Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-03

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and nearly two thousand miles farther than
post stamp will carry letter in the Uni
ted States. We have viewed this debt by
long measure. Let us now view it by
weight. Allowing twenty dollars to the
pound, this two billion will make fifty thou
sand tonsl! Yes, fifty thousand tons. II
this sum had to be transported in wagons,
say two horse teams, allowing forty feet for
each team, it will make train three hun
dred and seyenty-eight miles long. Only
think of a train of fifty thousand wagons
extending three hundred and seventy eight
miles. Think of the whole expenditure and
material if you can. The drivers, the har-
ness, forage, lodgings, etc. Now let us look
at this vast amount in point of time to make
or coin it. If the mint was put into opera
tion making one dollarper second, working
without any intermission or rest day and
night, it would require it sixty years to
reach the vast amount!! How. many in
faits now at the mothers breast would see
this debt paid? But if it should work only
half the time, which we think is the only
practicable work that could be expected,
then 1t would take one hundred and thirty
years to pay. the debt. The infant OF, the
lasthour could not be expected to see that
immense sum paid. viii we here be told
that we have machinery at Washington that
will strike off hundreds or thousands of
dollars in minute or even second. reply
that the picture of lion is not lion-that
the shadow is not the substance, and that
no nation ever yet succeeded in making
money out of nothing. The money as the
substance of these shadows--as the original
Of these paintings has to be coined and the
facts have specified are still involved in
payment of the debt.
Appalling as these facts may appear. it is
not half so horrifying rs what yet remains
to be considered as the result of this terri
Bile war. | presume we have lost on the
battle field, in camp and hospital, and in
connection with the army, not less than
three hundred thousand men-precious
lives!! They will see wife nor parents,
brother nor sister, friends nor sacred home
no more. Far from the sympathies of home,
they died. But let us try to grasp the aw-
ful fact by considering the details connected
with this thing so easy said or written, three
hundred thousand are lost!! If these three
hundred thousand were buried in coffins,
laid head to foot, it would make a trench
three hundred and forty-One miles long-if
they were buried side by side, allowing
twelve square feet to each coffin or grave,
eighty-two and half acres would be re-
quired for their sleeping place. Think of
eighty-two and half acres thatched with
dead bodies. How my heart sickens when
consider the bloody strife!! Each of these
men averaged three and a half gallons of
blood, which if shed out would make twen-
ty thousand three hundred and fifty-three
hOgsheads-or it would fill canal one hnn-
dred and sixteen rods long, twenty feet
wide and four feet deep--this would float
about twenty ordinary canal boats.
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the more whitening part has not yet been
presented. Each of these mel. were sur
rounded with all the pleasures, anxieties,
hopes and anticipations incident to this life.
Each of them had home-ties and associa-
tions that death could not obliterate. For
every heart that agonized In death, how
many were crushedin sorrow. Fefr every
face pale in death how many were foul with
weeping. For every tent that echoed with
the expiring groan, how many houses trem-
bled with the wild wall of despairing be-
reavement. For every drop of blood split
on the field of strife,how many tears have
sprinkled the domestic hearth or bathed the
sleepless pillow. For every laurel that
blooms on brow of the victor, how many
bear the weeds ofmourning Ond the emblems
of heart desolated and hopes expired. Is
the the widow in her weeds of mourning
the object of tender sympathies and sup
porting charity? All, there are wives worse
than widowed. There are husbands worse
than bereaved by this war.
But who engendered this strife ? Who
involved us in this accumulated and still ac-
cumulating debt? Who dug those acres of
graves and shed thore pools of blood? Who
made those villages, and towns smoking
ruin and filled the land with mourning?-
The answer is easily given. 1t was that
monster Abolitionism, the legitimate off
spring of infidelity, Graded and rocked
in the French revolution, nurtured by the
blood of civil strife, and infatuated by the
visions of social equality. Unable to
live where the bands of government are
strong enough to bind every one to the du-
ties of his station-that monster has been
seeking for thirty years to uproOt the very
foundations of civil society, and sunder the
bands which bound these States so long in
amity. Unequalled prosperity, and I'M
rivaled in the arts of peace and the enjoy
ment of the fruits of their own industry,
still thirsting for blood, revelling amidst
the scenes of carnage and desolation and
woe, it cries, Give! Give! and still its in
satiable NAV cries, Give! Give it no hear
ing; give it no countenance; give it rein to
90 no further; but let our infatuated and
misguided citizens of the South know that
we want them with the Constitution as it is,
guaranteeing to them all their rights, and
the Union as it was before this monster of
discord forced us into this bloody war.
REUBEN RUSTIC.