The same year, he failed to get a University of Pennsylvania professorship, and he ended up teaching mathematics at a military academy.
[1] In the following years, Grund worked primarily as a journalist and editor, writing for such newspapers as Standard, the German-language Der Pennsylvanisch Deutsche, Mercury and Evening Journal, Public Ledger, and Sun.
He published several books, including The Americans in Their Moral, Social, and Political Relations (1837) and Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman (1839).
Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter of the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.In his writings and public speeches, Grund campaigned in favor of various politicians, including Martin van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and James Buchanan.
The Buchanan administration hired him as a special agent who was sent to Europe to report on political and commercial developments there.