Year: 1864

Bat sr for the single fiscal year Of 1763-64 we who
are coping with 10 Napoleon, with no combination of
powers for our overthrow-bdt when a few rebelous
States started without RESOURCES aud full of the
OF weakness are lightly operated upon-we have appro-
pnated more money in single year to subdue this rebel
lion than appropriated for the whole British empire
10 the siK years from 1910 to ld6 to subdue the august
Napoleon at time combining all the continental ma
tioDs Of Europe for British overthrow. .s \ Nr.e


do not aude to these things for the purpose of Great
Ing alarm or exciting the fears Of the country only to
the country TO comprehend the magnitude of this
war and to begin to lay the necessary taxation to
support it, that may not in the future end ourselves
unable to sustain the credit Of the country That s my
object in calling the attention Of the House 10 the enor
nous expenditures If the War Department
thousand million dollars per annum / do not know
how it 10 with Others but must confess that 10 my hum
BILE mind such sums are so appalling that can hardly
begin to comprehend their gigantic magnitude when we
are called upon to transmit them to our children q
public debt We IN the great cities who are somewhat
accustomed to figures, and who represent mlonaires
will be compelled, il these expenditures go on, to
bring to aid something than arithmetic the
science Of geometry mensuraton say and measure
million BY an inch, billion by two inches, trilon by
three inpEes 4gadrOn by four inches, auntilhon by
Ave inches and on n that does not present
ton measurement sufficient TO enabe us to understand
these shall have to tp the science OF age
bra apply an unknown qnsntty Of expendtare, and
work with that (Laugber Sir, il is becoming beyond
the power Of arithmetic or the power Of simple msthe-
MATES TO compute These appropriations to understand
the loans or systems OF loans on which they being



than the consols xcheqner of the debt Of England


The estimates Of the War Department for 1863 are
round numbers, 1886 100000 Sir it is evident FROM
these appropriations for 1S6364 now making that
il this is to continue these estimates for 1865 not
worth the paper they written upon, for the actual
pendufe OF the present 6sca year for 1864 Of the War
Department will amount to almost III not quite thousand
million dolars-certainly, if pay up the warrants
of the their certificates of obligation and
the great debts due to the States for money and
troops advanced to the Federal Government Tor military
services rendered


Now Mr. Chairman, is IL right is 1t proper IL il lea-
innate mode Of coming before the country with an est
mate in December Of only NJ 55I deficiency and then
before the bill perfected require, sanctioned by the
Senate, deficiency Of sos 0000O09 repeat air. is it
right just to the country thus to throw dust In their
eyes IL it not wise it not our duty at the start
TO look this with all it's consequences fully in the fsoe
and to provide for this enormous expenditure and these
enormous appropriations the only by which II the
war 10 to be persisted in the credit o the country can be
sustained system Of taxation which shall be proporon
ate to our erPendture for 10 leave for pos
terity the iul payment Of these loans1


MrsBRooKs proceeded until the expiration of the hour
allowed Tor debate " examine and comment upon some
If the items Of the bill. ytyM9 Ir M F8@E#t ft
The H"use then proceeded 10 consider the amendments
in consecutive order the debate thereon being confined TO
fvemlnue speeches.