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administration as they considered Lincoln S
"a success. And they are right. For
Grants administration IS collecting
the reoenue, economizi>g the e1pendi-
tures, and paytmy the debt. When Gen.
Grant was il iraugurated the National Debt
was $2,73S, ,S03,59S. At the end of his
first year it was S2,651, ,66S, S,795, and
since then it has been steadily reduced in
ever increasing ratio. Yet taxes have
not been increased On the contrary,
special taxes have from time to time been
largely reduced, imposts have been re-
moved, the burden has been more and
more lifted from protective industry, and
at this very moment, in accordance with
Gen. Grants earnest desire, modified
Tax and Tariff bill is before the Senate,
having already passed the House, which
takes off at a single stroke 60,000,00
more. Y ct the revenue increases. What,
under johnson, went inro the pockets of
the thieves, goes, under Grant, into the
Golfers of the Treasury, and its amount is
deducted from the annual taxation.
Grants ADMINISTRATION, though that Of
the most Successful and renowned soldier
Of his age, IS earnestly seekiag peace acih
all nations and aroidimg entanglimg aHi-
ances. We have not always been able to
agree with some details Of his foreign pol
icy; but this is its net result. Personally
a known devotee of the doctrine of Man.
ifest Destiny, Gen. Grant has shown so
scrupulous a regard for the rights of our
weaker neighbors that the suspicious Mex
leans have ceased to distrust him, and the
critical and unfriendly British Cabinet
and press are forced to accord him reluc-
tant praise. Ifhe has not done all things
as to Cuba, as we would wish them, we are
bound at least to recognize the fact that
hehas preserved our burdened people from
war, protected our crippled commerce from
depreciation, and made energeticdiploma-
tic efforts for the protection Of American
citizens in insurrectionary regions.
Grants administrator has kept the
peace on the frontier We have been
threatened with an Indian war that, un-
der former management, would have swal-
lowed up hundreds of millions. With a
Soldier at the head Of the Government,
we might have looked for the logic of the
bayonet, in the Interpretation of Indian
treaties, protection Of the advancing rail-
roads, and opening up Of the Indian Coun-
try. Instead we have had an Indian
placed at the head of the Bureau, con-
trolling the relations of the Government
with his people, Quakers selected for In
dian Agents, the wishes of Sherman and
Sheridan held in check, and Spotted Tail
and Red Cloud brought peacefully to
Washington at the moment when their
barbarous hordes seemed ready to raise
the war-whoop and ply the scalping-knife
along hundreds of miles of our exposed
settlements. We reckon the economy of
Grants Quaker policy, not less than the
economy wrought by an honest collection
Of our revenue.
Grants administration has secured
The triumph Of Equal Rights. For the
passage of the XVIII Amendment we owe
him grateful thanks. Against him it
might possibly have been carried with
his earnest, cordial, and efficient co-opera-
ton it was certainly attained more speed
lily, and without a serious struggle, In
this and in all other leading measures, he
has been true to the principles of the
party that elected him has lent his
most faithful and powerful aid to secure
their triumph, and has honestly admins
tered his great Office in their light. He
has utterly disappointed the Democratic
prediction that he would betray the Re-
publicans; and hence their wrath. He
has most cheerfully co-operated with Con-
gress; has never hesitated to advance
opinions of his own that differed from
those of Congress, and has never delayed
heartily to execute the will of the people,
when once expressed through its voice.
With most decided wishes and policy Of
its own, on many points, there never was
an Administration with less pride Of opin-
100, or more grace in yielding to the pop
ular verdict, as uttered by the represent
atives of the people.
Grants administration recognizes The
,ohole people. 1t is no rule of the army
over its conquered foe. Every effort is
made to obliterate the bitterness Of war
to win back our late foes to that hearty
support of the Government essential tc
our National safety and prosperity,--tt
make this again in reality one people,
In this spirit have been many past acts o
the President; in this spirit now is th'
wise and timely nomination of Mr.. Aker
man of Genrria for q nlace In tho Cnhi