Year: 1862

little, provided always, that it be put
down eifcctually But sir, faith without
works is dead, and am free to confess
that my faith sometimes fails me, mean
my faith in men, not my faith in the
cause, When the history Of these times
shall be written, it will be a question up
on whom the guilt will rest most heavy
upon him who has conspired to destroy,
or upon him who has proved incom petcnt
to preserve the institutions bequeathed to
us by our fathers. 1t is no wonder that
the public treasury trembles and staggars
like strong man with too great a bur
den upon him. A strong man in an air.
exhausted receiver is not more helpless
to-day than is the treasury of this Gov
ernment beneath the exhausting process
to which it is subjected. The mighty
monarch OF the forest himself may hold
at bay the fercest and mighticst of his
foes, while the vile cur coming up behind
and opening his fangs gives him a fatal
wound, and although he may struggle OF
boldly and valiantly, the life-blood i,
silently trickling from his heart, and he
is at last forced to loosen his grasp, ant
he grows faint and falters and dies. Tht
Treasury notes issued in the face OF thest
immense outlays, without a revenue from
custom houses, from land sales, from any
source whatever, is beginning to pail il
the market. Already have they begun
to sell at six per cont, discount at the
table of the money changers at the very
time, too, that we are exhibiting the
singular spectacle of fraud, and a strug
gle with the Committee on Ways and
Means itself, is an endeavor to lift up ant
sustain the Government of the country
Already the Sutler-that scamp of the
camp-is following the paymasters as thu
shark follows the ship, buying up fo
four dollars every five dollars of th'
wages of the soldier paid to them il
Treasury notes. l have no desire tc
hasten the movement Of the army, or tt
criticise the conduct of its leaders, but in
view of the stupendons drafts upon tn,
Treasury, must say long for the day
of striking the blow which will bring
this rebellion to an end. Sixty days
longer of this state Of things will bring
about result one way or another. 1t is
impossible that the Treasury of the
United State can meet, and continue tc
meet this state of things sixty days long
er, and an ignominious peace must be sub
mtted unless we see to it that the countr,
be sustained, too, by the conviction tina
we will treat as traitors, not only thos
who are bold and manly enough to NEE
us face to face in the field of strife, bu
all those who clandestinly and stealthily
suck the life blood from US in the might,
struggle.


Whatever measures may emenate from
the Committee on Ways and Means t.
meet and retrive THIS stete of things, the
} will but fall like a dead pail Upon tn
public unless they give this assuranc
that these extraordinary and extrem
measures to resuscitate, revive and re
plenish the Treasury, are not made to fiji
further and longer the already gorged poe
kets of the public plunderers. How
then, are we to contribute in this matte
to revive public confidence in our publ
men here. if it be not when these appro
priations come up that we prove them
that we ascertain whether there be any
thing in them that at this m oment can b,
spared b? Our pressing duty now is t.
protect and save the Treasury from fur
ther wholesale or other system in plum
dering. In conclusion, he urged agains
paying for printing the Treasury notes
on the ground that the contract was i'm
properly obtained.