The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-12-28
Tne Cost 81 .ne war Per Day,

1t is not quite certain that the cost of
the war is plump 100000 per day, if
indeed lido not reach almost SIS .O00, 600.
When the Democratic speakers, before
the election, charged that the expenses
were $4,000, 900 per day, the assertion
was generally branded as a "Copperhead
iie." But it now appears, from the re-
port Of the Secretary of the Treasury,
that the expenditure for the first quarter
of The fiscal year, ending September Both,
1864, was 1858 ,061. s61,31. Divide this
sum by go, the number of days. and it
gives S3,837,737, as the expenditure per
day! When we consider that the inter
ests on the public debt is constantly in
creasing, and that tho expenses for pen
sions is now becoming a rapidly augment
ing item, there can be no doubt that the
cost of the war is now over four millions
of dollars per day, and ere long, mustb
Eve millions.
How long can the country stand such
a monstrous expenditure as this z Evil
IDENTIFY not long. Already the signs of
collapse are unmistakable. The Presi-
dent has no financial policy. The Secre-
tary Of the Treasury has none. Congress
has none. The Chairman of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means rushes franti-
cally before the country with an insane
proposition to condemEaa man to the PEN
etentiary for claiming that gold is more
valuable than current shinpiasters, and
the mex day retreats from his position.
with frightened haste. lest Wall street
shall tumble all the gold ship-board and
send it out of the country before Con-
gress can get the bill passed. In the
meantime, the organs Of disunion are
crying out for taxation, quick, decisive,
sharp taxation. But no one wants its to
apply to them. The cities are taxed now
upon every move their business men
make. Not a receipt, cheek or bill of Ia.
ding that does not pay its toll into the
blood-red treasury of civil war. The
towns aud counties are staggering under
the load of the last CONSUMPTION left them,
while now another is staring them in the
face. A few thousand more is needed.
1t is the old story over again. The delu-
sionis kept up that if we take Richmond,
or Savannah, or Charleston, sthe rebel
lion" is ended. Just as Lord Howe
thought if he could take New York, Phil,
adelahia charleston and Savannah, the
Colonies would be conquered and he
took them all, but the Colonies. were not
conquered. It is the samsssilly. endless
folly of history repeating itself. Expe.
rienee Keeps a dear school, but fools will
learn in no other. What az sorrowful
spectacle, however, to see this glorious
country, which, four short years ago, was
unfettered by debt, every man free as the
air of Heaven, and a liberty to pursue
his own ayoeations, with his industry un-
taxed and enterprise unchecked, now
loaded down with an enormous taxation
that cripples his energies, takes bread
from his childrens' mouths, clothing from
their backs, condemns them to ignorance
and its attendant evils, poverty, and all
for what? Why, for a miserable and i'm
pious delusion, that a niger is a white
man Was there ever such insanity,
since the world began2 And was there
d people on Gods. earth that yer before
deserved so fully the r%etributive punish
ment of Heaven as hose who have thus
permitted a few madmen to destroy the
grandest country ard the noblest hope of
human freedoms Day Boob