New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-01

tiOns-their generous impulscs-their natred on
all unwh8lesOme resfraint-their respect for
personality and for individual opinion-thc'r
love of domestic pleasures and privileges-if
any man, we say, who is capable of appre'
ciating all these. is timorous in respect of a
Military Dictatorship. then We say, without
dread of contradiction, that there must be
something the matter with his digestion. We
are not sure that his may not be one OF those
dreadful cases mentioned by DR.. Holmes, In
which
9TH. cardiac .phinctsr presses On the bile"
To believe that brave and cheerful and
social people, saturated with Democratic opin'
ions, and accustomed to control government BY
continual lmitatiOn-a people which for TWO
centuries has chafed at the semblancc Of Auto
cracy in the public policy-a people educated
to cxecrate tyranny as something too loath'
some to be considered with equanimity-to
dread that such race will become suddenly
enamored of submission and qilescent under q
Caesar. would be about as reasonable as to
believe that within the next five years twothirds
OF our population may emgrate to Russia, and
take the oath of allegiance to the Car
All but the croakers say, in nervous
fiJget. there is the army ARE We not to fear
that the army may elevate iavorite General
(of the Major or Brgadier or Adjutant spe-
cies) to the throne If We were private SOL
der, We think that we could bear the bad
beef and the bean coffee aud the shoddy jackets,
much better than these dIstrusiful aud insult
ing suggestions. Here are men who have aban-
doned comfortable homes and profitable avoca-
tons for the dirt and danger and general dis
comfort of the camp, merely to yindcate their
Constitutional right to elect President once
in four years; and Mr.. Croker tells them that
after all their campaigning, they viii settle
down cheeriuly urder an unlimited monarchy,
and will stoicay forego The rapture OF elect
ing Presidents at all If Mr.. Buchanan, that
bad specimen Of the Presidential article, were
now regnant, and the people were convinced
that in all future years no better man was
likely TO be elected, we can then imagine them
calling in sgony for system OF SultaDs and
Grand Vziers and w-strings; but as the
people have once tasted the rapture Of turning
out very old and very incompetent Public
Functionary, We believe they will preserve, as
their most priceless privilege, the right to rec.
tfy tLeir own bunders, aud to deal with any
buchanan of the future as they have dealt
with the Buchanan of the present. The little
taste Of Dictatorship which the TunctloDary
gave, has, we are confident, by no means in'
creased their yearning for that variety OF rule.
Who il 10 be the Dictator We have cast
about among our acquaintance, and public
men generally, and We can think OF nobody
who would be willing TO take tho Office upon
tic most nunGcent salary payable in specie OF
the old.iashioned sort. You SEQ you would
ba,.. to find man after you had created the
Office First catch your Dictator, the recipe
would begin. For. just think what time he
woula have Of Z. Seated in the White House,
surrounded. of courtn, by his concubincs, and
eating oil gold plate, aud siceTins upon a bed
stuffed with alternate layers oil down ana
Treasury Notes. he would be III tt.n'inuai Ter
ror Of HE lie. Somebody would always De ar
irving, per rail, from Maine or from Oifgon,
70 a,sassinate him. How the new spaPers wouh
wig him How tho cancuses and conventions
would blow him up! How weary bis days
would be with dread, and his nights with
dreams Of deposition In comparison with such
a life, that OF Macbeth after the murder of the
King must have been rather than else epicil- \
rcan. No no, Considering the Saxon element
in our population, aud the fine facilities for
" taking of " which the inventions of the age
afford, We are satisfied that men who never
shrunk from any other office. would shrink
from accepting the Dictatorship. We do not
believe that even Dir. Buchanan wOnld take 1t,
though the con'prators should offer to fill the
whole Capitol with Salt River Whisky for his
private use.