Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1871 — Colfax for Grant’s Re-election. [ARTICLE]

Colfax for Grant’s Re-election.

Tn the Independent, Vice-President Colfax—who, it will be remembered, has announced his positive retirement from public life at the close of his present term—briefly reviews the noble record of the Republican party, and adds .- What wiser, better platform can be devised for the present time than this terse, compact, irrefutable one embodied in the conclusion of President Grant’s last message? 1. Thorough enforcement of every law. 2. Faithful collection of every tax. 3. Economy in disbursement 4. Prompt payment of every debt of the nation. ■ 5. Reduction of the taxes as rapidly as .the requirements of the country Will admit. A-... . 6. Reduction of taxation and tariff, to be so arranged as to afford the great relief to the greatest number. 7. Honest4iid fair dealing with all its blighting consequences, may be avoided; but without surrendering any right or obligation due to us. 8. Reform in the treatment of Indians, and in the whole civil service of the country. 9. Becnring a pure, untrammelad ballot, where every man entitled to cast a vote may do so just once at each election, without fear of molestation or proscription on account of his political faith, nativity or color. Is it not a striking fact that, ont of all our forty millions of people, no critic has been found, of any party, who has attempted to antagonize a single one of these nine points embodied in the President’s platform ? His faith that Gem Grant will again load the Republican party to victory in 1872 is thus emphatically expressed: “ With such a record, and on the platform* already written by the President’s hand, with whatever additions the intervening two years may prove essential to the national weal, Gen. Grant (with some one of the many prominent Republicans East or South, whom all confide in and delight to honor, associated with him) will, I sinccrebelieve, lead the Republican phalanx, as he has often led those under his banner, to a signal and auspicious victory. And it will be a victory that will give stability and rest to the country, by ending forever, as it will) all hopes of a Democratic reactiqn against the results of the war as embodied in our Constitution and laws.”

—According to the statistics of the Baptist lland-biMik, more than half the pastors of Baptist churches in England have held their positions for 5 years and upward, and nearly a third for 10 years and upward. Borne have held them 50 years, — A CLAIRVOYANT doctor, of Hartford, proclaims his superiority over all soothsayers, astrologers and prophets, by adverfining that he “foretells the past and present, us well as the future. • —The Jeff. Davis Mansion in Richmond, Vr., has been purchased by the Board of Education of that city for school purposes.