Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-18

III speaking Oh the movements Oh
the Administration, the other day,
we said that it is the fixed intention
of the President never to quiet the
White House if he can help it, eX-
cept upon stretcher, and several of
our Republican contemporaries be
gan straightway to pOOh-poOh the
observation as bit of exaggerated
partisan nonsense. The illustration,
rather than the sense, of our re-
mark, may have been oYer-strOng
for current apprehension. In the
North public opinion has not been
sharpened by the revolutionary ap-
pliances which have prepared the
South for anything and everything,
and, when the tug comes, General
Grant will derive an immense adj
vantage from the Obtuseness of
the Republican party. Thus far he
has handled that party with cOmpa-
rative ease. Nothing can prevent
his denomination next year, and
nothing short of great popular re-
action, wisely shaped and skillfully
handled, can prevent his re-elec-
ti0n. Securely seated for four years
more, he can proceed with his
scheme so that he may be able in
1876 to dictate to the whole people
the same abject submission which
he now requires of his own party
American liberty was proclaimed in
1776. 1t is not unlikely that the
hundred anniversary of the famous
Declaration of the Fourth of July
may not be the occasion of its prac-
tical abrogation. There is nothing
in the Constitution forbidding a
third term. There is nothing in
hnman nature-We mean the pecu-
liar sort of human nature which is
believed to abound in General
Z is likely to induce a
voluntary surrender of power
Give him third term in which to
perfect his plans, and he will ask no
fuIt ther odds of parties. A plcbis-
cite will suffice. Universal suffrage,
artfully managed by martial law,
will suffice, General Grant viii be
substantially q Presidential Auto
erat, Military Dictator, a ProcOn-
sui, or an Emperor, as happens to
slIit the within or temper of the
times. At this moment he doubt
less does not himself take in the
whole idea. His mind is engrOssed
with present gain. He is a greedy,
parsimonious man, very matter-of-
fact and unimaginatiYe man, who
wisely provides for to-day, taking
little heed of tomorrow until the
eXigencies of tomorrow arrive,
when they will find him at least full
handed. We dare say that the de-
tails of his scheme, beyond the work
to be done next year, have never un-
folded themselves to him. But the
| record of his life, and the policy of
his Administration, give usno rea-
son to believe that he is possessed Of
one spark of self-sacrificiBg patriot
| Ism, whilst everything that we
| know of him points to a strong, and
/ by no means secret, thirst for pow
/ er and pldnder. Nor is this all. The
man is able and courageous. His is
the very material out of which the
most dangerous revOlutionists are
made. Congress has clothed him
with martial powers, and he is using
them His object is to keep the
South IN disturbed condition un-
til he can raise disturbance in the
North, when the machinery now
provided for the one section can be
applied to the other. Then, when
ne mas DEOkCu uOWh inc spirit OF
freedom at the South, it Is as like Is
not that he viii make terms with us
and engage US as agents to help him
conquer the North precisely as we
have been conquered. Andy John
son tried this and failed. and as far
as the South was concerned. sue
/ ceeded in bringing to his support
men who hated him worse than any
body hates Grant. But Grant win
have more power, and he will use it
to better purpose than johnson. Ii
/ he is reelected President, we conf
IDENTIFY expect to see him hand and
glove with such adventurous spirits
as he can find in the disordered and
ruined South, who are ready to
serve him in q crusade against the
party which now supports him.
against the Northern people who are
blind to their danger, and especial
" against New England, which will
be withered and blighted before the
advancing legions of imperialism
pleasantly dubbed Free Trade. The
Northern people will do just as they
please about it. In the South we