utmost? Was it unanimity? Nev-
er was an Administration SO supported in
England or America. Five men and half
score of new papers made.u the oppoSi-
ton. Was it enthusiasm! The enthusi-
asm was fanatcal There has been moth
ing ike it since the Crusades Was it
confidence! S.r, the faith of the people ex
ceeded that of the patriarch. They gave
up Constitution. law. right, liberty, all at
your demand for arbitrary power, that the
rebellion might. as YOU promised, be
crushed out in thrse months. and the I'M
ION restored. Was credit needed? You
took control Of d country, young, vigor-
Gus, and lnexhaustible in wealth and re-
sources, and Of Government almost free
from public debt, and whose good name
had never been tarnished. Your great na-
lional loan bubble failed m:serably, as it
deserved to fail; but the bankers and mer
chants of Philadelphia, New York, and
Boston lent you more than their entire
| barking capital. Aud when tha, failed too,
YOU forced credit by debating your paper
promises to pay legal tender for ali debts.
Was money wanted? You had all the
revenues of tae United States, diminished
indeed, bat still in gold. Tue Whole
wealth of the country, . the last dollar,
lay at your feet. Private individuals, mu-
ricpal corporations, the State governments,
all in their frenzy gave you money or
| means with reckless prodigality. The
great Eastern cities lent you $3.50. .O00.00
| Congress voted first, the sum of $3.50,
600, ,000, and next S5OO,O00, COO more in
loans, and then first, $4,000, 600, then
$4,000, 600, next 800 100000, aud, in
July last, $I50,00G,00O in Treasury notes;
and tie Secretary has issued also .'pa-
rcr postage currency in sums as low as
tive cents, limited in amount only by his
discretion. Nay, more, already since the
4th Of July. 1861, this House has APP
propriated S2.4OO, 100000, almost every
| dollar without debate, and without a re-
corded vote 4 thousand millions have
been expended since the 18Th of April.
1861; and a public debt or liability Of
1880, 600. 900 already incurred. Ana to
support all this stupendcus outlay aud in
ib-bedness. system oftaxation direct and
Indirect. has been inaugurated, the most
onerous and UNJUST ever imposed upon any
but a conquered people.
Money ard credit, then, you have had
in prodigal proiusion. And were men
wanted More than million rushed to
arms. Seyeuty-fve thousand first, land
hs country stood aghast at the multitude, J
then eighty three thousand more were de-
sand responded TO the call. The Plesi-
lent next asked for four hundred thou
sand, and Congress, in lis generous con-
flence, gave him five hundred thousand.
and not TO he outdone, lie took six hun
lrcd and thirty seven thousand. Half OF
hese melted away in their first campaign;
AMI the President demanded three hundred
thousand more for the war, and then draft
I'd vet another three hundred thousand tor
nine months. The fabled hosts of Xerxes
have beon outDumbered. And yet victory
strangely follows the standard of the foe.
From Great Bethel TO Nicksburg, the bat
lie has not been TO the strong Yet every
disaster, except the last, has been followed
by call for more troops, ana every time
SO far they have been promptly furnished.
From the beginning the war has been con
Quoted Ike a political campaign, and
t has been ihe folly of the party in
lower that they have assumed that mum