The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-12

VA Ocll. CTaUC aQInlulSLTaIlOH HAS Ic5ulL
ed IN maintaining the peace upon our
borders and saving the country from the
expenditure Of untold millions IN the
prosecution of Indian wars.
He will not deny that the present adj
mlnlstration was the first to recognize the
| necessity Of civil service reform, and Or
game measures looking to the correction
of that accursed dogma of the Democrat
| lc party, 'to the victor belongs the
spoils' He will not deny, because he
truthfnlly cannot, that, after deducting
| the expenses resulting from our Demo
cratic war, viz: The interest on our pub
lie debt, the appropriations for pensions,
the expenses Of collecting the internal
revenue, and certain other expenses
growing ont of the war the ordinary ex-
penses Of running the government are
less, when reduced TO a specie standard,
than the expenses of Mr.. Buchanan, for
the year before the war. The ordinary
expenses Of Gen Grants administration
tor the second year were $95, 648, 1872, re
duCed to o gold basis for that period, and
it would be $50, 692, 900, or per capita on
basis OF 80, 100000 people, SO II, while
Buchanan, for 1860, spent $4,000, 900 In
!
or So 60 per capita On basis Of ST.
/ 100000.
! He cannot deny that the country is
peaceful, prosperous, and happy. | have
seen no better statement Of our happy and
/ prosperous condition than that of the
president Of our state agricultural society,
himself Democrat, in his address at the
state fair last week. 1t is worth repro
riuciDg here He said in his opening ad
dress that Peace. at last restored to our
country, prevails throughout our vast do
main, while through the old world wars
and runners of war are sadly disturbing
the peace of nations"
Health too, reigns universal within all
our borders, though pestilence stalks
abroad in other lands.
Il Moreover, while numerous people Of
the ancient east are wasted by famine,
with US the year has been crowned with
plenty, so that all over our land the hus-
bandmen and they who depend on the
fruits of his labor are gathered together
i Turing these autumn days, to rejulce in
common over the triumphs of our nation
| industry.
Assam independent community, Wiscon-
,aj of the whole sisterho0d of states. Her
! agriculture is advancing with rapid
strides. Her manufactures have even
outstripped her agriculture. Her com
MERGE has kept even pace with her pro-
ductive industry. Her internal improve
ments are paving the way for more rap
id advancement in every department of
industry; and in her social condition she
compares favorably with communities
that were more than century old ere she
reached the years of her majority
| Yet, with all these evidences of good
government, Judge Doolittle is not hap
| Ply.
What, then, is the matter? cannot
do better than to allow him to tell you in
his own words. After pointing out
remedy for the evils of the XIVth and
XVIII amendments, which he does not
propose to overturn, he says that the
greatest issue is, "Whether our govern
ment is to be in substance, if not in form
revolutionized Whether the Federal
government is to remain as our fathers
made it, based upon a written constitu-
ton, limiting and defining its powers,
and reserving the mass of power not dele
gated to the several states and to the
people, or whether it is to become a gov
eminent of unlimited and centralized
power. In a word, whether the United
States shall continue to be union of
states under the constitution, or become
centralized despotism OF Washington
to be ruled by the secret resolves ofa eau
Gus and the president at the head of an
army" It this be the great issue, it is
| g.. rT,,J T,,I Lo
lieves this to be the issue, have not the
slightest doubt, because he says SO. and
know that he would not say it unless he
believes it. That he is alarmed we know,
because he says so, In the convention
that nominated him, he gave utterance to
his alarms. He said that "he felt the
very ground giving way from under his
feet" while he was speaking. have no
doubt he felt 50, yet that need alarm none
except those who set their feet on such
unstable foundations. Had he initiated
the action of the wise man of whom we
read, and built his house upon rock and
planted his feet upon the eternal granite
of truth and justice, he would not now
feel the quicksands departing from them,
and threatening to engulf him forever.
But while my friend stands quivering,
expecting the earth to open every mo-
ment and swallow him up, l feel that
Republican institutions were never moro
firmly established than now, and that
/ the time never was when the people were
more determined that government of
the people, for the people, and by the
people, should not perish from the earth,
than now
beg my friend to calm his troubled
soul and listen TO reason. | know that
when mans mind dwells long upon a
/ friu hn n1Orhid and