Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-21
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elected because it was pledged to an
economical management ofthe finances.
and the settlement of the question of
impartial rights. We appeal to the
public whether the President has not
-ept these objects steadily in view from
the day he was inaugurated? Mark
every official act, and as one followed
the other, it can be seen that they are
but so many finger boards, pointing sue
ceSSlvely to the destination which has
been reached in the one and approxima-
ted i'll the other.
AT the end of the first month the fl
nanclal exhibit was favorable. 1t was
more satisfactory than any which had
preceded it in the Administration of
his predecessor. Each month q part of
the debt was paid off, until with the
lapse Ofa year one hundred millions was
cancelled. Statisticians and mathema-
ticians are busy computing how long at
this rate it would take to wipe out the
whole Indebtedness. Some say fifteen
years, some twenty, and others thirty.
Certain 1t Is that its payment within the
next half century is beyond question. 1t
IS assumed, however, in this calculation
that the Government for some time to
come will be conducted on the same
tinguishes It's Administration. Very
seldom is it announced that fraud has
been committed by a Federal Office
holder. The system is so we'll appointed
at present that they can only occur at
rare intervals, and then no human fore
sight could have prevented them. A
vigorous superintendence is established
that must insure honesty, humanity
speaking, in the handling of the public
money. One is a watch upon another,
not in low and base sense of the werd,
out as implying vigilance and close at
tentiOn to duty. President Grant, with
mis- true and tried" assistants in the
cabinet, is organizing the civil service
as well appointed machine is regulated
and built, one part communicating its
motion to and at the same time regu-
ating another wheel within wheel, all
deriving inspiration and power from
one common source. If the past and the
present can be taken as a guarantee of
the future, and that is the only method
by which the probabilities of life and
events can be calculated, the present
Administration will show q financial
exhibit on the 4th of March, 1874, that
will demonstrate incontestably the wis.,
ION of the choice that placed General
OIduJ III the L IISSlUGuIldl CIidlI
five examine the work of reconstruc-
tion and the progress made in placing
The rights of man, irrespective of his
race or color, on an immutable basis, the
result is no less gratifying and -satisfac-
tory. The great principle of equality
before the law is established and the
struggle is ended. The Declaration of
Independence is vindicated. We are all
citizens of common country. To this
Administration belongs the glory of the
consummation of this work. Without
It's active.influence, it is needless to say
the granting OF this great and inestima-
ble boon of suffrage TO millions would
move been indefinitely postponed. The
President has redeemed his pledge, and
The country, at the annual elections next
all, will not forget to reward him for
his invaluable services in the promotion
of the cause of equal and exact justice to
all men.