The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1865-12-12
New York shoddy.


General Grant lately spent day among
the fast men and fast horses of New YORK
City. Behind Bonners fast and $4,000"
team he rode to the Central Park and up
the Bloomingdale road to a race-couIse
where he witnessed the trials of speed and
the exhibition of all the fast horses of
New York City. But the significant part
of the .fete was ut Niblo's Garden, where
the coincidence of his introduction Just as
Glouster says, The Hing Is coming" was
most adroitly seized upon to give point TO
the Lieutenant Generals entry. atg lu
Look where one may throqghh"t thlo
country, ana The King Is coming" salutes
you on every side. Imperial mandates are
addressed to States commanding their COM
pliance and exacting their obedience at the
bayonetis point 10 the sovereign power at
Washington. individuals are tried, not by
jury, but by military cOmmissions--andt tile
moderate debt of republic has swollen TO
imperial proportions. An oil aristocracy
of petroleum and sham nobility of sh0ddy
vie with that of the uniform in the prizes
of the fashionable world, and, after the
manner of England, this country is soon TO
have its 'United Service Club and al
ready we read of the bondocracy as separ-
ate and privileged class for whose use and
benefit all the trade, commerce and mechan-
les arts pay the stipends of internal taxa
tiOn.
The simplicity of our forefathers' repub-
| licanism has passed away, or only remains
III the affected humility of "A pretended de-
mOcracy. We have public and private pal.
aces, while ushers and guards wait at I'll,
doors of so-called public servants, whicl
are, in realty, the peoples masters. IL wa
Gracious that first turned his back upon
the Comitium and spoke with his face Z,
the Forum, and 1t Is this modern Graccb
that, having cut loose from all characteris
ties of Republican liberty, are fast tending
TO monarchy through the forms of democ
racy. .u'g HII H I.
With a parsaical cant about equality fol
4 the negroes, Northern Republicans practic,
daily the most crushing inequality towart
white men. The lines of the so-called $50
aiety' are more distinctly drawn in New
II York and Boston than any where else oi
earth, and they are more easily brokei
there than in any other cities of the world
Without money no man can enter, and will
money any man may enjoy all the so
cety" of these cities and towns. Thi
country Is fast tending 10 the lowest AMI
most vulgar style of royalty-the mon
archy of the mob and the aristocracy q
the dollar.
One of the commOnest taunts against tn,
slaveholding States was that of aristocracy
II was pretended that there existed in thes
Estates a privileged class which enjoyed tn,
/ Dressings OF Ntsilin WlLnoul lllt tOllS Oh Va
Dor, and that by the sweat of other mem
brows they earned their daily bread. Falls
as IL was In every particular, it was In no
wise different from what daily takes place
throughout the Northern States where TIN
pittanoe doled out to labor Is growing dali,
| Hess aud less, until the song of the shirt /
the only melody that the lips of the i'm
lpoverished working classes can utter witt
truth, t- =, ...H44...
~The King is coming" and so is the da
, Of retribution. The privileged class of tn
South has been struck down by the rud
! hand of power, in defiance of law and con
stitution, and a precedent established, q
example set of how property may be seize
against the sanctions of law, that will We
| return TO plague its inventors. LOyalt
I and royalty are convertible terms with bu
. very little difference of Significance, AN
: when whole people are crazed with tn
one, they will not long hesitate about tn
: other.