These are, men and money, but especially MONEY, for on the money depends the men.  In a good cause, with an educated, intelligent people, every man able to discern for himself the right side of the question presented, there is no difficulty about men; the state has only to say how many are needed, and the want will be promptly supplied.  The experience of the last six months gives us evidence sufficient on this point:  an army of six hundred thousand men drawn together without an effort, every man a volunteer,—­a spectacle never before exhibited to the world,—­puts at rest all doubt upon it; and not only that, it settles beyond all cavil the superiority of self-government, based on the broadest principles of freedom and the broadest system of education, over any other form which has ever been adopted.  Passing from this, however, as a fact which needs no argument or illustration, we come to the more difficult question of how to raise the other sinew—­money.

In calling for men the state relies upon the intelligence and patriotism of its citizens; upon their intelligence to understand the cause, on their patriotism to respond to its call.  It offers them no inducements in the shape of pay, nothing more than to feed and clothe them, to aid them hereafter if wounded, to keep their families from starvation if they are killed.  This is all; and this is enough.  But these assumed obligations of the state must be sacredly and promptly kept.  Our noble volunteers must be fed, and clothed, and cared for, and to this end the state must have the requisite means.  And to obtain the needed supply without oppressive taxation on the one hand, or placing a load on posterity too heavy to be borne on the other hand, is a question of difficult solution; and yet we shall see that there is in the present administration the ability and the will to solve it.

It is said that our expenditures in this great struggle will, by the first of June, amount to the enormous sum of $600,000,000.  It is said by the arch traitor at the head of the rebels that under this load of debt we shall sink.  It is said by the leading papers of England that we have no money, have exhausted our credit, must disband our armies, and make the best terms we can with rebellion.  Doubtless, our credit in Europe is at a low ebb just now, and we are thrown upon our own resources, and on these we must swim or sink.  There is nothing to reject in this.  We have shown the world how a free state can raise troops and create a navy out of its own materials; and now we will show the world how a free state can maintain its army and navy out of its own resources; and if the result proves—­as it will prove—­that our free institutions are the safest, strongest, and best for the people in war as well as in peace, then the great struggle we are now going through with will be worth more to the true interests of humanity everywhere than all the battles which have been fought since the dawn of the present century.  For a hundred