The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-07-07

ths; 10 the rebels the black race is no
available lor military purposes, while (,
us il is SO in an eminent degree, we al
ready having one hundred thousand o
them under arms, able and willing 70 d,
most effective fighting. Let that rass
The relative figures we have given con.
Ger ming the material for white soldiers
Is OF itself more than cnouqh-makinp
every allowance for the fact that Ia rp,
numbers Of white men are required al
thc North TO do necessary lnbor which /.
done by slaves at the South--to scItl,
the fact That, ~ the war is now goinn
on, the material for soldiers must be-
used up very much sooner in the South
than IN the North. So far as that clc-
mcni in he rr,bl,m goes, there con
possibly he i,o mistake that II is decisive
Tor the North.
Now, how about the other element
VIII money TAIL the North sooner than
men the Sonlhl This is question which
Is not so dc;crmnable by definite figures
~ tho other. Yet il seems TO us ,hn,
analogy enables II to he nnswcrd lust n,
surely. Three wears of war, as has Jus,
been shown, by MIR Chase in the table
published by Us yesterday, have loaded
the Cow rnment with Il debt OF seven.
teen hundred and nineteen millions. II
is safe to say that three years more OF
war will rot murc than double that debt
making It less than thiriy.fvc huuurcd
millions.
IL is true that the prices OF tho mstcri-
al OF war have greatly advanced; but this
Us ohunduntly offset by the fact that Il
great numbtr of ships aud u vast amount
oi material, which will not have TO be re-
placed, have been provided from our pre-.
sent indebtedness, and the other fact that
no small portion OF this debt accumulated
before the tax aud tariff systems, pow in
operation, could be established to help
meet the current expenses. Could we
not stand thirty.tivc hundred millions OF
debt without breaking down2 The an.
swer to this is that Great Britain, with
less than half their population and avail.
able revenues, had heavier dclt than
that on her shoulders fifty ycHrs'ago, aud
that so far from breaking down under il, d.
she has all the time been uGvan Ing with
the strength Of giant.
This Is a decisive point. If We can
endure the debt, regularly paying of lis
interest when due, the whole financial
system OF the Government is secure, aud
national currency, based ON the nation
al credit, can be maintained TO the full
extent rcquir, by the business of the
people. The end ofthc next three years
would see u heavily burdcned, to be sure.
but still uncrushcd. hut where would
they find the armies Of the rchcllionl
II the last three years have put five hun.
lrcd thousand rebels hors da combat, aud
ihcre are but four hundred thousand able.
bodied men lcf, it needs no lubored cal. |
;plntion to prove that, with the same act.
soldier woufu rsi the war, the last rebel
before the end OF the ntNt - ,.i;,;,,
The fchtinp of the "Coulederacy" VIII
be brought 10 n stand etiii simply Tor the
i,cL Of men 20 do the fighting. And
when the "Conicderacy" ceases to fight
II ccpscs to, exist. -,
We think we have fully answered the
question we started with. II this be so,
il IL n weakness to doubt the final issue
of this war. IL the Northern people con,
tinuc TO sustain the Government rs they
have done hitherto, the fin1l brcuking
down of the rebellion is ns surc--unless
Heaven turns against us-us any physic.
al result can be.