The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-30

n were responded to as follows
a 1seI-a months men. ..,,..,. 3b00O
n 1B5t-3 Yeas meil.,..,, 10000
1929 yeHrs men zoo Gov
m 1922 months mel 3OUO0
sS 1865 Yeas men (feby) ,...,,..., 30 200
q 500 years men lS!atcu) ...,........... 10000
II !sCt-J years men t1uly 10000
lsot-5 years men tpec. l......"....." 5Oouo0
- Stt lotal...........
3s5S These do not include the militia that
were brought into service during the in.
II yasions OF Lees armies into Maryland and
III Pennsylvania.
OF this immense number OF men It is es-
u timated that 30o, 900 lost their lives on the
battle field, or died afterwards from
Swounds, or from sickness contracted in the
service. So that to-day We have G5 National
" cemeteries filled with dead; and some OF
them are large cities OF the dead; and in
every village graveyard Of the North there
Y arc stones that mark the resting place OF
n some soldier. who came homo 10 die.
This was only part OF the price in hood
n that the people paid for tho preservation OF
VI the Union. The health Of rs many more
q soldiers was seriously injured-men who
have fingered along for years half alive
y and half dead, and who are now in whole
Y or part charge upon the pension rolls Of
r the government. AS to the cost in money
&of the war, 1t will never be accurately
I; known, but the compiled figures from
Ri July LIST, 1861 up to June 10th, 1870 inclu-
sive, Showed to that date a sum total OF
expenditure, growing out OF the war Of
Y 81 lSo, 029 90s5s; or, otherwise expressed, Of
q ar bilious, one hundred and eighiy.nint nil.
lions, niae bundled ind ,utnty.niac thousand,
& 1aiat hundred and eight dollars and yfhpeiyM
\ cents. , II.
,S This is sum that no mortal could count
in hundred years.
This is the cost in treasure OF tho war
II for the Union up to 1870, and ere the, end
OF the pension era is reached, which will
not be for the next fifty years, we will have
v expended ut least two billions more.
II Is only by contemplating such figures
rs these that the reader of to-day, even
Il though he was IN actor in the war, can
n have aay realizing sense OF what the re.
bellion entailed upon this country. And
y oil this leaves out OF the account the in
Z Unity Of sorrow and disaster that came
4 upon families by reason OF the war-by.
s reason OF valuable lives lost, and by the
wreck OF property that followed to ten
4 thousand households. Families were seat
tered never to reunite, owing to the per-
Y sonal and financial disasters OF the
& war, and many children whose iate would
& have been very different in life had their
II fathers and brothers not been killed or
disabled, were scattered like sheep without
a shepherd to fall a prey TO all the mis-.
\ chances Of life. e5
IVA There is story TOO that appertains to the
Il Southern side Of the war TINT never hasand
never can be told. They too have their
& cemeteries filled with dead, and they too
have their wounded and manned suryi.
isvors' whoare not on the pension rolls.
They too have their desoated hearthstones
their wrecked fortunes and their scatter
u ed families. OF their land We nigh, write
\ as Byron wrote OF the land OF the East:
Ss":Wild rs tue accents OF lovers farewell
&Aro The ucars which they bear and the tales which
= they tell. l545ls5s5i3 : ~. =
Az; The South made tho most gricvious error
\ ever made by any people in amy age OF the.
world, and previously have they answered
S4it.ps Let us not open their wounds airesh
1 to-day, but rather rs good Samaritans pour
\ oil upon the wounds Of both. They lost
Gall for which they contended, but received
IAN unknown good, which, while it can
never be a compensation to tho victims Of
the disaster, will be a precious Legacy to
Sall who come after them. The Confederate
records, us now published, show that on
3 March Slst, 1864, more than year prior
4 to the close OF the war, the Confederate
Government Ind issued in bonds $780,
4 264 .40S, and in non.interest bearing treas
Jury notes S973,277, s6s so. All these bonds
2and all these notes, representing that much
sot the substance Of tho people, persisted in
their hands as utterly rs il they had been
consumed in fire. And this aggregate,
great as It is, represents only small part
Sot their losses. Their whole land was i'm.
proyerished and desolatcd.
5 Great as was tho calamity Of the war
\ upon both sections Of the union, vet TODAY
Eour united country is the wonder OF the
world. Its amazing recovery, its immense
progress, its unparalleled activity, its iucx.
haustible resources, and its unprecedented
development and increase in wealth, excite
! the establishment OF all the nations. The
generationith passed through the war has
sborne all its hatdships and taxes, reduced
.Sits debt over hall, built over $4,000 miles
railroad sent abroad tho largest exports
/ eve, ever known in our history, and is to day
saugmenting in population and in every
species Of wealth at a rate unknown to any
sformer'age Of the world. { IL rs "a,
Sas But notwithstanding NIL the healing and
compromising influences that have followed
s3 ils the wake Of tho war this country eau
never forget S|its debt Of gratitude 10 The
men or their kindred blood, by whose
great sacrifice all that it now enjoys, or will
enjoy in the future, was won. Mr.. Lincoln's
last inaugural words, when he himself was
I I 80 near TO his tragic end, were to remind
the nation. that one Of its great and per
petnal duties would be-, after binding up
Sthe Nations wounds, ito care for him who
shall . have borne the battle and for bis
widow md orphans, This was his lust
8%ill ana testament, and it remains with us
Silke the farewell address Of Sthe Father Of
ms country, asa sacred Injunction. 4. 4t sj5-
isSsAs ior tho brave men who sleep in honor