Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-21
The Vice Presidents Estimate OF the
Presidents Administration.

alder the present condition Of affairs and
20 contrast Il with March last, when he
took the solemn oath that invested him
with the power conferred on him by the
popular vote.
EcOnomp.--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 Collections taxation di
mnished 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 slduld fall on the
dishonest taxpayer besides
| Rings.-With this increased efficiency
and vigilance on the part Of the revenue
| officers the whisky ring, once 30 wide
spreading and powerful, no longer exists
in an organized capacity anywhere In our
i
gold ring, which caused such wild excite
ment few months ago, felt the power Of
the President and his Financial Secretary
at timely moment, so that II hns not
since shown signs OF life or action.
The Dch-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; aAd when the year expires over
| one.twentieth of tho bonded debt will
| have been paid.
GOld.--Stcadily, with the tingle excep.
ton already alluded to, the premium on
gold has declined; not by any extraordi.
nary attempt ofthe Administration to force
or 20 hasten the resumption of specie pay
nlonts, but by the improved credit of the
| nation reacting upon IL. Already the very
marrow margin between the premium on
| gold and the selling price of our bonds
points unmistakably to the nearness of the
time when the debt can he funded at n
much lower rate of interest enabling the
country, in connection with other savings
10 dispense with millions of dollars Of tax
alton.
Pdrdons Instead of the daily release of
convicted offenders against the laws, the
exercise of Executive clemGncy has been
confined within proper and healthy re.
striotions, alike just 10 the criminal and
the country he has wronged.
, Pubic 06icers.-Whatever discontents
there may have been as to this or that
appointment, no fair man can deny that, rs
a whole, the nation has never had any
better array of officers. IL 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
4 personally so many of his constituents,
5 how could any President he iniallible
when he must depend for knowledge as
/ TO very large proportion of applicants
l on the recommendations of others,
Rsc0nstrHotion.-By the prompt and ju.
{ dicious action of the President, under the
. large authority given to him last April, in
0 the closing hours Of the first session ofthe
: Forty. First Congress, the work OF recon
Y 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.
Tho Indidns-Under the Presidents
: firm but humane policy, there have been
, fewer outrages and outbreaks between the
A Mississippi and the Sierras than during
D any year since 1863. Peace to the from.
!. tier settlements Is boon whose blessings
n and JOY few here can adequately realize.
n CdSte.-In nothing has the Administra.
v ton been more positive and outspoker
v than In the advocacy of the Fifteenth
n Amendment, from the day that it was
4 recommended in the Inaugural till the
. present hour, when its final ratification
seems so ne; at hand. And, before its
/. formal adoption, the President has illus.
a tratcd his beliefin its justice by appointing
to Office, of both higher and lower degree
many whose race and color, irrespective
of their intellectual qualifications, had
h previously placed them under the ban o
d official ostracism, The following tors,
., and emphatic remark of the President {,
n Attorney General Hoar, and quoted by
I the latter at the recent New England din
Il ncr in New York, is worthy to be printed
in letters of gold;
;, IL hope TO SEQ the time when ever,
r. man in this country may have power e
2 express his own opinion, to follow whom
J. he pleases TO vote rs he likes, and to hav,
A, his vote counted, without molcstation, O
&c hindrance, or insult FIVE can only unit
Vt In maintaining public faith and credit, ou
m political differences will not be OF mucl
" account
m The AlabdRa Qdims.--Ths brief bu
W pointed illusions in the Presidents annua
" message 10 "the only grave question whicl
the United States have with any f0reigl
n nation must be fresh in the memory
a nd 1a1a IA .l.aNs
~ "A sensitive people, conscious of thci
II power, are more at ease under grea
q wrong wholly unatoned than under TIA
SC restraint of u settlement which satisde
VI neither their ideas OF justice nor thei
n grave sense of the grievance"
n II any ampliication OF the ground o.
70 which the nation stands on this question
was needed, the mastcrly and unansweI
.u able argument of Secretary Fish, recentl
IN published, investing as II does with ne,
T. interest theme so olaborately argue
1 heretofore, shows how faithfully the AC
Is ministration is vindicating 1.-THE right
nc dignity and honor" of the United State
CEbd-Thc Presidents sympathies wit
"all people struggling for liberty and sci
u. government" are frankly stated in HI
1 message. But while thus openly eS
or pressing them, ho'as frankly declares ths
m mo matter how unpleasant the task" h
has endsavored to execute our noutralit
laws in good faith. On the main subjeC
he thus spoke
ID THE people and Government Of IN
rn United States entertain the same war;
feelings and sympathies for the people
~ Cuba in their pending struggle that the
u manifested throughout the previous stru,
d. gle between Spain and the former cole
gs ness in behalf of the latter; but the cor
" test at no time assumed tho condition
u, which amount TO a war in the sense of il
m ternational law, or which would show II
existence of de Jaeto political organic
tion of the insurgents sufficient TO iustiI
arecognition OF belligerency." ..
~ Aud he adds: "Our course should a
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