Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-10-23
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FIX President Johnson Is reported
lev tho republican press TO have IA
ken ground in favor Of full aud dl
rect reputation of the national
d. b,, in n speech at Nashville n few
DAYS ago. The report is untrue.
IL is evident irom the speech that
whnt lac intended 10 shy with refer
cmcc T. the debt was, that certain
men in the country assumed II Ia
he so sacred that mn imperial form
of government might become neces'
sary TO insure its payment, and that
lac should prefer reputation to an
Empire. No intelligent man who
reads the speech, aud who respects
the truth, will say that Mr.. Johnson
came any nearer the advocacy Of
repudiation than is shown in the
construction above given. Jour
nulisis VIII" will deliberately mis-
represent him, that thoy may graft
fly their sHitcfulness against HIM,
and nj thc sams umo manufacture
mn opportunity to vapor about re,
pudialipn, must DO soroly pressed
for topics for discussion.
As 10 tho fnct that an imperial
form Of government has been advo'
Gated, aud that it was alleged to TO
necessary TO guaraptee the payment
Of the debt, there can be no dispute
Tho establishment Of the Imperial
ist newspaper is ample evidence on
this point, and there arc many anu
rood reasons for believing that the
enterprise was started in Washing
ton, and that the money to keep it
in operation is furnished by Rcpub
lican politicians, prominent among
whom is General Grant.
II is us truo rs that he is now at
tending horse races and learning to
dance, instead Of being engaged in
his official duties, that he was made
dictator over ton States of the Fed
rral Union by act Of Congress lie
was given absolute control over the
liberties, and property, and lives OF
the citizens of those States. Ills
mower unlimited. lie was not re
sponsiblc to any authority for its
exercise.
lilo who believes that any man,
with particle of ambition about
him, invested with such power,
would not wish TO extend it, and
that, tho fact of its investment
would not suggest its extension, is
verdant and credulouS specimen OF
humanity. Tho privileges and au-
thority conferred on Grant in the
reconstruction infamy were part OF
a conspiracy to overthrow our form
of government in the Northern
States, as well as in tho South, and
the establishment of The Imperial
list waa-a part of that conspiracy,
AS to Grants disposition to grasp
arbitrary power, he was directly
charged, only three or four days
ago, by one of the ablest and most
prominent Republican newspapers
in the country, with having tram
pled upon tho law and acted as
tyrant in directing United States
Marshall Barlow, of Now York, to
employ the army to resist an arrest
by the Sheriff.
1t is not probable that majority,
or any large number, of Rcpubli-
can Congressman were parties to
the conspiracy, Or had any knowl-
edge or suspicion of its existence:
They say in the military bills, and
more than imperial power conferred
on Grant a plan by which they
hoped the Southern States could be
made the allies of their party by
fraud and violence. They had not
brains enough to penetrate beyond
the infamy Of this idea, and discov-
or tho more revolving and trcasona-
bio purpose of the men who plan
ned to mako Grant not only indc-
pendent of the President, but supe-
rior to him.
The Imporialist was established
by them as "feeler." They hoped
that Grants popularity Cat that
time) would, in conjunction with
the appropriately OF Congress, and
disturbed condition of the country,
sugar coat the idea of a temporary
distatorship.-[Chicago Times.