New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-06-24

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s:vc undertaking. But what do they
care? They will have power. The
toiiing masses, the delu led millions,
Will have to foot the bill.
I We ask tho honest laboring masses
Of the land if they have ever computed
the cost Of this undertaking, into which
they have been beguilcd and lei by
hypocritical tyrants at Washington
and their ninions. If not, let them
stop moment and consider what thi.
New England job of destroying Estate
rights" as taught by our forefathcrs:
by Jefferson and Madison, by the De-
nocracy at all times has cost tho coun-
try. What this job, which was begun
by John Quincy Adams in 1885, and
and has been continued by Phillips,
Greeley; Seward, Lincoln, Chase & the
whole crops Of Federalist contractors,
now foots up. What 1t is costing eve
ry year, every month, every hour, and
each minute. All Of which the toiling
millions, the laborinS masses will have
to pay with the sweat Of their brows
and the work Of their hands; and all,
too for the real purpose Of cnslaying
themselves.
First aud foremost, the aggregate
coss Of the war, to the North, up to the
present moment, is not dime under
100000. Four THOUSAND
MILLIONS OF DoLLAHs! No rational
man will evea estimate it so low MS
that. Honest Feleralists concels That
if tho war were to stop to-day. that sum
would not foot the bill.
Four thousand millions, at Govern.
rnent price, would buy for each man,
woman and child in the States yet re-
mairirg in the Federal Union, one hun
dred acres Of good land. At $500
apiece, a high price before the war:
this huge sum would not only have
bought. paid for and set free each
slave in the South-mon, women and
children but it would also have bought
for each one Of the entire number, eigh
ty acres Of good land.
Four thousand millions Of dollars. at
one hundred thousand dollars a mile
would have built forty thousand miles
of railroad than ten complete
lines across the continent from the At
lantic to the Pacific. At fifty thous and
dollars mile the usual cost--it would
have constructed $4,000 miles Of rail-
road. At million q mile it would
have constructed four thousand miles
of ship canal. At half q million q mile,
eight thousand miles-morc than
enough to have connected the lakes
with the Atlantic and the Mississippi,
At million each, it would have en-
dowel four thousand uniyccaities.-
more complete an dthorough than either
Harvard, Yale or Nassau Hall. Enough
to endow eight thousand at half a mill
ion each Enough to establish twenty
thousand hi gh schools and colleges ct
two hundred thoasanl dollars each.
Forty thousand free schools at enc hun
dreu thousand each.
-Four thousand ,si,lion would have
sutIicea to lock ana dam the chief trib-
utaries Of all the manageable streams in
the United States. TO have made the
Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois,
Cumberland, Wabash Mononsahela:
Allegheny, susquehanna, Upper Mis-
sisslppi, and Arkansas rivers nayiga-
bic all the yearround. BUTT is impossi-
BILE to conceive Of the amount Of prac-
teal good that might hayo been accom-
plished with such sum.
1t would have sent missionaries and
Bibles all over the world-have placed
the Gospel truths Of peace and love in
the hands of every heathen houeshold
and being on the face Of Gods earth
aad illumined the W world with o benign
light of a rSayior's love. To what vile
, murdcous and wicked purp ses it has
been applied, our readers, alas! know
to we'll.
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