Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1868 — HEALY & JAMES. EDITORS [ARTICLE]

HEALY & JAMES. EDITORS

The Democracy and Grant. Since the election of Gen. Grant to tho Presidency by the votes of tfid Republican party, wo hear Democrats say they are glad he is elected, that he always was a Democrat, and will carry out Democratic measures.! If the present statements of Democrats are true, then how did it come that they so violently opposed him? If Grant is a Democrat they are not. Grant accepted and approved the Chicago Platform. Tho Democrats accepted and approved the New York Platform. The latter declared war against all the reconstructed States, while Grant said “Let-us have peace.” If Grant has always been a Democrat, how does it happen that he gave this advice to some Some Southern gentlemen who came to consult him? “You must look to Congress. The Republicans have the power, consult them. Do not seek the counsel of men in the North who opposed the war. The people will never trust that class of men in power. The more you look to that class of men for advioe, the more exacting Congress will be, and ought to be. ”

If Grant has always been a Democrat, why was it that his most trusted officers who attempted to keep the peace in the Sqnth, were removed by Andrew Johnson, and all the so-called Democrats of the country said amen to Johnson’s act? To be a Democrat of to-day was to accept the dictations of Hampton, Forrest, Semmes, Preston, Hill, "Toombs and the other violent rebel leaders-in the .So ;th, and quietly work under their lash. If the Democracy, by proposing to cast the electoral voto of the few States carried by Seymour and Blair for Grant, expect to be beuefitted by a few little offices, we trust they will find that they have made a grand mistake. But if they will fairly and squarely adopt the principles of Grant, and give his administration their cordial support, favoring the principles of the party who elected him, we will make room in the Republican party and put them in the rear rank as soon as they show that they have shed off all those old follies in regard to the divine right of slavery, States rights, &c. t and 8 wear never to bcled by the nose by Hampton, Forrest and others of that class. Indeed, all that is required of the Democracy is to renounce that kind of Democracy they have supported lor years, and clothe themselves in thekind of Democracy that Grant is clothed in, and work for the good ot the conn try and peace. ——