M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-11-26

| "'~A iNh'Shs Ih hio OSu-
ch2nber and torn from the arms Of
his agonized wife and family by a
mob Of soldiers, tried by Oourt.martial,
found guilty of plain speaking, and
sentenced to banishment from his
native land, in defiance of an express
provision of the Constitution of the
United States and Of the State laws of
Ohio. Military dictatOrs like Gen.
Butler of New Orleans, and General
Schonck, at Baltimore, have rivaled
in insolence, brutality and lawlesSness.
The lioerties Of the Americans, over
the whole length and breadth of the
continent, have been either abrogated
by military proclamation Oh allowed
in some exceptional places, such as
New York, Boston and Philadelphia,
to exist upon sufforance, until such
time as it should please the caprice
or suit the supposed necessities OF the
Administration at Washington to
supersede them by the stroke of the
pen of Major General or the dictum
Of Provost Marshal.
These are among the substances
which the Americans have lost in
pursuit OF what,a yet, is but a ShadOao
and which promises never to be any
thing moro, The long list admits of a
short summary: Freedom OF speech,
freedom Of writing, freedom from ar.
bitrary arrests, freedom of the person
all these are gone. They may not,
perhaps, be gone beyond recall ; but,
certainly, they are not to be reobtained
by the present generation without
struggles aS keen and as sanguinary
as have always attended tue conquest
or re-conquest of such priceless treas.
uros in other civilized nations.
The second substance which Presi.
dent Lincoln and his people have lost
for shadow is, the substance of two
thousand millions Of dollars, already
expended and Of about half as much
more, for which the Government and
people are reliable, on current and
outstanding account. As the inter
est at which this vast sum has been,
and will have to be borrowed, ranges
between three and a half and seven
per cent, it will entail upon the
Americans permanent annual tax ol
one hundred and fifty millions Of dol.
lars, and consequent taxation such as
no country in the world endures, ex'
cept Great Britain and France, who
severally incurred their enormous
liabilities id foreign and not domestic
wars, extending over a couple oI
centuries.
The third substance-lost forever
in the stream because the too greed,
, dog would snap at the shadow
the labor OF one million OF men for
upward Of two years of war-labor il
agriculture, in mechanicism, in com
merce, in everything that enriches 9
nation, and the money value of which
would be greatly underestimated il
such tcaming country as Americs
at two hundred and fifty millions pei
annum.
The fourth loss of substance, which
the MISUNDERSTANDING as they dc
upon the ever-peopled region Of Eu
rope for fresh supplies-are always
{ inclined to undervalue, is the loss o
at least 100000 mon, by death il
, battle, by disease in the camp, and b!
3 all the fatigues, miseries and priva
I ton incident to q state of wal. Th
: record is an awful one, but has n
!, terror for the Americans. They max
I almost as little account Of human lifj
5 as the Chinese, and deal with thu
higher quantities of arithmetic a.
unconcernedly as Orientals, who tall
! Of millions with as much nonchalanct
= as sober Europeans talk Of thousands
{ The whole scale of this war is gigan
. tic--in its costs of treasures, of lifi
3 and of liberty; and all for q shadow
Y all for the desire to extend territory
1 for universal empire over the Ameri
3 can Continent, for pride, vain glory
s and for the power hereafter to over
f awe and insult what they have tn
r insoleDce to call such effete an,
f decaying nations as England ant
g France.
| The longer their unhappy wa
/ continues the more conclusive event
f continue. TO prove that the attempted
Q coercion Of the Southern by the Nor
! thern States was the greatest blunde
: if not the greatest crime of our age.
, GESrLEMAN-My good woman, ,hov
much is tina! goose