Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-01

Communicated.I
Face the Munc-You will Yet Support
Grant.
There is not a question that the South
will either not vote at all in the next
Presi Dental contest, or, its vote, con.
trolled by freedmen, will be given to the
Radical party, If these States vote
there is as little question that the Radical
candidate for the Presidency will be
elected. To this consummation the
whole legislation of Congress will be
directed. Four hundred millions of
dollars, countless Offices and sinecures,
the exercise of autocratic power, unre-
strained bY forms or theories of consti-
tutional right, are agencies in the hands
of men whose lives have been devoted to
partisanship. Their success cannot be
questioned. People may ignore plain
facts because unwilling to confess their
existence but any one who dares think
for himself must admit that Democracy
is impotent for good, and in waging war
against omnipotence it only enrages the
majority and augments the multiplied
evils of our condition. 1t is hard, l
know, to contemplate the plain
truth, and we instinctively close our eyes
that we may not behold coming'humilia
ton and calamties. If the contest be-
tween Radcalism and Democracy had
not assumed so many characteristics OF
ferocity, and absolute hatred were not an
element in the struggle, there might be
different results. Throughout the North,
partisan antagonisms are as bitter and
relentless as in the confines of Brown
lows pachdlic. For reform in the spirit
and purpose of either party there is no
possibility. The devil was turned loose
in America in 1860, and, in the shape
of an all.destroying revolution, he takes
no step backwards. Questions of reason
and right are not involved. The struggle
is one simply for office and power. The
party now holding will retain both, and
for the reason that they now WELD unre--
stricted authority over the army, the mob,
the President, the offices and the treas
ury. Why are we so blind; or, rather,
why such towards, that we dare not look
palpable, though unwelcome, facts in the
face?
Confessing our impotency and that OF
unhorsed, leaderless Democracy, is it
not we'll to inquire, since our preferences
and wishes will not be consulted, what
man is best calculated to give the coun-
try peace. All prefer single master to
many headed despotism. Athens
meyer knew the perfection of misrule
until thirty tyraRts reigned. An auto
craoy is preferred to au oligarchy. How
ever devoted to Radicalism, Grants
mastery is preferable to that OF Con-
gress; if for no other reason, because he
would be the master of the lawless body.
The AualancAe, has admitted that repub-
licanism in American was no more, and
that our only recourse was in monar-
chy. What man besides Grant can be
made king9 and who, besides Grant,
could have unresisted sway2 he may
choose to restore the republic.
Suppose Grant imbued with sent-
ments akin to those which governed
Washington. He new pursues the very
course best calculated to accomplish pa
triotic purposes. 1.-The defed or resisted
Congress, if he siguifed purpose to de-
feat the ends Of RadieAlism, If it was
suspected that be might prefer Demo
Gratis TO Radicals in filing public Offices
this same Congress, which has abolished
the Office Of President, would slowly but
surely strike down the General-in-Chief
Of Federal Armies. OF this fact Grant