Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-08-24
The Country not Prosperous Under
Grant,

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Grant.
From the Louisville Courier Journal
The country has not, as a whole, been
prosperous under the present Admins
tratiOn. In one section Of it business
has been almost completely paralyzed,
and in the rest whatever prosperity
exists is in spite of the baleful policy Of
Grant and his party. The Southern
States, which formerly paid large part
Of the expenses Of the Government, and
would be doing it now under wiser and
iuster rule, are pauperized aud made
burden rather than help to the rest Of
the Union. The people of all the States
are GENEROUSLY taxed, and instead of the
proceeds being exclusively applied to
| legitimate purposea, vast sums are
| squandered in extravaganza, corruptly
applied to partisan and personal pur-
poses or stolen outright by dishonest
officials. One day President Grant, or,
what is the same thing, his man Bout
well, puts his hand into the Treasury
and takes out many thousands Of dollars
cytorted from the people by taxation,
direct and indirect, and pays it for a
| camraign document, and very poor
one at that. The next, under pretense
of dcfraying .jmiiciai expenses III North
Carolina, he hands over many more to a
United States Marshal. So 1T goes. If
! the vast sums collected had been legiti
mately applied we should have had by
| this time a reduction of the national debt
worth talking about.
The administration Of President
Grant, instead of conducting to the pros
pcrity Of the country, has proved pos
tive curse. There isabsolutely nothing
TO redeem it in the estimation of the
people. For more than three years
extravaganza, corruption and fraud have
run riot among the pubic offices. Mis-
| management and malfeasance have been
the rule, and capable and faithful dis
charge of duty the exception. During
| President Grants administration the
policy has been to ALLEVIATE the sections
by contantly keeping alive the passions
and resentments that should have ceased
with the cessation Of the war seven
years ago. During President Grants
administration the people of the South
eru States have been dealt with as sub
| iugated but still hostile enemies, and
adventurers have been let loose onthem
to plunder and despoil in the name of
the Federal Government. During
! President Grants administration lib
! crty has lain PROSTATE at the feet of the
carpet-baggerin States which, according
to the Constitution, are coequal with
the others, and i'll those States taxation
without representation, which was a
chief cause of the American Revolution,
has been the order of the day. During
the period of President Grants power
the rights of the people OF the States,
and Of the other departments of the
Federal Government, have been usurped
by the Executive. During that admins
istration the work of Capitalization has
gone steadily on, a constant and lncreas>
ing peril to the duration Of constitu~
tional republican government. In all
this there is little evidence of political
prosperity. Were the materialprosper-
lty of part of the country thousand
times greater than 1t is, 1t would not
COMPENSATE for the ruin of the Other
part for the usurpations and Opprcs'
sions of the Administration and the
peril in which the very existence OF the
government is placed Let not the
Radicals claim for their Administration
ANYTHING III the nature of prosperity
The Grant policy is more fatal to agrl'
culture than the breath OF the SIMEON
more disastrous to commerce than al
the storms that ever followed Ill the
wake of the Flying Dutchman, more
depressing to finance than thousanC
crisises. and more threatening to the
liberties of the people than any number
of open rebellions. The administration
of President Grant has been prosperous
for the rich that it has made richer
but not for the poor that it has mad,
poorer Grants administration has beel
prosperous for the Grants and til,
Dents and their favOrites and friends
but not for the people. Within the las
: few years President Grant has from
poverty somehow attained vast wealth
As all the world knows, his labors hayt
=, been very light; but lie has found gift
taking, speculations, and other mean
that were open to him exceedlngl,
profitable. He entered upon public llt
, pauper, and will retire from 1t mil
5 lonaire. To his relatives and friends
t too. he has given wealth through otliclo
position. wonder is not that Grant
, immediate followers, the members o
the Washington ring and the recipient
! of the public patronage generally
should insist that his is a prosperou
administration. Many large fortune
have been made within the last three q
four years very much the reverse {
legitimate. These fortunes have bee
made at the expense of the people.
The country has not been as prosper
+ ous as it ought to have been during tn
j. present Administration, but we predlt
# that it will prosper as it scarcely eve
# prospered before for the four yeal
9 beginning with the 4th of March mex
, Then a Liberal Administration will t
, in power, with Horace Greeley at II
/ head-an Administration under whlc
o the national finances will be CAREFUL
d looked after and faithfully manage(
+, under which TIE honest canduct {
r rublc affairs will at once diminish I'll
l. taxes and decrease the public debt, an
, under the benign policy of which thel
p will be perfect reconciliation and peac