Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-23
THE
REPUBLICAN RECORD.
THE
GREAT SPEECH OF VICE PRE-
DENT COLFAX.
Delivered at south Bend, Indians
Sept. 10.



Ny FRIENDs: I come before you to.
/ day to vindicate both the Administra.
/ tion and the Congress from the attacks
made upon them by their enemies
and to prove to you, by figures
as well as argument that they
both deserve the confidence oi
the American people. Your own
/ long continued friendship and partial
| ity, for the past 20 years, renders ii
dress you in a canvass like this, with
out being at the same time a candidate
for your suffrage, and as it is we'll
I known to many of you that I intend
that the present term shall close my
connection with public lie and public
duties, I might perhaps have felt it
my duty to avoid this labor. But it is
to me a duty both Of pleasure and OF
gratitude-a labor of love and of JUS
tice-to give you the reasons for the
faith have so confidently expressed
in my opening sentence, and to prove
by the majority of the people in 1868,
in the election of a Republican Presi-
dent and Republican Congress, has
not been misplaced.
PUBLIC ExPENDITUREs-GRAN CON
TRAsTED WITH BUCHANAN.
We are told by our political oppo-
nents that the Democratic party must
be restored to power in order to have
retrenchment and reform in every
branch of the Government, and TO
have justice and protection for all citi-
zens. We have two illustrations of
the results of Democratic rule and its
effect in achieving these desirable ends.
Mr.. Buchanan's Administration, the
last Democratic Administration in our
history, is one, and New York City,
with its immense Democratic major
ty, its undisguised corruptions, its fla
grant expenditures, its oppressive and
increasing taxation, its mum berless
and upunished murders and outrages,
is tho other illustration. In these two
behold the entertainment to which our
opponents invite US
In the last Democratic -Administra-
tion, we have their model of National
rule. Commencing with SIT ,000, 900 in
the Treasury, and by the exhibit of
July. 1857, a debt, not yet due, of but
S2O. .OO0, 600, yet by the next fiscal year
this cash on hand had been spent, and
the debt on July 1, 1858 had been in
creased to S44, 600, 600 Another year
passes by, and, on July /, 1853, the
debt (and all this in time Of peace) had
swollen to S58, ,0OO, 900. Another year
| increased it to $65.O00,000, and when
our last Democratic President surren-
dered the White House to his success
sor, he gave him with 1t debt fnear-
| ly $40, ,000, 600 as a legacy, and shat
tered credit that had been paying at
the rate of II per cent. interest per
year for small loans to pay current
expenses. The expenditures, too, Of
that Administration, at gold rates, and
before the enhancement Of prices of
supplies, labor, DC, caused by the war,
were, during its four years, $50, 600, 600,
$50, 600 600, 81, Goo 900, and S85, ,000, 900 re-
spectively, an average of $50, ,O00,O 900
per year. Deducting 81, ,0O0,0O0 as the
average appropriation then for postal
service from three and a half to six
millions of which were paid out of the
Treasury, and the rest paid by pos
tages), two and three-quarters of a
million of dollars per year as the aver
age of interest on the public debt it
| created, and one million yearly fOI
pensions and expenses of PensOn-Of-
| ice, and it leaves an average Of over
S64, 600, 900 in gold for the ordinary cur
rent expenses of administering a Gov
ernment for a population averaging
during his term about %, 600, 600 ofpeo-
pie. or about 1925 piece in gold.
/ Let us look now at the apprOpria-
/ tions for the service of the present is-
cal year, exclusive of the interest or
the National debt, made by a Repub-
Hcan Congress for Republican Ad
ministration, and a population of over
40, ,OO0,OO0 They are as follows