The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-08-23
JULIUS CEs RLOpNsov

Andrew johnson having dropped the role
OF Moses, has taken tina. of Cesar. In his
speech to the committee of the PHILADELPHIA
Convention he says:
III wanted Office, or wished to perpetu,
ate my own power how easy it would have
been to hold and WELD that which was
placed in my hands by the measure called
the Freedmen's Bureau. Laughter and
applause With the army which it nlaced
at my command, | could have remained at
the capital of the United States, and with
its $50, 600 600 or $50, 600, 900 of appropri
ations at my disposal, with the machinery
to he worked 10y my own hands, with nv
satraps and dependents i'll every town and
village, and then with the Civil Rights Bill
following as an auxiliary, in connection
with all the Other appliances of government,
: ! could have proclaimed myself dictator. >
lCrles OF That's troe," and cheers for the
President
| You all did see how on the Lupercal
he thrice did put away kingly crown"
said Mark Antony, extolling the virtues
OF the other Cesar. Mr. johnson cannot
wait for posterity to do justice to his self
| denial IN emitting to overthrow republican
institutions tn the United States and to ca
tablish an hereditary monarchy In its pIace.
lie thinks that no other eulogist could do
justice to 1T SO well as himself. Hence we
find him performing the double part of Cse-
sar and Antony in the same drama, before
an admiring audience who exclain, THAT'S
true" and break forth in cheers for the
modern Julius
1t will take the American people hv spr.
| y1rIGa fc Loo hot tho al:
between them and military despotism is
the virtue of Julius Caesar johnson. 1t is
rather startling to be informed that our lib
critics hang upon SO uncertain tenure as
the caprice OF one man, and he not ALWAYS
sober 1t will be news to the soldiers and
sailors of the Union Chat they are such dumb
beasts that they could be used to subvert
the Constitution, and reduce themselves,
their nelghbors and their posterty to sub,
lection to the dynasty of Andrew I. It
Will be comforting to the tories and tyrants
OF the Old World to receive an official as
surance from the President of the limited
States that he could set up a moparcbical
government III this country by simply issu.
ing few orders to the army, and taking a
few dollars out of the treasury. The revela.
ton Is altogether new and stranoe IL is
well calculated to excite smile. but there
is a serious feature in it which should not
be overlooked. 1t proves that the matter of
executing coup d'etat has been running in
Mr.. Johnsons head. The subject is too
grave for jestiug. 1t is momelitous theme
for a President to discuss in the presence OF
delegation OF rebels and rebel syInnathi
zers. The very suggestion of dictatorship
established by military violence shows that
he mas committed the crime in his heart al
ready The man who holding the chief ex-
ecut.Ve Office OF the nation, has calculated
the means at his command, measured the
| force at his disposal, and the force to be
overcome, and then deliberately announced
that he could, if SO disposed, subvert repub.
Iican institutions in the United States is a
dangerous man. He is one against whom
all patriots should band together, as against
the common enemy of his race. He has al
ready paltered with his conscience, and hav-
ing contemplated the possibility of applying
the torch to free institutions, he may do any
thing,
1t is needless to say that the soldiers,
whom he thinks he could make his instru-
nents to suhvert the constitution, would be
the iii st to hang him for his crime The
ooiuioiS VI Tue hepuOllc, Ootn those VINO
have returned to their homes and those who
still serve i'll the army, know the difference
bet~ cen loyalty and treason, and their off
GERS know that they cannot plead the orders
OF a superior to extenuate an unlawful act
Andrew johnson may be ignorant enough
TO believe that he could cnthe himself in the
imperial purple by simple act of volition,
aud he may be base enough to attempt it.,
but the moment he seeks to execute the
purpose that is in his heart every bayonet
and every cannon that is in the Federal
army and navy will be turned against him.
Every soldier and sailor would become a
| regicide, and treason would be made odious
at last and no mistake. Chicago Tribune.