The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-08

men shall once more make ship build.
ing branch Of American industry. In
the meantime our trade will be carried
on under foreign flags, exports and i'm
ports conveyed in foreign bottoms, and
the only vessels this country will have
ahoat will be her rotten old wooden
navy tubs or her rusty mentors and
iron clads. The preying of privateers
upon craft of this sort won't be so dis
tressing as to deprive any citizen OF
"this glorious Republic" of his rest.
Come to think of it, ifSpain wants to
fight aboutit, why not extend belliger-
eat rights to the Cuban patriots ! Their
governmental establishment may not
be worth tinker's malediction, but
then the results of recognition would
be so bloody and blessed that secondary
considerations might be overlooked.
To fight Spain means to fight the great
er part of Europe. To do that, will re-
quire the consolidation of our people
in sentiment and interest. Bat before
the masses of the South could be indue-
ed to cooperate, the burdens laid upon
them by prescription must be removed.
War would compel their removal.
1t would also open up new sphere for
the carpet baggery aud scalawagerie of
the country. We submit that a
fight which would even tempo
rarily relieve the land of that element
would be justfable, and GRANT would
be warranted in arranging it. Then
there's the debt. Men talk about new
ways to pay old debts, but who ever
heard of better way to square accounts
than by "apestolic blows and knocks 7"
All our bonds held abroad could be con-
fscated as the property of the enemy.
If any of them should happen to be in
the hands of friends, confscatiOn would
prove their friendship. At any rate,
salus reipubhcG suprema Ter. We all re-
member the "safety of the Republic"
argument. 1t hasn't been long since
t was held to justify the promiscuous
plundering of home folks. 1t certainly
would not apply with less force to those
"blarsted BritisherS."
Disposing of the bulk of the bonds
abroad, the securities held by our own
people could readily be hquidatod. The
first step would be to issue more money.
The issuing could be continued until
greenbacks got sufficiently plenty to be
reasonably worthless, and then gold.
bearing bonds, at which the owners of
greenbacks would grab, might be sub
stituted. By the time the war was end
ed, an event which would probably
occur before two succeeding genera
tioUs had taken part in it, the debt
would be ofsuch bencfcent magnitude
as to eclipse totally the three thou
sand million national blessing of
JAY CooKE'S contriving. 1t would
be exclusively home debt,
for the folks across the water would
without doubt not have the imperti-
nence to interfere second time in our
pecuniary affairs. Their experience by
that time would have taught them bet
ter. Being a home debt, no question of
national honor at stake, and the inter
est being sufficient to take annually the
roof frem every house, the fences from
every farm, and the tools from
every shop, the people would inconti-
nently wipe out the score and start
afresh. Making due allowance for the
leisure of dignity, the first Congress
elected after the first exhibit of the
books, would dispose of the whole finan-
cial question in about ten days after
assembling.
Then we WOuM "have peace"
There would be no debt and no
prospect of incurring any, for that
great abomination known as national
credit would no longer attach to "the
best Government under the SUM-" A
few hundred thousand of the natien's
strong aud brave would be missed and
mOurned, but what is that number of
lives when weighed against the '1ifs of
the nation" manifest destiny" and
'the glory of the Republici" There
would be weeping widows in every
household, begging orphans in every
street, crippled and shattered manhoo d
in helpless pauperism all over the land,
but these are mere incidents and cpl
sodes along the pathway of progress.
They are but the outward and visible
signs ofthe triumph ofgreat ideas. A few
favorite pilferers and plunderers would
grow rich, while the millions became i'm
poyerished in the ruin that would follow
the carnival. Such facts are too tri-
fling for the consideration of American
craftsmanship, if that article be among
the possibilities. By all means then,
let us have war, the biggerthe better,
and add another to the magnificent
leaps we have lately taken toward the
millennium and the day of fjubilee.
In Sharon township, Clinton county,
Iowa, one day last week, a farmer named
Stanton had gone out in the morning to