Has the war ruined the country? : The Copperheads assert that the war has ruined the country; that we can never pay our debt; and that the war has proven a failure. Look at these diagrams, based on official records, and see if this is true. ... Our prosperity has continued to increase in spite of the war, and the moment it is ended we shall go ahead in wealth and power with a rapidity hitherto unknown to any nation on the face of the globe. Is not such a nation able to carry on a war for its own salvation?