The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-08-13

was expended TO alleviate the sufferinpy
OF whites, the Democrats might be
shamed into stopping the other half Of
THEN abuse.
d Finally, the expenses contingent up
on the acts Of Congress regulating Re
construction have been $2,344,700,
which is also far below the amount Civ
by the Democratic candidate for Prcsi-
dent and his followers.
EIGHT YEARS OF l1ARvELs.
From the New York lndependent.
Ulysses 8. Grant-a salesman in 4
leather store at Galena, ILL.,, in April,
1860, and in 1863 General of the
Amy Of the United States the nomi-
nee Of the Republican party for the
next presidency, and in all human prob
ability. President from the fourth of
Of next March--is certainly personal
marvel, The like is seldom witnessed
10 the history rof man. u; So great a
change shows an immense power Of
growth. There was something in the
man, as there must have been some
thing peculiar in the circumstances Of
this transition period, to: explain the
almost unparalleled phenomenon. The
General undoubtedly was concealed in
the salesman, waiting for the rebellion
to supersede the latter by the former
We sometimes wonder whether Gen.
Grant really knows himself: Such .
p.odigious alteration imposes a very
heavy task + g.. upon ones consciousness
Of personal Identity, . ~~
Slavery; with its four millions of
groaning victims, and ito three hun
dred Thousand slaveholders- in 1860
intrenched in the Constitution Of the
country, armed with it's fugitive slave
law, backed up BY the whole strength
:of the Democratic party, fortified by an
invested capital in flesh aud blood of
not less than two thousand millions of
dollars, apologized for Or defended in
the Christian pulpit, having almost
complete control Of the legislative, ju-
dlcial; aud executive departments Of
the General Government, represented
inforeign courts, and seemingly destined
to live for centuries and this same
slavery III 1868 dead and gone, buried
too deep in the earth for any resurrec-
tion morn ever to visit it, and its hu-
man cbattels lifted to the legal status
Of men, with all the civil and political
rights which belong to men-this in
deed, is one Of those wonders in human
society which but for the strongevidence
of fact would staeger all belief: Who
killed slavery The devil killed it by
tempting il to sin away its day Of grace.
God killed; it b. the lightnings Of =
righteous providence. Traitors killed
it in seeking to destroy good govern
ment. Patriots killed it in pouring out |
tdeir blood upon the altar of their
country. The Abolitionists killed it
in teaching men to sympathize with
those in bonds as bound with them.
Abraham Lincoln killed it by his i'm
mortal Emancipation Proclamation.-l
The Gospel of Jesus killed it With its
golden rule. The spirit of the age
killed it. And, last Of all, Andrew
johnson killed it by his persistent de-
termination not to kill it. With so
many killers to do the work, and I'LL
working at the same time, and really
for the same end, it is not after all SO
surprising that the work is done.
Never since the day that God buried
Pharaoh and his slave-hunters in the
Red Sea has there been such general
and rapid slaughter of slavery. His
tory presents no equal concentration Of
natural forces to break down "the
vilest system on which the sun ever
shone," and reconstruct society on the
broad basis of human rig ghts.
The creation of an army of a million Of
soldiers among people unused to war,
and hardly knowing whether they
could Eight or not, and then the peace
full retirement Of that army back into
the bosom Of society-and that too
without any peril to public order, or to
the civil power-this is really one Of
the prodigies Of our times. An almost
equal prodigy is the financial question, |
rolling itself ur into huge dimensions
not dreampt Of in the outset, and yet
being carried along with the skill and
energy Of power whose success pro-
claims its vast resources. The most
formidable rebellion the world ever
saw defeated and conquered; ;. the
treachery Of = faithlew President that
Providence. ever gave to American
people; reoonstruetiou delayed, yet
winning the most important victories
by this: very delay; the political en-
franchisement of a down-trodden race
these and the like facts crowd the
history of a century into . fragment
of time. v..: -. Ga.. .-..
1t will be we'll for our readers to re-
member E;r.t- That Government bonds
are taxed Eve per cent. ON their inter-
oak in The ino0me tax. iuat tha aayma