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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The small note issue. (search)
on and unheard of triumph were never, for any one year, so great as will be those of Old Age Lincoln at the close of the fiscal year ending 1st June, 1862. We perfectly comprehend the motives of the Lincoln Government in plunging heading into this bottomless ocean of expenditure.--Indeed, if there had otherwise been any doubt about it, the New York journals would have sufficiently enlightened us. "Short and sweet,' was the favorite war cry. "Onward to Richmond" was the watch-word. Old Scott had told Lincoln that he would take Richmond by a mere flank march, and extinguish the "rebellion" in a single campaign, and Lincoln was fool enough to take the gasconade of the bragging old. "Failure" for gospel. He has already seen that it was anything else than gospel.--He has already met with a resistance which must convince him that it requires more money and better men than he can command to reduce these rebels of whom he speaks, and teaches his understrappers to speak in such conte