Delaware Gazette

The Hon. James Dickson, in an eloquent and patriotic speech, delivered at the Union meeting in Hartford, dwelt upon the ability of the country to sustain the expenses of the war, and upon the security which the national loan offered as an investment. On this point he said:

Look at England. You say our expenses are large, and so they are. Some estimate them at one million of dollars a day. But what were the expenses of England during the war with Napoleon? From 1803 to 1816, with less than eighteen millions inhabitants, her expenses were one million three hundred thousand a day, for a period of thirteen years. For one hundred days previous to the Battle of Waterloo, her expenses were five millions of dollars a day. Of this vast sum a large proportion was expended on the continent of Europe—while our entire expenditure is at home. If for thirteen years England could expend one million three hundred thousand dollars day abroad, cannot we do it for one or two years, if necessary—every dollar meanwhile remaining at home. Interest, therefore, no less than patriotism, requires us to subscribe for the loan.