Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-07-26
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE United
STATES,


By an act Of Congress, approved June so,
1854, the Secretary of the Treasury 10 author
iEed to issue an amount not exceeding two
hunored millions OF dollars In Treasury notes, |
bearing interest at a rate not exceeahng seven
and three-tenths per centum, redeemabie after
three years from date, and TO exchange the
came frr lawful money. The Secretary is fur
ihrr authorized to convert the same into bonds,
bearing interest at rate not exceeding six per
centum, payable In coin.
In pursuance OF the authority thus conferred,
now offer to the people OF the United States
Treasury notes as described In my advertise
ment dated July 25, 1864. 1T is inserted In
another column
The circumstances under which this loan Is
asked for, and your aid invoked, though differ.
Ing widely from the existing state Of afraIrs
three years ago, are such as afford equal en-
couragemcnt and security. Time, while prov.
Ing that the struggle for national unity was to
exceed in duration and severity our worst an
ticipatons has tested the national strength, and
developed the national resources, TO an extent
alike unexpected and remarkable, exciting |
Three years Of war have burdened you with |
debt which, but three years since, would have
seemed beyond your ability 10 meet. Yet the
accumulated wealth and productive energies
of the nation have proved to be so vast that II
has been borne with comparative ease, and
peaceful future would hardly feel Its weight.
As price paid for national existence, and The
preservation OF free institutions, 1t does not
deserve q moments consideration.
Thus far the war has been supported and car
red on, % It could only have been, by a people
resolved, at whatever cost OF blood and tress.
uIe, to transmit, unimpaired, to posterity, the
system Of T. ee government bequea,hed TO them
by the great men who framed 1t. This delib-
crate and patriotic resolve has developed a
power surprising even TO themselves, II has
shown that 10 les than century q nation has
arisen, unsurpassed In vigor and exhaustless
In resources, shle 70 conduct, through a series
of years. war ON its most RieantIc aeaIe. and
fudipg itself, when near It's close, almost unim.
paired In all the material elements of u ,wer. IL
has, at the present moment. great armies in tho
field, facing an enemy apparently approaching
ap.riod Of utter exhaustion, but still struggling
with force the greater and more desperate az
Il sees, and because Il sees, the near approach
OF q hual and fatal consummation. Such, In
my deliberate Judgment, is the present condi
ton Of the great contest for civil liberty In
which you are now engsEed.
Up To the present moment you have readily
and cheerfully afforded the means necessar,
TO support your Govern ment iu this protractet
struggle. It Is your war, You proclaimed II
and you have sustaiped IL agaIn,t trsitors every
ybers, with a patriotic devotion unsurpasset
In the worlds history,
The securities offered mr., sucb a, ,bou,f
command your ready confidence, Mucb effor
b.. b..n mads IN .b,Ea nrhIic f.I,h in op,
na,,orsl cred, ho,h a, hama and .hro.a A,
We, we have asked no fore,gn aid Calm and
Selfrellapt our own mean. b.v. TIM, IA,
proved sd.op,,. IN our wor,s Thsv AZ. %,
nmpl, IN mes, ,hos. of the nrsaeut and IN,
future. II stlll rrmaips for A patriotic p.op,,
TO furnish the needful supply. The brave mer
who are a shtIng our battle BY land and sel
must be fed and clothed. munitions of war O
ali Kinda must he furnished. or the war mus
end in defeat and disgrace. This is not tn,
time for auy lover Of HIS country to inauIre a
10 oth.state of the money market. or AJAX whetbe
he can 80 invest his surplus capital as to yielt
him n larger return. No return. and no profit
can be desirable IL followed by national dlsso
luton or national Disgrace. Present profit
thus ACQUIRED. Ia bpt the precursor OF futur
and speedy destruction. No investment cal
be so surely proftable as that which tepds I,