The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-23
THE NEW ERA.
Giant to be Emperor Of a Great
American Oligarchy.
From the New York Herald

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cation. We arc destined probably
e another illustration Of it befo
long in the United States. The exp
nent, t any exponent there be, will !
General Grant and our present sy
tenn Of free representative governmen
founded on universal suffrage, will /
the first sacrifice on the altar OF b
greatness.
We make no charge Of ambitious d.
signs against General Grant,
charge that he is consciously plo,tln
for the overthrow of the Governmer
founded bv Washington, Jefferson an
their associates. But events beyon
all human control are hurrying fol
ward this country in the direction of
military dictatorship; and if such is t
become our next form of Government
after President Johnson's preordaine'
removal, then it is clear that Genera
Grant has been selected by rulin;
events as the founder Of our new sys
TEN of national control.
That our ext President, if MI
johnson be removed, must be either
mere tool OF Congress-, recording it
will and depending on its pleasure TO
his continuance in power, or q tyran
who will seize the helm himself and do
inmate both Congress and the country
is the clearest fact Of the present hour
He must he either tool or tyrant- there
can be no alternative for the constitu
tional authority ofthe President will be
stricken down with q mortal bio il
the present Jacobin plot for Mr.. John
sons removal shall prove successful.
1t will I've no ignominious place in his
tory that Andrew johnson will occupy
as the last constitutional President OF
the United States-onc who fought the
good fight, but W 8 defeated in it one
who had the misfortune to be Chief
Magistrate at a time when the Amcri.
can people were resolved upon chang.
ing their form of government.
The alternative being either tool or
tyrant, master or slave Of Congress,
which horn Of the inevitable dilemma
may we expect General Grant to adopt?
What course did Prince Louis Napo
leon take when Cavaignac, Lamartine
and the other semi-moderate leaders Of
the French Revolution-that in which
King Louis Philippe was '%'impeached''
and removed by the people-sought to
make 9 Of him for a few years as the
tigurehead Of their bastard republic ?
Louis Napoleon was a silent man, al,
most as silent on Political topics as
General Grant. He would talk Of ar
with anybody, just as General
will talk about horses.
But in regard to French politics
Napoleon, when plotting for the
purple, had no more fixed opinions
than Gen. Grant avows to day in re-
gard to the great questions agitatiug
he pubic mind. 1t Is curious, too, to
that Louis Napoleon was
favored by the conservative and con-
'titutional party OF France, just as we
Gen Grant is to-day favored by
.llc leading men and organs of the so
'alled conservative Republicans"
they hope he will use the Radicals to
'ecure his election, just as Louis Ma
ooleon used Unpopular vote ofFrance
md that he will, when once in power,
till further initiate Louis Napoleon by
ignoring or actively suppress
ng, as may be necessary, the men and
principles by which and whose votes
lis elevation was accomplished
Both Grant and Louis Napoleon are
men of unimpressive appearance and
address to the common observer.
Both appearto be of slow, phlegmatic
MT bright by any means, ratl-
|uh than otherwise and both, in their
ariy youth, have been involved in
'ad fascos, which nothing but their
success could have redeem
d from general contempt. Louis Ma
with a time eagle perched on
is wrist, invaded France and got lock-
d up for his pains in the calaboose Of
Gen Grant, shortly after Mexi
an war, was conrtinartialcd on a charge
f being too enormously pious, and
'as by a sentence of cashierment re. I
lifted to the shades OF private life. 0
That the meditations Of his dungeon
id for Lou 8 Napoleon, strengthening
is character and giving it a fixed aim !
a stigma to b. blotted out and a sue t
nss to he reached-the years of his re-
rement as q Missouri farmer would
to have done for Gen. Grant.
9th men have issued stronger from .
le ordeal. One is already on throne
I'd the other is on a high road lead
g very distinctly in the same direc. t
on.
Gen. Grants advisers will be found h
the ranks of his old army subordi. :.
ltes !; and such obcdient soldiers as "
eneral Sheridan will be the tools most
miliar to his grasp. In THE first French ,
evolution the semi.conservative Re. l
iblicans thought young Captain Bon. .
just fresh from the scige of .
oulon, might be a good instrument :"
help them in the task of restrainingl
e excess of tie Jacobin Club, and .
e all know the result. But now it =
the Jacobin Club, into which our >
merican Congress has degraded, that '
to use General Grant as an >
-trumcnt to shield them from the u
rath of an injured people and to per.
'tuate their power
Let US all wait and see how this ex. II
will work. 1t may take five O.
,ars or possibly ten. But as we are G
60 ahead people the problem will 4,
ost likely be solved before half the
sser period shall have expired. julius
esar was assassinated on an imputa. d,
IN tla llo wouII lie tD hao0~o T. n