The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-18

your National history? Does not ev-
l cry cOnsiderate man know that the
people Of the United States are to-day
more indebted 10 Ulysses S. Grant
than to any other one man living for
the restored unity Of the Republic and
/ the restored supremacy of the laws
I Has it not passed into history, never
I TO be forgotten, that he organized your
victories, and under God, aided by
/ your noble army Of heroes, crushed
Oat the rebellion and saved the Ma
TONS life?
/ borrow another word from the
record Of the standard-bearer Of the
Democracy Mr.. Horace Greeley
who said again OF this hero Of your
war for the unity Of the Republic and
for the inviolability Of your COnstitu-
ton and laws: "He will be as great
and successful on the field Of politics
as he was on the field Of arms" ]
think Mr.. Greeley spoke well.
count myself justified in saying that,
as the Chief Executive Of the United
States, General Grant has done as
well for the country in the admins
tratiOn Of the laws and has acquitted
himselfas nobly and wisely as any
Chief Magistrate who has filed the
Presidential chair since Washington
vacated It. lCheers. We are all
Americans; We are all proud Of our
country; we have all an interest in
whatever Is honorable, beautiful or
brilliant I'm the history OF that cOun-
try, and / pray you, my fellOw-citi.
zens, TO see to il that these defamers
shall not blot out the record Of the
lust, and wise, and faithful adminis-
tration Of President Grant.
When General Grant entered upon
the Presidential Office, on March 4,
1863, all the States of the Union were
not represented in Congress, nor had
they been since the breaking out Of
the rebellion, in 1851. They are all
represented now. When he came to
that chair, in 1863, a great debt, part
of the price paid for the Nations life
in the struggle, against the rebellion,
had been incurred and was not per-
ceptibly reduced. Il had become a
subject Of sOlicitude among thought
fUl men everywhere in the country.
At the same mOEent the people felt
the burdens Of an unusual and eXces-
siVe taxation. The problem to be
solved was, how to reduce the bur-
dens Of taxation upon the people and
reduce, at the same time, the debt Of
the Nation, and thereby maintain its
credit. He set himself quietly TO the
work, without noise, without parade,
and under his administration the tax
rate was reduced TO the amount in the
aggregate Of eighty-three millions an
nually, and the expenditures were re-
duced to the amount Of fifty millions
annually. Faithless men were turn
ed out Of Office, aud faithful men put
into Office, and the FeVenuelaw faith
fully executed. There was such an
increase Of revenue to the Treasury
by the faithful, honest administration
Of the laws, that this man to-day is
able TO present. as he did at the open
ing Of this month, at the end Of forty
months Of his administration, a bal
ance sheet Of the Treasury, showing
that he has paid within these three
and One-third years, S333, 900, 600 Of the
principal of the Understanding debt
OF this Nation; he has also paid $780,
900, 600 Of interest thereon, and $780,
0O0, 600 Of pensions to your soldiers,
and reduced at the same time the bur-
dens Of taxation, $50, 3,0O0,0O0 q year.
Point me to q like administration Of
to a like reduction of
National Debt, save that reduction
that is forced by the bayonet,as in the
case Of France with Germany.
It is without parallel in history
GRANTS DETRACTIONs.
Yet men will say to you "What
does this man know about civil adj
ministration ?' Others tell you so,
he deserves no credit for tEat; the
people paid it." Didn't the people
pay the enormous burdens of taxation
Under the administration Of Andrew
Johnson, and yet during the four
years of his administration, with tax
alton at the rate Of nearly 500, ,000, 900
a year more than at any time since
Ulysses s. Grant entered upon the du-
ties of his Office, he only made out TO
pay SI3, ,OO0, 600 Of the principal Of the
funded debt.
With the enormous revenue at his
command, with a faithful admins
tration Of the laws, I have no doubt
Andrew Johnson might have had
fund annually to be applied to the
Of the terest-beaFing debt
OF the Nation at the rate of S50,0O0,-
900 year. There were thieves I'm
those days in the public service. I do
not say they were Democratic thieves
about whom Horace Greeley speaks,
but do say they are no longer in the
public service nor in the Republican
party-they are Democrats now, and
loud in deDunciatiOn of Grant.
know there are hundreds Of thousands
Of men in the Democratic organiZa-
ticn who adhere tO-it by the force of
education and habit and association,
who wish no harm to their country,
who are honest, truthful, just men.
Believing this, I venture TO address
myself to the judgment aud the con-
sideratiOn of all such men and ask
them when they come to deliberate as
to whom they shall give their suffrage
at the next election to weigh the rec
ord Of Grant in peace and in war with
that Of Horace Greeley. have as
yet spoken only of his domestic ad-
My fellow-citizens, the administra-
tion of our foreign affairs, by Presi-
dent Grant, who is attempted to be
DETAINED by these demagOgues, has
been as successful as that of any for
mer President of the United States. !
When he came to the Office of Presi- !
dent, you know that there was pend
ing between us and Great Britain q
question Of peace or war. He did not
wish to see the great calamity of war
in his day again fall upon this people.
He had invoked peace for his country
when he entered upon his great trust,
to the end that the places but yester-
day blackened and blasted by war
might grow green and beautiful under
the hand Of honest toll; to the end
that the prosperity of the country
might be restored; to the end that the
animosities engendered by the rebell-
ion might be forgotten: 70 the end
that the unity OF the Republic might
be perpetuated; to the end that the
wounds inflicted by unnatural strife
might be healed, his prayer was let
there be peace. He labOTed to main-
tain an honorable peace with all Ma
tiOns, and especially with Great Brit
ain. He negotiated a treaty with her,
and that treaty to-day is the bond of
peace between the two countries and
the security that Great Britain will
do justice to the United States and pay
to us the damages which she Justly
owes for the wrongs she inflicted on
our commerce and upon our rights in
the late war of the rebellion.
Now, what have these gentlemen
to say further? "Oh," they say,
"there has been great dishonesty
practiced." When and where, sir :?
Point iG out. IknOw that an attempt
was made by some of these gentle
men in the Senate ofthe United States
TO defame President Grant, to cover |
his Administration with odium by
charging there, in the form of a resO-
luton, that under his Administration |
the United States had been dishOnor- |
ed in that she had violated the neu-
trality laws and her treaty obligations
by selling arms to France, to the in |
Jury of Germany, during the late war
between these Powers. Every man in |
the Senate, under the obligation of
his oath, voted that the accusation |
was false, and nailed the falsehOOd to |
the table of the Senate, there to abide |
forever. This is only an illustration /
Of the time-hOnored maxim that lie /
can not live forever. Sooner or later
It must perish.
What more Is said or can be said /
against this man as a reason why he
should not be re-elected To the presi- /