The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-11-13


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rant this assertion
Nhen the rebellion irst hrok ont, fot
a moment political creeds were ( T.
ten aud tha people al emed @ 10
Rithou. regard 70 polit / differences.
Bat before the war got through, while
we were IL the very deepest peril ofthe
war. when the country was as II were,
In tic very agonics Of death; while
sherman ard lis gallant army had
truck on INTO the very heart Of the re.
uellon and ID was not known whether
be AID his brave mou would ever em-
erge again. 10000 met in convention at
Chicago and resolved that the war Cor
the Cuion was a failure aud ought to
be stopped While the country WAS in
its death struggle and 10 seemed as i
I the death throes were on the country
men we're found, who, for the sake Of
getting political power, could say that
tie war was failure and az 1t TO De
stopped
A leading gentleman would moi
call his name said to me few days
+ before that Chicago convention, while
I Shormans hosts were beleauguIing At
lauta you talk about taking Atlanta
You NIGH; Just as well talk about tax
ing The wish was father 70 thu
thought with him. lie desired ito be SO
f / know of a great many men who be
leyed IL in their hearts and rejoiced Il
it. Had the war proved a failure ant
had the south gained the ascendency
do Won think II would have trouble,
these gentlemen much Do you thinl
il would 20 very much against tht
stomachs Of these gentlemen AM
shall we now extend till greater fayors
.Hij charity does not run 10 quite tina
length
Ii is asked what harm can they d,
u.s.? We have abolished slavery, noS
what is left them? What harm is Their
that they could do us that makes it f,
very necessary that we should guar'
against it b. adopting these amend
ments? ] viii alilde to but Just on
thing. In carr my on this war we III
? CURED a debt ii thirty thousand mil
lions Of dollars. Nearly all of tina
amount is now due. The great mass q
It is held by the loyal people Of til
North Al the money we have got
founded upon it. 1t is the foundation
q all trusts, all charities, even Of ever
college in the country and Of every hos
pital. The funds Of all the widows an
orphans in the country are IN tins Gov
eminent pawer II lies at the very bot
tom Of the business relations Of tn
country. Now, how has this debt bee
mcurrcd? BY putting down this re
, bellion all the prof mat these men i
I the South have received from it, is tina
IL has ruined them. They have los
their thousands Of millions Of dollar
/, in slaves all their properly nearly
/, much larger population probably ha
been lost IN the South thon in the Mort
according to their population. Ihei
. number Of crippled soldiers, widow
=. and orphans, is much larger IN propol
ton to the population than ours The
have an immense pension roll. The
have incurred pecuniary loss altogetl
or beyond what We have, and every on
If their cripples. widows and orphan
I goes pensionless. This immense del
! which We have taken upon oursclvc
e has been rolled up in putting down til
I Southern Rebellion, and ] don't cal
trhu men they send to Congress frol
the South, do you believe there woul
be single southern Representative
I, that would not prevent by every mean
III his power a vote for the payment (
I single dollar Of that debf II is ~
in human nature that il should be oil
erwisc II we were in the same serior
situation that they are IN we would q
( The very same thing Do yau think thi
the mcn whowcnt Quito Chicago IN tn
/. dark boar IN our country's history q
I, you think il would be impossible 4
Uea To vote against an appropriate
FOR paving this debt 1t does not loo
either impossible or improbable 70 m
This is reason euough Why We need
guard our interests by the adoption
Tins amendment.
But / should have gone still farthe
i. would not have tecn content mysc
I with these conditions 1t has alwa.
/. seemed to nae 10 b. SO unjust in its
: that IN a schemc 81 representation
bring slese States back into the Uni0