Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-09-30
SPEECH OF nov. JOHN cessna.
Be1IYerediR PhIIadelphaas
saturday sept. 1efh 1864.
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slant increase are used b. Cur enemies to eEeonr
aee the rebellion This has been cause Of a
larra 10 many sincere patriots 1t is however.
oftener used ly our secret enemies IN order To dis
hearten the people and induce them TO abandon
the struggle and consent 70 an ede1aiRate peace
This debt has been FarioIsy estimated and stated
by different persons. 1t IS now officially declared
to b less thar two thousand millions Of dollars,
and no wel informed nan calculates the increase
at larger sim than one thousand millions per
year A sufficient answer to this cause Of nneasi-
ness aad alarm ought 10 be that figures cannot
estimate the worth of cur mon. Its value i be-
rang1 al priee To the patriot this answer woald
le sal.4 1t5fy. st VIZ As rcaa iaaa aaalsfFer
for the man Of dollars and eants--eyen for him
who vorslIifs erig the almighty dollar, or him
who has grown rich under the fostering care Of
tie government, aad Is now too mean 70 pay his
taxes for 5ts port
The hrst Punie war lasted during z period Of
twenty-foUr year the second astsd eighteen years.
The Peioponnesian var lasted twenty years.
One Of the German wars lasted thirty yaars, aud
inst auainst Louis XIV, lasted eighteen years.
At the end Of the Penins lar war the des4 Of
England was about fre thousand millions OF do
lars. 1t s now little less than four thousand
millions The Unifed States can pay five tiaes
the debt of England il less tine than England
can pay her oEr. Her last war loan toz the
Peninsula Kar} was sold at ty-three ceufs on the
dollar payable IN deprecated paper. Not SIN
bond oftle Uailed States Is below par, and near
Il al command premium. The income OF cur
Treasury for the last year, ia the very midzt OF
cur war, was nearly three hundred millions Of dbl
lars. The increase in the yalae of car real and
personal properly from 1870 10 1850 was sixty-
four per cent. from 1850 to 1869 it was one aun
drezi and twenty-seven per cent We have hardis
commenced to work our gola mines as web a al
Of our other unequalIed mineral wealth. The In
crease IN the value Of coal from 1850 to lss9 vas
one hundred and seventy per cent The income
OF our prodsctive labor foE lS60 was nea7ly two
thousand millions Of dollars. We hare rich pnb-
lie lands and almost enough of these alone to pay
our whole debt AZ the end of fhe war, at one dol
| lar Der acre The war has nos retarded bit rath-
er quiekened the spirit Of immigration This, ed-
ded to oar natural increase, viii saon set.le these
lands and pour countless millions into our IFeasg-
r.
We have more than thirty thousand niles Of
railroad finished. st oest Of one Thousand two
hundred millions Of dollars Filty thousand ges-
eels Of the republic Hhi5en e7ery oosaD, sal ever
our inland sea-. or navigate the streams flowing
within oar oKa borders, The Increase N the ton
rage on oar western waters in eight years was
gl4ee hundred and t9eatE per cent Our exports
Of grain IN single yHr heve reached Ere hundred
millions If dollars Agriculture gave the nation
n 1860 sixteen hanaed millions ot dollars, and the
fertile lands Of cur nation, when Eell cultivated
can lallriplv this az hundred fold Oar territory
Is nearly as large as al Europe VITA It's fortg dii-
lsrent empires. Our Increase since E99 has been
sx iafs greater than England, niEa times great
or than Austria and ten tisses greater than france.
Our soil is as rieh as theirs, and capable Of sus-
tanning as dense a population When We equal
4 France IN proportionate population We vii have
i FIVE hundred millions. When We equal Baglaad
We viii have seven hundred and fifty millions
I We have the whole temperate zone OF the earth.
i The mineral productions irous lead zine cop
per, silver ard gold are inexhau li5le Arizens has
gold enough 10 pay Gun debt California can fur
I nish circulating sne3iam for our own people,
and the other territories can supply al the other
nations Of the earth Old Pennsylvania can fur
nsh all the coal that may be required - drive all
/ the machinery Of the world un1l the millennium
and if Providence in his anger should obscure tie
sun. our oil wells would light the earth for ten
] thousand years The burden of cur debt VII ~
! but lightly upon nation whose home i ? sontl-
nent whose climate embraces Tie products Of eF-
cry land, and whose people BY their industry,
thrift and skin, multiply an hundred fpl3, and
whose population grows with . rapidlty which
/ has no parallel in history. Its not means nor
money, nor resources that we need. There is "a
human power that can arrest our progress and de-
/ TeleIement When the war Is ended m triumph.
our country viii take such position In population,
wealth and rigor as viii make the deb: spEear sa
small that we al win smile at the fears which on
So oFerclouded cur vision Some 10 doRbs viii b
/ slow to credit these hopes Of our Increase ever
when founded upon The rock Of past experience.
nor Is ii II fair 10 presume that the arts and SCI
ences have been exhausted Other discoveries and
inventions win no doubt add to onr wealth and
! prosperity. We may not be able TO forsee them.
but they VIII come
Years ago men could not realize the improve
neat which woald ons day result from the use oi
steam power, the railroad and the telegraph Time
wa when mules and eanlels were used as the most
rand means Of conveying intelligence. an an
cigiIt arnanuensis could now forsake the tomb and
stalsd in the presence Of printing press and sec
thit!y thousand copies Of a paper struck of in an
ho1Ir. if teanaster Of King solomon OF RATS
mar Of Hiram could witness an engineer upon hi'
! enssne, moving hundred tons burden at the ratt
OF Il mile IN three rninutes, and # nnale-driTer q
1 Ahasuerus could enter telegraph office and sec
messages, or froHl the Atlantic to the Pacific in an
Instant, they would either disbelieve their OWL
senses or imagine that the gods had come dow
| 10 Us IN the likeness Of men,
We need resolution, frmness, perseverance De
rotion to duty and 70 country he Romans
with Hannibal At theie gates, and the finest poFtiol