The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-04

cratic majority! [Applause.
These two cases illustrate exactly
the difference between the two par
ties; the one den ouncing thieves anC
arresting and furnishing them wher
it can, the other never Furnishing
them. 1 am told by leading Demo
Gratis, some of them members of the
committee of seventy, men who
have done all they could to expose
and break these Tammany thieves
down, that they do not believe one
ofthese thieves will ever 60 to the
penitentiary. They stole the Erie
railroad; they stole the State of New
York from General Grant in 1868,
they have stolen their millions from
the city; they have stolen judges and
stolen juries, and they get elected to
the Legislature; they do not get sent
to the State prison. And the men
who denied this stealing, who deni-
ed that they stole the State of New
York when they knew that they
did it, who denied the stealing
of these Tammany Hall men, until
it was finally brought out and es'
tablished so clearly that nobody
Could longer deny 1t, these very
men are accusing the Administra-
tion ofstealing. I have heard be.
fore Of Satan's rebuking sin, but 1
never saw anything so brazen as
this. Loud applause
There has been collected, under
General Gratis administration, in
three years, nearly twelve hundred
million dollars-nearly four hum
dred millions a year; there has been
paid out nearly a thousand million
dollars; making about twenty-one
hundred million dollars. We have
lost, out of this immense sum, in all
the departments of the Government,
a million and a quarter-less than q
fifteenth part of one per cent.l
We have paid out, during these
three years, ninety million dollars
in pensions, and we have had FIVE
defalcations, all of them soldiers,
and four of them shed their blood
for the country. But the Govern
ment has not lost dollar, for the
agents made good their accounts,
or their bondsmen did it for them.
Everybody knows that the Indians
have been cheated and wronged for
years, and that many of our Indian
wars have grown out of our viola
tions of treaty obligations, our bad
conduct, and the stealing from the
appropriations for the Indians. Gen.
eral Grant, knowing the Indians and
their wrongs, two years before he
came into the Presidency tried to
devise a plan by which the Indians
should receive what the Govern
ment appropriated for them. When
he came into power he invited the
Christian denominations of the coun-
try to select some good men whom
he could send out to see that the
Indians were not cheated, and they
selected men like George II. Stuart;
Friend Lang, in Maine; like Friend
Hoag, of Iowa; like William E.
Dodge, of New York; and like Ed
ward S. Tobey, of Massachusetts,
some of the noblest, best, and purest
men who tread the earth. These
noble men have worked these three
years to save these poor Indians
from being wronged. The Indian
policy of General Grant, were there
nothing else, is enough to immor-
talize any Administration that ever
existed in the country. [Applause.
It has more of justice in it, more
of humanity, more of the spirit of
the divine Master, than can be
found in any other deed of the Gov.
ernment, except the emancipation
of the slaves. 1t stands by the side
of that grand act among the great
achievements of the nation. 1t will
be acknowledged hereafter, it will
90 into history, and men will ap-
plaud it, when many of the men
who are assailing the present Ad-
ministration sleep in forgotten
graves.
This Administration came into
power with the pledge to maintain
the faith and honor of the country,
then weakly or wickedly assailed.
During these last thirty-five months
there has been paid s267, ,0O0,0 900,
saving nearly eighteen million dol
lars year in interest. This money
has been mostly saved; on the one
hand, by an honest collection of the
revenues, for we collected the first
fifteen months of General Grants
administration 100000 more
than was collected under the same
laws in the last fifteen months o
Johnson's administration; and or
the other hand, by reduction o.
the expenses of the Government
From these two sources we have
paid this $685., 100000. Through
out the financial world it is matter
of wonder and amazement that tht
financial policy of the United States
should be so successful. We elect
ed General Grant pledged to main
tain the faith of the nation, to make
our debt sacred, aud what is the re
suit? Why, the s700,O0O,O00 o