Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-12-05
.LET Us HAVE PEACE. !"

The title of "Spbynx, given Grant
in the early part OF his administration.
is. unfortunately, more than ever appli-
plicable at the present time. He is the
Executive, the officer appointed to exc
cute the will of the people, and cons,itu-
tionalizs the acts of Congress; yet, on
the eve of Presidential election, with
warlike rumors afloat on every side, and
misgivings in the minds Of many, he
does not deign to offer a word Of expla-
nation. just now we have domestic and
foreign questions Of the greatest import,
our relations with Spain, the Cuban ex-
element, the discussion relative to the
New Foundland fisheries, and the many
little domestic questions constantly aris-
ing in great confederation, yet where
the people were always wont confidently
to look for explanation or light they fiud
a heavy, impassive, impenetrable silence
and wall of darkness. This, of course,
begets distrust, heightened by the sus-
picion that he is laying plans to secure
the Presidential Office for third term.
1t is to be hoped that during the coming
week he will M AXE satisfactory explana-
ton and statements to Congress relative
to our present unsettled condition. Just
now il is a matter of the gravest conjec.
turs. In the first part of his admins
tration President Grant disarmed sus-
picion and made hosts OF friends by
saying, Let US have peace" the phrase
which was then but an Indication of
good feeling towards the South, 10
now fraught with deeper and
more universal meaning. Peace is
what we want, this proposition is
obvious to all, and is one that admits
OF no party cavilling or sectional diver
| sity of opinion. This country is now in
the hundredth year Of its existence
! we are soon to celebrate our first
Centennial, an event which should be
celebrated under peaceful auspices and
under the full enjoyment Of all our ma
tional energies. During the century Of
national existence. now rapidly rounding
to completion, the United States hav
been repeatedly called upon to fight fol
existence. twice with England, once will
Mexico, in long and costly Indian cam
paigns aud lastly in the tremendou
struggle on her own soil, the hideou
scars OF which are yet visible. Tn
close of the civil found the entir,
country in an exhausted condition
she is now recuperating and it will
be time enough to indulge an
hostile proclivities when the state c
the nation would reasonably warrant an
demonstrations of that character. Fror
:, the 1st OF April, 1861 to the 30th of Jun.
1868, tho expenditures Of the Unite
States Government amounted in actu
=. figures to 81. 966. 400. 5O3. During the wa
the North also raised between three hur
:, dred and four hundred million dollars
Throughout the four dreary years of il
=. ternecine strife nearly two millions
men were engaged in q mutual work
;. destruction. War is always an instr,
= ment OF ruin, destruction and waste.
destroys men, natural morals and SUI
dry other necessary requirements Il
prosperity and leaves huge gaps in eve
social department. The two million We
- farers were mostly taken from the pat
- of industry and for four years were co
- sumers of the nations products and de
t. troyers of her most precious materia
- We have seen the actual expense On I
A part of the North was over eight thou
:. and million dollars. Probably half tt
u would be fair estimate of what I
60 South spent. Here we have twelve tho,
and million dollars, vast, almost
q. comprehensive sum, the property d,
No troyed may be placed at tho low total
-. one thousand million dollars, the loss
,iv time and earnings OF those in the field
40. two thousand million dollars and we Fl
III the actual cash loss to the country
m. that strife to aggregate fifteen thousa
d, million dollars; an enormous 81
mi and yet very low estima
as. Leaving ont the enormous II
- OF human life, which can not
"a estimated by figures and rejecting
q the fact that in the year 1860 the ent
Of valuation of the property Of the Unit
,rr States was but twelve thousand mill
,,v dollars it will be readily seen that
ri. four years struggle was rather q cos
~ business and the country, even now af
,at ten years peace. is but lily prepared
Ia. any hostile attitude or demonstrate
ia With the exception Of transient sp
i'm OF prosperity on this coast the Uni
or States to-day can only DO likened t
or. vessel going under easy sail and in
no. wise prepared to buffet rude gales
m rough waters. Financial failures are
order of the day. stagnaiion in mai
features and general paralyzat
-. trade is eyinced by the daily list of f
=, ures East and West, and 1t would c
tainly seem as though breathing 81
of quietude was needed instead OF hav
. every trans-con influential electric fash