The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-14

! should be first made to take them In
their milk; and if that does not cure
them, let them be sent to the Peni-
tentiary for life, or send me to the
Asylum. ANTI-OIGNON.
Grants Course Foreshadowed--Ha
We a Cpesnr In HINT
Governor Floyd, of Virginia. in
1919, replying to Mr.. Clay's attack
upon General Jackson, said:
"The honorable speaker (Mr. Clay
tells us that Rome had her Caesar,
Britain her Cromwell, France her
Napoleon, and may we profit by their
example. / am about to hazard
an opinion, new in degree, and very
opposite to that of the honorable
speaker, which is, that no Govern
ment has ever been destroyed by
successful military chieftain. I ap-
peal to history to support me, if my
construction be right. If I recolle:t
the words of the historian: Cesar,
having less reputation, like wise
champion, retired to distance for
exercise, while the two great factions
preyed upon the liberties of Rome.
Then, not till then, did Caesar return
to Rome, which ever since the wars
Of Marius and Sylla bad known no
liberty.
"Nor is the overthrow of the
British Government attributable to
Cromwell. The speeches of Parlia-
ment, and the treachery of members,
produced the revolution. When all
was in commotion, Cromwell, by
canting and preaching, secured the
stronger party, and became the Pro
tector. Nor can the French revolu-
tion be attributed to anything but
the insincerity of the orators in the
States General, and to none in q
higher degree than to that greatest of
orators and worst of men, Mirabeau.
If, in aftert times, as in all other revo-
lutions, Napoleon secured the strong
er party, and swayed the Govern
ment, he can lot be said to have over
turned it. No, Mr.. Chairman, our
liberties are not to be endangered by
successful ciiieftain, returning to
us with his gandy costume, even
after hundred victories of New Or
leans. IT IS HERE, IN THE CAPITOL,
ON THIS FLOOR, that ow' liberty is to be
sacrificed, and that by the hollow,
treacherous elequence of some ambi-
tious, proud, aspiring demagogue!'
Going further back-to September,
1796-we find, in Washington's Fare.
we'll Address, this language:
'"The alternate domination of one
faction over another. sharpened by
the spirit of revenge, natural to party
dissension, which in different ages
and countries has perpetrated the
most horrid enornities, is itself q
frightful despotism. But this leads
at length to more formal and per-
manent despotism. The disorders
and miseries which result gradually
incline the minds of men to seek
security and repose in the absolute
power of an individual; and sooner
or later the chief of some prevailing
faction, more able or more fortunate
than his competitors, turns this dis
position to the purposes of his own
elevation on the ruins of the public
liberty"
"An extremity of this kind" he
adds, fought not to be entirely out
of sight"
Calhoun, the elder Floyd, Wash
ington and Jefferson, were all great
men, whose suggestions are worthy
OF being remembered ut all times;
but the passages above quoted are
specially worthy of consideration,
now that Congress, recovering from
the confusion into which they were
thrown by the fall elections, have
been rallied once more unto the
breach, to strike down with rapid
blows both the Executive and the
Judiciary. When all shall be commo-
tion, as sll history proves all soon
will be, as the result of these legisla-
tive usurpations, then will Grant only
have to follow out long and unva-
r1ed line of precedents, and bring
order out OF chaos by placing the
crown on his own head.
WAR OF RACES. New York
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