Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-03-28

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|, might have run away. He, was sent
4 TO the penitentiary at Albany fol. ter
years. AbOutthe same time the dis,
Ieoyery was made of, the boldest and
most gigantic robbery of the people ev-
ler perpetrated in ancient or modern
times. = BillTweed-'ssBoss Tweed'Sa
! man who, ,afew years ago, went through
bankruptcy, and IS said to have boast
ed, that he had SIS, ,O00, GEO. and. with
him, the tribe Of Tammany Hall, have
been discovered and exposed. Some
of these thieves have gone to Europe,
some of them are enjoying the pleasur-
/ es of the heaithful breezeS of Canada,
some of them are In one part of the
country and some in another. While
we were trying Major Hodge, and send
ling him to the periitenti9ry at Albany
for ten years, with the approval of the
entire Republican party of the country,
Bill Tweed, the greatest thief in all the
\ history of the human family, the boss
! thief of the world, loud laughter saud
Applause, was sent to Albany, not, to
the penitentiary, but to the State House
as State Senator. by twelve thousand
Democratic majority. APPLAUSE g.-
These two cases illustrate exactly the
difference between the two parties: the
lone denOuncing thieves and 1arresting
and puniShing them when it cam the
other never Furnishing them. / ana
told by leading Democrats, some. of
them members of the committee of
seventy, men who have done all they
could to expose and break these, Tam
many thieves down, that they do not
believe one of these thieves will ever
/ go to the penitentiary. oi They stole the
| Erie rNilrOad, the stole the State; of
/ New York from General Grant in 1868;
they have stolen their millions from
the cltypthey 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 denied that
they stole the State of New York when
they knew that they. did, It., who denied
the stealing of those TaniIhany Hall
men, uttil It was finally brought out
and established SO clearly that nobody
le0uld longer deny it, these very men
are accusing the administrator, of
stealing. i have heard before of Satan's
rebukfng sin, but never awanything
SO bsazen as this. loud applahse,1sy
aThere has been collected, under Gen.
Grants al ,pinistration, in three years,
nearly twelve hpndred million dollars
nearly four hundred millions year:
there has BEEN paid out nearly a tf1Ous-
and million dollafsp making about
|tWentY-one hundred million dollars.
We have lost, out of this immense sum,
IN all the departments of the Govern.
nIent, a million and a. quarterAiess
than fifteenth part of one per esnlI 2
We have paid out, Y during these
three years, ninety million dollars, In
pensions, and we have bad FIVE. DEAL.
cations, all of them soldiers, and four OF
them shed blood for tAeif country. But
the Government tlhas not lost aGdollar,
for the agents made good their accounts,
or their bondsmen did it for them.
: Every body knows that the INDIANS
have been cheated and lwfonged for
years, and that IDanyEof cur Indian
wars have grown out of ouS violation
of treaty obligations, our bad conduct.
and the steaiIng from , the appFopria-
i0ns for the Indi ms. General Grant,
knowing Indians and Their wrongs,
two years before hecanae into the Pres
idency tried to devise a planEby which
the Indians should receive what the.
Government appropriated for. them.
When he came into power. he invited
the Christian denominations' Of tlie
country to select some good men whom
he could send out tosee that the In-
dians were not cheated, and they Sc
iected men like George Fl. Stuart; like
Fred Lang, in Maine; like Friend
Hoag, of Iowa; like William d. Dodge,
of New York, and like Edward 8.
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, from the foun-.
dation of the country. tApPlause; It
has more of justice in it, more Of Ohu-
manity. more Of thespirit Of the divine
Master, than can, be found ip any oth-
er deed Of the Government, except the
emancipation Of the Slaves. 1t stands
by the side of that grand act among
the great achievements of the nation.
1t viii be acknowledged hereafter, it
will 60 into history, and. men W Rp-,
plaud it, when MANY. Of the men who
are assailing the present Adminisrta-
hon sleep in forgotten graves. s.soisi55b >
This Administratio ion came into power.
with the pledge to maintain the faith
and honor Of the country, then weakly
or wiekedly aSsailedY z During these
last thirty five months there has been
paid ,S2S7 ,0O0, ,00O,, saving nearly eight
teen million dollars q 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 Gen. Grants adj
$67, ,000, 900 more than was
collected under the same laws in the
last fifteen months of Johnson' 5 admin
and On the other hand, by q
reduction OF the expenses Of the Gov
ernInent, From these two sources we
have paid this S2S7 900, coo. Through
ought, the financial world it is q matter
of wonder and amazement that the A.
rancial policy of the United States
SHOULD be so successful, We elected
Gen. Grant pledged to maintain the
faith of the nation, TO make our debt
sacred, and whatl'is the result? Why,
the 800, ,000, 900 ofeufreney Is worth to-,
day S140, ,O00, 900 twenty per cent -)mors
than it was three years ago. The Ia
boring man who has earned two dollars
today has received forty cents, in real
gold value, more thanihe weuld have.
received three years sgo this day.
There has been added twenty per cent.
to every dollar the laboring men Of
this country have earned this day these
many mouths; and it has been added
because of the signal fidelity and abili-
ty with which that pledge has been
Kept to maintain the faith. of the ma
tion, honestly colleetthe revenues, re-
duce expenses, and extinguish the na-
tional debt as fast as We could. sy'ai a..