Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-23
currency that much better off, is fairly
to be credited to the Administration.
REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURES.

REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURES.
Filthy: The National expenditure
have also been largely and steadily de
creased from the day President Gran
took the oath of Office The year en-
ding July, 1869 (partly Johnson's tern
and partly Grants }, they were $50, 900,
600 less than the previous year. Tn
year ending July, 1870. they were $40,
ooO, 900 less than in 1869. And tn,
present year, ending next July, the
viii be from ST, 100000 to $4,000, 90,
less than the fiscal year Just closed
And here I must not omit this Demo
cratic testimony from the special dis
patch of the Cincinnati Enquirer, dateC
Washington, June 80, 1860, which
proves out of the mouth of an enemy
how promptly this Administration com
menced the work of reducing the ex
penses of the Government:
"The fiscal year closed to-day, and all tn,
old appropriations expired. Tomorrow
the Government goes forward on reduced
appropriations. The result is that severa
Nearly 200 were in the Treasury and so wer.
In the War Department. So far some go
removals have been made from the Treas
ury Department"
And this retrenching work has beer
steadily pushed forward ever since II
every department of the Government
Internal revenue officials are being re
duced, and when the recent reduction!
take effect their number is to be still
further lessened, districts to be consoli
dated, and the expenses of that branch
Of service largely curtailed.
will not stop to make a balance
sheet; but an Administration that, with.
out any increase of taxation, can in.
crease the receipts of our National
Treasury, under the tariff and tax laws
over $50, 1000, 900 in its first eighteen
months over the amount collected by its
predecessor in its last eighteen months
can pay off in the samo time $I7o,-
600, 900 of our national debt-can strike
off, at one blow, $50, 900, 900 of burden
some taxation-can reduce our national
expenditures 500, ,ooo, 900 in the first
eighteen months of this Administration
and can make the currency, in the
pockets of the people worth 500, 900, ,ooc
more than when it entered on its duties
deserves the confidence of the people,
whose interests it has so faithfully served
and can bear Philosophically the un-
LAol cAA4A DlLAEIa ClLLlClSl1AS " WHICH II las
been subjected by its enemies. What
results could the most exacting
have demanded of the Administration?
EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAws
In nothing, however, has the Repuli-
can party won prouder glory and more
honor than in pressing for
ward to the consummation of the great
principle of equality before the law, and
it irrevocably in our Nation
al Constitution. Through all the ages
that are to come to this land of ours,
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Amendments of the Constitution
will stand as monuments of the rights
Of all, a trinity of measures, working a
triple safeguard for the poor and hum
Bile, and nobly carry out in our supreme
law that God-given principle, "Whatso-
ever ye would that other would do unto
you, do you even so unto them" Now,
if ever before, we can declare as a ma
lion that we have obeyed that command
Of the Creator, proclaimed amid the
-hunders of Sinai, there shall be but
one law for him that is born among you
and for the stranger" and henceforth
thanks to Republican fidelity and, in
spite of the bitterest opposition from our
enemies at every step, the Constitution
like the Ten Commandments and the
Lords Prayer, regards man as man,
under the same equality before the hui
man law as he is before the divine law
under the same obligations and enti-
He'd to the same privileges, whether the
wealthiest or the poorest, the most pow
erful or the humblest, of all our millions
Of citizens.
Fortunate indeed was it for our coun-
Try that it had a party which dared to
defy prejudice, to brave obloquy, to
hazard even political destruction, for the
Right. Slavery had dominated in Con-
gress. 1t had controlled Presidents. 1t
had dictated both our foreign and do
mestic policy. 1t had captured our Su-
preme Court. 1t had muZzled pulpits.
It had broken every party that would
not bend before it, but, in the darkest
hour of the war it brought upon US for
having dared to decide against the ex-
tension of its already broad area
and enormous power, the Republican
party, inspired as l believe from that
Throne whence flow all good impulses,
determined to hurl themselves upon it,
and to bury it with the rebellion, which
it had inspired, in a common grave.
There were fearful odds against us-the
battle front of the South and the serried
hosts of the Democracy of the North,
From the latter especially came the bit
terest denuciations, the most usparing
invective, the darkest prophecies of evil
But over all, and against all, we
The Thirteenth Amend
ment was ratified and proclaimed, the
dark stain of Human Bondage was
erased from our national escutcheon
and the nation declared that wherevel
our flag hoated over our soil, no one
should bow to any master but God.
But it was soon seen that to give free
dom without protection would leave the
still defiant enemies of liberty, power
wherever they might control Courts, o.
Legislatures, or Administrations, Il
thwart this mandate of the people, anC
virtually to re-enslave those whose fet
tiers the nation had broken. And thu
Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteeing
an equality of civil rights to all, viii
other wise provisions, was proposed
The same war was made upon it by ou
enemies, as they had Intellectually made
against the Amendment of freedom
But again the right triumphed, and th'
ratification of this amendment was pro
claimed While this was still pending
it became evident that the universal suf
frage of the Reconstruction acts in tht
South, if allowed to stand only as legis
lative enactments. might be overthrown
whenever, by any means-a reign o
terror at the polls or the occasional ebl
and flow of politics. hostile majorit.
could be secured in any Southern Leg
islature; and beside this, the Republi
can organization realized at last NOR
fully than ever before, that justice re
quired them to make the law of equa
suffrage, which had been enacted orig
nally for the Confederate States, a
broad as our national domain. From
these convictions of duty, the Fifteenth
Amendment emanated. 1t conferre'
suffrage on no one. 1t dictated to n
State what sex or age or residenc
should be required; but in a few i'm
pressive words, that trampled down al
sophistries, all prejudices, all class dis
tinctions, and that fully recognized tn
spirit of the noble sentiment of the Scot
ish bard, that, in spite of poverty or mi.
fortune, or helplessness,
"a mans man for a. that"