The mountain Democrat., 1864-07-16

flowing off at the rate Of four millions of
dollars day, into the pockets OF contrac-
tors, scattered and wasted by incapacIty
on The battlefield, and by corruption in
public transactions. Frustrated, ruined
and dishonored, have we at least The con.
sOlstion to see oil these sacrifices crowned
by victory over our enemiesP Judge for
| yourselves. After three years of volun-
tary impotence, after having steadily
drained our wealth and our blood in such
way as just to carry our existence along
far enough to bring us exhausted to the
moment Of Presidential election, the al.
minstration, drawing together for su-
preme last effort all the force of the ma
ton, slAkes its existence on last card in
order TO peFpAtuatc itself in pn%er or. if
it falls, to leave with its successor only a
ruin aud the remlmbranc, of q greatness
destroyed forever.
All our resources are engaged, not in
those combats of civilized people where
modern science wins victory while it
spares life, but in human atomb. like
the recorded struggles Of barbarian antiq.
uIty, where masses take the place Of in
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place Of victory-a triumph of darkness
over light; history will mark with her
bloody fingers this ferocous butchcry, a
shame to humanity, aud stain upon this
age Of civilization and progress
We have lost at leas. forty thousand
men in less than ten days; we push for
ward even our militia; what afterwards !?
1t is enough to pay dearly ne ignorance
Of those who, instead Of leading our men
to victory, lead them to death? The im.
aginaIon refuses to look at the cOnse
quences Of disaster in such circumstan
ceS Under this administration, sold to
foreigners by fear or interest, we have
seen that saddeSt and most incredible
spectacle of the work Of our ancestors
hatfled and overthrcwn before it had yet
reached a century Of uneXampled prosper
ity. Shades Of Washington, of jefferson,
Of Monroe and Jackson, of Adams, of CLAW,
Of Webster, and Benton. tell our country
men ifTou recognize that Republic which
you knew how to make so great Bloody
shades Of the heroes of independence, You
who founded the Republic by heroism
and suffering against the numbers and
treasures Of England, rise mp and tell MS
if you recognize your battles Of giants
where energy and valor supplied the place
Of numbers, in these human hecatomhS
where patriotism Succumbs under incom.
potency! Come forward Touch with
your fingers thr bodies OF these contrac.
tors, swollen with the peoples gold, ,moch
ing at the devastation aud smiling over
the national ruin; touch and tell us if vGur
antique virtue recognizes the existence of
human vultnrcs! People! Th,re is vet
time for you to rise up. There is vet tim"
for you to paSs in review the acts Of a
guilty administration, which has betrav.
ed your confidence, and to arrest its
course. The moment has come to launch
out from the new world the truth that
administrations are made by the people
and for the people, and not the people
for the administration and that how ever
great may be their forh"arancr for their
interests, when the measure is fnll the
people declare that they alone are sover-
eign and change their administration. -
The time has come 10 change that whiclr
for three years past has occupied the
White House /; the TIM has come to clean
ont the ,Augean stable aud to select the
Hercules charged with that task. On 10
Cleveland. - New Nation.