Year: 1863




Few Facts Modestty stated.


The American people arc now carrying on
the greatest civil war the world ever saw. We
are sustaining over a million of men in the
government service. We are supporting thirty
four thousand rebel prisoners taken in battle.
We have just contracted to feed and elothe all
the prisoners whom the rebels have taken from
us. We feed all the rebels in those portions OF
the confederacy which fall into our possession.
In many cases, as at New Orleans, the rations
issued to starving rebels exceed in number
those issued to our own soldiers.


We have assumed almost the entire charge of
the black race: Two hundred thousand contra
bands are now provided for within our lines
We have established schools for the picanin
MES, and are teaching them to read and write
and cypher and sew. We work all the pianta-
tions which the rebels have abandoned. We
spend about as much in philanthropy as in
fighting. We have almost as many missionaries
as generals. We send provisions not only to
our own poor and the poor rebels, but also to
Ireland and to the starving operatives OF Eng
land. Seldom before have the necessary cruel
ties of war and the beautiful charities of peace
walked so closely hand in hand


We are building tremendous iron-clad navy
for ourselves and another navy for Italy. We
are feasting and feting the whole Russian navy
at New York and San Francisco; and, although
the feet came here for gunnery practice, the
Admiral says that he has not yet found time to
&c IovI IN,
cluding dresses and diamonds have been ex-
pended upon these festivities. Taken in con-
nection with the facts above stated, this will
give some idea of our wealth and our resources.
At the same time we literally patronize the
drama, the opera, the arts and the sciences.
We send many vessels to fight, but we also
send out exploring expeditions to the North
Pole.


Our discoveries and inventions in the art of
war are changing the military and naval sys-
tens of oil Europe. We have cannon against
which Notifications are as fragile as paper. and
ships which are almost impregnable to the
heaviest shot. Pulaski and Sumter are bat
tered down Ofi-hand, and our Monitors shed
shot as duck sheds rain. No European navy
is Of any account in comparison with our own,
and no European fortress is secure if we choose
TO attack it. To take Gibraltar would be child's
play to the army and navy which have taken
vicksburg. Our first move in war with Eng
land would be to anchor Dunderberg oppo-
site London, and proclaim our ultimatum of
Greek FIRE or instant capitulation.


We have won for ourselves the title Of the
Hercules Of nations. We are cleaning up our
own Augean stables at present; but we shall be
ready for those Of the other continent when
our services are required. Perhaps France
and England will want TO be whipped by and
by. If SO, we will accommodate them; and we
have no objections to throwing few puny
Powers, He Spain, into ~ bargain JHage
of what we shall do by what we have DONE
Brother Jonathan is no longer boy. He is
beginning to get bis growth. His present
dress is too small for bis rapidly developing
muscle. He has had to take of his coat to
teach the rebels TO obey and respect him; and
before be puts on that garment again be may
feel in the humor to square accounts with the
rest Of mankind.