Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-10-04
The Milestone upon Our Necks.

It has been shown from substantial docu-
ments, that the debt of the United States
will go on increasing, during the current
year, at the rate Of upwards of one million
dollars a week. VII 1t euer be paid? Will
not its magnitude be such as to render the
liquidation of it impracticable ? Will the
people bear the grinding oppression Of
direct tao Of t10elre o'tifteen million dollars a
gear, for the payment Of mere interest money?
Will they bear it, after being generally
convinced las most certainly they will be
at lengthy that the war which gave birth to
this debt, and entailed such intolerable
burdens upon them, originated, not in
honest views for the general welfare, but
from the selfish and malignant passions of
certain leading characters, and of the
people of q few particular States No,
| Uey aUU rise in the te7ribleness Of their might,
and shake The burdens from their backs.
The men who feed the administration
with money, will in all probability become
the victims of their own cupidity; but they
| will not equally merit that MISFORTUNE
Those, if such there are, who believe war
| to be just and necessary, and under the
to support it, will be entitled to some de-
gree of commiseration if they suffer total
| loss Whereas, those who are opposed in
principle to the war, who think it has been
wantonly waged and unnecessarily contin-
ued, and of course that it is no other than
an aggregation of horrible murders;-if
they, for the sake of the pieces of silver &C
cruing from the excess of interest. if they,
in their road to wealth and perdition, shall
lend their money, time after time, for the
support of war which their hearts con-
denim, they will discover to the world q
superlative degree of the most detestable
moral turpitude; and to each of them it
might be fifty said, as was said to the ava
:. ricious sorcerer of old, "THy money perish
soiM thee. "-Hdryord Courdnt, Radical.
i Galveston, Texas.
i A Federal officer at Galveston writes as
follows:
GAS to this city, there is no language adj
euuate to describe the fearful reality. Sep
TENDER is destined to prove it's extreme re-
suits. Yesterday and theiday previous, each,
thirty-tW deaths from yellow fever, and
to-day, with the wind from the south, which
) to the afflicted brings not healing, but
3 death on it's wings, a large number of the
; thousands who are sick must die. It is
said that over five thousand persons have
had the disease, and that there is no day
D now when there is not at least fifteen hun
dred sick. The city is really a place OF
, sickness and DEATH There is nothing
more appalling than the condition of things
? here. The groans of the dying on the bat
< tlefeld are not more agonizing than the
meanings of the sick and dying here. Itis
3 simply impossible to give a correct idea,
: and equally impossible for the medical and
] charitable associations to render anything
7 like the necessary attention to the sick and
, dying.
t The Howard Association, the Charity hos
: pitfalls, the Masons and Odd Fellows have
q exhausted treasure, time, and energy, and
: are now almost at their wits end. Aid
i cannot come with requisite speed-sympa
@ thy is useless unaccompanied with materia
= aid. Nursing and attention are far more
d necessary, and fraught with more beneficial
It results than even the physicians Skill
= Remittances to the Howard Association
: will be received with weeping gratitude b.
/ the suffering and their friends. Something
J must be done Immediately for relief
b Stores have been closed for weeks will
!, none to furnish the needy. Many wht
n haze means have offered all for nursing ant
Is attention, while many who have nothing
70 die for want, of attention. A new cemetery
/, just opened, is already crowded ; and tn
y city of Galveston is doomed, with no hop
d for actual relief until cold weather, which
D. in this latitude, is in November or later
], May the kindly disposed, who have abund
y ance, give of their means. It will be cas-
at ing dread upon the waters and safte
r many days they may find it,"
t. The Selma (Ala.) ''Times " advocate
Be- the starting of cooperative stores in tn.
j. State.