Who Saved The Country

Do you irisist that General Grant :.- your ehoicu tor President, and that om: of your reasons is that he is paying: off tho ntttional dobt'r You might just s woll credit him with sending tho sunnhine and ruin, and oauaug the earth to bring i'orth of bei abundance. General Grant's dhare in the work of paying our debt consista iu the pnyment of hi individual taxes, just as you pay youri. Tho roductiou of the dobt ut the rapid rata of $100,000,000 per annura is duo to the enorgy, enterprise, and thrift of our people, and is aceoiuplished through tho macuinery of tho tax and tar'ff lawa paewd by Congreeo. The honor beioiifísto tho peopie, but if you Mcribe it to Grimt, n htill largor honor ehould be awarded to Anlrew Johnson, under whoso administra tion a still more rapid reduction w.t ao ooiriplishcd. L)o you tull me tliat Oraut ëliould be etill furthcr honored hecuuB hu hus been the savior of theoountry ? Undoubtedly ho did his part in taving; it, and did it wel! ; und the nation hus abun (iantly bonored und rewarded him for it liut Gen. Thomas did his part. bo did Gen. Shermau. Ho did icores of othcr Generáis. But none of our Generáis, nor all of them togethcr, could have saved the country without the heroic courage and unsultish devotion of the coiuiuon soldier, lie, after all, wan the real hero of the war. liut bohiud the General and tho cominon soldier stood tho great jmo ple, from whuso ranke our armim wcre r.iruitüd, who furnished the Govornn'.ent with its supplios, and with the siuews of war, whose fieroio patience and endurance nover fitiled in the darkeathour, and whose aggregate oommon-Benee at lat gavo our civil and military rulera a war policy that saved us. Gentlemen, tin real saviors of the nation are the people of the nation, und I am not willin that any man or party shall pluok from them the honor which ia thcirs. I pity the öervilo spirit of man-worship, and the siokly craving of personal government, nliieh wo daily witness in tho effort to exalt und agifiandizo ono man at the ex