The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-03-29


er wife and three beautiful childrel
I'd lived within his income, got passlo
he for stock gambling, lost his 500. ZOO
r. and then took 100000 of the none
th OF the Government. He was arreste
when he might have run away. III
en- was sent to the penitentiary at Alban
IN for ten years. About the same tim
/ the discovery was made Of the bodies
m and most gigantic robbery of the peo
10 pie ever perpetrated in ancient o
Or modern times. Bill Tweed-"Bos
Mt Tweed'-a man who, a few year
s, ago, went through bankruptcy, ant
as who is said to have boasted, within
ID a year, that he had Sls,OOO,0O0, and
N with him, the tribe of Tammany Hall
=. have been discovered and exposed
,e Some Of these thieves have gone t.
e Europe, some of them are enjoying
II the pleasures of the healthful breeze:
n and snow-drifts of Canada, some oi
a them are in one part of the
country and some in another. While
't we were trying Major Hodge, and
: senjing him to the. penitentiary at
: Albany for ten years, with the appro
d val of the entire Republican party OF
9 the country, Bill Tweed, the greatest
: thief in all the history of the human
t family, the boss thief of the world,
= loud laughter and applause,l was
II sent to Albany, not to the penitentiary
n but the State House as a State S ena
e tor. by twelve thousand Democratic
|, majority. Applause.
# These two cases illustrate exactly
q the difference between the two par
T ties the one denouncing thieves and
: arresting and Furnishing them when it
t can, the other never Furnishing them.
! 1 am told by leading Democrats, some
J, of them members of the committee of
t seventy, men who have done all they
] could to expose and break these Tam
e many thieves down. that they do not
g believe one of these thieves will ever
3 go to the penitentiary. They stold
= the Erie railroad; they stole the State
of New York from General Grant in
1868; they have stolen three 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
denied that they stole the State of
New York when they knew they did
it, who denied the stealing of these
Tammany Hall men, until it was
finally brought out and established so
clearly that nobody could longer de
ny it, these very men are accusing the
Administration of stealing. / have
heard before Of Satan's rebuking sin,
but never saw anything so brazen as
this. Loud spplause.
There has been collected, under
General Grants administration, in
three years, nearly twelve hundred
million dollars-nearly four hundred
millions 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 depart
ments of the Government, a million
and quarter-less than a fifteenth
part OF one per cent.
We have paid out, during these
three years. ninety million dollars, in
pensions, and we have had FIVE defal-
cations, all of them soldiers, and four
of them shed their blood for the coun-
try. But the Government has not
lost a dollar, for the agents made
good their accounts, or their bonds
men 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 violations
Of treaty obligations, our bad con-
duct, and the stealing from the appro-
priations for the Indians. General
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 re-
ceive what the Government appropri-
ated for them. When he came into
power he invited the Christian denom-
nations of the country to select some
good men whom he could send out to
see that the Indians were not cheated,
ard they selected men like George RI.
Stuart like Friend Lang, in Maine
like Friend Hoag, of Iowa like Will
liam E. Dodge, of New York and
like Edward S. Tobey, OF Massachu-
sets, 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 immortalize
any Administration that ever existed
in the country, from the foundation of
the country. Applause 1t 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
Government, except the emancipa
ton 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 60 into history, and men will ap
plaud it, when many of the men who !
are assailing the present Administra-
ton sleep in forgotten graves.
This Administration ccme 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 s2s7, 900. 900, saving nearly
eighteen million dollars year in in 8
terest. This money has been mostly q
saved, on the one hand, by an honest |
collection of The revenues, for we col
lected the first fifteen months of Gen
eral Grants administration 7,O00.-
600 more than was collected under the
same laws in the last fifteen months of
,Jobnson's administration; and on the
other hand, by reduction of the ex-
penses of the Government. From these
two sources we have paid this $751;
100000. Throughout the financial
world it is a matter of wonder and
that the financial policy OF
the United States should be so sue y
cessfuI. We elected General Grant I
pledeed to msintain the faith OF the o
nation, to make our debt sacred. and 0
what is the result Why the $1,000 =
600 of currency is worth 81 100000, 900 .
twenty per cent more than it was v y
three wears ago. The laboring man 7
who has earned two dollars to-day has Q
received forty cents, in real value, more L
tban he would have received three y
Years ago this day. There has been G.
added twenty per cent, to every dol 81
AR the laboring men of this country p
nave earned this day these many I
and it has been added be- 8:
cause of the signal fidelity and ability Il
with which that pledge has been kept a
20 maintain the faith of the nation, b
honestly collect the revenues, reduce b
and extlnguish the national Il
debt as fast as we could. o
We have class of men who are 8
always looking behind them. They g
have never been satisfied. They have 8
taken their position on the great issues p
Of the last forty years and been wrong e
every time. They linger behind their 70
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