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Show That President Grant has paid something over three hundred millions of tho public debt in three years, is very gratifying; and that President Johnson paid a trifle over a thousand million dollars in two years and three quarters is also gratifying to contemplate. contem-plate. But now that it is established, as firmly as figures can do it, that the public debt is thus beini; paid by individual indi-vidual presidents, and not by the taxation taxa-tion of the people, congress needn't haggle over turifT matters any longer, but should make a elcau sweep of the wholo of taxation at once, as a very little stretch further of presidential generosity would furnish funds to run the government and support the army and navy as well as pay tho national obligations. |