Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-30
From tue New York Independent.
Home Patriotism--Its Duties.
III HORACE onKELkr.


his duty 10 serve her at whatever personal
cost. pf esents his breast ss a rampant be
tween her aud her foes. Men have become
soldiers under the impulse Of unworthy or
IDdlheren; motves--lhe promptiugs of am
bltIon or ayarice, the hope OF distinction,
or taste for the license of camps aud the
spoili1g Of the defenceless. but the true
sold er, whom no lure Of bounty, no thirst
for flee, has drawn 10 swell the ranks of
this couDtry's defenders, is, and ever must
be regarded and houored as one who gives
the highest proofs Of generous aud devoted
patriotism.
Yet the soldier is not the only patriot;
nor is bis the ouly sphere wherein a high
aud holy love of country is manifested.
The angels of mercy who minister TO The
suffering in hospitals aud on the battle field
are also justly rauked among those who
nYbly serve aud honor the land they love
Aud in our great Civil War, the number
and The efficiency Of these is wholly with
out precedent. Tue glorious Sanitary
Commission, SO early organ 2.d, SO com-
preheuslve In its operations, SO boun' cously
provid with meaus By the wise geueros IS
vi our fellow -citZens, has already pGeven-
ted hn lncqlculable amount OF suffering.
l. has saved thousands of soldiers lives,
aud restored to their families aud 10 use.
fuIness thousands mole who but for it
would have lsuguished for months longer
on beds of pain aud 6uully been discharged
permanently MANNED and helpless No
battle ever fought on this continect was SO
favorable to Tue victors as s the Sanitary
Commission, with 8 works aud ways, TO
The ient aud shaken, tried aud um cied
ua ions which despotisms aud hIeIarchs
shall yet again fear aud hate IS The Great
Republic.
One Of the merchan, princes Of our city
has caused to be collected aud printed, u
systematic account of the Il eel will oHerlugs
OF our people TO the cause OF our Nltioual
integrity during the last three eventful,
memorable years. These already amount,
IN he aggregate, to over Iaoo Hundred
1filiions IF Dotiars-an amount when hu-
mau Hls,o'y may in vain be challenged to
parallel. Aad there never was su hour
when our people were giving to this end
more generously or more liberally than at
pre- cut.
But again! The American Petp,e have
10 med 10 their couu,y--lhaI is, 20 its
National, State, and Local osganizatious--
| for the prosecutions OF this War more than
Too Thousand millions of dollars This
vast aggregate far exceeds all tue mouey
that is VI er was in the country, aud is
piobatly ,qual 10 tithe Of all the prop
erty lha, VIII be left ia il when the War is
over. Aud, as more is wanted mOie VIII
Oe forthcoming.
Aud yet there are TO day too few who
realize that to loan the Government iu a
crisis like this whatever mouey he can
spare is no less patriotic duty than volun-
eering, or paying taxes, or contributing
| freely 10 the great charities that the War
reuders necessary. We are prone to forget
| that 6; eat rivers are nude up OF innumera-
| tie riis, aud that a few huudreds from ev,
cry third or fourth dwelling would amount
10 total OF hpDdreds Of millions.
Our Government needs money and mast
need 1t 50 loLg as this tremendous struggle
shall continue. Alter raising all il eau ny
luxa;ioU, it must borrow two miiions per
day ill The main slrongbolds of Treason
are extlugu,shed or carried Aud this moo-
ey must be lent ii by the People--by the
capitalists have hitherto had the credit oi
supplying money for such contests; but
tlls credit was fctitious--iallacious Tney
simply stood between The goverumeuts
winch borrowed aud the People who lent,
charging the former one TO five per cent.
for helr agency. Our Government wisely
appeals duec ly TO The Musses-w hose cause
II defeuds, wdo'e creatue il is--askiug
them to trust hsmestves for the sums neces
sary TO prosecute tbeiI contest. lt asks he
uan Who mas but 500, or even $50, that
he does not need for his current expenses
10 lske of her bond for that amount, Civ.
ing her The money and taking therefor heI
promise to pay u dollar 10 Gold after tel
and within forty years for each "G cen
back" dollar loaued her, with interest mean
Time in Gold at the rate Of five per cent pei
anuuam, which is equal to eignt per cent
iu the currency actually lent.
Iryou should happen to be one of thos,
who have 81 600 IN specie laid by for re
source in the last emergency, you eau to
day exchange this for about Si,7OO in th'
'Greenbacks' or legal tender notes Of th
Goyernment-but say $1,000. With thi
you eau readily purchase at almost any Ma
} tional bank, or Of some one in each city, tn
'Teu- Forty bouds of the United States 70
like amount. whereon you will recey
$50 interest iu Gold per auuum, with you
81, 900 principal in Gold after ten years
probably at the expiration of that at.Ierm-
long before which your bonds will be wort
more than Specie per 10 the market. Thus
for 81 900 in Gold lent, you receive $50 i
Gold pei annun aud 81 900 in Gold at tn
maturity of your bondj though you Ca
doubtless sell il at par for Gold much sooI
er, should you desire TO dosso.
So. if your mouey is now in GreenbscL
or currency, you can invest II 10 the Go
erumenl Loan aud receive Eve per cent Il
terest thereon In Gold--equal TO forly,eigt
per csni, in the eurreney ioansd, with yot
principal also payable iu Gold-a dollar
each paper dollar inyestsd. Who can -
OF his country better terms than thessf
Lending 70 our Government 10 not III
lending 10 an individual who may die,
!. lfail. or sbscond. II is not like lending
good bond sud mor'sogs' eecssss sh'