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January 3, 1861 – Pennsylvania Arming

The statement that Pennsylvania proposed to raise one hundred thousand troops and appropriate five or six millions of dollars, (for the subjugation of the South,) must, we suppose, be received with considerable qualification. It was only the other day that the Republican papers proved that it would cost South Carolina six millions a year to keep up a force of ten thousand volunteers, just the amount on which, according to this highly probable statement, Pennsylvania proposes to raise one hundred thousand! If the calculations of the Republican journals are true, then, instead of a loan of six millions, Pennsylvania will have to borrow sixty millions; a pretty round sum to begin with. She would do a good deal better to employ that amount, If she can raise it, in building works of public improvement, instead of preparing to attack other States.