The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-10-27
SOME IDEAS CONCERNING THE Ma
TIONAL DEBT.

perheads and the fne-spun theories ant
perplexing statements of the self con
ceited mathematicians of all partie:
have left the subject of the Nationa
Debt in about the same state Of bother
alton to the public mind that has been
wrought among geometricians by the
problem Of show to square the circle.
If what the Copperheads urge has a
natural tendency to any particular eff.
feet upon the minds of the people, it is
to create the feeling that the debt was
unnecessarily incurred; and that there.
fore, the tax paying public should take
steps to get rid of j, as of an enormous
burden of debt for which there has
been no value received. If one is to
believe the loud assertions OF Nj. Sey-
nour's friends, this Republic is groan-
ing under debt Of hundreds of mil
lions created on purpose TO rob the
people and enrich a certain, mysterious,
nameless few. Let US see bow the
bulk of this great debt came to be ac-
cumulated.
The first volunteers mustered into
the service to fight the rebellion-the
" ninety day men go, their pay in
coin. Those payments in coin would
have been all that the Goveronea,
would have had to make il il had not
been for two things, namely The fail.
ure upon the part Of $4,000 raw VOL
unteers to pvt down the rebellion in 80
days, and the consequent increase in
audacity and force of the rebel army.
Two very eogent reasons, by the way.
Now when the rebellion had been put
upon q great war footing, with a quar-
ter of million or more of men at its
command, all Europe, England at the
head, evinced an itching to recognize
-" The Confederacy. The temporal
Government of the Pope of Rome
did recognize it. At this juncture, find
ing its gold all expended and its credi,
abroad spit upon by the fnanciers of
Europe, the Government of the United
States asked aid from its loyal citizens.
The aid asked for being promptly forth
coming, the Government issued its
paper promises to pay back the sums
loaned and, acting under law of
Congress, it issued, instead Of coin, its
due bills to the persons whom, in its
grea. exigency, it was obliged to en-
plor. First and last the Government
was forced TO employ more than Two
million men to stand guard over its
property in order that it might not be
stolen by the rebels. The greater part
of these men, SO employed, got, for thei!
services, besides wounds and sickness
and loss of limbs, sixteen dollars per
month in greenbacks-which were
worth, good deal of the time, about
forty cents on the dollar. (They would
have been worth more if Mr.. Iora,io
Seymour and his party had only tried
to sustain instead of trying to break
down the Nations credt) Now a line
of men, two deep, seven or eight miles
long, like that which was under Gen.
eral Mcclellan a. Antietam is an expen-
sive mass of employees, even at the
low rate Of sixteen dollars month per
man; and besides their pay proper they
had TO be clothed and fed at Uncle
Sam 3 expense and when they were
sick Uncle Sam bai to provide medica!
lid for ,hela and when they Travelled
ong distances our good Uncle had to
provide them with means of transpor-
,ation. And yet, all that these two
million, or more, men did was to save
be Union SO that the bulk of the
National Debt was incurred, under the
direction of Abraham Lincoln and the |
Congresses that sat during his admins
ration, in hiring men to keep this Gov
,rument from being destroyed. Thai
s, as near as may be, the narrative con-
.ernirg the growth of the great debt,