American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-04-13

dent has skillfully escaped the difficulties
surrounding the problem; and believe
that the people of the South, removed
from the pressure of the military power
of the rebels, and snxiousto escape the ty-
rannical exaetions which have been laid
upon them, will rally around the old flag,
and under the inspiration of the great les
son that has been taught, will reconstruct
their State governments, resume their rela-
tions with the General Government, and
make those relations stable and secure by
abolishing slavery, the cause Of the evil.
Already Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri,
and Louisiana are treading in that direc-
ton. Alabama also shows signs of wheel
ing into line. The others of our ''erring
sisters, redeemed and disenthralled, will
in due order Of progression follow, until
finally we have union of reconstructed
States, without blemish or deformity and
every star restored to more than its for
mer brightness and glory.
What is toprevent thisresult? andwhy
should it not be attained speedily? While
Southern conscription has draggoned into
the army not only the able bodied men of
proper age, but old men and boys have not
been spared, and they have thus gone on
until nearly their entire force is exhaust
ed, we on the other hand have only fairly
commenced, and not more than one-ffth
of our available population have been call
ed to arms. While the Southern finances
have become exhausted, and the issues of
their treasury almost as worthless as the
paper upon which they are printed, our fl
nancal success has become the wonder of
the world, and our own loyal citizens have
freely and promptly purchased the Gov
ernment loans at par, thus furnishing the
means necessary to prosecute the war,
without borrowing a dollar from foreign
Powers Whilst the Southern army and
Southern citizens are famishing for want
of commissary supplies, the granaries of
the North are filled with abundance
While commerce, trade, and agriculture,
in the South are almost totally destroyed,
and by a rigid andvigorous blockade they
are cut off from trade with the world, the
Northern States never were SO completely
prosperous as at this moment. Agriciil-
ture, commerce, manufactures; and trade,
of all kinds are working up to their fullest
capacity; the people by honest industry
and toll are becoming rapidly enriched )
the ability to pay taxes sufficient to lay a
foundation deep and broad enough to sus-
tain the public credit should the public
debt quadruble its present proportions is
ample; and with a loyalty Of heart and
devotion of purpose, they are as willing
as they are able to pour their wealth. into
the public treasury until treason is blotted
from this continents
Why then should any one doubt or fear
the result? With the rebellion thussup-
pressed, all elements of discord removed
by the destruction Of slavery, the national
life regenerated, we may safely anticipate
an unbroken and prosperous future for the
Union. Under the influence of its intel
ligent and educated labor wisely directed,
e ,iile ,ile unparalleled productions of which
it is capable, of the wealth it will draw
from the Old World, which shall be trib-
utary to it, this great country shall become,
anu TeIldlH, uuucT lHe SLlIiGs anu plOlSS-
ton of kind and just Providence, the
favored spot of all the earth, and the asy-
lum of the -trodden andoppressed of
every nation, where honest labor and mer-
it will receive their full reward. There
shall be no bound set in the limitless fu-
ture to the grandeur, prosperity, and pow
err of the United States of America.
tThe fourth volume Of Maeaulays history of England
Chapter NIX, contains very interesting account Of the
origin and progress of the National Debt Of England
lie saws: such the origin of that debt which has
since become the greatest prodigy that ever pepexed the
saEacty and coDundcd the pride Of statesmen and phil
osnpher every stage in the growth Of that debt the
nation up the cry of anguish and despair
At every stage the growth Of that debt it has been
r0usy asserted by wise that bankruptcy and ruin
were hand Yet still the debt went growing, and
still bankruptcy and ruin remote ever" .
And again he "a long experience iustifes US In
believing that England may in the Twentieth Century,
be better able to bear a-ebt of sixteen hundred million
pounds sterling th she s at the present time to bear her
present load But be this 1t may, those who conf
IDENTIFY predicted that she must sink first under debt Of
fifty million pounds sterling then under debt Of eighty
millions then under debt Of one hundred and forty mill
lions then under debt of two hundred and forty mil
lions and lastly under debt of eight hundred millions,
were beyond all doubt under two-Old mistake. They
greatly overated the pressure of the burden they great
" underaCd the strength by which the burden was to be