Show toombs of georgia Georg debels keb els upon rebellion and robert toombs once and at the inauguration augu 0 ration of the war a united states senator from georgia but who was among the foremost to fire the southern heart to press the cotton states into revolution and who has bas been hand band and glove heart and soul with treason ever since and was but lately jeff davis secretary of state made a speech in the alic georgia house of representatives on oil november oth and in it said 1 I say to you in all candor that the course our government has pursued in obtaining supplies has sown the seeds of discontent broadcast over the land and is generating hostility to the government itself look at tile practical workings working Is of it in your state in the coith eastern castern section of it the liand land of providence has been laid heavily upon them for the last two years last year the rains were withheld from them sterility cursed and old mother earth eaith seemed to forget her children this year the frost lias has conic come and in addition the foot of tho invader lias has been set upon the land air ind and blighted the prospects of the agriculturists 21 famine war and worse than imprisonment has laid its hand upon them and you are arc asked to make provision for the support of many who will be unable from those cruses to support themselves and I 1 hope you will do it in addition to this the impressing agent lias bas gone around and in many cases robbed the families of their meager support for the year As a consequence tile the soldiers in the field have become discontented and desertions have taken place it is useless to attempt to conceal these facts you know them to be true but the war enlarged its dimensions our enemy after putting men into tile the field went ou on increasing their army until they had an army to fight against us which neither we nor they nor any human being ever dreamed would be called out column after column and army after army of this mighty host did we roll b back ack until lie in the madness of his lust for dominion with the seas at his command levied troops from every part of the world to bring against us in order to take from us this magnificent land which the creator had given us IS still our troops did not falter faltor ive needed more money to meet these great events which was raised by anease an easy but unsafe mode alie great error we committed was this as soon as is we issued an amount of money adequate to the wants of commerce wo we did not stop we went on increasing the amount to and the result was inevitable the depreciation from the of march last to july first has been at the rate of five per cent per day da making a total depreciation fionin in four months of six hundred per cent you may by appeals p p C clr to patriot ism or by intimidation induce ale take it but after which every means fail and the value of your issue must farial ly be determined by the inexorable at ard of gold and silver the worlds measure A and all these laws regulating tile the price pr of produce or other ar articles of Comm commerce Ce and establishing maximums will not ia i duce these credits to be taken wll when it it f becomes worthless wort bless and will have no effect than to discourage industry and sow so the seeds of discontent among the people peon and to raise raise up a party against tile the goy 1 eminent itself this is a law as inva in varis ble as that which makes the oconee t to flow and mingle its waters with the at lantic alantic ocean men may reenact re rc enact the folly of canute but they cant arrest the laws of nature appeals to patriotism to sustain a currency on false principles weaken j friends of the cause without benetina be nelina the country however well intended they may bo be money is just as necessary for the prosecution of war as soldiers add the remark of one of the breast modem warriors louis XIV is not far from the truth that when two nations go to war I 1 tile one will conquer which lias bas the lasi dollar in the treasury y |