The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-02
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Though the "World' does no
suppose that Genera. Grant or tn
Republican party have. At present
any. intention Of transforming tn.
Amyrican Republic into a monar
chy,-(Grant only aiming At q re-
election, and the Republican party
at the perpetuation Of its power By
making yeters Of. all tho negrces.
yet. itJthjnks. that party. has,
nevertheless, set . train Of causes
at work which tend irresistibly to
the Establishment Of a monarchy.
and by the shortest and spacdiest
route by which that result could be
reached The World arrives at this
conclusion by arguments like these:
This sssistless-a scen laney of the Fedc-
raj Government is, a. yet, rs the people
conceive it, 4 republican .ascendancy--a
dwaring and weakening Of the numerous
small republics WHICH we call States, and
m absorption Of their powers into that
greater and more expansive republic
which we call the Union. Previous 20
1860; slavery was regarded by all our
Statesmen al beyond tie reach Of the Fede-
raj Government; but the Federal Govern
mert has abolished it. A CONSUMPTION by
State authority to serve in the State milf
tia was always held legal; but it was not
till the late war that any body supposelthat
CONSUMPTION could take place by Federal
authority. The overthrow Of the banking
aystem Of all the States by the General
Government, and the establishment Of
paper legal tender by Federal laws, mark
another great innovation, which no states
man or jurst, ten years ago, believed to
be within the scope OF the Federal power.
The governing of numerous States by
sheer military authority, and their exclu-
sion from representation, would have been
regarded. even FIVE years pgo, as IN in
credible stretch Of Federal power. The
regulation of the suffrage by the same
power does equal violence to all former
notions upon the subject. The idea that
the States have any rights which the
Federal Government. is bound to respect,
has become so broken down in the estim y
tion Of the Republican party, that the
popular Imagination cannot hereafter be
greatly shocked by any new assumptions
Of authority by the central power. 1t is
true, that the greater sovereignty in which
all the independent powers Of the lesser
sovereignties have been swallowed up, is
as yet a republic, with an elective legis-
lature and executive. But it is equally
true, that the mass Of the people have be-
come familiarized with the idea Of one i'm
perial central power, which takes all the
authority it sees fit to exercise. and against
which the protests Of the weakened States
are vain and idle" ... |
The editor nest Proceeds to con
slider by whom the imperial central
authority shall be exercised, and
whether those who exercise it shall
continue to be elected by the peo-
ple. In view Of the jealousy and
ill-fealiny existing between Con-
gross and the Executive, aud fur
ther considering tae scandalous
conceptions that have already grown
up under Congressional supremacy,
the editor thinks there Is nothing
cxtravagant in tho suposltion that,
even before tho termination Of Gen.
Grants FRS: term, the public mind
may be ripe for a very vigorous re-
action, on which man skilled in
the command Of armies, and having
oil the ablest generals as his person
al friends, may ascend to height
of authority from which he cannot
be dislodgca. In other
words, there is in store for US
COUP 'ErAr, ALA Napol-
eon-with perhaps the establish
ment of q De FAcTo monarchy in
the disguise of DE JuRE republic.
Evening Express.