Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — Ben Wade’s Indorsement of President Grant. [ARTICLE]

Ben Wade’s Indorsement of President Grant.

v < In a speech at Akron, Ohio, the other night, Ex-Senator Wade said: ia »“ Mr. Pendleton says you are ground down With the debt, and oppressed so that you can hardly breathe. But every dollar of the debt must be pa id,''though yon are t# be relieved from taxation. How, brother Pendleton, can you relieve the people from taxation, and yet pa}' off the debt ? If you can tell us that, God knows I will be with you. I don’t •ee how it can be done; bfct Ido eav, to dishonor the debt, and thus wrong those Who lent their credit to the Government ih the time of its greatest necessity, would be one of the most shameful acts men could do. Why. sirs, fifteen years will wipe out every dollar of this great debt, if other Administrations do as well a the Administration of General Grant ha done to far. I believe that, under God, tl.e Administration is performing its duties with an honesty of purpose, and determination to do the right to save every dollar that can be saved, and apply it to the liquidation of the debt, and that is my idea of financiering. It is a kind of homely but l know of none better, end General

.flaaU AdmmirtntUun lnu uitorecj udou it with triumphant success and ought to ba sustained. I admit that I would lik? to have voted for a tried state—pa When 1 voted for him. 1 did not fcnb# how firmly he held the great principles of Urn Republican party,; and ! would part With my life quicker than 1 fmild part With those principles today. I have never ycl swerved one single inch from them, and never will. I feared General Grant might nqt hold to those principles as firmly and safely as I did, because he bad occupied no position which had called upon him to bring them out. Ifwoutd have chosen a man, if l could have had my own way, who had been tried by fire, and in whom ws knew there was no shrinkage. But, sirs, General Grant has lieen tried. You sec his dealings with the South ; you see his appointments in the- •gents of the Government, and you find them all of the glorious stripe yon and I would want to put in. We know. now. his heart is steeped in the great Republican doctrines. 1 cun glad to aacuriain this fact beyond a doubt.”