Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-04

nand the approval of oil men except
those who of all late seem to deplore
aud condemn whatever contributes
to the stability of American institu-
tions and the prosperity Of the Amer
lean people.
Consider the results of the three
years of Administration under Grant:
The principal of the national debt
reduced S300,000,000, The interest
thereon paid in gross 100000, 900.
Pensions paid S30.000,000 per an
num-ih gross 100000. 900.
Internal taxes and customs duties
reduced, SS0,000,000 per annum-
eqnal to S240,000,0
Expenditures reduced S50,000,000
per annum-evual to S150,000000.
Interest saved to-day on the public
debt, SIS, ,203,915 90 annually.
Show me a like reduction of public
debt, and public taxation, and public
expenditure in the history of nations.
The result of this brilliant admins
tration of your government is seen in
the appreciation of the national bonds
In the approach of the United States
Treasury notes to within ten per cent
of par value, and in the prosperity of
the people.
The liberal Republican party, which
is another device of the Democratic
party, employed TO hide their record
and mislead the people, seem to have
two chief purposes. First to destroy
the confidence of the people in the
President by defamation. We do not
live in pagan times In this age an
enlightened people do not accept the
pagan rule. that the citizen who has
saved the State. and crowned its arms
with victory, should be banished, not
for his crimes, but for his virtues,
yirtuses so illustrious as to make his
presence dangerous. in the judgement
of demagogues, TO Republican equal
| ity.
The man who organized the nation.
victories, aud carried your banners
in triumph from the trenches oI
Vioksburg to the heights of Richmond
can not be put down by the howl ot
men who are indebted to him and the
armies he led for a country saved
from ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and govern
ment saved from annihilation.
The Liberal Republican barty SENS
to have the further purpose, as mani
tested by some persons supposed tt
represent it, to defame the govern
ment and people of the United states
by the false declaration that theUnitet
States, in the late European war. sold
arms to France in violation of it:
obligations of neutrality, and there
by so offended against the rights o
Prussia as to subject US to the pay
ment of damages, or, in default o.
such payment, to war.
These defamers of the country know
that the United States had demanded
of England repa-atIon in damages TO
like violation of neutrality in on
late war with the Southern Confeder
acy, and that the tribunal appointed
in pursuance ofthe Washington treaty
had convened ut Geneva to adjudg'
and assess the damages, and that the
case of the United States has beer
presented.
Why this false accusation
against our county? III
what has TIE country offended, tha
it should be thus assailcd with Sian
der and subjected to dishonor? The
country has failed in no duty to it:
citizens its laws secured justice FOL
all and liberty for all, by the power
Of all. Can human sagacity discover
any other motive for this false accu
sation, than the desire to damage anC
condemn President Grant aud hi:
administration by impressing the
mind of the large and patriotic bod,
ofcitizens ofGerman nativity with the
belief that the land CT their adoption
had been dishonored, and the land o
their nativity deeply wronged by thu
malfeasance of the President OF th'
United States and his constitutions
advisers?
This libel could not live; lie cal
not live forever; sooner or later i
must perish. This arrocious false
hood has perished. The Senators by
a unanimous vote, given upon the
obligation of their oaths, stamped
the accusation as false, unjust, anc
dishonoralle.
We hear no more of the accusa
ton; the United States has not beer
dishonorcd, nor the public peace i'm
periled by the bad faith of the Pres
ident, or of any department of thu
Gov rln,nt, toward Prussia or AM
other foreign power.
The question is not whether thu
liberal Republicans, or the Reform
labor party, shall control the affairs
of the country for the next four years
1t is as have already stated, wheth
er the Democratic or Republican par
ty shall be intrusted with the people
power in the coming elections o
1872, for the choice of Congress
anu a President.