The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-03-31

THE IMPENDING CRISIS.

The Louisville Courier-Jou
has the following on the immediate
political future:
One thing is certain. Grant is
going to run for President next year.
If the Republicans do not nominate
him his friends will get up a smash
in the COW ention and he will run
any how. He is vain and weak and
uniformed. Surrounded by hatter-
ers and serfs who delude him, he
thinks he is popular. Many ADLER
men have been equally blinded by
sycophancy. Every move he has
made SO far looks to his own reten-
ton in office. The recent bayonet
election law was an administration
measure. BY it the President, if
aided in the Senate, might rc-elect
himself; and the fight must hence
forth be a fight for The Senate. 1t is
not conclusiveIy plain that Grsnt is
an absolute ass. On the contrary,
there may be species of dull and
blrntci Jog method in what now APP
pears to be pure madness on his
part. He is a gambler and has the
gamblers instinct: superstition and
dis egard of consequences. He is a
soldier and has he soldiers bigoiry
na,rowness and autocratical temper.
His satellites are ether corruptionists
Iikel Cameron or adventures like
Butler. His servants are mere mill
tary appendices that move under
orders. Why may he not mediate
a coup d. etat 7
The suggestion is by no means
unlikely, and it is absurd to say that
such thing could not be carried
out successfully in this country
In lG43 Lo1is Napoleon was as vul-
gar fellow as Gran! is now. In
| 1851 no one feared he Nephew Of
bis Uncle. Indeed the prospect Of
a revelation in France was as IN
likely then as it seems at present in
the United States. But we live in
an age of movement. Six months
ago there was a French Empire and
and French Emperor. Now there
is French republic ard an ex-im,
perial optcast. Is Grants brain Sc
muddy as not to take in these
things ?
The Republican leaders begin "a
fear as much. They must see that
the machinery hey are forging will
be used to destroy them except as
they save themselves by becoming
the Tools of the power that is to con
troll The machinery. The disturb
ance has blown up on a quasi-mili-
tary measure of supervision. The
KuklOx notion is a pretext. Arms,
force, bayonets, martial law are the
real cats in this pseudo-loyal meal
tuo.
How is it all TO end We ,hink
it will end rather with the dissolution
Of the Republic. The county is
not yet ipe for an empire, though it
contains good material for an impe-
rial attempt. The excess of the
Radicals is producing The inevitable
result and hurrying on the inevi.a-
bic penalty. One State after anoth-
err has broken line. The party lead
ers begin to catch the Infection
They too are preparing to quit a
ship that, il not sinking, is leaky
and rotten. 1t is too late to patch
the seams that have been made, ard
they will widen as matters are going
on. Next year the Democrats will
have a good thing if they hold to-
gether like brothers and allow no
petty, personal discussions 30 Dis
turb their composure aud uanimity,
make a judicious nominee and plat
form, and go to the country with a
resolute and sincere purpose 20 do
what the Republicans have failed to
do-that is, restore peace and union
among all the people Of all the
States.