Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-03-04

these two sources we have paid this $751;
900, 900. Throughout the financial world Ii
Is matter Of wonder and Amusement shat
tho financial policy Of the United States
should be so successful. We elected General
Grant, pledged to maintain the faith Of the
nation, to make our debt sacred, and what il
the result2 Why, the seven hundred millions
Of currency Il worth to-day si4o, Zoo, 600
(twenty per cent? more than II was three
years ago. The laboring man who has earned
two dollars to-day has received forty cents, In
real gold value, more than he would have re-
ceiyed three years ago this day. There has
been added twenty per cent. to every dollar
the laborlng men Of this country have earned,
aud II has been added because Of the signal
fidelity and ability with which that pledge
has been kept, 10 maintain the faith Of the
nation, honestly collect the revenues, reduce
expenses, and eKtingulsh the national debt US
fast as he could.
TUE Dissatisfied POLITICIANS.
We have q class Of men who are always
looking behind them. They have never been
satisfied. They have taken their position on
the great Issues of the last forty years and
been wrong every time. They llnger behind
their ago All their predictions have failed.
Still these men continue to believe that all
the craftsmanship Of the country Il gone.
They once looked Of the slave masters OF the
South, who wgro their masters, too when
they stood on the heads OF their negroes, and
sion came, and Ii shook those slave masters
from of the heads Of their negroes, and they
look quite az small now as other people. But
our Democratic friends do not see It; the old
illusion still haunts them. To hear these men
talk you would suppose General Grant was
vastly inferior to such great, magnificent
statesmen as Polk, Pierce aud Buchanan.
Who Is General Grant-thls man so de-
nounced1 When the war opened he was earn
ing few hundred dollars q year tanning
leather out In GAlena. He offered his SER
vices to the nation, and they woro not Rc-
cepted. He went down TO Springfield and
served there for some weeks, helping TO en-.
roll and organize the regiments they were
raising In Illinois. Finally they gave him
regiment. lie had not money enough to buy
u sword with which TO fight the battles Of his
country, nor horse to ride. You did not
know anything about him; the nation knew
nothing about himi few had heard Of him.
lie had served In the Mexican war when a
young man, fresh from West Point, and
won two breyets for gallant conduct, but
nobody knew anything OF this humble
man. He took his regiment and marched
away. He never asked anything Of the
Governments ho never disobeyed an order;
he mover made any complaint lie went
straight forward and did his duty, quiet,
client, modest man. About the frat thing we
heard Of him was that he took about twenty
ave thousand men up the Tennessee river,
moved on the enemies works, attacked an
army Of twenty thousand rebels, and cap
tured fifteen thousand Of them. You next
heard Of him coming on to the field Of Shiloh,
when 1t was nearly lost, and when they asked
him II he had prepared for retreat he said
that one boat would take oil that retreated.
lie defeated the rebel army, that had been
nearly victorious. Then he went down the
Mississippi river, passed Vlcksburg, made q
movement into the country, attacked the
rebel armies, captured Yicksburg, aud then
you hnd him at Chattanooga, 10 save q lost
battle, and yon have heard OF the magnificent
victory no won on Mission Ridge and at
Lookout Mountain. lie was then brought to
Washington, and took command Of the armies
Of the country, led the army Of the Potomac
through the Wilderness, fighting every day 10
the month Of May, 1854, put his army before
Richmond, and when the hour came, moved
upon the doomed city, aud received the sur
render OF the rebel army at AppomattoK.
Nineteen battleA-behlnd him, aud all VIC
tories He did not march his army, TO make
a parade through the rebel capital, but
started OF alone, with his carpet-bag In his
hand, for Washington, to stop the raising Of
troops and the manufacture Of munitions, to
make preparations to dlsband the army and
save expense, aud TO save, what he regarded.
and what we all regarded as very Import
ant thing, general bankruptcy In the
country.
