Year: 1862




March. What it may cost to put down


the rebellion 1 care very little, provided


always, that it be put down. efeetfully.-


But, FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD, and


am free to confess that my faith some


times fails me. mean my faith in men,


not my faith in the cause. When the his


tory of these times shall be written it will


be question upon whom the guilt will


rest more heavy-upon him who has con-
spired to destroy, or upon him who has
proved incompetent to preserve, the insti-


tutions bequeathed to US by our fathers
1t is no wonder that the public treasury
trembles and staggers like strong man
with too great a burthen upon him. A
strong man in an air-exhausted receiver Is
not more helpless to-day than is the treas
ury of this Government beneath the ex-


hausting process to which it is subjected.
The mighty monarch of the forest himself,
may hold at bay the fierce and mightiest
of his foes, while the vile cur coming up
behind and opening bis fangs gives him
fatal wound, and although he may strug-
gle on boldly and valliantly, the life blood
is silently trickling from his heart, and be
is at the last forced to loosen his grasp,
and be grows faint and falters aud dies
The Treasury notes issued in the face Of
these immense outlays, without a revenue
from custom houses, from land sales, from
any. source whatever, is beginning TO pail
in the market. Already have they begun
to sell at six per cent, discount at the Ia
bles of the money changers; at the very
time, too, that we here exhibit the sim
guar spectacle of fraud, and struggle
with the Committee of Ways ond Means
itself, in an endeavor to lift up and sustain
the Government of tha country. already
the satler-that curse of the camp-is fol-
lowing the paymasters as the shark fol-
lows the ship, buying mp for four dollars
every fire dollars oftAe a0ages Of the SOL
der paid to them tn Treasury notes. l
have no desi.e to hasten the movement of
the army, or to criticise the conduct of its
leaders, but in view of the stupendious
drafts upon the Treasury, l must say that
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 the
other. 1t is impossible that the Treasury
of the United States can meet, and contiue
to meet, this state of things sixty days
onger, and an ignominious peace must be
submitted to unless we see to it that the
credit of the country is sustained, and sus-
aimed, too, by the conviction going forth
rom this hall 10 the country that we will
reat as traitors, not only those WHO are
,old enough to meet us face to face in the
ield of strife, but all those also who clan
lestinely and stealthily suck the life blood
Iom us il the mighty struggle. What
ver measures may enanate from the COM
nittee on Ways and Means 10 meet and
etrieve this state of things, they will bnt ,
all like dead pail upon fhe public unless !.
hey give the assurance that these extraor-
inary and extreme measures TO resuscitate
evive and replenish the treasury, are not
nade to fill further and longer the already
orged pockets of the public plunderers.- !
low, then, are we to contribute in this
natter to revive public confidence in our
ublic men here, if it be not when these
preparation come up that we probe them :
nat we ascertain whether there be any |
hing in them that at this moment can be l
oaredG Our pressing duty now is to pro-
set and save the Treasury from further
bolesale or other system of plundering.- :
n conclusion, he urged against paying for !
riDting the Treasury notes, on the ground
lat the contrac: was improperly obtained. y


From the New York Tribune J.!
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