The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-24

: only one-tentn part Of one per cent. of
tue amount PAID IN remains unpaid to-day.
Deduct from this One-tenth part Of one
per cent. what is good and will be Ill l.
matcly pald, and there will be left of all,
gooo, PAD ana Indifferent, only one-iftieth
or one per cent. Of the customs one
nftysnfth part of one per cent. only has as
YET Ialied TO reach the Treasury, or $58,
900 only. out of 1858 900 collected under
TINS administration up to January |, 1872
A Republican Treasury receiving and
paying out through hundred clerks
during II p years $50, 900, OoO, 900 has lost,
i by the dishonesty of two of them now in
the penitentiary, only $4,000. This ad-
ministration has grappled with the nublic
debt and extinguished $3.50 OOOO 600 of it
IN three years AUDI "a half-a period of
lIorty-two months-morea than was paid
by the British government of their debt
Ia lorCy-nVe years-and this has. been
although our debt was only $13, 655, $685.
94 smaller at the1close. of Johnson's Iad
minisSratlon] than it was at the beginning
/ Compare with this the splendid finaLcial
record or the present administration, di-
mlnishing the debt $3.50 10000 and the
annual interest account more thanS32, O0O, Il
UOO IN three years and half 1t should
De kept in mind at every step of the com
! parlson that the present administration
has removed taxes and customs duties
yielding $4,000 900 Annually, aud still
has kept the revenue u.diminished II |
this exhibit Of tine financial record Of The |
present administration there cau he found
no parallel, and cpmparison i, fearlesslg
challenged -
'CAN THEY BIZ TRUSTED ?" 81
In response To the query of the Spring
field Rep16t1cap,l"Can Mr.. Greeley and |
the Democracy be trusted" and its asser-
tl"n, Mr.. Dawes knows" that they can,
ana 1t us robustness, to use the mildest
WORD, for him to cite the acts and utter
ances OF Democratic Congressman and
would be leaders" to the contrary,-Mr
Dawes replied: as.oaa ASS aaesi
Equally foolish, it must follow, is it to
cite the acts and utterances of Mr. Gree.
ley as proofs of his present temper, or
those OF the ex shareholders and rebels
for the purpose Of ascertaining theirs.
Pray what tests have we beyond "acts
and utterances? Have we revelation |?
Can we penetrate the heart of the future
at the same time? find 1t difficult to Judge
OF men except by what they do and say
Ever since | was a school boy I have
heard that confidence is a plant of slow !
growth" and always supposed also that
1t grew IN this soil--the acts ami utte1-
ances of men. If it be pivotal question
whether they can be trusted, would it
not be the part OF wisdom to settle that
question before we trusted them? So long
as 1T IS an open question, would it not be
midsummer madness to trust them at all?
Pray what is that we trust them with but
the life of the nation, and can we afford
to take any risks? It is step that can
not be retraced. Misplaced confidence
here is utter ruin. There are those who
have attempted the destruction of che in
8 buttons under which we live, and there
are those who saved them from death.
Now, it may be that these traitors have
become trustworthy, but is it too much {
to ask for the evidence before We surren-
der the very citadel to their custody,
taking it from the charge o: those who
defended it? 1t may be tLat the gradu-
ate from CharlestOwn or Sing Sing is a
changed man, but do we not ordinarily
wait little before we trust him with the
keys of the vault? And when two men
or bodies Of men stand side by side, and
thee acts and utterances" on the one side {
have hitherto all been patriotic aud noble, b
and on the other hand been titus far {
traitorous and treacherous, is there any
principle upon which some men act that s
will justify the turning Of the back upon ,
the first that we may cleave unto the last,
taking the flag Of the country out of the /,
hands of it's deliverers and putting it into
the bands of its destroyers Does neces
sity demand it? Does prudence require
it? Does wisdom Suggest it or safety per- q
NIT 1t? Let Us go one step further. If
to take past acts and utterances" as proof |
upon this point is "foolish," is it aojSe to |
take present acts and utterances" as evil
denCe upon the same point. What better
testimony Is the present than the past on
the lips or In the hands of q traitor? Con
tideace cannot be thus played with. Ma
tlonal life is at stake, and there must be )
no mlssteps All there is dear in earthly /
institutions hangs on this decision. 1t is, C
indeed, the pivotal question upor which Y
not only the entire canvass but the end t
less future of this people hinges There e
fore, would take bail bond, not of j eff.
Davis alone, but of every possible. con y
OF fate itself, that assurance may
be made doubly sure.
Mr.. Dawes then proceeded to show, in !
the clearest manner, from the old and the !
new record OF Mr.. Greeley on the secession
question and the record of the Democracy, C
that it was not safe to trust them; and, in C
closing, says: c
"The great business lnterest of this ma c
ton cannot turn away from the present ,
unparalleled in the past, 50
trust their future to one as unstable as
water. The industries of the land, thou -,
sand fingered never tired or at rest, reach =