Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1869 — Let Us Have Peace. [ARTICLE]

Let Us Have Peace.

Scnrce'.y five weeks has (lapsed I since General Guam was inaugura- i led President, yet Low marked is . the contrast between his administra- ■ lion and that of his predecessor.— ' Instead of a feverish cxriteincn£amF feeling of insecurity pervading the country, a feeling of profound peace, almost oppressive in its intensity possesses the public mind. Instead of the papers being filled with such startling black letter head lines, as ~ “The recvi.t cuup d'Uut of the Pi c sident,” “Senator So-and-so’*' great speech in the Senate alcnouncimr. o the administration,’ “Congressman hal's-his namc preparing Articles • f impeachment,” “Horribleku-kluf outrages upon Southern loyalists," '■Bloody massacre in New Orleans,” etc., etc, there is scarcely interest enough in the political tTews to make 1 the dispatches readable, and the . sensational newspapers of the country, like the Chicago Tribune and New York Hera'd. have recourse to “revolting murders,” “bloody tragedies,” disgusting “divorce trials;” rapes, suicides, accidents, etc, to < ke out a filling for their columns