The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-10-12

nearly sixty-one and a-half millions of dollars
or 81 .9S per capata, thus showing an economy
in Republican favor of twenty-one cents pei
head.
FINANCIAL RECORDS.
| All administrations from Washngton's dowr
have been judged by their financial records
Upon them the people are won't to make then
stand or fall. That speechleSS man Grant ha:
increased the collection of the revenue since
Andrew Johnson's administration $4,000, 900
per annum, while in the same year the taxes
and tariff were reduced to nearly the same
amount. $35S, ,46S, ,5S2.55 of the debt have been
paid while an aggregate of $500, 600 900 of taxes
have been stricken from the lists. He has set
tied our difficulties with England in the most
satisfactory manner. The cloud of war has
been dispelled. Peace with its golden blessings
smiles upon our diplomacy and sheds its benig
nant blessings upon the people of both nations
and points to President Grant as the peace
maker of the world. The highest plaudits for
the admirable success of the administration
have been wrung from reluctant Democratic
lips.
GRANTS sPEECH-MAKER.
The best speech-maker in the land to-day
for Gen. Grant is the Democratic candidate for
| President, that sage and philosopher that has
told the people "what know about" so many
different things. He can get himself ready to
write a lengthy volume upon "what know
about being defeated for the Presidency after
the November election.
Let us hear what the Democratic oracle has
to say upon the administration.
GREELEY ENDORSES GRANT
as follows in July, 1870:
General Grant made pledge at the out set which
did almost much to endear him to the popular heart
as did his grea: services in the field. 81 shall have
policy he said to enforce against the will of the peO
pie He has kept his word and do not doubt that he
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9oO his 1Ui more thoroughly and unserved
ly to that of the people, there never President
who submitted more cheeruy to the adverse action of
Congress, there President unpreendng
and less exactng sincerely anxious to execute
the laws preserve public tranquility, and discharge
fairly and mpartiay all the duties of the office. Thank
| Heaven! We have President who has no policy to
enforce against the will Of the people. Gen Grant has
solid basis of actual achievements which the
try may be safely trusted to pro judgment He
has taken the most prohgate system ofcv service the
government ever knew and made it efficient honest and
economical He has stopped the theft and fairly collect
ed the public He has made large payments on
the public debt, and yet has managed the finances
that we largely reduce taxation. He has saved
millions on the frontier by Indian policy at
christian and in the main successful He has done
all in his power to hasten the completion of reconstruc
ton and he has given his influence steadily for
storation of harmony and good feeling
| ring sections. THESE ARE GREAT THINGS. Opinions
may differ about an occasional appointment they will
not differ in pronouncing these the elements of sub
stantial and enduring success"
AS follows in February, 1871:
$50 far judge the Republicans are general
y satisfied with President Grants administration and
inclined to renew his lease Otpower If there is not
much enthusiasm in his behalf ther. is very general
conviction that he is safe and prudent executive
Not hearing of any formidable serious effect pre-
vent his denomination, it to unwse in those
who favor it to agitate the matter. The meeting of Con-
gress next December quite time enough for that Gen
Grant has been not qite two years in power During
these two years many clouds have loomed on the
horizon yet peace with foreign nations and with Indian
tribes has been happily preserved The taxes have been
largely reduced yet two hundred millions of the nation
al debt have been paid of and cancelled though
paying one hundred and twenty millions per annum
for interest and thirty millions for pensions the wild
and orphans our great struggle We doubt vheth
any government before devoted large proper
tion Of its annual income to the payment Of debt.
He misunderstands human nature who fancies that
these facts will not tell in Presidential contest"
HORACE GREELEYs NOMINATION..
Asopposed to this modest silent, unassuming,
speechtess man, the Democratic party is playing
the grandest farce ever acted by any party up
on the political stage. By their refusal to NOM
mate Democratic candidate they acknowledge
their utter inability to elect Democrat. They
have made no secret of admitting that this was
an impossbility with them. To aid them in
regaining power, a few dIscontented, distemper
ed Republican politicians went to Cincinnati,
and, unauthorized by anybody but their sover-
eign selves, nominated Horace Greeley and B.
