I grant it: but how can we expect to carry on this gigantic war without personal sacrifices?
If they only come in the form of money, we may account ourselves fortunate.

I take it for granted that there is not a man here present who does not approve the present war--who does not feel that we are waging it for good and sufficient reasons." Here Mr.Holman moved uneasily in his seat, and seemed on the point of interrupting the speaker, but for some reason forbore.
"Such being the case, we cannot but feel that the burden ought to fall upon the entire community, and not wholly upon any particular portion.
The heaviest sacrifices must undoubtedly be made by those who leave their homes and peril life and limb on the battlefield.

When I propose that you should lighten that sacrifice so far as it lies in your power, by voting them a bounty, it is because I consider that money will compensate them for the privations they must encounter and the perils they will incur.

For that, they must look to the satisfaction that will arise from the feeling that they have responded to their country's call, and done something to save from ruin the institutions which our fathers transmitted as a sacred trust to their descendants.

Money cannot pay for loss of life or limb.