Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1869 — Grant and the Democracy. [ARTICLE]

Grant and the Democracy.

’ * General Gim, in his speech to t,li* c oinmiltec from both lloiuck who announced hit election, said that “he would call around him mm who would earnestly carry out the principles of economy, retrenchment and honesty which were desired hy the people of the country, and if the officer* of the different branches of the Government did m*t*tthfy him he should promptly remove them, and would do so just at quickly with his own appointments as with those of his predeand that he would- not announce his Cabinet until he sent theh* names to the Senate lor continuation.'’ The above speech is made the basis of long editorials in Democratic papers, and they chuckle in their groat delight over the prospect of a coldness growing up between Gravt and the party that elected him. Kven if the Democracy could Johnsonixc Grant w liat good would result to them 'i They j have had Johnson ever since the ehot of the assassin killed Lincoln, and now they are in as hopeless a minority as they were then. The crop is jnst as short. Uut they live i on hope. “Hope deferred inaketh ! the heart sick," said Paul. Hut as j applied to the Democratic party, j the reverse is true. It thrives best in adversity. The Irishman said about hia horse w hen asked if he had good wind—“the faster yoft drive him the more wind lie has,” *od ih* more and more severely we beat the Democracy the more hope have. v •«.. y „ r f .- * .■ _. •. >fr ; We do not know that Grant will submit to the dictates of any of the so-called “leaders" of the Hepnbliean party, and we trust that he will not, but we do feel assured that he will obey the dictates ol the people, and the Constitution, and enforce all laws properly made. Democracy has been mistaken in Goaxt often before. They called him a military blunderer, a butcher and ■ drunkard, and styled him the brainless candidate for The Presidency, and their onc-horsc politicians applied to him every pet name that they had in their vocabulary. And when they see the wholesale slaughter of the barnacles that Andrew Johnson has lasteued on the country, they will discover that ail their fulsome adulations of Grant since his election have been thrown away, and that they got no crumbs from his table-