Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1870 — Gen Grant and His Maligners. [ARTICLE]

Gen Grant and His Maligners.

—A- MM.* U TM quiei wiiV in wnicn rremaem Grant ton •bout nla work, la k perpetual No sooner have they invented and published a programme for the Ai’tninU(ration than they find It has adopted •om ething else, and by the time that is well abased, they go offoa some new tack, only to find that they neither know, nor have known anything on the subject, nor mafia a rational guess at it This perpetual fell ure is humiliating; somethin* has to be done to redeem their feeble sagacity from ridicule, and, as each feflure fevelope Itself tbey beUk e thetnSblves to a column or two of epithets to hide their chagrin. This is the true explanation of all that rant the press spouts so copiously from time to time. Rational men take a different view of the Administration. They know it commenced its labors under extraordinary difficulties, and they were not silly enough to expect miracles. They see a elow but steady advance made toward the settlement of greet national problems They see nearly restored order, peace, and prosperity throughout the South. They see that the great victory of freedom over riavery is fully achieved, and the question of ages settled. They sea the national debt steadily diminishing, and a purpose to adopt measures for Ha final extinguishment, as well as for a proper reduction of internal taxes. They see apurpose to put the currency on a more mature and solid basis, and to more fully equalise the burdens ot the nation. And, in all this, they see a wise statesmanship, not attempting rash or startling projects, to magnify the personal importance of some individual men, but the safe, if alow, measures of a real retrenchment, and a return to the ways of economy, and solid prosperity for the whole people. » The Democratic party managed so well When in power, that it plunged the nation into a sectional war, and as was to have been expected, took the wrong side in the contest. The Republican party have managed to restore peace, good will, and an enduring prosperity; and naturally took be side of liberty and progress. The Democracy are still looking back to Buqhanan’s time as the eml odiment of their patriotism, and as the happy end of their highest efforts. The Republican party looks upon that time as one of national shame and disgrace—as the worst period in the history of the Republic -a scandal on manhood, and a libel on the honor of the country. With such diverse views, how can it be expected that the parties can agree on the present Administration T The antipodes are not wider apart than Buchanan and Grant, and there is scarcely a public measure now that bears a resemblance to those when Democracy blossomed and bore fruit Even measures of the same nature have grown to that magnitude that the similarity is scarcely apparent. The Democratic legacy left the nation was war and debt . The Republican legacy will be peace, but taxation to pay the Democratic debt. Hence it comes with illgraoe from that party to clamor about a debt of their own creating, and a taxation of which they sowed the seed. The people may well congratulate, themselves that they have a President who does nothing for show, but everything for the substantial interests of the country. All his “fail wet" (?) have been successes, and he will leave his great office lamented by the honest and patriotic masses of men of all parties He has a fixed and honest purpose, and a strong will to do right, and all the jeers of the Democratic press won’t move nim an inch from the path of rectitude he is following.—Chicago Republican.