Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1870 — Dissatisfaction. [ARTICLE]

Dissatisfaction.

We hear a good deal said in the Democratic and quasi Republican papers about the dissatisfaction of the people with the administration of President Grant. When traced up, however, the only source for all this talk is found in the growlings of some disappointed politicians, or the howlings of some demagogues who imagine that they can see in the early future a reorganization of parties, and strike out in that direction, hoping to bo leaders in coming political strifes. To such men, and those who are under their personal Influence, is this great dissatisfaction confined. With the masses the confidence in the President is undisturbed. His entire freedom from demagoguery, and straightforward, business like manner in transacting the affairs of the Government, commend him to all thinking men as a not unworthy successor to the lamented Lincoln. In his distribution of he has come asjiQifginfsfying the general PhWAj, ITnot the politicans, as perhaps 'any of his predecessors. If in the selection of men for important positions he has not always chosen those whom the people best knew, their adaptation and fitness for the places assigned them have generally demonstrated the wisdom of his choice. His administration has been one of business, and not of buncombe. General Grant never had any great reputation in “Fourth of July business." His reputation rests rather on his practical exploits on the field, which showed courage, patriotism, persevcrence and excellent judgment. There were; perhaps, more brilliant soldiers in the army than General Grant, but none combined these elements of sure success to such eminent degree as he. These were the qualities, patent to his countrymen which made him the man of their choice, and which, as displayed in his civil administration, will make it no less popular than his military career. To reduce the public debt $100,000,000 or more per annum in time of commercial depression may or may not indicate statesmanship and foresight, but it will give the people confidence in the administration that does it It may exasperate those whose sympathies for peoples struggling to be free would lead to the espousal, of their cause, to find the administration pursuing a more conservative course; but when the “sober second thought” comes, after passion has cooled, they will respect the more superior wisdom of an administration which kept us out of foreign wars, and yet made its influence felt for freedom the world over—an administration which had the courage to oppose itself to popular clamor and defeat the demagoguery of its own friends. The history is being written in characters that the people themselves will read. — Cincinnati Chronicle.