Pennsylvania | *57,915,469 | 7,048,637 | 4,666,702 |Nov. 30, 1872 Rhode Island | *3,025,142 | 700,133 | 634,501 |April 30, 1873 South Carolina| *5,409,320 | 1,658,083 | 1,655,601 |July 30, 1873 Tennessee | *10,285,389 | 1,938,330 | 1,074,064 |Dec. 31, 1872 Texas | *1,105,266 | 1,105,710 | 1,105,641 |Aug. 31, 1872 Vermont | *2,592,200 | 627,490 | 348,075 |July 31, 1872 Virginia | *8,530,416 | 2,421,945 | 2,761,310 |Sept. 30, 1873 West Virginia | *561,767 | 679,690 | 719,545 |Sept. 30, 1873 Wisconsin | 8,880,029 | 1,624,559 | 1,648,023 |Sept. 30, 1873 +--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- Total | $586,131,743 | $86,598,187 | $77,786,566 | CHAPTER XVI. WAR DEPARTMENT. Men, unfortunately, have never been able to so arrange their mutual relations as to dispense with violent and deadly contests. Although they are less frequent and shorter now than formerly, they are more costly and more destructive, and every nation is still, as formerly, obliged to anticipate the possibility of war and to make provision for its sudden occurrence, that it may not be borne down and overwhelmed by the first shock. It is an event so probable, even, and especially if the country should be in a defenseless state, that it has become a maxim of prudence with statesmen to avoid war by being prepared for it. The nation that can best repel an attack is least likely to be attacked. Most governments, like our own, had their birth and early history in the confusion and devastation of that great destroyer of life and property; and it is natural that the first leisure of peace should be occupied in preparing themselves, in the most effective manner possible, for both defensive and offensive operations in case of its return.