We turned to this man when Andrew John
son failed US, and asked him TO be President
lie did not seek the Presidency; he felt and
said that bis place at the head Of the army
was the post for him. We made him Presi-
dent, and IL was his strength and command
lug Influence that carried the 18th amend
ment. That same Influence carried the 18th
amendment, and gave the black men the 1ht
to vote In all the States. The men who stood
by the cause OF aptl.slavery and the protec-
lnn nf a hiaTE m N haya fnunh In lanaraI
Grant man who has stood brayely, steadily
aud consistently on the side OF freedom and
the equal rights Of all men.
He has been President three years, followed
by Obloquy and Ieproach. lie has made some
mistakes In appointments, no doubt; but the
leading measures OF bis administration are In
the interest Of the country.
THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE,
who have no grievances, who only want good
government, see II, feel II, realize II. They
believe we have the best Administration this
nation has seen for forty years; and they are
right In this conviction. The Republicans OF
the country are looking to you, men Of New
Hampshire, TO recover your State. In all the
struggle OF the last sixteen years, New Hamp-
shire has boon on the side OF the country, the
side Of liberty and humanity. Last year you
Republicans tripped In the State. II ia well to
learn In this world that we arc mortal, and
nothing does Q man so much good as 10 be
defeated once In while. You have had
this wholesome discipline Now you have
the power to ris@uP, and, forgetting all these
petty differences, stand shoulder 10 shoulder,
redeem tho State, aud thrill the hearts Of our
friends throughout the country. l appeal to
you, Republicans OF my native State. | ask
The men who stood by the right OF petition
when II was Cloyen down under the lead OF
AthertOni ! ask you, who stood by John p.
Hale when he was smltten down for fidelity
N. I aak Won N tl.aN vi, La1
compromises Of 1850 and the fugitive slave
law; ask you who resisted the repeal OF the
Missouri compromise; you who stood by Kan
sas when Its midnight skies were lllumined
by the fires of burning cabins, and It's soil
REDEEMED with blood ask you who voted In
1855 for Fremont, and helped elect Abraham
Lincoln President; ask you who followed
the old flag Of the republic on many battle
fields, and you who sustained by your votes
that series Of measures by which slavery waA
destroyed and the slave power broken for
ever ask you who helped save the country,
TO make Il free aud give equality 10 all con-
ditions OF men; ask you who have stood by
the cause of liberty, to continue 10 sustain
the sacred cause for which you have worked
and prayed, and voted and fought Stand
by this great political organization, until II
accompanies thelRst and perhaps It's greatest
work. That work is TO humAnlze and convert
the Democratic party OF the United States.
Applause. Men cannot 10 wrong all the
lime for forty years, and be convicted OF
their folly In an hour. The Democratic
party has three and quarter millions OF
voters In its ranks. About twelve hundred
thousand are old, unrepentant rebels-men
who fought against their country, men who
are only sorry that they fought against 1t be-
cause they were defeated. You have got TO
breathe into their souls the spirit OF patriot
ism and the spirit OF liberty, justice, human
ity and Christian civilization. Then you
have large number Of men, perhaps a mill
lion and u half, who are called, In vulgar
phrase, "COppeTheads." will not call them
'Copperheads;" will call them, what they
like 10 DO called, "ConseryRtiyes.' Laugh
ter. You have million and half In num-
Der Of these men, who always sneered at the
cause OF liberty, who always took the side OF
the old slave masters, and stood up for priv
ilege and caste, and who TsiOlced, or, II they
did not rejoice, did not manifest sorrow when
our armies were defeated. To convert those
men Is great work. think II will take US
q dozen year, or more; and II In that time we
can change the hearts Of the old rebels OF
the South and these Conservatives here In
the North, and get them to accept the vital,
animAting principles Of Christian cIyillEa.
ton and 20 for the elevation OF the poor
and the loWly, the black men Of the South
and the poor white men Of the whole country
If we eau do this grand work In twelve
years, the world will say We have done quite