Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-09-10
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What the Administration has Done.

In these days of war against rebels
and assaults against the Administra.
ton by rebels at home, Republicans are
prone to look into the future rather
than at the retrospect, and in their i'm.
patience at the seeming slow progress
of events, and of the tardy approach
of the desired success forget what has
been accomplished during the last
two momentous years of our national
history. Men are bewildered with de-
tails, and do not sec the rounded COM
plete national successes, which the
Administration have accomplished.
AT this moment when the Shareholders
rebellion begins to totter, it is we'll to
look back over the field, see what we
have gained, and as certain, whether
slight errors of detail which appertain
to every government, are not overbal-
anced by the successes of it's policy.
The Philadelphia North American so
happily sums up the successes that
we cannot refrain fom quoting them
lst 1t has made this Republic the
greatest military power in the world.
I'd. 1t has retrieved the national
credit, and placed it upon such basis
that it cannot again be shaken.
Sd. 1t has given us national pa
per currency, so far superior to the
wild cat paper previously flooding the
country that everybody rejoices in
the change. ......
4th. 1t has given protective tariff,
not likely to be changed in policy for
a long time to come. '# |
5th. 1t has abolished slavery and
polygamy in all the national Terrific
ries, and put an end forever to all de-
signs of the South upon our vast do
main.
9Th Its policy has enabled the peo-
pie of West Virginia and Missouri to |
rid themselves of slavery by means of
a judicious system of gradual emanci- |
patton.
18th. 1t has added Kansas to the
Union as free State.
Sth. 1t has reconquered the whole |
Mississippi Valley.
9th. 1t has in the midst of the war
held with an iron grasp and fostered |
and defended all the previously organ
lied and existing Territories, and has
also organized the new Territories of
Dacotah, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, and
Arizona. ......... at# -
l6th. 1t has fortified our Northern Dor
der, our Atlantic and our Pacific coasts |
with immense works, and given us a
large and formidable navy, so that
we are in a complete posture of de-
fence against any European foe.
18th. 1t has rcconquered Maryland
West Virginia, Kentucky, West Ten
nessee, Missouri, Northern Arkansas,
Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, and
parts of other rebel States.
18th. 1t has retaken nearly every
leading city in the South, including |
st. Louis, New Orleans, Nashville,
Vicksburg, Memphis, Natchez, Nor
folk, Pensacola, Newbern, Baltimore
and Alexandra.
18th. 1t has rccaptured nearly eve
ry Fort on the Southern coast for
merly belonging to the Union.
l4th. 1t has developed enormous
financial power in the loyal States, far
exceeding anything ever dreamed of
before in this country.
18th. 1t has demonstrated that the
resources of the North are inexhausti-
BILE, and that the most gigantic war
cannot impair them.
10th. But, greater than all, it has
demonstrated the unbounded and in
vincible strength of the national Gov
ernment, which defies rebellions, and
is able to cope with any foe, internal
or external.