Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-09-16
now asks you to trust them with
political power. How strange now
seems the positions taken ut different


times by the Democratic party. 1t
was this party that opened up the
slavery question by the repeal Of the
Missouri compromise, and with the
avowed purpose of extending slave
ry. 1t was this party that supported
the frauds and crimes by which sla-
very was to be established in Kansas.
1t was this party that elected James
whose imbecility made
the war inevitable. / do not care
now to dwell upon the course of the
Democratic party during the war, for
all these matters are too fresh for in
telligent men like you to forget. The
policy of the Democratic party after
the war was even more injurious
than during the war, for it aimed to
destroy all the natural results of the
war. Their policy was to restore
the rebels as nearly as possible to
their former dominance and to re
store the emancipated slaves as near
as possible to slavery again. They
have taken no political position
since the war that did not look to
the restoration of the old pro Slave
ry order of things. They uniformly
every measure for the Sc
curity of loyal people, white or black
and when sagacious men among
them have appealed to the party to
acknowledge accomplished facts, and
take new departure, the controlling
sentiment of the party rejected such
councils. But in spite of their op-
position in peace and in war, the
Republican party has settled beyond
question the liberty Of all citizens,
the equal rights of all citizens, and
the strength and power of the, Gov
ernment to deal with all it's enemies
We are now in that happy condition,
where we have only to deal with the
minor topics of peaceful times.
Now l ask you, Fellow Citizens.
is this not something to begin with !?
Did Gen. Morgan give us credit for
all these great results 1t is very
clever in him to charge us with the
sins of Johnson's Administration
but he might give us some credit for
the past. But l meet him on his
own ground l am willing to take
the administration of General Grant
and the action of the present Con-
gress as part of it, and stand or
fall by the judgment of the people
on that. Let us take the first year
of Grants Administration and com
pare it with the last year of John
sons, and then how does the record
stand.
From March Is. 1858, to March 1st 1868, this
official statement shows that johnson ex-
pended s35s 1s1 SAT
From March 1, 1869 to March i. 1870, Grant ex-
pended S2s3. .683. .I9a
Showing a reduction of expenditures
of $6f, ,4s9, $50
And this reduction has been going
on ever since.
If you take from this expenditure
that which grew out of the war as
the interest of the debt and Pen
sions, the civil expenses are less in
proportion to our population than
during the last of Buchanan's ad-
The whole expenses, including
army and navy, and excluding the
public debt, pension list, and 9th
er matters growing out of the war,
were $S0.SS2, ,9S5 in currency.
Again take the collection of the
revenue in same years. The taxes
and the rates Of them were precise
y the same; but from March l,
l76S to March l, 1869, the receipts
were S156,13S, ,16S. and from 1869,
20 March l, 1870, the receipts were
s190 ,467 ,14l, showing an increase
by the honest collection of taxes of
l9,32S,973. and mostly in the luxu-
'ies of whisky and tobacco. This
increase is still going on, so that in
lie first eighteen II months of Grants
administration, we are able to in
crease the yield of Internal taxes
alone. over thirty millions, without
Increasing a single tax.
Again-take the reduction of the
public debt. In the last year of
ohnson's administration, the pub
ic debt was reduced 5,956.718. In
he first year OF Grants administra-
ion it was reduced 87,134,7S2 dol
ars-or difference in one year of
,ver 81, 100000 dollars. In eigh
cen months of Grants administra
ion, without the increase of one
lollar in the rate of taxation, the
lebt has been reduced over one hun
lred and sixty millions of dollars
md is now less than 1880, 100000.
lollars, including greenbacks, frac-
ional notes and every form of debt.
Again Look at the national taxes.
'ince the war we have gradually and
reduced our internal tax
SHUT under Grants administration
We were able, under the present care
ul management of our finances to
educe taxes by wholesale. At the
asst session We repealed the mass of
hese taxes-amounting according
0 an official statement 1 nave just
eceived to $55, ,212,0 900 internal tax
s, and 926.O0O.O00 tariff duties-or
ver sSl, 100000 in all. After this
ear there will be no internal taxes
evied by the United States, except
n whisky, tobacco, stamps and in-
ONE; and the income and stamp
Ak is largely reduced. Now is not
his doing well.
How does Gen. Morgan meet
hese plain and simple facts, known
0 him very well and shown in these
ff1cial papers. We will see after