The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-07
DOES PEACE KEAN TIE KMPIREi


There was a time when such journalistic
prospectus as that which is subjoined would
have been regarded as the freak Of some IN
ordinate wag or of some downright lunatlc,
and only one or the other presumption could
have secured its author from being over
whelmed by a storm of popular rage. NOW
ii will be read by ninety-nine persons out OF
hundred without surprise. and without sus-
picion of its seriousness or its sanity. Per-
haps it viii not cause the cheek OF many
readers to mantle with the hot blood OF re-
sentiment How wide the contrast, and what
world of ominous suggestion is in i'll Here
is the document
The MERIALrsr.
The public and the trade are hereby informed
that arrangements for the publication OF The
Imperislist are now fully completed, and the
first number of this long,expected journal wiz be
issued on Saturday, April Sd.
For the first time in the history Of the United
States, an American journal dares to proclaim as
false, and pernicous In their influence, the demo-
cratic dogmas Of popular sovereignty and equs-
Ity; and TO demand that, on the ruins OF this I'M
fortunate republic, shall be reared the firm and
substantial structure of an empire.
The creed CT The Imperialist is revolutionary;
lite mission to prepare the mind OF the America
throughout the country.
The conductors OF this journal believe demo-
cracy 10 be g failure. Though theoretically plau-
sibie in iis practical workings it has beea found
totally inadequate TO the wants OF the American
We belief that the national faith, If left in the
keeping Of the populsce, will be suilied by the
sure fepudation Of the national debt. and that an
imperial government can alone protect the rights
of national creditors.
We believe that an imperial government, in its
paernal relation to tie people, will care equal.
" for ell citizens, and, while guaranteeing Sc
curity to the rights of capital, will jealousy
protect the interests of the Industrial classes
We believe that the repablic means iawless-
ness, corruption, insecurity TO person and prop
eriy, robbery Of the public creditors and civil
war; that the empire means Law, order, security,
public faith and peace.
This creed The Imperislist will advocate ear.
Destly, fesrlessy and without compromise, and
lions and opinions long held and cherished il Sc
cTet. It's columns will be free from the
low vugarisms which have heretofore
oisgrscsd American Journalism, and. Ia the
discussion Of political and social questions,
will unite the high tone and thorough cul-
ture of the English weekly press. with the more
popular features Of the best current literature Of
the day.
The Imperial will be published weekly, on Sat
urcay. II will be promptly forwarded to other
cities, and sold BY news dealers throughout the
country.
All orders and business communications may be
addressed to The Imperial Publishing Company,
No. 81 Mercer street, New York City.
All this is q deliberate and explicit avowal
of meditated treason to republican institu-
tions. 1t is natural if not logical sequence
to the despotic and ruinous misrule of the
party in power. The republic is charged with
the sins of those who have betrayed it. Lib
erty is denounced because tyrants impudent-
" assumed its name and wore its mask while
trampling on all its muniments and securities.
TIE remedy proposed is not to restore liberty
but to bury it, and to resolve collective and
hypocritical tyranny into the undivided au-
thority of an imperial despot. And to this
have the Radicals been tending all the while;
and to such pass have the people uncon-
sciously helped them to bring the country by
acquiesciDg in their impudent usurpations
''The empire, says the above prospectus,
"means peace" Does the peace of which the
especial partisans Of Grant assured the people
mean the empire? Howbeit in the political
gossip of New York, it is said that the Impe-
rialist will advocate Grant for emperor, and,
according to the New York Citizen, it is to be
the organ of new secret order, the ST. j.
o." which has recently been instituted in the
North. Perhaps we may see in these signs
the beginning of the end-but what end?