The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-04-23
11nblif affairs.
Our Duty to our Country and
her Defenders.

This day, Six Hundred Thousand
Union soldiers are closing in upon the
remaining strougholds OF Slaveholding
Treason, while Two Hundred Thousand
more are volun, eering and mastering in
the Loyal States to reinforce and
strengthen them from week to week dur
ing the campaign about to open. West
ward of the Mississippi, the converging
columns of Steele, Sherman, aud Banks,
are clearing Arkansas aud Louisiana OF
the last remnants of their Rebel armies,
, preparatory to grand united advance
Tor the deliverance Of Texas from the
bloody grasp of Treason. On this side
OF the Mississippi, a good Half Million
of Unionists, all under the direction OF
Lieut.. Gen. Grant, are preparing to mee'
and beat the Rebels in Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia, or wherever else they
can be most ettec lively assailed, avoiding
the mistakes Of dispersion and incoher-
ency of operations which have hitherto
proved SO disastrous. We shall have
victory and peace in Gods good time
meanwhile, we who remain at home are
doing what we can to cheer and sustain
our heroic brethren in the field by I'M
preccden ed contributions to the Sanitary
Commission and to other organized Ell
forts for tLeir physical and spiritual
we'll being. This is we'll but there Is
another duty incumbent on every one of
US whom God has blessed with property,
which should be discharged promptly,
zcalously, and in spirit of ungrudglng
devotion emulating that of our brothers
and sons now Drawing exposure, prva-
ton, hardship and death on the tented
field.
This duty is that Of replenishing the
Treasury OF tho Republic to the full
measure of its needs, Which is that of
our obligation. We shall soon be called
on for heavier taxes; let US pay them
readily, cheerfully, and TO the u.termost
farthing. But meantime the Union asks
us to subscribe TO its new Loan let US
do it. one and all, unll the emissaries of
treason in our midst shall report to their
contedera,es below the picket lines lid
ings that will cause their knSes to quake
like Belshazzer's at the handwriting on
the wall.
Your Government, Countrymen, Pa
trios asks you to subscribe and
promptly fill up National Loan of Two
Hundred Millions of Dollars, now press
ingly needed to pay your Armies and
meet other urgent liabilities. Of this
Loan, Ten or Twelve Millions have al
ready been taken, though the bonds are
hardly yet ready for delivery. But you
can get them very speedily if you but
subscribe and pay down your money
Resolve to do it now, and gather every
dollar not absolutely needed to fulfill
some imperative obligation, and lend it
to your country to sustain her in her re-
sis ance to the death furry Of Treason.
Do YOU ask what pecuniary induce
men,s sus ain the appeal to your patri-
o;ism7 Observe aud judge If they be
not ample
The new Loan is called "Ten-
Forty''-that is, it is payable at er ten
and within forty years at the pleasure
of the Government. You pay your sub
scription in GreenbacLs and receive your
principal and five per cent interest in
Coin. Let US see what rate is profered
you:
Suppose some one has One Thousand
Dollars in coin hid away In some old
stocking or cracked teapo;, or securely
lodged III bank vault or private safe.
lie sells this for Greenbacks, of which
he receives in exchange at o-day's rates
Seventeen Hundred Dollars; but we
will suppose the premium on Gold to
fall off, so that he can only obtain Six
teen Hundred. These he invests in the
new Loan, receiving therefor the prom
Use of the United States to pay INN Six
teen Hundred Dollars in Gold. He re-
ceives Eighty Dollars per annum in Gold
as interest SO long as the Government
retains bis money, aud is paid at last
Sixteen hundred dollars in Gold for One
thousand Dollars invested. Why is
not this enough Eight per cent.
year on your Specie lent to your govern
ment and Sixteen Hundred Dollars priu-
cipal returned to you for One Thousand
lent. How much more would Shylock
have exacted under the circumstances
But this is not all. Your loan to the
Government is not subject to State or