Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-02
REPUBLIoAN GRAND RESULTS.
LFronn dc CInoinnatI Gazettel

From the Cincinnati Gazette.
! The Republican party had, first, tc
save the Republic from being broken
into fragmen by the war of secession
which the rule of the Democratic party
ended. The terrible sacrifices and
| burdens Of that war are the legacy left
10 the country by the party IL had Sc
| generously trusted. The record oi
4 this crime and of the calamities II
I brought will forever accuse the Demo
| cratic party From the national dissO-
luton which it conspired, the Repub-
lioan party, appealing TO the patriot
| ism of the Whole people, rescued the
country. To that proud record there
is no dissenting voice. Then this par
ty had TO administer upon the heavy
burdens which the taersttie crime
had euEal1ed. Il had OdO this against
the malignant opposition Of the Dem
OcraJic party, which continually con-
fessed its identity with national disso-
luJlOn aud dishOnOr by treating the
uebL incurred by the war of national
preservation as one incurred IN their
defeat, and, therefore, which they We're
bound TO dIshOnOr.
Now that another general political
campaign is at hand, The question Is
presented to the American people
whether the Repu Ican party has
wisely administered upon these Demo-
cratic legacIes; whether it has tried to
whether it has faithfully applied the
revenues TO the reduction of the debt /;
or whether IL has so failed in these al
fairs that il should stand aside, in order
that the party which created these
burdens, aud which Is now the same
euemy 10 the national honor that Ii
then was 10 the rational Union, shall
come into the administration of the
Government In taking view of this
gu, stiUn we propose to place but little
stress on The character of the PROPOSE
tion that they wEO committed the
crime shall be trusted to administer
up its consequences for we shall
examine the figures of the results 0t
Republican control of the Govern
ment 10 see if they sh"w such state
that for relief we must fly to the party
that brought these caIauiJies upon Us;
thus initiating the wisdom OF The beasts
who resolved to commit suIciue to
save themselves from slau- hter
In this examination of facts, we shall
take the period since the election OF
General Grant brought the Executive
branch of the Government into the con
troll of the Republican party, and into
harmony with the legislative branch.
This is right Tor two reasons. First, III
irving the question whether a change
of Government would be advisable,
the relevant matter is, what is the
present Governments doing? Second, =,
the Republican Congress was thwarted
bV the treachery of Andrew johnson,
which deprived i, of the control of the
Government. 1t was then paralyzed
bv an Executive who desired to make
its measures aborJive, in order that its
failure might bring in Democratic re-
action. The great affairs in question
now are the reduction of debt, expeu-
ditures and taxes. Let us look at the
main results. The figures we use are
taken from official sources
March 1st, 1869, when the present ad-
ministratiOn began, the national debt,
less cash in the Treasury, was -, 2,525,
463. .26O VI. July IsU, 1870, the debt, ex-
elusive of cash in Treasury, sinking
fund and other bonds purchased, was
81, 1856, ,35S, ,599 IA, being reduction OF
SI3I, ,IO4, $50 II, or over I39 millions III
sixteen months.
BY means of this exhibition of a
financial ability, and financial sys-
tenn that will pay the debt, the public
credit has improved so that i'll the SAME
period of Republican administration
from the 1St of March, 1859, TO the lst
of July, 1870, the 500 coupon bonds Oh
1862 advanced, in London, from 81 lilo
to y05S.
The revenue, from all sources, in the
fiscal year ending Both of June, 1870,
was SAIL ,255, AT %; F.; The expenditures
in the same period, 1922, l24, ,052 Is
>
which, with some of the previous sar-
plus, was applied to the above reduc-
tion of the public debt.
The expenditures for the year ending
March 81, 1869, eleven months of which
were under Johnson's executive ad-
mfnistration, were $34S, ,606, ,245 50 /; for
the year ending January 80, 1860, under
the Repu blican administration, 1912,
LA. .O5z Is, being difference of $50, ,53z,
1J3 81.
There has been purchased by the
Treasury, in the period from May, 1859,
| to June, 1860, bonds to the amount Oh
Sl23. .429, 100; on which there WAS paid
| a prem um of over Is millions. Ado
to this the amount purchased in July,
! SS, ,373 $50, and the premiu IA paid, S755,
| IT'S 80, and we have total amount paiu
| Tor bonds OF $3.50 ,664 ,S7l sc.
One of the strongest signs of an i'm
/ proved administration of government
/ is in the im proved collection of reve-
/ nue.. AIthou h there were mOditica
| tions aud Important reductions in the
| internal taxes under the acts of March
| 3Ist and July goth, 1868, there was in
| tbs Is months from March, 1869, TO
/ Nav. 1870, an increase in the amount
! collected, of 500, $50, $40 70.
| such an Improvement in the collec-
tion has made reduction OF taxation
/ practicable, and the Republican party
! has had the grateful task of beginning
! a large reduction of the Democratic
! Tbus it abolished at the last session
= of Congress, to take effect next May,
all special taxes, except those connecJ-
ed with spirits, tobacco and beer,