The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-05-29
Communicated Are we to Have an Empire2


 
 Many of the able men of the present day have for several years expressed a belief that the Re- publican leaders in their efforts for 0entraliza- ton of power calling it by inc false name of Union, were gradually paving the way for trans forming this Great Republic" so much boasted by ihcsr lmperialists into an Empires and while pretending to be acting to carry out the will of their constituents, they are in that disguise, di- recting all their energy towards bringing about a revolution, which would insure the ruin Of our Republican institutions, and establish in their place titles of nobility and aristocratic rule, with an Emperor in the White House. But short time ago it would not have been believed | that any fanatic would have ever dared to open | ly avow any such doctrine publicly, in this once | greatest Of all governments However. the mask | is being laid to one side, and the people are be- | ing told in many portions of these United States. | the real objects Of this Imperial party. General | Grant had scarcely warmed the Presidential | Chair before there were rumors in political cir | clcs that paper would be started in loydl Phil | adelphia which would advocate the establish meni of an Empire in the boasted Hand of lb- | crty:" and in favor of proclaiming htte Crdf Emperor l an informed through Eastern advi- ! ces that n scrub, calling himself a geptlendn re- | gently visited some of the Eastern cities ito see how far the Republican leaders would lend their sympathy" to this Imperial or infandi move. This person stated that leading members of the Union Leagne of Philadelphia were enlisted in this programme and had furnished the means to establish paper to advocate it. also, to estab- fish societies for the promulgation of the doe triner He further stated that paper would be started in a certain city, entitled "1he Eaapire;" the motto of which would be. in the words of ] Napoleon and Grant The Empire Is peace and Let us have peace while it's arguments would be devoted to proving that this Great Republic had proved n failure, and urging the necessity II and establish Union" It also appears that the desired sympathy was found, and prospectus
 issued for a paper which soon to appear
 entitled The IHperidiiSt which prospectus an nounces that this long expected journal. etc.. .n as though the matter had been contemplated for long time even before and during the last
 Presidential campaign. lt IS also stated that the creed of the LinperialiSt is revolutionary and
 that it's mission Is to prepare the minds of the
 American people for the revolution that has al
 ready begun throughout the country. Another
 paragraph in this "oin prospectus indicates that
 shOddyite bondhOlders have something to do with this great undertaking as it states that
 we believe that the national faith if left in the
 keeping of the populace. will be sulliea by sure
 repudiation of the national debt and that an
 Imperial government can alone project the rights of national ereditors.' Then. again. it is
 stated that. the Republic means lavlessncss, corruption. insecurity to person and property e
 that the Empire means law, order, security, pub
 lie faith and peace". IL also should have re- peated the words "Union' and that glorious
 banner in, at least, every alternate line. and there would have been thousands wko would
 have swallowed every word said, although 1t choked them, who will, perhaps as the proposi- ton now stands not be able to 'see ths point.n During the last Presidential campaign Frank r.
 Blair. IT,. announced that if Grant was elected
 President, he would proclaim himself dictator before the end of his term. l suppose there were but few who believed at that tiHe, did this prophetic statesman. but, would it not seem that he knew of what he spoke, ana that his , prophecy is likely to prove too true!
 There is a mysterious secret organization. it Is said already started in the East, which Is to ac; in conjunction with the Union League and lm- { perislists. which is known to the outside world
 by the title of T. I. O.. for which initials have
 yet heard no words but suppose Of course. they ' have some reference to Union and Monarchy. J.M. k. Lest some might imagine the fears cs our cor ! respondent to be rather groundless and prema- ture, we will here state the fact that ihe paper alluded to by him is now being published in New York City, and Is puned by New York
 correspondent of a leading Radical paper of San Francisco. At first we are told, the news companies refused to circulate it, but. upon thinking the matter over, took the bantling in
 charge and now give it free scope to spread itseli ! and poison the public mind with it's antimanhood doctrines. Where are the censors of tue Press nowl Where, oh where are the Radical knayes
 who so recently suppressed the speech of the pal-bearers of Liberty, in the name of Free.
 dom! and why do they allow this advocate of
 one man power to illuminate it's damnable teach
 ings in land consecrated to Justice, Liberty
 and Equality by the blood of the noble, self
 denying patriots of the Revolut0nl Shade of
 the immortal Washington, can t be possible tha,
 the land which thou and thy compariots wrested l from the hands of a crowned despot is doomed
 to again be squeezed in the vice of Despotism, by - a modern Nero, and his minions? Forbid il ye Z martrys of the Revolution, of the War of 1872 and of the late calamitous war of the sections