Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1865-03-23
$4,000 PER .ANNAUM
fess to regard as 50 precious. s repeat

fess to regard as SO precious. i repeat
that many of the adllerents of the Admin
istration considered their prejudices and !
their abstract and pernicious theories far
more important than the Union. i am a
somewhat doubtful Of the sincerity Of their !
devotion 10 the Union now, when res
M metnber how easily they could have sav-s .
ed it by slight modification of their
views, and how stubborilly they refnse1 :
it. Men who cannot conquer and make J
some surrender Of abstract preiadices for J
the general good are not likely to give the
last dolIat. IN defence of the Unlon, and
undoubtedly prefer to- be the last man
themselves. ~as@ 80 q se< ss5s@<#SSEFA saG
England in her tremendous wars with Ma
poleun and the greater part OF continent
tai Europe, which for long years was ar
rayed or his side, and wl,en+her expenses
went mp to seven hundred millions q year,
paid one nalf of the exspenses as she went
along This was an evidence that they
were not wiling to seek the temporary
profits which Tie war gave, and then cast
the great burden of the expenses upon
posterity. 1t was an earnest of the last
dollar from whiclrour war patriots have
rece led 1t took Great Britain eight hnn>s
dred years 20 run up a debtless I'm amount
ana at a rate of interest rot one half as s.
great as that we have incurred 10 three and
a half years. These eight hundred years
reach from, William she Conqneror to Vic- ?
toria They embrace all her wars OF con-
uuest and defence. In them areviucluded
the elories of the Edwards and the Henries, &
of Elizabeth, of Cromwell, of William, ct
Anne, and the 5Gearges. They call to-
mind tlieamemories of "A gincert and Cressy,
Of Blenhettle aud w aterloo, Marlborough
and iVeflln>,)n. they embrace the gi-e
gantic wars with France, when she was
four times = conquered, and when
her to WIS were hetiafor years by English
garrisons. They include the repulse Of
/ the Spanish Arn1ada,a the terrible civil
= at VI Cromwell, and thezgi gantie 'expen-
ses of her combat with the French ReyO-a
lution. which alone Iasted more than "a
iquarter otsa century, and during which
she had urder her pay and subsidy the ]
Ahordes of Russians, "A astrlans, sPrussians'
| and Germans, s,sthat twice dethroned Napo-a
fieon and twice marched TO Paris They
Include her rssevenyearBs war. OF coercion
lrpon America for the subj OF, the
seceeded colonies; and they include the
ACQUISITION OF a territory <in ak parts OF
! the glcbe SO immense that upon it the
! sun never sets. Yes, all this cost less than
our three and a half years miserable, sec-
/ tional war. Ess ff.sas sss's 8# SEQ ~.
+ We have been taught to regard the
! British government as corrupt and expen-
/ siye. It has had sat its head, and In its
seouncils, many Of the most corrupt and
dishonest men the world has ever lknowa,
) and yet, with all corruption aud sprofigar
1cy. En- gland to-day has a4debts Less IN
amount III an the audited and uaaudlted
debt, including the contingent war sclaims
that have already been sineurred by this
Administration in the prosecution of sthes
war = A few more facts IN. illustrations -
The wealth ofsGreat Britain is fhlrty-two
thousand million dollars. Oarsdebtsi the
largest and lis interest isstwiee aas great,
and vet, Great Bfitair has vice as much
property to be assessed forstaxationsasth thes:
United Stat es. The standing armies Of
Europe to-day are tonr and "a half miiliona
men, which IS about equal TO thexnufnbersl
of. male ad4lts in the United States, and
ayet the cost OF MAINTAINING these almost
fabulous arinalnents is not half as great as
that, the United States. Europe has the
ecnn,ulateds weaithsof centuries, she has
her two hundred and fit y million peoples
and she n aintains five or six times as many
soldiers ii, the field as we do, at half the
| pensea-- be l11ean al, halt Affhe expense we
have missed to pay, lot q dollar OF its'
has yetbeen paid. IfEarope is oppressed
( ts&44 = y -