The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-09-23

thtouGh MN, TIE ueSpotlSm oil the had
ich party may become fixed aud secure.
In that position he will hold terrible
and dangerous balance Of power between
them aud their opponents. II he Should
then threaten to carry out the Radical
idea Of govern nent, their intended vic>
tins prelcriing the despotism of one
man to that Of il cruel and corrupt fac
ton, would bc in condition to accept the
relief which he could offer, and which
would be acceptable; because his acccs.
sion to unlimited power would involve
the Radical and the Southern man in
the same fate precisely. The power
conferred on him Us the tool Of a venge-
fui and dospotic policy could be easily
allied with the resentment of despero
ate people, and thus become the step
ping stone to an imperial throne.
Let our Radical friends read a little
history, and then laugh at this if they
can. Whenever a republic has fallen,
it has been effected by some such conni-
vance between the parties out Of power
and the chosen instruments of the dom
inant faction. A Rump Parliament
once made Cromwell Lord Protector,
and thought that in doiug so they had
obtained complete control of the Exec.
utive but they were ignominiously
kicked out of their seets by their serv-
ant. II that body had been full, and
fairly elected, and legally acting Parlia.
ment of England, instead of a lawlcs:
and usurping faction, it would have
been sustained in its rights even by its
opponents, the Royalists, and Cromwell
could never have presumed as he did 81
successfully upon the connivance Of tina
| powerful party in his revolt against his
own faction.
In that page of history the Radicals
can witness the operations Of th
Nemesis which fastens upon the fortune
of such usurpations as they are creating
They are erecting government OF fore
t to hold power in spite Of the white ma
G iority, and in doing this they are pre-
1 pairing the minds of that majority to re
$ ioice when this new clement turns t
e plague the nventor.
o The Napoleons were elevated os tn
s favoritcs Of Republican France,and bot
d of them became Emperors by the assiS
g tance If the dissatisfied Monarchist
II "But," says the Radicals, " Grant is
II common place man and don't want to
Is Emperor. He is neither Cromwe
l. nor Nepoleon." True, but tits also trr
1t that the Bonaparts were not Cromwel
20 nor was Cromwell Caesar. Cromwe
W was not kno Sn four miles from home {
+, the age Of 40 years and yet he was alb
u solute master of England when he die
IS The first Napoleon, poor Corscan ca
t. Diet, became Emperor of France. Lou
ce Napoleon, his nephew, was considert
as late in his life as very common p!aC
~ and visionary vagabond, the laughiI
l. stock of numerous cities in which
n" had been loafer, and yet when elect
President of the French Republic,
III declared that he wanted peace, and
ITS virtue Of Just such bayonet elections
us Grant is now experimenting in tt
"a. South, he is to Gay Emperor OF Franz
es Nobody was more astonished at all the
he results than the MEN who unwilling
Use conferred the power to accomplish the
les Grant may appear to his Radical trai
ST. ers like very docile mastiff that y
n worry where they bid him, out
he knows where the best bids are. Train
90 in the army, he loves power. He
led many men to slaughter, but his a
me bition is not satisfied with the laur
it his fiattercrs award him. He can
9nt silent and bide his chances, He S
lch the Radicals confer absolute power
ln~ Lincoln and offer the same to Johns
for He saw that it was good Tor him to
the como a Radical President. They
IN not want to trust the silent moody m
in but it was that or bid long farewell
out power. They mistrust him yet,and
nc- they may. His letter of accepta
1t. leaves him free to consult his own !
me sonal interests as President. Ii
in committed to nothing and no man kn
ing whether his views eff government acc
are with those of Hampden, Charles the
mp Cromwell or Tiberius. We only k
ters that he is sound on the strategy
t is numbers and attriiion," and that W
'son he sets out to accomplish anything
the does not stop on the way to count
> in corpscs Of his friends. If elected h
lel@ the very man to act either as
less Cromwell of our Rump, or as the Gt
en- raj Monk of new Restoration. A
civil is doubtful which part lis personal
to terests might lead him to play, the
tive pie have concluded to elect Seymour
llng 'let US have peace. :"