The Placer herald., 1865-01-28
I he Cost Of the War per Day,

I, is now quite certain that the cost q! the
war is plump $4,000,000 per day. IT indeed
il doe, not reach almos 100000. When
he democratic speakers, before the election'
charged that the expenses were S3,00oOOo
! per day, TIE assertion was generally branded
- "copperhead lie.' But il now appears,
( from the report of the Secretary OF the
! leasury, thai the expenditure for the first
quarter of the fiscal year, ending September
3Oth, 1864, was S353,06l SCI 4. Divide
this sum by 90. the number Of days, and it
gives So, S31,737 as the expenditure per day !.
| When we consider that the interest on the
public debt is constantly increasing, and
that the expenses for pensions is now be-
coming q rapidly augmentng item, there
can be no doubt that the cost of the war is
now over four millions of dollars per dag,
and ere long. must be five millions.
How long can the country stand such
monstrous expenditure as this! Evidently
not long. Already the signs of collapse are
unmistakabIe. The President has no fnan
cial policy. The Secretary of the Treasury
has none. Congress has none. The chair
man Of the Committee Of Ways and Means
rushes franticqlly before the country with an
insane proposition to condemn man to the
penitentary for claiming that gold is more
valuable than current shinpasters, and the
next day retreats from his position with
frightened haste, les! Wall street shall tun,
ble all the gold on ship board and aend it
out OF the country before Congress can get
the Liil passed. In the meantime, the or
gans Of disunion are crying out for taxation,
quick, decisive, sharp taxation. But no one
wants it to apply to them. The cities are
now taxed upon every move their business
men make. Not a receipt. chevl, or bill of
ladins that does not pay It's toll into the
blood-red treasury Of civil war. The towns
and counties are staggering under the load
The last conscription left them, while now
another is staring them in the face. a few
thousand more are neede.l. 1t is the Old
story over again. The 'deluson is kept UP
tllat If we take Richmond, or Savannah, or
Charleston, "the rebellion" is ended. Just
as Lord Howe thought if he could take New
lo!k, Phiadel phia, Charleston and Sayan
nah, the colonies would be conquered; and
conquered 1t is the same silly, endless folly
Of history repeating Itself. Experience keeps
a dear school, but fools will learn in no
other. Nhat a sorro"lul spectacle, however
to see this glorious country, which, four
years a.o, was untettered by debt, every
man free. as the sir Of heaven. and at liberty
to pursue his own avocations, with his in-
dusry untaxed and enterprise unchecked,
now loaded down with an oneEous taxation
that cripples his energies, takes bread from
bis children's mouths, clothing from their
backs, condemns them to ignorance and its
attendant evils, poverty, and all for what?
Why, for miserable aud impious delusion,
that d nigGer is a white mau, Was there
ever such insanity siace the world began?
Aud was there people on Gods earth that
ever before deserved SO fully the retributive
punishment Of heaven rs those who have
thus permitted few inadmen to destroy the
grandest country and the noblest hopes Of
human freedom! ". Y. Deg Book.