Gratz Brown for the Presidency and Vice Pres
idency. Prior to that date Horace Greeley had
been Republican of good standing. He was
nominated upon a Republican platform. The
Democratic place-hunters and politicians who
have beer. denied the privilege of serving the
United States in civil capacity for twelve
years, thought they saw their chance to serve
the dear people by riding into power behind
the blind of Horace Greeley and the New York
Tribune for which he is chief organ grinder
To accomplish this it became necessary in their
estimation to lash the Democratic party into his
support. At once the Democrats purchased
white hats and swung them wildly in the air
for Greeley and Brown. Every appliance COM
monty used by Democrats to whip voters in
was brought into requisiton. at is Greeley or
no fodder anything to beat Grant" "Horace |
is honest Ill vote for the devil to beat Grant"
I'm willing to let by-gones be by-gOnes," "Pd |
do anything to remove oppression from the |
South" and various other bits of Democratic |
wisdom were paraded on all occasions to bring |
the Democratic conventions up to the sticking |
point. Horace was not slow to indicate his |
Willingness to become Democratic President. |
His inconsistency in this regard was surprising |
to most of those who were not closely acquaint- |
ed with the man, his eccentricities, his antece-
dents and his nsatate desire to be President. |
But this was totally eclipsed by the unparalleled
qualification of the Democratic party in nomi-
mating him unanimously by their national con-
vention. In doing this the Democratic party
surrendered its manhood, ignored Its lfe-record,
confessed its guilt, and claimed to have been
washed of its pollutions. By this action that
party puts itself in the attitude of endorsing
Horace Greeley's record upon all of the ques-
tions that have agitated the political arena since
the close of the war at least.
Mr.. GREELEY's RECORD
is one that is necessarily volumnious and by no
means gratifying to a Democrat who has been
acting with the Democratic party from con-
scientious devotion to principle. Do they con-
demn the emancipation oftheir slaves Greeley
advocated that with all the zeal that his pen
and his tongue could command. Do they con-
denim the passage of the Civil Rights bill by
which the emancipated slave was placed on the
courts and put on the witness stand The New
York Tribune was loud and vehement in its adj
vacacy and it's defense when made law. Do
they execrate the 14th Amendment to the con-
stitution, by which the national debt was made
sacred by pledging the nation to pay it and
which at the same time forbade the payment
of the confederate debt and which excluded
large number of those who were in the Confed
crate service from holding Office under State
or national government without having been
pardoned by twothirds of both Houses in Con-
gress? No man in the land was a warmer ad-
'vocate of this than the now Democratic candi-
date for President. Were they opposed to the
enfranchisement of the colored man Horace
Greeley did his utmost to secure the adoption
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selves against the passage and execution of the
laws known in history the Ku-Klux laws d?
Horace Greeley was clamorous for their passage
and loudly endorsed them and their execution
by President Grant. While the law was pend
ing in Congress this sanity Democrat on the
18th day of April, 1871, advocated its passage
in this remarkable language:
"a solid Republican vote in the House on Thursday
adopted the amended Ku Klux bill. One hundred and
eighteen Republicans stand arrayed the record op
posed to ninetyone Democrats who voted against The
bill with unanimty that indicated how vital party
measure they considered it. This result is gratifying
for several reasons 1t arrays the two parties in Con-
gress upon this question so that fail to un
derstand that Republicans favor the protection of c
and the enforcement of the laws and that the Dem
oppose any legislation for such purposes because
IL damages the prospects. 1t advances this most mo-
mentOus legislation, and believe nsures its sue
in the Senate and in its application at the South
The example of the House in promptly adopting this |
bill must not be lost upon the Senate Under il 1.-THE
billl it stands much be done insure tranquility
at the South aad protect fellow citizens there
Much Of its effectiveness depends upon the disposition
which the Senate displays in dscussingit Let as hare
brief debates prompt action and united rote its ia
Uor."
After the passage of the law and after Horace
Greeley had made his speech to the farmers of
Texas and completed his tour through the
South, he gives it this more emphatic endorse
ment in the Tribune of July 10th, 1871:
"The Ku Klux spirit still lives at the South and is
very formidable 1t is grounded in the belief that the
blacks are unfit and not really entitled to voe-tha re-
construction is usurpation- that this is white mans
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