The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-08-20

francisco to Hong Kong and FROM
New. York to Rio Janeiro, none Of
which xtraUfdinafy enterprises aud
expenditures swAre levied, unithe De-
lpartment during Budhapan'sl admin
These comperisso,nay might b. quite
indefinitely continued, exhibiting in
each item the same result, and dem
-0Rstratihg with mathematical cor.
tainty that when We, take, into ac-
count the vast increase Of population
and the rapid and unprecedented de-
yelopment Of our country during the
'timethe Republican party has been
in power, land when we take into fur
Their account the fact that, we have
been all the while subjected as q ne
,cessity of the wal, to, the disadvan-
tage Of high prices resulting from pa
per money; taking, / Say, these facts
into account, il assert and defy COM
tradiction that large as our expendi.
lures have necessarily been they
have yet been on a scale Of economy
and fidelity quite unknown during
the last Democratic administration
that afflicted 1.-THE tcountry.4s'Andl I
assert further, and / call both politi-
cal friend and foe to the witness stand
in support Of my declaration, that
whenever and wherever General
Grant has been able to control gov
ernmentAl expenditure, economy, in
tegrity, fidelity, and rigid retrench-
ment and reduction have been the
unvarying result. 8 e '.'tP aeas
~ Consider further, Mr. Chairman,
that while the Republican party has
been providing the means for these
expenditures, they have been at the
same time efecting immense rednc-
tions III the public debt and contin-
daily and largely reducing taxation.
Within the three years that have
elapsed since the war closed and the
Army was mustered out, we have re-
duced the public debt between two
and three hundred million dollars,
and at each session oflCongress,
while this reduction Of the debt was
going on, we have taken off millions
upon millions ofstaxation from the
productive industryJof the nation
At thsf first session of the Thirty
Ninth Congress, the first that con-
vened after the close Of the war, tax
est were removed that had the pre-.
ceding year yielded q revenue Of six
ty million dollars, and at the second
session OF the same Congress forty
one millions moro Of taxesoiwere
promptly repealed. d The aFortieth
Congress- has not been behind the
Thirty Ninth in this respect, for we
have already repealed taxes that last
year gave usa revenue Of ninety mil
lions. And to-day thetltaxes -of,the
FederaluG Government are So wisely
adjusted, and collected from such
few sources that no man feels them
burde nsoime, oppressive, or exacting.
Demago gnes may n1isfepreseht and
partisans may Assaal, sbht the people
know and ifeci that to-day the taxes
levied by the Federal Government
are not ~ oppression to the individ-
ual and not q hinderance to the de-.
veiopmeht 0f the industrial resour-
ces Of thedland. so3oaeiI oy8d ae
1.-The history of the Republican par
~, Mr.. Chairman, 10 indeed q proud
record. Ipheriting q. bankrupt Treas
ury, .. disAonored credit, and q gi-
gantic rebellion from the traitorous
Administration which preceded their
advent to power in 1861, the Repub-
licans, / heroicslly j and successfully
grappled With and conquered all
these obstacles, TO the life and prog
ress Of The nation. They raplcnish-
edthe Treasury; they redeemed our
credit; they subdued the mightiest
rebellion that ever confronted civil
power since. governments were in
stituted among men; they struck the
'shackles from four millions of hu-
man beings, and gave them every
civil right ounderi the Constitution
and laWs.io and while accomplishing
these hefculeRn; tasks, the Repubi-
can party administered the Govern
nent b wisely that prosperity has
been all the time abroad 10 the land;
CREST business enterprises, have been
undertaken and successfully pr0secu-
ted; factories have been built; tho for
est subdued; farms brought under
cultivation; navigable rivers improv-
ed; thousands Of miles Of railway
constructed; the continent spanned
by telegraphic wires; the two oceans
well nigh connected by a road of iron;
the emigrant protected on the reno
test frontier; Territories carved out
Of the, wilderness domain; and new
States Of promise and power added
to the national Union.
What other party in the history
OF this country ever confronted such
What other party ever
gained such victories? But great as
it's achievements have been, its work
is not yet finished. Out of the fierce
conflicts Of the recent past, conflicts
indeed still raging, order and harmo-
ny,aconciliation ond friendship, are
yet to be invoked; not, indeed, by I'M
wise concession and timid con1pro-
mise, but by that firm policy which
s based on Right, and under thu, lea
iership Of one, who, SO terribly ear
lest in war, is yet to-day the en-
'odiment Of peace, the Conservation
4 public justice, the hope ofthe Il ~
! millions 1. aas q g