The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-03-14


State of New York, when theye.knews
that they did, who denied tho stealing
oftlhosd Tammany. hall mon, until it
was finally brought outtand established
50 clearly that nobody should have de-
nioa it-these very men are accusing
tho administration of stealing. l have
heard of satan's rebuking SID, but l
never saw anything so brazen as this
before. Loud applausc.]
There has been collected; under Gen.
Grants administration ID iiss three years;
nearly $1,000, o0o,ooo-nearly $780,
100000 year; there has been paid
out nearly $l,ooo,ooo,ooo, making
about s2,l00,00o,oo0. We have lost,
out Of this immense sum, ia all the dc.
partmcnt, Of the government, 81, ESQ,
OO0-lcss than fifteenth part Of ono
per cent ! Look at the Post.of6ce De-
partment:. With $4,000 postmasters,
clerks and mail.oarriers, the loss has
been one-tenth of one per cent. n three
years. In no part of the world has
such integrity been shown, under like
circumstances. We have paid out,
during these three years, 100000, 900
in pensions, and we have had five defal-
cations, all of them soldiers, and four
Of them shed their blood for the couu-
try. But the government has not lost
dollar. for tho agents made good their
accounts, or: their hondmen did it for
them.
what HORACE GREELEY CALLS A ''BAD
| RECORD"
This administration came into power
with the pledge to maintain the faith
and honor of tho country when wicked
~ assailed. During these last thirty
five months there has been paid S297,
100000, saving nearly S18,000,0O0 a
year in interest. This money has been
mostly. saved on the one hand by the
honest collection of the revenues
We collected the first fifteen months OF
Grants administration $67 100000
more thar. was collected under the same
laws in the last fifteen months Of John.
sons Northumberland on the ether
hand by reduction of The expenses OF
the government. From these two
sources We have paid this 1891, 00O,-
O00.-Throughout the financial wefIl
it is matter Of wonder nd amazemen
that the financial policy of the United
States should be successful. We elect
ed Gen. Grant, pledged to maintain the
faith Of the nation-to make our debt,
sacred and what is the result ? Why,
the seven hundred millions Of currency
is worth to day a hundred aud forty mil
lions of dollars-twenty per cent
more than 1t was three years ago.
The laboring man who has earned two
dollars to-day has received forty cents,
in real gold value, more than be would
have received three years ago this day.
There has been added twenty per cent.
to every dollar the laboring men Of this
country have earned, and it has been
added because OF the signal fidelity and
ability with which that pledge has been
kept, 20 maintain the faith of the ma
ton: honestly collect the revenues, re.
duce expenses and extinguish tho
national debt as fast as he could: :" =
A BRIEF SKETCH OF The PRESIDENT.
To hear these men ia TX, you would
suppose Gen. Grant was vastly inferior
to such great, magnificent statesmen as
Polk, Pierce and Buchanan. Who is
Gen. Grant-this man SO denounced !?
When the war opened no was earn
ing a few hundred dollars a year tan.
ming leather out in Gatena. He offered
his services to the nation, and they
were not accepted. 11e went down to
Springfield and served there for some
weeks, helping to enroll and organize
the regiments they were raising in Iii.
no;s. Finally they gave him a regi-
ment. He had not money enough to
buy sword with which to fight the
battles Of bis country, nor horse to
ride. You did not know anything
about him; few had heard of him. He
had served in the Mexican war when a
young man, fresh from West Point,
and won two brevets for gallant conduct
but nobody knew anything Of this hum
nle man. lie took his regiment and
marched away. Hc'never asked any,
thing CT the government; he never
disobeyed an order he never made
any complaint. He vent straight for.
ward and did his duty, quiet, silent,
modest man. About tho FIRST thing we
heard Of him was that be took about
$4,000, men up the Tennessee river,
moved on the euemy's works, attacked
an army of 10000 rebels, and captur
ed Is, 900 Of them. You next heard
Of him coming on the field of Shiloh,
when it was nearly lost, and when they
asked him if he had prepared for a
retreat he'said that one boat would take
all that @retreated.fI He defeated the
rebel army that had been nearly VIC
torious. Then he went down the Mis-
sisippi river, passed Vicksburg, made
movement into the country, attacked
the rebel armies, captured Vicksburgh
and then you ind him at Chattanooga,
to save a lost battle, ind you have
heard of the magnificent victory he
won at Mission Ridge and at Lockout