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tins matter 10 the Judgment already rec
orded were it not put in issue again by
extraordinary efforts to place its author
for a secOnd term rs President. and since
silence gives consent oil these efforts are
his efforts. They become more nOtewo--
thy when il is considered that the name
Of the candidate has become a sign Of dis
cord, dividing instead Of uniting the Re-
publican party. ''Let the party split"
says the President, IL will not renounce
my chance for a second term" On what
meat does this, our Caesar feed, that he
should assume so much2 No honor for
victory in war can justify disObedience to
the constitution and 10 law, nor can it
afford the least apology for any personal
immunity, privilege or license in the
Presidential Office. A President must
turn into King before il can be said Of
him that he can do no wrong. He is res
ponsible always. As President, he is
the foremost servant of the law, bound to
obey It's slightest m,ndate. As the elect
of the people he should be not only the
example of willing obedience. but also Of
fidelity and industry in the discharge of
his conspicuous office. with an abrogation
Of all sef-seeking-nothing for self, but
all for country-and now, as we regard
the career Of this candidate, we find to
our amazcment how little it accords with
this simple requirement. Bring it to the
touchstoue and it fails. Not ouIy are the
constitution aud the law disregarded but
the Presidential office itself, is treated as
little more than plaything and a per-
quIsite. When not the former, then the
latter.
Here the details are ample showing
how from the beginning this exalted trust
has dropped to be a personal indulgence,
where palace cars, fast horses, and sea
side loiterings figure more than duties.
How personal aims and objects have been
more prominent than the public interests.
How the Presidential office has been used
to advance his own family, on scale of
uepotism dwar6Dg everything Of the kind
in our history, and hardly equaled in
the corrupt governments where this abuse
has most prevailed. How, in the same
spirit, office has been conferred upon
those from whom he has received gifts or
benefits, thus making the country repay
his personal obligations. How personal
devotion to himself has been made the
STANDARD of favor. How the vast appoint
ing power conferred by the constitution
for the general welfare has been employ
ed at his will, to promote his schemes, to
reward his friends, to punish his oppo-
nents and to advance his election to a
second term. How all :hese assumptions
have matured in a personal government,
semi military ia character, and breathing
the military spirit being species OF
Cesarism. or nersonalism abhorrent to
Republican institutions, where subservi.
ence TO the President is the supreme law.
How in maintaining this subservience he
has operated by Il system of combinations
having their orbits abort him, so that,
like the planet Saturn, he is surrounded
f by rings.
Nor does the similarity end here, for
his rings, like those Of the planets, are
held in position by satellites. How this
utterly uurepublican Caesarism has mas
tered the Republican party, and dictated
the Presidents will; stalking into the
Senate Chamber itself, while vindlctlve
spirit visits good Republicans who cannot
submit. How the President, himself, un-
conscious that President las no right to
quarrel with anybody, insists upon quar-
reling until he has become the great Pres
idential quarreler, with more quarrels
than all the other Presidents together, all
begun and continued by himself. How
his personal followers back his quarrels,
insult those he insults, and then, not de-
parting from his spirit, cry out with Shak-
speare, 'We will have rings and things,
and fine array" and finally, how the chos-
en- head of the Republic is known chiefly
for Presidential pretensions utterly inde-
fensibe IN character derogatory to the
country, and Of evi! influence, making
personal objects a primary pursuit SO
that instead of bcne6cent presence he is
bad example, through whom republican
institutions suffer and the people learn to
do wrong.
Mr.. Sumner argued that personal gov
erpment in all its forms, and especially
when it seeks to sway the action of any
other branch, or overturn Its constitution
al negative, is hostile to the first prin-
ciples of Republican institutions and an
unquestionabe outrage. That our Pres
ident has offended in this way is unhappi-