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

against them. It is 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. 4"
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
ater-eue'.y naan-you yourself must CO.
Not a man can escape. At the rate of
nearly 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, abounding in noun
tain fastnesses and natural defenoes, and
rich and inexhsustible in agricultural and
mineral wealth. They have, moreover, q
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 were 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, their losses are sup
piled by young men growing up, as numer-
ous in proportion to their population as
ours; they have the same power to import
recruits from Europe that Massachusetts,
has, and have actually recruited S0,000 /;
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.
HOW VIZ WERK DECEIVED oNOH By EHPuBL-
LIoANs-wHAr TBBR PDoMlszs ARE
WORTH. -i"' -ft'
These are our prospects ahead. But as
they may be denied BY Abolitionists, who
still expect to knock out the &C. last legs" of
the rebellion "in sixty days. and prem-
ise us peace and union, let us look little
more into what we actually haze and kao,o
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 3 election because
they knew not what they did. They were
glad because they expected not what has
happened. They Aouted flags then, and
saw only bright visions. But look over
the past three years and sec 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 a speech
lately delivered:
When the President came into power we had
. debt of $65, 900 900. The Secretary of the
Treasury apprises rs now that we have debt
of a., 600 000, 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. 900, ,000, 900. Added to that in every
county and township there is an enormous &C.
emulation Of debt, necessary, 1t may be, for
bounties to volunteers and Tor 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 and 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 at the rate
Of one thousand millions year, and there is a
probability unless there IL change of admins.
tration, that 1t 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
war and this accumulation OF debt lies at the
door Of party that has presented itself TO rs
for At least another four years Of power.
This Is very moderate estimate.
Hero Is another giving the items, but
not counting the claims growing out of
the depredations and losses of the war,
pensions, &c, &c.
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