Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-02-11
EBENsBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, FEB II, 1868.

Secretary has issued also ':paper post
age currency" in sums as low as five
cents, limited in amount only by his dis
cretion. Nay, more: already since the
4th of July, 1861, this House has appro-
priated g, 900, 100000, almost every dol
lar without debate, and without n record
| vote. a thousand millions have been
expended since the 10Th of April, 1861 :;
and public debt or liability of 81 500, ,OOO,-
! 600 already incurred. And TO support
all this stupendous outlay and indebted
ness, a system of taxation, direct and in
direct, has been inaugurated, the most
enormous and unjust ever imposed upon
! any but conquered people.
Money and credit, ,-then, you have had
in pgodigal profusion. And were men
wanted? More than Il million rushed to
arms. Seyenty-iive thousand first, (and
! the country stood aghast at the multitude, }
thcn ci-hty-three thousand more were
demanded; and three hundred and ten
thousand responded to the call. The
President next asked four hundred thou
sand, and Congress, in lis generous conf
dencc, gave him five hundred thousand
and, not tor be outdone. he took six hun
d-ed and thirty-seven thousand Half of
these melted away in the first campaign {:
and the President demanded three hun
;red thousand more for the war. and then
drafted vet another three hundred thou
sand Tor nine months. The iabled hosts
OF Ncrxes have been outnumbercI. And
.yct victory strangely follows the standards
Of thc foe From Great Bethel 10 Nicks-
bur-. the battle has not been TO the strong.
Ge; every disaster, except the last. has
been followed by u call for more troops,
and every time 80 far they have been
promptly furnished. From tlle beginning
the war has been conducted like a poiiti-
I c.J campaign, and il has been the folly of
the part in power that .hcy have assumed
that numbers alone would win the field IN
{ = contest not with ballots but with mus
I ket AMI sword. But numbers you have
had almost without numhsr-the largest.
, bcs; appointed. best armed. fed, and clad
host nr brave men, we'll organized and
well disciplined, ever marshaicd. \ Navy,
100. not the most Formidable perhaps.
hut the most numerous and gallant. and
: the ccetii--t III tine world. anl against u
. ioe almost without navy AT all Iwcn-
= million people, and every element of
strength and force at command-pOwer,
patronage, influence, unaIimity. cnthusi-
asrn. confidence, credit, money, men, an
Army and 4 Navy the largest and the
/ nobicst ever set in the field or afioat upon
the sea: with the support, almost servilc,
; af every State, county, and municipality
/ in The North and West; with n Congress
I swift 10 do the bidding of the Executive :
without opposition anywhere at home,
and with an arbitrary power which nei-
thcr the Gar of Russia nor the Emperor
: Of Austria dare exercise: yet after nearly
two wears OF more vigorous prosecution OF
war than ever recorded i'll history; after
more skirmisheS, combats and battles
than Alexander. Caesar, or the first Ma
poieon ever fought i'll any five years OF
their military career, YOU have utterly,
eiaDallv. disastrously-I will not say igno-
miniouslv-faiied to subdue ten million
..rcbeis.'' when you had taught the
people OF the North and West not only to
hate but TO dcspise. Rebels, did say
Yes, Your fathcrs were rebels, or your
erandfaihers Hewh0 no'r beforrn'e or Can
,qls looLs dorm 50 salty 11oH u.s. tire ttise, de-
.faaerate, aud la5cciie g,oaIri'ans Cj' tie gJea
Rfpublc, ,cIich he tou,ded, ,rdS rebel
And vet we, Graded ourselves in rebellion
and who have fostered and fIaternizeC
with every insurrection in the nineteenth
century everywhere throughout the globe
would now, fnrsoOih, make the wore
rebel" a reproach. Rebels -certainl.,
they are but all the persistent and stu
nendous efforts of the most gigantic war
fare of modern times have, through You
incomnetencv and folly, availe1 nothing t
crush them cut. cut off though they nav
t been bv vour blockade from all the world
! and dependent only upon their own couI
aac and resources. And vet they were I
he utterly conquered and subdued in 81
I weeks. or three months, Sir, my iude
= mcnt was made up and expressed trol
/. the first. ] learned IT from Chatham
? NV lords. Won cannot conquer America.
/ And YOU have not conquered the Soutl
n You never will Ii Is not in the nature
:. things possible: much less under your a.
i spices. But money You have eXpendc
!. without limit, and blood poured out Ill
Y water. Dsy51i. debt, tarJt'on, seTulrlT,
: tless are yo,y' hoph5es! In vain the PeoF
: gave vou treasure and the soldier yield
/ nm his life. :. Fight, tax, emancipat
4 le; these" said the gentleman from Mai
!. MIR. Pike7. at the last session, ''be t
trinity OF our salvation" Sir, thcv ha
I. become the trinity of your deep damna'io
- The war for the Union i. in your hand