Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1872 — How the People Feel. [ARTICLE]

How the People Feel.

The rejoicing oyer the result of the October elections is by no means confined to the politicians and office-holders who are directly interested therein. There ra~a wide, fervent and profound feeling of thankfulness pervading every portion of the community, and shared by the representatives of every business and industrial pursuit. The apprehension of a different result has caused a feeling of anxiety never before witnessed in a doubtful Presidential contest. The truth is, that while the intentions and aspirations of Mr. Greeley are admitted on all hands to be good, there is a universal lack of confidence in his judgment, and an undefined fear lest the commitment to his hands of the vast trusts involved in the Presidency of the United States, would, before the close of his term, by reason of Ms lack of judgment, his rash precipitancy, his hasty espousal of new doctrines, and his reckless advocacy of untried experiments,, precipitate the country into difficulty and danger, and produce disasters which, while they are npjv unforeseen, might, in the process of foreign negotiation, or the occurrence of domestic differences, be developed in the twinkling of an eye. In particular is this feeling common to the business and financial classes of the community. Mr. Greeley’s crotchets upon finance” are as numerous as they are fallacious, and his occasion for putting them into practice would be as unfortunate as liis theories are dangerous. His time 1o resume specie payments would-be likely to be chosen when greenbacks are scarce, and the market for money close, because there would then be j fewer greenbacks to redeem, and there is 'not the slightest doubt that were Mr. Greeley President at this particular juncture, when the stringency in the money market occasions a wide-spread anxiety and apprehension, he would be as likely as at any time to issue a proclamation setting forth that “the way to resume is to resume,” and announcing that the business of the country would henceforth be conducted on a specie basis. That such a measure at present resolved upon would produce a financial crash in twenty-four hours, every man of experience understands. But Mr. Greeley is not content with desiring. to put the country upon a specie basis in a day. He desires that the present generation shall pay the national debt. His well remembered demand that the cost -of the war shotiTd be levied upon the country and paid Within ten years, is but another of the impossible accomplishments which his whfflle life has byen employed in advocating':' and the financial interests of the country would behold his elevation to the Presidency with a settled conviction that danger and difficulty ■ would attend his administration, and that unforeseen calamity might at any time occur as the result of his reckless "as well as obstinate financial crotchets.

.Mor is this teeling confined to the financial classes. The whole people have been intensified with ill-concealed regret and chagrin that there exists among them a man of the prominence of Mr. Greeley, and particularly occupying his responsible position, who could be guilty of announcing that he still indulges the conviction that secession is in itself right, and that whenever the people of a'section decide by ballot that they desire to leave the Union, “he for one would be in favor of conceding that right." The people of this country spilt oceans of blood and expended mines of treasure to settle the oppositeprinciple, and it would indeed be a miracle if the annunciation of this old and detested doctrine by a man who was on the direct road to the power to put that doctrine in practice, should not cause a feeling of profound distrust and alarm, and occasion/a deep anxiety for a result in October/ which would preclude the possibility of clanger to the Union in November. Happily that result,has been achieved. Hence it is that the people everywhere breathe easier, and enjoy a feeling of security which they have not recently felt; and hence it .is that the rejoicing of the politicians is shared by every thinking map in the Union who has a deep and abiding concern for the future interests and welfare of his country. —Chicago Pont. October 10,