The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-04

against them. It il not against our Con-
stitutiOn or government proper, for they
have modelled and fashioned their own
after these. Until we remove the cause
of the rebellion, therefore We must con.
tinue to draft.
We must still issue our bonds of towns,
counties and cities to fill yet other "oalls. !"
And our credit failing, as fail it must, if
Lincoln is reelected and the prospect Of
draft after draft for four years to come is
seen by bankers and monied men, then
nten-ere',y nsan-you yourself must go.
Not a man can escape. At the rate of
| nearly a million men year, which it has
taken SO far to conquer three States, it is
easy to figure how even the last man in
every township will be reached before we
conquer the others, and which are much
| more easy to defend, and much more diff
cult to get at--being far removed from
water communications, Astounding in noun
tain Businesses and natural defenoes, and
rich and inexhaustible in agricultural and
| mineral wealth. They have, moreover, a
credit to-day in European money markets
equal, if not superior, to our own for it is
well authenticated fact and not denied
by any party, that we we're compelled to
sell our bonds at forty cents on the dollar
! in Germany, while the rebel bonds were
taken at sixty. And if we compare IN
men instead OF money, sheir losses are sup
piled by young men growing Up, as nurner-
ons in proportion to their population as
ours; they have the same power to import
recruits from Europe that Massachusetts,
has, and have actually recruited $4,000;
and the same power to free and arm their
blacks that we have, with the advantage Of
having 100000 to arm, while We have
scarcely any.
LloANs-vHAr THRU PROMISES ARE
WORTH.
These are our prospects, ahead. But as
they may be denied by Abolitionists, who
still expect to knock out the last legs" of
the rebellion sin sixty days." and prem
Use Us peace and union, let us look little
more into what we actually haze and kaop
in the place of what we were promised
| when Lincoln was elected, and taking the
way their past promises have turned ont,
| We can better judge what their present
promises are worth. Republicans rejoiced
four years ago at Lincoln g election because
they knew not what they did. They were
glad because they expected not what has
happened. They fouted flags then, and
saw only bright visions. But look over
the past three years and see how they de-
oeived you. Yes, more see how they de-
oeived themselves. They were not states
men then. They are not statesmen now.
They could not see the ruin they were
bringing then. They cannot see it now.
Here are some figures showing our present
debt, which the people have to pay BY
taxation In the language of Hon. John
Van Buren,, of New York, in speech
lately delivered:
| When the President came into power we had
q debt of $65, 600. 900. The Secretary of the
Treasury apprises us now that We have debt
of ~, 00O, 00O, 900. and if the facts were truly
stated, and the legitimate claims upon the
Treasury recognized, and the unpaid creditors
Of government satisfied, the debt would prob
ably be a 00o, 600, 900. Added to that, in every
county and township there is an enormous &C.
/ emulation OF debt, necessary, Il may BE- for
| bOurties to volunteers and for various expenses
incident to the war, indispensable for the pur-
pose Of county and State taxation. We have q
| war raging that Is costing us some three ard q
half millions Of dollars day; we have an army
Of nearly million of men under pay, and the
| people out of their humble means are called
upon to support them. For the last three
| years the war debt has accumulated st the rate
OF one thousand millions q year. and there "a a
probability unless there IL q change of admins.
tration, that it will accumulate a. rapidly as
that for the future Now the people should
remember that the war has been prosecuted
without ability end without yigor. They should
remember that politics and not patriotism has
been the destructive feature of the war, and we
all should remember that the prosecution Of
wa. and this accumulation OF debt lies at the
door Of party that has presented itself TO Is
for At least another four years Of power.
This Is very moderate estimate.
Hero Ks another giving the items, but
not counting the claims growing out of
the depredations and losses Of the war,
pensions, &c. &c.