, 1869-07-01

when mhu commits an assassination he
win DO so expecting to be Bssassinated in
turn. Whsn matters take TINT turut iHies
will probably understand the heiuous char
.:cter o! The crime OF murder,
FOUR EoNTHs OF GRANT.
While commanding the general ain, and
influence of President Grants adlninistra-
ton, We have critisel freely and, i'll motive
nt least, iupartially, such features rs, it
seemed to us, Eight have been more wisely
ordered. Others have their rieos Of che
proper mode Of conducting. newspaper.
This is in accordance with oHrz- While it
is President Grants huainess 10 plaraGe the
rovernment, il is ours TO conduct iHE
Ts1arxE and we held il no more iudis-
penssble that WI shall agree II Ill things
With 1i1a than that he shall
/ aeree with us. II our criticism Of
feasuse1 we oppceed has not
~,snss been 9uali8ed md offset by an e1-
r.eN statement Of ths nany things in his
: = ,'.3stration which ne cordially approve,
:; !, aeause the treatment If the current
'op:ra If the dov does not make it relevant
possible to say everything in any one
s1ticlc Haring. been frank in criticism
j.: = Tor points, chiefly Of his -r
..-4:,:::st pe1song to public Office IN graft
snc. ~. private tarors rendered to him, we
x ~ more free TO ray TINT the results Of
;..- d. ainiAt.ation, thRs far, Justify the
NO: ardent hopes Of those who
= - him, and, II fairly considered,
s1us;, Hsa1m the malice even OF
:.,>;- hose occupation it is to oppose
lun c;at or wrong, The platform on
~..sic!- General Grant was made President
u1.s essentially that Ct Retrenchment,
Economy and Reform. The revenue ser
vice was then SO demoralized that Cpumis-
sione1 Wells estimated our n1,nuA loes from,
this source 1T eighty millions Of dollars.
Corruption seeuaed to be fast becoming the
rule, and the collection Of the revenue an
mpossibility, Par1ies- convicted Of de-
frauding the revenue were seldom prose-
cnted, and, il convicted, were pardoned
We appeal to the candid recollection Of our
readers il the chef claim put forward BY the
mass OF President Grants supporters vas
not that he would zeduce the expenses
of the government, increase IT. revenues,
reduce its debt, ind restore the country to
solvency. To this urgent need Of the hour
President Grant has frs. addressed himself.
What is the result The cry OF corruption
has ceased The "whiaEey ring, Ike the
s.pardou brokers" and the ''rehel Con-
" gress, is forgotten term An inspiring
change has come over the rereuue service.
In May, leGs, under johnson, the whiRkey
tar, at two dollars per. gallon, yielded
81 ,40o, 600. In May, 1869, under Grnt. ts1
one.tbi1d as high yields three times that
SUN, or $500, 900, with thirty-siz col
lection districts yet to bear frenn. TIE sast
three quarters Of fiscal year beginning
:; 1scs, yielded only ss51, 600, 600 Of
revenne. The current quarter viii yield
slO0, 900 100, or at the rate Of $50, ,0oo, 900
Per year moro thau was collected undex
Andrew Johnson-thrs verifying Commis-
Eaoner Wells estina1& Of tho amount q our
former ienkage, and proving that It has
been tightly plugged Up, ,
Turning to onr e1Iensa account We
find tim: during Es 1erst th1ee quarters oa
41.- .rscar year {upder Jolnson) our e1psn~
ses averaged ex:eed;ng ss5, ,C9o, 600 Fer
quarter. During tbs currsnt quarter they
will not exceed SG5 rtoo, ,0oc, or S2n ;7oo0, ,oot
Iess than before-au annual saving, It.
Kept mp. Of SEQ, 900, 600 a year. AS
the discharge Of 4s15riAds Of redundant
clerks and officers which iiAs trnnapired
did not rs fully tell en- the first quarters
e1pepses sa it viii On the others, We rec no
--~-----L-- 41.4- -4-.-s -4he E1u+ 4sA4 te4
should not be equalled throughout the rear.
u SO, the joint gain oE both revenue and
expenses will txnoupt 70. $lG0, 200, ,0c0 q
year, gain whi.h seem5almost Impossible,
as the result ut whatever administering
skill.
Though P1eslien. Jchnson's outgoing
Secretaries protested against the appEorsia-
tious by Congress for the current year as
wholly inadequate, and predicted hrge
| deficiency, it is Tow known that there viii
be a surplus Of 93T, ,oao, 800, AMI for The
first time IN many years there Will be M
deficiency bll' before Congress- Where
Secretary McCnnoeh dcclArcd he could MOI
possibly get along With so Little, ar-- Bout
well will return thu. he has been unhble t.
! e1peud 50 much.
That fearful nest OF corruption, the In
dim B41enn, has been broken up, and tn
services it formerly failed to render arc be
inc efficiently performed by army e1bal
terms. who we're then loungiue around th'
cities, but whom Grant has detailed II
special duty on tho frontier whezevaz the
could be; eet at work.. The bureaus and de
partcpents hare been rigosaahiy, and With
,ut fayut. .-kGep ept clean Of al pretended funs
- :.cr1;sos ~Ao draw salaries fsesn the 60,
u srum,s,} while giving most OF all their TIM
! 70 priyate business. 1ubeciles and k1lavs
have been. weedsd out. In Al this Pres
dent Grant has, kept the promise Of his pla
form and inaugural, and the result is see
, in the balance
RI. Nor do we count it the least Of reais
! TINT President Gt1nt has exhibited a1t
/ principle Of political fidelity to tho par
l TINT placed him in office. The tenptatr
f I, desert those. who elected him, to XII
1 fron unile. him the ladder on which
d rse, assails President under the specie
b cr1ise Of uon-partisanship. It has lnsed
g their ruin sona Of the Rhlest OF Amerlc
IS etatcsncu. General Grant has shown, ho
J. ever, That the sa1ue feeling Of gss:attu
J. which he haa manifested id excess towa
n bis personal friends for1ns the basis Of
u uhswerving political consistency 10 his re
tions 10 the party TINT elected him Ert
lie pubic nnd private &C: Of his adrn'nistrasi
H. has been dignihod, sensible md ju
,g Nothing is done for sensation. The N
s. CT enptiou from Johnsonh brawli1g
ID rappucs is in ifseh IN infinite relief.
ho Reconstruction, under the special
d. effective influence o. the President, is
nd vancing with silent rapidsty. In virgi
IT. aud Texas We witneas new ptanome,
be illustrative Of the progress Of oP,n'
MA Neither State has at present any Democr
.e- party, OK any party that opposes the
a frnehisement ot the negro. There
in only Conservative Republican aud has
ID .,=pus,l.eon patties, Tho former sssan
OF free ballot for rebels, the lsttes rest11c
inc il, The annIhilAtion Of the De11oc,
tha marty in two States is aceonPa
by its paralysis almost every1t
Is deuagoeical capital is gone.
Ia. hostility to Grant is meaningless, and
Of called for. Intelligent criticism Is a.