New-York tribune., 1868-07-29

amounts to little more than thrtyhree millions rine
more than nall million per regiment eac year IN paper
OF Democratic administration immedlhtey preced,
ing tne war cost per rtglnent iatTy % 10 nOv @ ~ sI @
than the army now costs regiment III paper uhuef the
peace establishment administered by Cen Grant The
scale Of expenditure INDUCED In under the admins
tratOn Of Buchanan would make our present army cost
over seventy millions I'm gold or hundTed millions IN
paper and until the latter figure is exceeded the Demo
cratic parsans OF Buchanan can have no ground to
charge that army expenses eXtrayagant Mhen we
penses, good ground for the high compliment be-
oW s1owga rco Fresieent JGhnSon; ;rocsd
Grants judicious economy as the direct cause
of saving many millions 10 the Treasury" with
Gen Grants election to the Presidency, aud the final
pac6caton Of the Southern States, army will at once
be reduced and the expenditures of the war Depart
longer to be felt burden the taxpayer The com
parisOn in regard TO naval expenditures at the two
periods have named. are equally suggestive and strk
the navy by the official records cost s526599S s9-show
ing an average of more than $l3OOOOOO per annum IN
gold coin. With much larger navy and with the dsad-
vantage of paper money and high prices our appropra-
tOns this year are trife under SlSO0W TAXING the
difference in the size of the navy a the two periods and
the disparity between gold and paper and should be
authorized If we followed tho Buchanan standard OF
penditure in appropratng well nigh $4,000 600 for the
years service These facs are certainly suggestive and
instructive. In our POstOnice expenditures,
pared with those Of the Democratic regime, the
difference 49, If anything more striking than In the
up all the postal receipts the POsOnce Department for
drafts on the Treasury to the amount OF over SOOO
year. year running up TO nearly SOOOOO0 During
whole
service have not averaged g per annum and with
this moderate expenditure have been enabled carry
on the immense mail service IN the interior OF the cont
nent and the shores OF the Pacific through all
mote Territories and sparey peoped sections aud have
also been able to maintain superb line OF mall steamers
from San Francisco To Hong Kong and from NewIOrk
to Rio Janero OF which extraordinary enterprises
and expenditures were levied on the Department during
BuChAnan's administration. These comparisons might
be quite indefinitely continued exhibiting I'm each item
the same result, and demonstrating with mathematical
certainty that when take Into account the vast in
OF population and the rapid and unprecedented
development OF our country during the time the RepuD
can party has been IN power ana when we take INTO ur
heraccOunt tho TACT that We nave the we SUD
Jected as necessity OF tho war To the disadvantage OF
high prices resulting from paper money; taking, say
these facts into account assert and defy contradiction
mat large as our expenditures nave necessarily Deeh hy
have yet been scale Of economy end fidelity quite
unknown during the last Democratic administration that
afflicted the country Ana assert inrthei ana can
both political friend and foe TO the witness stand IN sup
port Of my dec aration that whenever ana wherever
Gen. Grant mas Deen aDo 10 cohiOi gOfoIhmSm4I eN-
pendture, economy integrity, hdeiy, and rgld re-
trepchment and reduction have been the unVaryng re-
sult' CONSIDER further MI. thairhah' uht N,le 'no
Republican party has been providing toe means io ese
expenditures they have been at the same time ciectng
immense reductions in the pubic DEBT ana continually
and largely reducing taxation. Within the three years
that have elapsed since the war closed ana me Army was
mustered out have reduced the public debt between
two and three hundred million dollars and at each ses
sion OF Congress whle ths Teaucton OF le ueot Nns
gong on We have takan on millions upon millions OF thh
alton from the productive industry OF the nation Al tie
yened after the close OF the war taxes were
had the preceding year yielded revenue OF S0WNWO
more OF taxes promptly repealed The NLth Con
grcss has been behind the XNXlXth in this respect
FOR we have already repealed taxes that last gave us
a revenue OF S9O0oO0O0. Aud today the taxes 9t the
Federal Government wisely adjusted ana coueCted
from such that no man feels them burden
some oppressive, or 0Nactlng. lelnagoguc' may MS
rcprcscnt and parsans assail but the people ko"
and feel that today the taxes levied by the Federal Gov
ernment not an oppression 10 the lndNuua hhu not
hiudcrauce to the development OF inc Industrial re-
sources OF the land. The history OF the Republican
partv MIR Chairman Is indeed proud record Inherit
ing bankrupt treasury, dishonored crcail, ana "a
cantic rebellion from the trtorons Administration which
preceded their advent 10 power IN lsol c kcpupchhs
herOically and successfully hpplcd WIN ana tohqutIfu
All these obstacles to the life and progress oI he hh
They replcushed the Treasury; they redeemed our cTe
they sudued the mighes Rebellion that ever ohttd
civil nower since governments Instituted among
men: they struck the shackles from 4,VneO OF
human beings and gave them every clNl fgh uhut INC
ConstutiOn and laws. And while accomplishing THESE
bercueaH sls tho Republican party administered me
Government wisely that prosperity has been a the
time abroad the land; gTeat business enterprises nave
been undertaken and successfully prOsecuted factories
have been built subducd farms brought under
cultivation; navIgable rivers improved; thousands OF
miles OF railways constructed; the continent spanned by
telegraph wires the two well nigh connected by
road Of iron; the cmgrant protected on inc eihot-t
frontier Territories carved out Oiihe wilderness domain
and new states Of promise ana power added 10 lhe
National Union what other party IN the history OF thls
country ever confronted such dincutcsi What other
party ever gained such yictorest But great az lts
achievements have been, ITS work II , no. ' 'ei in
"a o'si'h''H "a 'ilo '''u' l'''
deed are stll raging order ana harmony Coh.latloh
and friendship are 10 he evoked; not Indeed by un
wise concession timd compromise but by mat hrln
polcy which based Right, aud under the leadership
OF one who terribly In earnest In war; rs yet day the
embodiment OF peace the coserHator OF pupc Juallct
the hope OF the loyal millions!