The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-23


have been greater than ever.
Mr. Dawes then called attention TO actual
figures, showing the economy OF this Admin
istration in the public expenditures. The
figures, taken by him from the books OF the
Treasury Department. show that the expendi-
lures of this Administration were less foi every
man, woman and child in the nation than were
those of 1850; those of 1860 being S2.03 per
capita, while those of 1870 were only sl.64
and those of 1871 only 5l.Sl for each man.
woman and child. He compared the expenses
once in 10 years since 1900. aud showed that
those of 1870 were less than those of any
year which preceded il since 1910. Mr.. Dawes
then alluded to the charge OF defacation
among public officers, and stated against this
vague charge, sustained by no specification or
proof, he brought the figures as they stood to-
day upon the books of the Treasury Depart
ment. The cash balance standing against all the
collectors of internal revenue, good and bad, all
told, for taxes since 1869, we're less than one
tenth of one per cent. of the money they had
actually paid into the Treasury, and when that
which was collectable was paid in, there would
remain less than one-ffth of one per cent. OF
the whole. OF the customs there had been
paid. out Of S553, 200, 900 all but S2S, 900, or
one fifty-ifth part of one per cent. The pres
ent Republican Treasurer of the United
States, appointed by Mr. Lincoln, had been in
Office III years. and during that time had
received and paid out $4,000, 0O0,0 900, and
there had been a loss during that time OF only
S55. 900, or one ten-thousandth part Of one per
cent These were the actual figures, and they
ought to silence forever the charge of defalca-
ton II is very easy to make general charges
unsustained by proof. These figures can be
found by any one who cares to look at the
books of the Treasury. The defalcations
which have actually occurred have met with
swift and condign punishment. Tammany,
which now supports Greeley, sends its thieves
- n = l.. .l.ao. .arf.
sends theirs to the Penitentiary.
Equally groundess was the charge of
"military usurpations" brought against the
President. No single instance of military in.
reference by his order in all this disturbed
condition of the South, not authorized by ex-
press provision of law, can be found The cry
for relief from military rule, sent up so i'm
ploringly to Mr.. Greeley and his followers, by
those who are stretching out their hands to
them over the +" bloody chasm they themselves
have made" il no more nor less than relief
from that restraint by law which compels them
to desist from outrages perpetrated by night,
and IN disguise, upon unoffendlng women,
helpless negroes and white men, whose only
offense is that they come from Northern States
to make their home in the South. Proof Of
scenes worthy only of barbarians, Is fall and
incontrovertble No man with his eyes open
can honestly deny il. The speaker had him
self seen, in Washington, under the statue OF
liberty itself, a man whose back had been
lacerated by these disguised rufians, who had
bound him TO the earth and beaten HIM to
extort from him the promise that he would
leave the State he had chosen for his home
and return TO the North Ii was 70 put stop
to these terrible outragcs which disgraced the
nation that the " Ku-Klux act" so called, was
passed, against which the whole artillery
opposition is opposed. Under this act it is
made the duty of the President to employ the
military power of the United States lin all
cases where insurrection, domestic violence,
unlawful combinations or conspiracies IN any
State shall so obstruct or hinder the execution
of the laws thereof. and of the United States,
as to deprive any portion or class or the peo-
pie of such State of any of the rights, priv
leges or immunties of protection named in
the Constitution, and secure by this act, and
the constituted authorities of such State shall
either be unable TO protect or shall from any
cause fail in or refuse pro ection of the people
iii such rights" These are the words of the
law. and to re uire less of the President would
be to abandon the citizen and cease TO protect
him in his constitutional rights A President
who would fail 10 do this deserves impeach
ment The President is also authorized by the
same act to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
when these unlawful combinations shall be
organized and armed, and so numerous and
powerful as 10 be able by violence to overthrow
or set at defiance the constituted authorities.
But the Congress that made this law provided
that the power TO suspend the writ of habeas
corpus, even in these cases should terminate
with the last session of Congress- Repub-
lican Congress refused to extend it, and re-
fused even to extend the session by recess
till November, so chat there should be no pre-
tense for the exercise of this extraordinary
military power during Presidential canvass
This Is the head and front of all the military
usuTpations," by the President and Congress-
against which the cry has come up from the
new converts to peace in the Democratic party.
They vanish into thin air when tested by the
facts.
AR. Dawes then drew picture Of the pros
porous condition of the country under Repub-
lican administration; pointed 70 the wonder
fnl disclosure of growth and development re
vealed by the census showing that in the last
ten years her manufacturing products alone
had increased 1913 per cent. and that the value
of real and personal property in this Union.
exclusive of slaves. had increased from 3d.
000 000 600 in 1860 to $50 000, 900 900 III 1870 !:
that every citizen had been protected in his
rights TO the utmost ability of the Admi mis- ira
ton that there had been a thorough en-
forcement of every law a faithful collection
of every tax, a rigid economy in the dsburse
ment OF the public money. and sacred re-
gard for the honor of the nation at home and
abroad.
That there were faults in thed Aministra-
ton of President Grant which could not be
defended he did not deny that errors had
been committed which should have been
avoided, he admitted-but that the President
and chief officers Of the Cabinet by which he
was surrounded were actuated by the strict
est honesty of purpose, ana that the Admins
tration as a whole had been signally success
full in all the great elements of an enlightened
and enlarged craftsmanship, would be the
just judgment of impartial history. With all
its faults and shortcomings, 1t presented
such contrast to the controlling element Of
that organization which was arrayed against
it that no enlightened patriot, unwarped by
prejudice and not blind to passion, could
hesitate to give it his support.
The speaker closed with an appeal TO the
men of business not to abandon the principles
and paths in which they had found stability
and prosperity for those Of the Democratic
party strewn in the past with the wreck of
capital and the ruin of labor. He implored
the friends of equal rights not to put their
trust in the mere lip service of those out Of
whose grip every constitutional guarantee had
been wrenched, and the lover Of peace not to
brood it under the wing Of the vulture.
THE BATTLE CRY OF REBELDOM.