New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-11

| / The Tribune having answered the Ti5un
so conclusively on this point, let us see fur
Their: July 2, the one-term organ says:
'.The friends of General Grant, when the,
| ask us to vote for him second time. ought
at least to show that he has done honor tc
his Office, and administered the Government
with advantage to the country"
| We admit that it is absolutely essential
that the friends of General Grant should dc
this, and we propose to do it by short extract.
| from the Tribune. That journal, on Decern.
Der 4, 1871, having shown that Gen. Grant
had effected gre at reform in the keeping and
disbursements of the public moneys, on the
next day, in reviewing the Presidents last
annual message, proved that on all great
issues the President had done honor to his
office.
After a fervent eulogy of the tone of the
message on Impartial Liberty, it said:
"The fact that the President, who thus
nobly embodies and eunciates the better inn
pulses Of or people, was himself partisan
OF slavery down to the outbreak of our great
civil war, so far from weakening the force of
his demonstration against the discarded shame
and scourge of our country, but intensifes
and emphasizes that testimony" -
So the President has hone honor to his
Office in his sincere devotion to- Impartial
Liberty. Next we were told:
"The Presidents recommendations that
the internal taxes be swept away, except
those known as stamps, and those levied on
liquors and tobacco, will meet with general
approval" .-.... -..
So here again the President was adminis-
tering his office to the advantage of the
country. Again, the Tribune said:
GAS to tariff revision the President re-
fleets very nearly the average sentiment of
the people,! Unless the people were dis
honoring themselves he could not be dis.
honoring his Office by being in accord with
them upon this important question:"
But the Tribune testimony becomes even
more direct when it treats of the financial
success of the Administration. 1t said:
The fact that the debt has been largely
and steadily reduced, has done more than
anything else to make the Administration
strong and popular. So many millions paid
Off each month are to General Grants adj
ministration what Union victories on hard
fought fields were to Mr.. Lincoln's. No
financial difficulties beset rule which is thus
amply supplied with revenue, and is using it
for such a purpose. The fact stated by the
President that the annual burden of the debt
is now seventeen millions less than it was
when he was inaugurated, is a perfect Vicks-
burg to his supporters" ...
And we may add that General Grant has
gone on doing this same thing. While the
Tribune on Monday last was trying to show
that the administration of General Grant
was more corrupt than that of Andrew
Johnson--lt stated the very reverse six
months ago-the Secretary of the Treasury
was sending to the country his monthly
statement of the public debt. This state
ment shows decrease during the past month
OF 81 OBJ ,035.32, a decrease since March l,
1872, of 1874, 1921 ,l54.3G, making total de.
crease in the public debt since the Inaugural
ton Of General Grant of 1886, O07 ,957.7l.
This is indeed a''perfect Vicksburg to his
supporters" and We do not wonder that the
one-term organ yesterday concealed it from
the general public by publishing the state
ment only in its money market report.
But it also appears from the Tribune of
December S, 1871, that on the leading issue
of the paciication of the Southern States
the President has administered his Office with
advantage to the country, for it said:
"With regard to the u-Klux outraees in
certain localities at the South, the Presidents
representations are sound, moderate, and
will be heartily approved by a large ma
jority of the people. Those outrages must
be suppressed; peaceable citizens, however
pOwerless and despised, must be protected
in their humble homes, and if the States cam
not, or will not do this, the Union must and
WILL"
We submit that the Tribune has satisfac-
torily answered the Tribune, and furnished
unanswerable reasons why the people should
vote for Gen. Grant a second time. He has
been honest and economical in the collection
and disbursements of the public revenues,
davnfad al xusao and <la,,
ate in his dealing with the South, sensible and
in thorough accord with the people in his ideas
on internal taxation and tariff revision. If
additional reasons were wanting, the Tribune
admitted that the President had made "our
foreign relations appear to be satisfactory in
the MAN," and as, to thorough civil service
reform that che has been there all along"
These are arguments for the reelection of
Gen. Grant which the Tribune in its apostasy
will labor in vain to overflow. The people
have been convinced by them that the peace,
dignity, and prosperity of the country demand
that Gen. Grant rather than Horace Greeley
shall administer the Government during
the next term, and they will act accordingly.
If they shoild desire further light as to their
duty, they will find it in the Tribune, when,
in answering the sneers of disappointed Office
seekers that the administration of Gen. Grant
was a failure, it said: ...,
Failure? How? In what? Have we
not peace and plenty in the land? Is not
our flag displayed and respected on every
sea What foreign foe molests or threat
ems us? Who fears instruction at home
or invasion from abroad? In which of
our thirty-six States are the masses wanting
work, DISCONTINUED, suiiering?'
All this being assertion rather than inter-
rogation, is as true now as when these words
were written, and, what is bad for Mr.. Gree
ley, the people know it.