Year: 1870

The last Democratic administration
that was in full power in this country,
under President Buchanan, spent for
the objects embraced in thig schedule
some seventy millions per annum in
gOld-an equivalent in paper to-day of
eighty-five millions of dollars. The
population of the country was then
less than thirty millions. 1t is now
forty millions, so that President Grant
would be entitled by the ratio, which
has always ROYREDRd expenditures in
this country, to spend third more in
the administration of the government
than was required under Buchanan,
which would bring the sum total to
one hundred and fourteen millions of
dollars, when in reality it is but one
hundred and five millions. The de-
tails of expenditure In the two peri
iOds will also show immensely in fav-
OF of President Grants economy
Under President Buchanan the army
consisted 9regiments, the maintain
ance of which cost for the four years
of the administration an average of
over twenty-One-milliOns each year
more than million dollars per annum
in gold, or about thirteen hundred
thousand dollars in the paper money
of to-day for each regiment. The
army at present consists of forty regi-
ments, yet its whole maintenance
for the year costs but twenty-nine
millions of dollars, a trifie over seven
hundred thousand dollars in paper
money to each regiment.


Ihave selected the Army merely be-
cause comparison in that branch of
the public service is easy and the re-
suit palpable. The same statement is
true in all the other departments of
the government and if the limits l
have assigned in this letter permitted it
I could readily demonstrate that under
Republican administration the ma
tional expenditure has been far more
carefully guarded, and rigid economy,
far more carefully consulted than un-
der preceding Democratic administra-
ton. The amounts expended have nee
essarily been very large and the
temptation to tOextraYagancet thus great
ly enhanced, hence the adherence to
severe economy and strict account
ability Is all the more praiseworthy
and honorable.


THE DEMOCRATS OPPOSED TO MEAS


UREs OF RELIEF.


In all the leading measures of the
FOrty-first Congress for tightening the
burdens of the people the Democratic
party, as represented In the Senate
and House, were found stubbOfnly
resisting. They voted in almost solid
phalanx against the bill whereby the
tax on tea, coffee and sugar was re-
dHnnaA rr~hav.a.H.wr a, 1ar let
added to the Tariff, and whereby six
ty millions of internal taxes were en-
tirely removed. They voted with
equal unanimity against the bill
which proposes to fund the public
debt at four per cent. interest and
thus immensely decrease the annual
charge upon the people. With very
few exceptions they voted against the
bill which gives to the South and
West something nearer to a fair pro-
portion Ofnational banking capital
and which on the specie basis makes
the banking system free to all who
wish to engage in it as by right and
Justice it should be. 1t is not fair to
assign motives TO men, and hence /
donOt attempt it. l content myself
with calling attention to the fact that
the Democratic party as represented
in Congress, stands recorded as voting
against all these measures of relief,
ameliOratiOn, and justice.


RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY


The Republican party is in the tenth
wear of its power in the nation. When
Abraham Lincoln was inaugerated as
President i'm march, 1851, the treason
of leading Democrats had well nigh
DESTROYED the Government. Howell
Cobb had blasted our credit and left
a bankrupt Treasury. John B. Floyd
had so demOrdliZed and scattered the
army that the strongest fortresses fell
into the hands of rebels and traitors.
Isaac TOucey had dispatched our war
vessels on distant errands, not leav-
guns enough in our harbOr, or marines
enough in our Southern navy yaFtis
to hold them against the enemy. The
result. therefore of Democratic rule
was national credit ruined, army and
navy powerless for defence, treason
RAMPANT and defiant, and the country
on the eve of fatal and final dismem-
beIment. AT this critical moment
the Republicans came. into power,
and how they have governed in ma
! ton history will tell. The most gi-
gantic Of rebelliOns has been crushed;
the great evil of slavery has been ex-
tirpated; the national credit has been
revived, and the national faith main
tained; great public works have been
prosecuted to completion the conti-
nent has been spanned with tele-
graph wires; the two oceans have
been connected with iron bonds our
entire domain is organized with civil
governments, new States of wealth
and power have been added to the
Union, and old States purified as by
I fire from the taint of treason, have
been reconstructed and once more
clothed with their appropriate pow
ers. All these results have been
achieved not only without the aid,
but against the efforts Of the Demo
cratic party.