Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1871 — A Brief Review. [ARTICLE]

A Brief Review.

Aftbr two full years’ experience of the administration of President Grant, the people are able to form a just estimate of his services, and to mark the actually achieved results. When he took upon himself the burthen of government, public affairs were in a condition little better than chaotic. Internal disorder and foreign complications oppressed the country. The national debt was enormous, and still increasing; the revenue laws Were not enforced; waste and extravagance pervaded all the departments, and even the most sanguine dreaded and expected a financial collapse. How completely practical good sense and solid judgment changed the whole current of affairs, restored public confidence, and insured the happiness and Serity of the whole country, llis a administration has not exhibited a single' effort to make any display, or to perforin any prodigy to dazzle the public imagination. Everything done lias been safe, practical aqd useful. Debt and taxntion have alike been reduced at a rate that has surprised all parties. The whole volume of the currency has maintained a value nearly aqual and uniform. The laws have been everywhere enforced. No dangers beset the country from any ioreigh question, and the people at large have enjoyed a degree of prosperity almost without precedent in the past. Washington could havo doge no more, and how few of our Presidents have succeeded as well. That mere partisans should clamor against him-, was a matter of course. That some political aspirants have been disappointed in obtaining place, and have behaved badly in consequence, is cheerfully admitted. But that President Grant has cherished and protected the true interests of the great mass of the people, and stood steadily by them in all their doings, and'that he mis nobly vindicated all pledges, and maintained unsullied the honor of tlie nation and his own. is what every honest man knows and feels.—Chicago Pont. w ;