Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-05-20
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN:
Thursday Morning, May 20, 1869.
Converted to Imperialism

The editor of the Banner, pub
lished at Quitman, Georgia, I'M
hesitatively avows. s..admiration
for an Imperial Government, and
writes in the following strain:
Butchers who have amassed
fortunes, ignorant, low people who
have "strucki lie, gamblers, thieves,
plmps, runners, drummers, whis-
ky ring men, members of Con-.
gress, generals without battle,
and, even Mr.. Seward, will be
the new aristocracy of these Uni
ted States Of America. Vive la
Haanbogue! "Hurrah for Hum
bug!" Yes, hurrah for anything
that will rid US of the army of
ieeches and parasites that now
prey and fatten upon the South;
that now fasten themselves upon
the poverty-stricken people with
a tenacity of grasp that can only
be loosened by an application of
that weapon by which Alexander
solved the long puzzling gordian
riddle-the sword! Yes, better,
athousand times better, the gov
eminent of the sword, the pomp
and glories of an Empire, than
the eXasperating, the hnmiliating
degradation of negro sufrage!-
No more Cliffs, no more Bullocks,
no more carpet-baggers, no more
Yankee Office seekers, but plain,
direct appointment from Gen.
Grant, or 'the coming man who is
destined to rule America.
1--WE hail with joy the coming
Empire. We hail with joy any
thing that viii change our condi-
ton, for it cannot be changed for
the worse; in place of Office seek
ers and of members Of Congress,
we shall have a titled nobility,
whose expenses cannot exceed
those of the men who now live
and fatten upon the foul corrup-
tons of Washington city. We,
people of the South, will have
none of the titles nor any of the
perquisites, but we can have the
solemn, serene satisfaction of
seeing those who have SO long
trampled upon US, and who SO
long have outraged every princi-
pie of law, both divine and hu-
man, sent back to the purlieat8
and slime of the great Northern
cities, once more to swell the
great volume of crime in the
North; while the South will be
ever free from their pestiferous
presence. OF one thing the Caesar
of America can rest assured
No BrutuS can be found in all
North America to stab him to the
heart for his assumption of I'm
perial robes to Cassius, with clean
and hungry look, to mar his slum-
Der, but tame, quiet acquiescence
in anything that he may choose
to say or do"
1t is not plain to us wherein
the people of the South would be
relieved from their present de-
plorable condition through I'm
pcrialism, because we have enter
tanned the belief hitherto that des-
potism-military and civil--was
one of their troubles. A gov
eminent bearing greater resem-
blance to monarchy than repub-
licanism, they are certainly at
present existing under, and what
they really want in this section is
a republican government in fact
as well as in name.
Just imagine an Imperial gov.
eminent in this country under the
management of the present con-
trolling politicians: with Sumner
as First Lord of the Bed Cham
Der, Butler as Lord of the Treas
ury, Chandler Keeper of the Seals, |
and SO on for quantity.
Probably after a short enjoy |
ment of such luxuries, the South |
and North as well would be pray
ing loud and effectively for the ad-
,,aoF of an American BPutus.