The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-09-16

than thirty millions. Itis now forty
millions, so that President Grant
would be entitled by the ratio which
has always governed expenditures IN
this country. to spend third more
in the ADMINISTRATION of the Govern
ment han was required under Buc-
.banap. which would bring the sum
total TO one hundred and fourteen
millions of dollars when in reality it
Is but one hundred and fiFe millions.
The details of expenditure in the
two periods viii also show immense
IN in favor of President Grants econ
omv. Under President Buchanan
the army consisted of nineteen regi-
ments, the maintenance Of which cost
for the four years of the administra-
tion an average Of over twenty one
million each year-more than mil
| lion dollars per annum in gold, or
about thirteen hundred thousand
dollars in the paper money of to day
for each regiment. The army at
present consists of forty regiments,
II |.
vet its whole maintenance Tor the
| wear costs but twenty-nine millions
| Of dollars, a trife over seven hundred
thousand dollars in paper money to
each regiment.
I have selected the Army merely
because comparison in that branch
of the public service is easy and the
result palpable. The same statement
is true in all the other departments
Of the Government, and if the limits
| have assigned to this letter permit
ted it. l could readily demonstrate
that under Republican administration
the national expenditure has beenfar
more careful by guarded, and rigid
economy far more carefully consulted
than under preceding Democratic
,, administration. The amounts eX-
pended have necessarily been very
large and the temptation to extrava-
gance thus greatly enhanced, hence
the adherence to severe economy and
strict accountability is all the more
: trustworthy and honorable.
THE DEMoCRAs OPPOSED TO MEASURES
OF RELIEF.
: In all the leading measures of the
t Forty-frst Congress for tightening
+ the burdens of the people the Dem
: ocratic party, as represented in the
S Senate and House, were found stub
!. bornly resisting. They voted in
y almost solid phalanx against the bill
: whereby the tax on tea, coffee, and
q sugar was reduced, whereby large
: free list was added to the Tariff, and
? whereby sixty millions of internal
: taxes were entirely removed. They
d voted with equal Hnanimity against
Y the bill which proposes to fund the
It public debt at four per cent. interest
e and thus immensely decrease the an
nual charge upon the people. With
i very few exceptions they voted
against the bill which gives to the
South and West something nearer to
a fair proportion of national banking
capital. and which on the specie basis
makes the banking system free to al
who wish to engage in it as by right
and Justice it should be. 1t is not
, fair to assign motives to men, and
hence I do not attemptit. l content
o myself with calling attention to the
+ fact that the Democratic party as
q represented in Congress, stands re-
:. corded as voting against all these
measures of relief, amelioration, and
e justice.
RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican party is in the
tenth year of its power in the nation.
: When Abraham Lincoln was inaugu-
= rated as President in March, 1861,
the treason of leading Democrats
q had well nigh destroyed the Govern
e ment. Howell Cobb had blasted oul
credit and left bankrupt Treasury
= John B Floyd had so demoralizeda and
{ scattered the army that the strongest
4 fortresses fell into the hands ofrebel;
4 and traitors. Isaac Toucey haC
despatched our war vessels on dis
q tant errands, notleaving guns enough
z in our harbors, or marines enough il
n our Southern navy-yards to holC
4 them against the enemy. The re
= suit, therefore, Of Democratic rult
was national credit ruined, army anC
u navy powerless for defence, Treason
% rampant and defiant, and the coun
N try on the eve of fatal and final dis
h memberment. At this critical mo
10 ment the Republicans came int
70 power, and how they have governed
ss the nation history will tell. Th
q most gigantic of rebellions have beel
n crushed; the great evil Of slavery ha
p been extirpated; the national credi
has been revived, and the nationa
i faith maintained: crest public work
s+ have been prosecuted to completion
II the continent has been spanned will
# telegraphic wires; the two ocean
% have been connected with iron bonds
If our entire domain is organized will
a. civil governments; new States o
ls wealth and power have been addeC
a to the Union, and old States, puri
70 fed as by fire from the taint of trea
son, have been reconstructed ant
1+ once more clothed with their appro
i pirate powers. All these result
- have been achieved not only withou
m the aid, but against the efforts of tn
~ Democratic party.
m "A political organization of sue
a. respectable antecedents as the feders
n party was utterly destroyed by tn
~ suspicion that in the hour Of war il
u sympathies were not actively on th
ID side Of the country. How muc
he more deserving ofreproach and cor
n demnation is the Democratic part
a. which, through its Southern wing
81 actually made war upon the Govern
no ment, while the Northern wing wa
"a divided between active sympath
with the rebels and tardy support {
the National authorities. 1t is nc
wise, I know, to keep alive animos
IL ties or infame resentments, and 1 d
he not recall these painful facts with an
re such desire, or any such purpos,
lie But am persuaded that great evil
It's would result to this country by rt
IS storing to power the men who a
n tempted to destroy it, and ! believ
he it is an imperative and patriotic dut
m to keep the people aroused to tn
Id necessity of averting even the pot
U. sibilitY of such Q disaster.