Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-09-24


The radicals laoured hard to provo that
Gov Seymour was not loyal man. . tried
statesman. AMI a true Christian gentleman.
They failed They tried as earnestly to
prove that Gen Blair was not a gallant
soldier, ath,roash patriot, and an s1ps
rienced Statesman. In this thoy also fail
81. Their next err.s we're directed to
wards the people Of tbs South. who, 40
oording - radical forgerss and misrsprs-
ssntstions and slandsrs, werc ripe and
ready fot . new rebellion In this direc-
tiea their failures have been Just - sign-
Acsst ~ their attempts 70 injure Governor
Sewn ,ur and General Blair in popular e,t-
nation. Facts irrefl,able aud indisputaol
hAvs e'nf,undcl them at every point, and
81 last thsy are compelled to give attention
iossne Of the lire issues Of the day-.o the
national deb. and federal taxation.
The people have wearied Of the iteratsd
and reiterated falsshoods about Southern
rebellion, and the hypocr,icai cant about
radical lcyalty-thcy want to know some
thing ahout thu IRE i.su.s Of tho day-why
they are so heavily .axed-why the M
i.onai deb,is increasing why the expenses
csths Government: have boon quadrupled. |
ani WHY .hsre arc not retrcnchmen, And |
reform IN these directions. Tho radicals |
ere nov at,smptin; to NEST these issues.
and. in their desperation, arc rssorting to |
every possible quibblc, subtsriugs, and
Misrepresentation to cover up their guilty
proceedings. They tell tho people that
Congress reduced taxation. The people
ssk whsre' rh,y tell the people that Ii.
appropriations OF Congress are . hundred
million less this year than last. But they
forget 90 tell them that these appropris.
lions are not only hundred rallios too
small 10 INSET the current expenses Of the
Govsrnmsnt. but that, from The sworn
monthly statements Of Secretary McOul-
loch, there vii! BE- ds6sit Ct the end Of
he fiscal year Of more than tvs HUNDRED
oiiiion over the appropriations Of Con.
grsss.
They tel the people that the national
debt 10 being reduced; but they fsress that
Secretary McCulloch's msothly staasusnss
6atly contradict such assertions. Month
after month tho debt 10 increasing |
million in June. thirteen million ia Julv.
twelve million in Angus. These ere The |
ngares tha. tell the story.
They continually talsify ofacial state. |
asnts. Thsy tell the people that The q.
psnditures Of the radical standios army Of |
$1,000 men in the South are not % great % |
- statement Of the Secretary Of the Treas
urv clearly shows But hero, too, they
hii dlsastrouslv.
~ the Philadelphia. Public Ledger w
hni tue following confession which must
bs good - araiical soul, and we commend
u - the attention cr radicals and their
newspapers
Secretary Stanton. in his rcpsrt OF De.
csnber, 1865, gave as the cos. Of In. W.,
D'rAr'msnt for the peace organization III.
sum OF thirty three million dollars. From
ofh,ial records Il is shown tina. the War
department., in the ;hrcs years since the
close OF the war, has cost six hundred and
Zen million Of dollars. or more than six
inns the estimate Of Mr.. Stanton"
A very pretty item for taxpaysrs' consid.
grafton.
iHk Gazette being loud on The scent for
Mason. We would modsstly direct 10 alton
ZION to another horizontal republican, to
w't; Gen. Fitzpatrick, indslibly diseraesd
the country he WAS sent to represent At the
capital Of Chill. BY living 10 epss and no.
sefloos adultery with . degraded woman,
and Who added to the otfensivsness Of his
crtminaity an attempt to force . re,osni.
ton Of his mistress from the society with
which his position brought him in contae. |
has arrived in New York for the purpos.
Of taking the stump for Grant and Collar
TnE negroes ezpsllei from the Georgia
legislature are in Washington waiting for |