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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
A contemporary journal recommends to Congress the policy of turning the whole subject of finance over to the Secretary of the Treasury, merely endorsing his views and giving to his suggestions the force of law. We like the idea. A single individual, of undoubted abilities, who is a practical man, and has devoted his whole life to the consideration of the subject in all its aspects, is surely a safer guide than a body of lawyers and farmers, such as our Congress is. We have no doubt Mr. Trenholm could, and would, present a plan for the relief of our finances which would completely succeed if Congress would only pass the necessary laws and not meddle with it any farther.--Now, if this be true with regard to financial matters, how much truer is it with regard to matters military. The Congress of 1776 was wont to have Washington before them every winter, when the season had put an end to active campaigning. They held a conference with him face to face, heard his suggestions, a