The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-21

! liz pupLlC utbI, rs l am informed
by the Secretary of the Treasury. who,
before he entered my service, was a
practical professor of mental and phv-
/ SIcaI arithmetic i'll a primitive semina-
: ry III Massachusetts, and who as such
was familiar, not only with the apple
I and potato, but with the dollar and
! fractional currency examples. has re-
( allied handsome increase since the
second day in November. This is Il
| striking proof of the accurate workings
OF our fiscal machinery, pnblic debts
/ beng OF such nature that as the Sec
rotary informs me, they are apt to ex-
| pand considerably after, rs they are
. to contract considerably before Prcsi-
dental elections In financial affairs,
so the Secretary thinks, elasticity is 4
thing of the first importance. Very
much has been done during my past
administrative term to provide an elias
tic currency for the people, and it is
one of the incidental happy results OF
/ these measures that the debt has be
come as elastic as the currency.
With Mr. Boutwell,. who has, proba-
bly,, succeeded in effecting other ar
rangements, | separate with feelings of
the keenest sort. Elastic as to his
financial ideas and practices, and elias
tic as to his mind and conscience, he
has introduced an elasticity into the
public service in his department which
has answered several important pur-
poses; as in one of its forms it is Of
great assistance in moving the crops {;
50 in another it has from time to time
excited considerable sums Of money to
cmigrate, to the great encouragement
Of individual activity, though not with
out Introducing some incOnvenient
complications into the bookkeeping
Of the department.
1t is customary, as ! am informed
by my pastor, Rev. John =. Newman,
Il man deeply read in the Apocalypse.
the Apocrypha, and other writings of
Il NEUROLOGICAL character, for Presi-
dents and Emperors to signalize their
entry into power by some act Of Off
cial clemency. In accordance with
this precedent, | design, at no distant
day, to pardon certain atrocioUs Grim
inals now imprisoned at Albany. 1t
has been urged in their favor that they
were not guilty; but it is obvious,
even if this were the case, that a hasty
pardon would have been inadvisable ;
at least it could not have been afforded
at any time before the second Tuesday
in last November.
The trial and conviction was a hea-
w expense to the government, for
which justice demands it should real
ize some compensation. If they were
not guilty. it was either their fault or
misfortune; and for neither the faults
nor the misfOrtunes Of its citizens is
the government, while | am President
of the United States, to be held an
swerable The domestic relations of
potentates, being subjects Of public III
terest, it will be expected of me to say
something of mine. Within the last
four years my family has not increased
numerically to a great extent but
| circumstances have been such as in a
| remarkable degree to bring to nv
! knowledge the persons of whom it is
composed | had never before any
! idea Of the feelings of affection enter
| tanned for me by individuals of whose
! existence until after my first election
was totally unaware. 1t is thus that
! we come under the influence of tho
tenderest and hOliest stinfiuences. \ cOu
Cousin t5 stf more 5Ss ii IN ract the bods 81
! sympathy seem to grow stronger in the
ratio of the square Of the distance in
the line of consanguinity. One Of the
most positive injUmctions of the New
| Testament is to take care Of ones own
household. and | have the assurance OF
nv pastor. the Rev John p. Newman
whose chimes may he heard every Sat.
urtlay evening in verification of my
statement, that III this respect l have
done my duty.
There is reason to expect difficulty
with Il horde of squatterS who have set
tied themselves in a remote corner o
nv dominions and call themselves Lat
ter Dav Saints. They have adopted &
stvle of religious belief unauthorized
by the constitution of the United
States, and a habit of marrying theil
concubines, which is contrary TO tn,
practices of the patriarchs of our gov
ernment. Not being able to secure the
services of the Rev. Henry Ware
I Beecher, whose acquaintance with thi
branch of the clergy is profound anC
extensive, as a missionary for thel
conversion, l was constrained to sen'
unto them my pastor, the Rev JOIN
P. Newman, an ecclesiastic to whom
private heather is an utter abomlna
ton. l regret to confess that tn
reverend gentleman did not fare a
successfully as he expected; that il
fact he was well known and badly mai
treated with a Bible III the hands O
one Orson Pratt, who is sort of cham
pion of these heretics, and whom h
confidently expected to demolish. NJ
, legal missionary also, the Hon. jaime
e McKeon, received but little better treaf
{ ment, and found the heather posted i
1 positions of such strength as to affor