Abstract

The Week

The article discusses some recent speeches made by the President of the United States. President has made two speeches during the week. At Youngstown, Ohio, he discussed the objects for which Americans fought in the great conflict from 1861 to 1865, and elaborately considered the question "What was settled by the war?" The Detroit, Michigan speech was of much more practical value. It discussed the revival of business, the evils of municipal indebtedness and how to avoid it, recommended paying off the national debt in thirty-three years, and was generally concerned with a class of topics whose existence is scarcely recognized by the orators in an active political campaign. The New York Times on Thursday, discussing the President's recent speech, speaks of the renewed presentation by the South in the U.S. Congress of the doctrine on which the theory of secession rested, and the declaration of a purpose once more to attempt the application of this doctrine to the administration of the Government.