Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-30
warmer are We Drifting.

The cost of this terrible civil upon our
side alone, in money, j. about four millions n
day-and sixteen hundred millions year Over
four thousand millions OF doliass have already
been expended IN destroying property and life
wha, good hsr this enormous. and We nav add
unnecessary. outlay accomplished. None what
ever No sensible man GAG reflect seriously
upon the matter without arriving at the conclu.
sion Tia, never there in the wosll's history
such al exhibition OF ssakness, Jolly md MD
ne-- Even il the rebeliiou could be OVERCOME
aud the rational authority restored over The Con
federaie States by the agencies nov employed
sbe cost IN blood aud treasure will I'd fearful
,ar upon the industry. the lsbor a. he country
tor generations % come
Say ;ha, Indiana potion OF TIE c1-' os the
war will foot W. one hundred aud ffty millions
of dollar. DID you ever think. reade.. THAT a
vs-t aruouu, of good could have hssu scconl-
plished IL tia, encrmous amount OF money had
beeu extended within our borders IL the arts of
peace! l. would have furnished the meaus of
-ducs,iou TO every child IN Indiana. |, would
have built school houses aud established Libraries
ia every school district OF the State /, would
have endowe,! our colleges and universites most
literally /, would have built railroads and
turnpike rosls wherever the wants Of the country
required them ia word he eydenditure of
our portion of The CO., of the war ia developing
the resources Of the State would have conferred
benefits upon the people which could hardly be
estimated. Bu; ell is wasted aud ihs people are
60 be burdenesi with grinding taxation for wears
to come - oar even the interest upon the wsr
debt.
There l. another vie. oi the question which
should be considered. The costs of me war in
he expenditure ct mpuey has not ouly been
enormous AID eKhaUsting, but the State and toe
Nation have loo, the labor of those who have
been employed in tie military service 81 tbs
country. directly snl indirectly II the tabor Of
ali Who have been employsd in carving ON the
var had beer directed 10 works Of public i'm
provement. more could have been Accomplished
in ths' way in The pas, three years than has been
since the formation OF the Government. Not
les than rhe productive labor oi ore hundred
thousand men ha. oeen lost to Indiana during the
past three wears.
When the qaestica I. regarded ia this light,
and that, So FAR a. the happiness of the people is
concerned. ia The view which should DE taken OF
H. IS il not tirue fos the people TO stop aud con-
slider. We inquire. whittier is the nation drifting
under the policy OF he party III power! Docs
30, over three years experience show mo-t cor
clusiv,ls that irEetF;esa able disintegra'pn hsuk-
luptey AMI ;uin lua-i be tie result.
The history Of she world demonstrates that
civil xsr j. ;hs ,aosi terrible calamity shlrh cal
befsli ratiou ous o~n history .cE the pact
three wears i. but 4 confirmation ~ the experi-
ence of other nations Mo have -uferei the
svils D: lu,erneciue strife shall w ytont b.
the teachings Of history. anu .ssn.O ., ouF own
cIperieuce. "a continue po'icy which must eud
IN tie overthfo- - tue be-; government the
world .Ns, sSa civil liberty. AID oe aOt osly
national. but individual bankruptcy. Such re-
sults ~il! Inevitably follow the deportation OF
the pteseut party rule. and it i only the siully
blind al" cannot -ee that -u..l must De- the