The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-20
The Vice Presidents Estimate Of the
Presidents Administration.
From tie New York IudepeI

slider the present condition OF affairs ana
to contrast it with March last, when he
took the solemn oath that invested him
with the power conferred on him by the
popular vote.
Eco7somy-In every branch Of the pub
lie service his orders initiated retrench-
ments, which have been and are being
carried out with zeal and fidelity. Use
less offices have been discontinued; the
clerical force in the departments has been
largely decreased; the army was prompt
ly reduced; very many OF the surplus
military officers, resulting from the reor-
ganization of the regiments, have been or
dered into service as Indian agents, thus
saving the salaries of an equal number OF
civilians; and unnecessary appropriations
have not been used.
Honest Callections-With taxation di-
minished from last year, the revenue has
steadily increased, abating the discomfort
which always exists when the honest tax
payer is compelled to bear his own bur
den, and the burden that should fall on the
dishonest taxpayer besides.
Rtngs.-With this increased efficiency
and vigilance on the part of the revenue
officers, the whisky ring, once so wide
spreading and powerful, no longer exists
in an organized capacity anywhere in our
cities or throughout the land. And the
gold ring, which caused such wild excite
ment few months ago, felt the power of
the President and his Financial Secretary
at a timely moment, so that it has not
since shown signs of life or action.
The Dcbt.-Month by month the people
have witnessed with intense satisfaction
the steady reduction of the national debt.
The monthly bulletins of the Treasury
Department have been successive CAM
paign documents in favor of the Admins
tration and when the year expires over
one-twentieth of the bonded debt will
have been paid.
Gold-Steadily, with the single excep-
ton already alluded to, the premium on
gold has declined; not by any extraordi-
nary attempt ofthe Administration to force
or to hasten the resumption of specie pay
ments, but by the improved credit of the
nation reacting upon it. Already the very
narrow margin between the premium on
gold and the selling price of our bonds
points Enthusiastically to the nearness of the
time when the debt can be funded at q
much lower rate of interest; enabling the
country, in connection with other savings,
to dispense with millions of dollars of tax
alton.
Pardons-Instead of the daily release of
convicted offenders against the laws, the
NAOASASS VI GACCutifC CICAChCy heo DCOAA
confined within proper and healthy re-
strictions, alike just to the criminal and
the country he has wronged.
Public Officers Whatever discontents
| there may have been as to this or that
| appointment, no fair man can deny that, as
a whole, the nation has never had any
better array of officers. # the President
could possibly have been guided by uner-
| ring inspiration, all would not have been
satisfied with his choice; for, even if a
dozen applicants were thoroughly quail
fed, but one could be selected, and eleven
with all their friends dissatisfied. And,
| as there is no Congressman who will
| deny that he has made mistakes in selec-
tions in his own district, where he knows
personally 80 many of his constituents,
| how could any President be infallible
| when he must depend for knowledge as
to very large proportion of applicants
on the recommendations of others?
Reconstruction-Byt the prompt and jul
| dicious action of the President, under the
large authority given to him last April, in
! the closing hours of the first session of the
FOrty-First Congress, the work of recon
| struction draws rapidly to its close, and
before the resurrection of spring gladdens
| our hearts, we may hope to see every
State in the Union fully represented in
| the national councils.
The Iadians.-Under the President:
| firm but humane policy, there have beer
| fewer outrages and outbreaks between The
Mississippi and the Sierras than during
any year since 1868. Peace to the from
/ tier settlements is a boon whose blessings
and joy few here can adequately realize
Caste.-In nothing has the Administers
/ ton been more positive and outspokcr
fhor, fhn OBJ - ~
| Amendment, from the day that it wa.
recommended in the Inaugural till the
present hour, when its final ratification
| seems So near at hand. And, before it.
formal adoption, the President has illus
trated his beliefin its justice by appointing
to Office, of both higher and lower degree
| many whose race and color, irrespectiv,
of their intellectual qualifications, hat
| previously placed them under the ban O
official ostracism. The following ters
and emphatic remark Of the President t.
Attorney General Hoar, and quoted b,
the latter at the recent New England din
ner in New York, is worthy to be printe,
| in letters of gold:
81 hope to see the time when ever
man in this country may have power t
express his own opinion, to follow WHOM
he pleases, to vote as he likes, and to hav
his vote counted, without molestation, O
hindrance, or insult If we can only unit
in maintaining public faith and credit, GU
political differences will not be of muc
account"
/ The Alabama Uaims.-The brief bu
pointed illusions in the Presidents annus
message to "the only grave question whic
the. United States have with any foreig
nation" must be fresh in the memory
all. And alse his emphatic sentence:
"A sensitive people, conscious of thei
power, are more at ease under grea
wrong wholly unatoncd than under tn
restraint of settlement which statistic
neither their ideas of justice nor thei
grave sense of the grievance"
If any application of the ground o.
| which the nation stands on this question
was needed, the mastery and unanswer
able argument of Secretary Fish, recentl
published, investing as it does with new
interest theme so deliberately argue,
heretofore, shows how faithfully the AID
ministration is indicating "the rights
dignity and honor" of the United States
| Cu6a-The Presidents sympathies witt
{" all people struggling for liberty and self
government" are frankly stated in hi
message. But, while thus openly ex
pressing them, he:as frankly declares tina
| no HldleeT now unpleasant the TASK, e.
has endeavored to execute our neutralit,
laws in good faith. On the main subjec
he thus spoke:
| The people and Government of tn,
United States entertain the same warn
feelings and sympathies for the people O
Cuba in their pending struggle that the,
manifested throughout the previous strug
gle between Spain and the former cold
ness in behalf of the latter; but the con
test at no time assumed the condition
which amount to a war in the sense of in
ternational law, or which would show TIL
existence of a de facto political organiza