The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-16

mot to be more than 33 per cent
greater now than before the war; II
turns out that the increase is only
about one third as much as retormer
Trumbull thinks it ought to be.
have only this to say Of the fnan-
cial policy of General Grant. Under
it, the country prospers as never be.
fore. Labor is better rewarded, all
interests are doing well. A policy
that brings such results may well
challenge our admiration, and with
it, for one, am perfectly and entirely
content. In common with a great
many, l may have entertained no
tons about how our finances should
be managed, different from the one
adopted, but with the splendid re-
suits Of the policy adopted, and in
practical and benefeent operation. /
think the country would be very un-
wise to interfere with it at all, much
less adopt Mr.. Greeley's ruinous
theory OF the sway to resume is to
resume"
Under the present policy of per-
mitting the country to grow up to
specie payments, two thirds of the
appreciation of paper money over
gold has disappeared, and l hazard
nothing now in predicting, that be-
fore Grants second term shall close.
the growth of the country will be
such, as to bring about the (by many
much desired } specie payments, while
the present ''foOd tide" of prosperity
will continue.
LIE ANSWERED.
"Grant is gift taker' these lib
erals say. Yes, he is a gift taker. He
took Belmont and Donelson, and
Henry, and Vicksburg, and Lookout
Mountain, and Richmond, and in all
these gifts the parties making them
flung in all their furniture and pro-
visions, and he never stopped taxing
gifts, so mercenary and greedy was
he, until under the apple tree at Ap-
pomattOx he took all the rebel con
federacy had left, except some SlOO.-
600 in gold, that JEFF Davis had hid
under his petticoats. While he
couldn't get that himself (being a
modest man he sent Wilson for it.
and the story goes that he stripped
JEFF. (how indelicate and got that
too. These liberals have been try-
ing to get that gold away from Gen
eral Spinner, but the "0ld Invinci-
BILE" won't give it up, although under
Andy johnson and these liberals,
three orders were made on him for
it. His answer was he would @die in
the last ditch' first, or in other
words they would have to turn him
out Of office to get it. And there it
is to this day waiting for this liberal
triumph to return it to Davis.
A, grateful people knowing that
his compensation was barely sufi-
cent to maintain himself and family.
did for him whom they thought had
rendered his country inestimable
services (this mind you was before
the liberals found out his bad quail
ties) what had been done for such
heroes in all countries before. What
had been done for Mcclellan, and
Sherman, and Sheridan, and Farra-
gut and others. They presented
him with money and property to the
value Of perhaps 100000. Not agsy-
thing Of vGlue has he received since
he aOas a candidate for the Prestden-
cy, and none but "iberal" falsifer
will say so.
ANOTHER LIE ANLWERED.
"He appointed relatives to Office Z"
He did, to the number of eleven. no
more. Two were in office when he
was elected, his father Postmaster at
COVington, and Kramer, a brother
in-law, Minister to Denmark. Of
the whole, taoo were appointed on his
own motion, the balance were appoin-
ted on the recommendation of mem
bers of Congress. No one pretends
but that they are competent and are
faithful and honorable officials.
The liberals undertook to blacken
Kramer's character, but the Metho-
dist Conference at Cincinnati, IA re-
spectacle body no one will question, J
of which Kramer was member, took
the matter up, and throughly inves-
tigated it, and report the whole sto-
ry fabrication of the basest kind.
L will not attempt to answer all
the charges against Grant, but l will
say this, that my opportunities for
knowing the facts have been pretty
good, and give it as my candid
opinion that they are all as base
as the ones 1 have alluded to.
MR.. GREELEY HELD UP To THE MIRROR.
Now as it is conclusive that the
campaign is attempted to be made
personal one, it is right and proper
for the people to examine Mr.. Gree
ley's record and qualifications for the
place he aspires, claiming as he does
that he is "no less a Republican than
he always was" and that his "Demo-
cratic supporters are no less Demo
Gratis than they have always been"
Are we to have a Republican or a
Democratic administration; which
is it?
The Fremont Democratic Messen-
ger recently said, that if Greeley car
ried out his life long principles, no
Democrat could vote for him. This
was good reasoning then, if it was
made by rural rooster" and it ap-
plies with equal force now.
HIS UNFITNEss FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Of all the public men in the coun-
try Horace Greeley is the most unfit
for the Presideney-that he has
shown great ability as a writer and
editor, none will deny; that he pos
sesses goodness of heart and is a
man of correct morals is equally
true.
But for all this he has ever been
vacillating and unreliable in his
opinions. While protesting to be a
he accepted the hospital
ity and association of Tweed, and
the whole Tammany crew, and his
paper received some $4,000 per an
mum in the shape of advertisements.
But let US look at his record and see
if he possesses the necessary quail |
ications to creditably fill the Presi-
dental chair.
The overwhelming confidence with |
which he holds his opinions, and the |