The Republican journal., 1870-10-20

enough to enter into their schemes of plumber |
and political despotism, they assailed him
with a bitterness unexampled. The Con-
gress, the press, the pulpit, the General of
the army, (now President,) the whole radical
party, turned against him, and from all
quarters there fell around him shower of
epithets and falsehoods that it would puzzle
the vocabulary and wickedness of hell to
equal. lie has been in retirement now more
than eighteen months, but the hatred Of the
radicals still exists in all its original fervor,
and they lose no opportunity that offers TO
villify him and misrepresent his official con
duct.
But an honest and truthful comparison
between the financial management under his
administration and that under the admins
redemption of the public debt is concerned
the former reduced it more in TWO YEARS
AND NINE MONTHS than the latter will in NINE
YEARS at the rate he has been redeeming it
since he was installed in the Presidency.
If the radical press could be believed John
son never redeemed dollar of the public
debt, whereas the fact is that from the 1st OF
April, 1865, to the 1st of January, 1868, he
paid one thousand and sixty-six millions.
We have the authority of Mr.. Boutwell,, the
present Secretary of the Treasury, for this.
He made the statement in speech delivered
by him in the House of Representatives, July
81, 1868.
In comparison with his immense reduction
under Johnson's administration, to what pig
my dimensions the reductions made by
Grants administration dwindle.
johnson redeemed at the rate of over S32, :
100000 monthly. Grants average is about
average; and yet the radical press sings out
in its loudest tones every month hosannas to
Grant for his large reduction of the public
debt.
The truth is no administration since the
foundation of the government has been so
badly conducted. None was ever so extrav-
agant in its expenditures-so lavish of the
public funds The government collectors
consume nearly one-half the taxes collected
in salaries and stealings; in every custom
house in the country there have been defalca-
tons, amounting, in the aggregate, to many
millions of dollars, which will never be re-
covered, or at least never go into the treasury.
In every branch of the administration corrup-
ton is the rule, honesty the exception-and
while the country stands lettering on the
verge of ruin, the radical press and orators
are urging the people to vote their tickets,
State and local, in order to perpetuate a
power which is gradually undermining the
government politically, morally and tnan-
cially. Harrisburg Patriot
The Portland Echo has an article headed
g New Cider a Dangerous Beverage" in
which the great dangers from that exciting
drink are glaringly set forth. After accusing
this malignant beverage of various Other
crimes and offences, il concludes with IN in
stance of murder
The murderer Howard. who took the life of Miss
Harrison, in Rochester. n. " confessed that his
courage failed him when he first planned to perpe
trate the deed; and it was not until he went into
the cellar and drank freely of cider that he was
nerved to accomplish his mllrderous purpose.
Would it be proper to ask, as one seeking
information, how long it would have taken
Howard to have nerved himself to the work
by chewing apples and swallowing the juice
When a man chews an apple and swallows
the juice, he is simply drinking new cider
and if the Echo is right, the Creator has made
a mistake in permitting apples to grow while
every man, woman and child is furnished
with personal cidermill. We shall watch the
developments on this elevated plane of abstin-
ence with interest. Perhaps we shall soon
see the subject subdivided, and a series OF
articles each devoted to single branch, I'M
der the headings of The Crimes Of Crab
Appes'' -'The Guilt of Gllitlowers''- 1.-THE
Perversity Of Pippins," and The Rascality
of Russets."
| Indeed, it is not certain that we do not eat
damnation, as well as drink it in cider. The
highest chemical authority says that common
raised bread cannot be made without general
ing alcohol in the fermentation Shall we
not, therefore, be treated to a dissertation on
'Thc Devil in the Dough-?
THE ELECTIONS.
| Fuller returns from the elections of last
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