Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1871 — The President. [ARTICLE]

The President.

The ferocious abuse of General Grant by the Democratic press is an illustration of the real feeling of that party. It can not forgive his victory over the- rebellion. It hopes by a fog of slander to obscure the national remembrance of his great and glorious service to the country. But the people, of the United States know very well that the worst mistake of his administration is wliite as snow compared with the deeds of that nest of traitors and rebels, the last Democratic national administration. While the Democratic papers sneer at the Cabinet, whose personal character and efficient official service they can not question, the people have not forgotten the last Democratic Cabinet, in which Jeremiah 8. Black, who declared that the Union could not lawfully be maintained by arms, was Secretary of State; and Howell Cobb, one of the chief rebel chiefs, was Secretary of the Treasury, plotting to destroy the national credit; ami Jacob Thompson was Secretary of the Interior; and Isaac-Toucey, who sent the national ships out of reach, was Secretary of the Navy; and John B. Floyd, who tried to transfer the national arms to rebels before the war began, who fled as a rebel general from Fort Donelson, and who died execrated by every honorable American, was Secretary of War.

This precious society of patriots was the last Cabinet which the Democratic party furnished to the country, and its head was James Buchanan, whose supporters now gibe at General Grant! James Bu* cliauan was the faithful instrument of the slave masters, and when they raised their hands to destroy the Union and the government, that great Democratic statesman, under the advice of Jeremiah Black, whimpered that they had no nght to do so, but that the country had no right to help itself! These were the men whom the Democratic party and papers, which now abuse General Grant, called to power when they last carried a national election. And the party has not changed. As it was the organization by which slavery worked its will then, so it is that by which the Ku-Klux would work its will now. As it elected Vance to the Senate from North Carolina, Blair from Missouri, when he eaid that he would undo reconstruction by the army, so it would send Jefferson Davis from Mississippi, and Robert Toombs from Georgia, could it but have a little more encouragement. The Democratic hatred of General Grant is the Ku-Klux hatred of loyal men in the Southern States. He is the perpetual monument of the crushed rebellion. His presence in the White House is the constant assertion of the supremacy of the Republican principles of liberty, union, ana law. The same spirit which hissed at Lincoln as a gorilla and a despot, and at the Union soldiers as hirelings, denounced Grant in the field as a butcher, and scolds at him now as a fool. But he was not dismayed by Democratic rage when it took the form of fire, and he is not likely to be disheartened by it now that it is froth. But when the abuse is loudest it is well to reflect what party it is that utters it, and how its men and its services to the country compare with General Grant and what he has done. It is natural that those who thought Robert E. Lee a Christian hero should think GeneraLX^wJjPMfoher; that those who sneer afeLblfPlreet as unfaithful to his cause because, when conquered, he honestly surrendered, should refuse to honor General Thomas; and that those who excuse the horrors of Andersonville should make light of the Ku-Klux Klan. This is all natural, but is it to such a spirit that the government of the country can be safely intrusted I—Harper's Weekly.