Year: 1865

rhey would carry with them these II they went
they or shse on
tho article the domestic interests OF the
country sufficiently protected Tne rebels IN copy


ING and improving upon constitution, wisely omitted
the clause forbddng export duties intending to make
England and France pay the cost OF their war and the
expense & od If & aIu the coon and tobacco they
would have to buy The policy OF export duties upon
products of indispensable necessity 70 ioregn
manifest and in 30 mani estiy JUST thas
the duty of revising our constitution in this regard will
strike all minds unless the necessity for the revision can
be obvated through our excise system a. ABOVE pro-


We repeat that there is no occasion for anxiety about
the burden OF the principal or interest OF our aeTs' %
Wisdom IN Congress- generosity and patriotisn Ia poll
tics, generosity and forbearance among competing inter
ests will diuse and tighten the load and make u grow
less and less every year. till its weight shall 90 no moo
than every citizen win gladly pay for the supreme bless;
ngs OF stability of government protection OF iaoor anu
M % y our sna
OF our energy and ingenuity, easily borne and grown
enormously rich. What they can easily do, Americans


Emerging victorious from the gigantic war the
world bias SEEN with the rescued republic on our should
and labor Of should exutngly propose 70 pay
on instantly the huge debt Of great salvation Twas
e. war song II was pleasant TO hear But the thing
proposed cannot be DONE II Is not practicable first,
because the funded debts OF the United States con-
tracts 70 pay money These contracts be varied
hundred million loan Of March o. 1854 redeemabe
years and payable at the option of the government in
Of patriotic or other contribution Of money The i've
hundred million loan OF February 1892 redeemable
years and payable In twenty cannot be wiped
,.stand upon the bond SO with tho seven thirty loan
~ Is scattered from California TO Maine from Minnesota
TO LOUISIANA In sums Of fifty dollars hundred dol
lars ve hundred dollars and one thousand dollars and
Of investment You wish 70 measure the tenacity With
which the thirty notes will continue to be thus
nea you must plumb and put the rule to the of
complete and ndestructble security for the surplus
earnings OF years of labor at dollar day-mesure
the feeling Of security for the savings of the pnched life
OF mountain farmng-complete security for the holy
suuses from the Of the needle by eyes spectace
with age aud overwork and the tears that go TO blind
the childess and the widowed To this teuacity
you the tenderness the dsti1lst the mystery
with which soldier returning from the war tears open
his shirt and hides and snugs away in It's inner pocket
-thrty-the price OF his blood You must the
deYou look OF wholly satisfied waiting OF tn SOUL and
the ennobng sense of personal and public Importance
with which farm hand furloughed after corn
planting and come from thousand miles away
West, puts his earthly all into his country's
loan ana oS at nsct and ns thar ana rns
shpfu as if he had suddenly scovered that he was OF
consanguinity to the United States of Amerca His
scvcnthirties are part Of him He ~ part of his conn-
try. Take up the government debt Start out your
commissioners Let them roll thrice three thousand
millions back and forth tho through the
tiers of tho States announcing they go We are here
to pay of the national debt Fetch out your notes and
receive your money" Ii they escaped derson and cs





intentions, they would roll their globes OF coin back
whence they started Enlightened by taking Of
one solitary dollar Not man upon the whole line OF
their transcontncnta zgzag would jump the fence of
harvest field to talk the proerod swap Of cash for
government promises If mother the entire lne of
their ridiculous pilgrimage should stop patiently In her
kneading of bread and mildly talk, she would say of
certainty ~ had money and put it into bonds. Why
should Change my bonds back into moncyT The
logic Of tho people Is unanswerablc There is not
this continent holder of seven thirty note--man
or woman--whic, wraps up the savings OF labor who
would consent to its present payment or its payment
ever except under the pressure OF debt domestic
need


In the second place. it is not practicable to pay debt
Of three thousand millions OF doll by voluntary sub
scrptons, simply because 1t Is not possible We Amer
very familiar the Hcrcales Iabors of build


ing churches, endowng colleges constructing railroads
and establishing steamship lines with voluntary gifts or
money The protectors. who themselves do the begging
wipe tho dust OIL their shoes at night with discourage
ment and Illumination. IL, peiidv nt.re, stately SUD-
scrpton Of ve thousand dollars are persuaded to the
head of the lists they dwarf with amazing suddennes
To thousand and taper off with lamenabo swtness
TO. five hundred hundred, fifty, twenty, ten and
fve TIL the dlagsling ones impress the bchoidcr com-
caly and the collector wrathfully the numera
poncnt of mans charity and the pubIics spirit II the
experience Of the collectors Of funds for the best OF
causes in our best communities, poled il would
DECLARE without dissent that the difficulty 0. getting
subscriptions uphill work as 1t IL, is not tenth part
II becomes suddenly the stuff in the world
We do not believe that thore Is man in America, Of
average activity and devotion to the common good who
will dare recall tho history of his begging, for
the most useful enterprises sacred interests who
will say that IL utterly impossible to get fifty mil


lions of dollars subscribed TO tho payment of our national


eb and that there Is not leather enough America to
make the shoes that would DO worn out In vain running
after the money, after 10 was coaxed on to paper


MOI let US accept the public debt public wealth,
the bond OF political and national union as the safeguard
and widows fund The national BIT, rightly managed
will he tho national blessing.