Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-07

the three last years of Buchanan's ad~
ministratiOn made drafts on the Treas
ury to the amount of over 81, ,000, ,000.=
During the whole time Che Republicans
have been in power, the drafts on the
Treasury for the support Of me postal
service have not averaged g coo, 600 per
annum, and with this moderate ezpen~
diture we have been enabled focaErv on
the immense mail service in the
interior of the continent and to the
shores of the Pacific, through all our
remote Territories and sparsely peopled
sections, and have also been able to
maintain superb line Of mail steam
ers from San Francisco to Hong Kong.
and from New York to Rio danaEiO,
none of which extraordinary enterpris-
es and expenditures were levied on the
Department during Buchanan,s adj
mln1stratlons
These comparisons might be quite in
definitely continued, exhibiting in each
item the same result, and demonstrat-
ing with mathematical certainty that
when we take into account the vast in
crease of population and the rapid and
unprecedented development OF our
country during the time the Republican
party has been in power, and when we
take into further account the fact thai
we have been all the while subjected as
a necessity Of the war to the disadYan-
tage Of high prices resulting rom paper
money; taking, say, these facts into
account, assert and defy contradiction
that large as our expenditures have nee
essarily been they have yet been on 8
scale Of economy and fidelity quite un-
known during the last Democratic ad-
ministration that afflicted the country.
And I assert further, and / call both
political friend and foe to the witness
stand in support of my declaration,
that whenever and wherever Gen.
Grant has been able to control govern
mental penditure, economy, integrity
fidelity, and rigid retrenchment and
reduction have been the unvarying re-
suit. Consider further, Mr.. Chairman,
that while the Republican party has
been providing the means for these ex-
penditures, they have been at the same
time effecting immense reductions in
the public debt and continually and
largely reducing taxation. Within the
three years that have elapsed since the
war closed and the Army was mustered
between two and three hundred million
dollars, and at each session of Congress
while this reduction of the debt was
going on, we have taken OF millions
upon millions Of taxation from the pro-
duetiye industry of the nation. at the
first session of the XXXLXth Congress
the first that convened after the close o.
the war, taxes were removed that had
the preceding year yielded revenue
| of $50. .OOO, 900, and at the second session
of the same Congress 81 ,000, ,OO0more OF
taxes were promptly repealed. The
XLth Congress las not been behind
| the XXXIXth in this respect, for we
have already repealed taxes that last
| year gave us a revenue Of $50, 900, ,O00.-
| And to-day the taxes of the Fedora
Government are so wisely adjusted
and collected from such few sources
that no man feels them burdensome, op
| pressiYe, or exacting- Demagogues
/ NAV misrepresent and partIsans may
assaiI, but the people know and fee
/ that to-day the taxes levied by the Fed
| eraI Government are not an oppression
| to the individual and not a hinderanct
| to the development of the industrial re
sources of the land. The history of thl
Republican party, Mr.: Chairman, is IN
/ deed a proud record. lnheritlng
bankrupt treasury, a dishonored credit
and gigantic rebellion from the trait
orous Administration which preceded
their advent to power in 1861, the Re
i publicans heroically and successfully
/ grappled with and conquered all thes
i Obstacles to the life and progress of tn,
4 nation. They repIenished the Treas
I ury; they redeemed our credit; theI
subdued the mightiest Rebellion tina
Il ever confronted civil power since gov
lernments were instituted among men
| they struck the shackles from 1900, 100
human beings, and gave them ever
civil right under the Constitution ant
i laws. And while accomplishing thesl
4 hercu1ean tasks, the Republican party
administered the Government so wise
/ II. that prosperity has been all the tim
| abroad in the land; great business en-
terprises have been undertaken and sue
cessfully prosecuted; factories hav
been built; the forest subdued; farm
brought under cultivation; naYigabl
rivers improved; thousands of miles o
railway constructed; the cOntinen
lspanned by telegraph wires; the tWi
oceans well nigh connected by roaC
Of iron: the emigrant protected on tn
remotest- frontier; Territories carYei
/ out of the wilderness domain; and new
/ States of promise and power added t.
| the National Union. What other part
| in the history of this country ever con
| fronted such difficulties What othe
I party ever gained such victories 2 Bot
4 great as its achievements have been, it
work is not yet finished. Out of tn
fierce conflicts of the recent past, con
ficts indeed are still raging; order anC
I harmony, conciliation and friendship
are to be evoked; not indeed, by un
! wise concession and timid comprom Use
but by that firm policy which is baseC
I on Right, and under the leadership o
one who, so terribly in earnest in war
| is vet to-day the embodiment of peace
| the conserVator of public Justice, thu
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