The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-05
CESARISM.
REVIEW OF GRANTS ADMINS
TRATION.
GREAT SPEECH By CHARLES
SUMNER.

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straitest of the sect had never failed to
sustain its candidates and advance its
principles. Not without regret could he
see it suffer, Lor without pang could he see
il changed from its original character, fer
such change is death. Therefore he as ed.
with no common feeling, that the peril
which menaces it may pass away. He
had stood by its cradle, and was not will
ling to follow its hearse.
Mr.. Sumner then proceeded to detail
the rise and progi ess OF the party and his
connection with it as party-necessary
and permanent and always on the ascend
ing plane but, alas, how changed Once
principle was inscribed on the vic,oriou.
banners, not q name only. 1t Is not diff
cult to indicate when the disastrous change,
exalting the will of one man above all
else, became manifest. Already it had be-
gan to show itself in personal pretensisns,
when the president, elected By the re-
publican party, precipitatcd upon the
country an ill-con sidercd and ill-omened
scheme for the annexation Of a portion OF
San Domingo, in pursuance of treaty
negotiated by one Of his own household.
1t was pressed for months BY every means
and appliance OF power. Reluctant Sena-
tors were solicited fol support, while
treading under foot the Constitution, in
one of its most distinctive republican
principles. The president seized the war
powers of the nation, instituted foreign
intervention, and capped the climax Of
usvrpation by menace of violence, to the
black republic of Hayti, thus adding
manifest outrage Of international law 10
manifest outrage of the constitution.
Mr.. Sumner would gladly leave this
matter to the judgment already recorded
were it not put in issue again by extraordi
nary efforts, radiating on every line OF
office, to place It's author for II second term
of the presidency, and since silence givei
consent, all these efforts are his efforts
They become more noteworthy, when 1t Is
n considered that the name of the candidate
thus pressed has become sign of discord
G and not concord, dividing instead of mi.
n ting the republican party, so that these
a extraordinary effort. tend directly to the
/, disruption of the party, all Of which hi
:, witnesses, and again 10y his silence ratites
r. Let the party split, says the president
I'd 81 will not renounce my chance Of u sec
r ond term" The extent of this persona
A. pressure and subordination Of the part
to the will of an individual con
nc pels us to consider his pretensions Thoo'
mt too, are in ISSUE. On what meet doth thi
" our Caesar feed, that he should assume s.
~ much. No honor or victory in the world
can Justify dsCbcdience to the constitution
" and to law, nor can it afford the least
apology for any personal immunity privi'
lege or license in the presidential office
A president must turn into king before
IL it can be said of him that he can do nc
n wrong. He is responsible always. As
n president he is the foremost servant Of the
i law and is bound to obey its slightest
| m upnatn A. to alan, +, l. IA,
owes rot 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 the country.
And now, as we regard the career OF this
candidate, we find to our Amusement how
little 1t accords with this simple require
ment. Bring it TO the touchstone and
1t falls. Not only are the constitution
and law disregarded, but the presidential
ltfice itself is treated as little more than II
plaything and perquisite-when not the
former then the latter. Mere details are
ample, showing how, from the beginning,
this exalted trust has dropped to be per-
| sunal indulgence; where palace cars, fast
horses and seaside loiterings figure more
than duties how personal aims and oh.
jectS have been more prominent than pub.
lie interests how the pres dental office
has been used to advance his own family
on scale OF nepotisln dwariing every
thing 'oi the kind III our history, and
hardly equaed in corrupt governments
where this abuse has most prevailed how
IN the same spirit, office has been confer
red upon those from whom he had received
' gifts or benefits thus making the country
> repay his personal obligations how per
, sonal devotion to himself rather than the
public or party service has been made the
: standard OF favor how the vast appoint
ing power conferred by the constitution
Tor the general welfare has been EMPLOYED
ut his VIII TO promote his schemes, to re-
ward ms friends, TO punish his opponents
ana 10 advance his election TO the second
Term now all these assumptions have ma
, tured IN personal government, setni-mili-
tary IN character, and breathing military
splflt, being species of Cssarism, or
personalism, abhorrcnt TO republican in
stltutions when subserviency 10 the pres.
dent is the supreme law; how, in main
= tanning this subservence, he has operated
e. by system Of combinations, having
'heIr orbits about him, so that, like the
P,ahe, saturn, he is surrounded by rings.
" Nor aoes the similitudc end here for his
,a ,'"es, Hks those Of planets, are held in
:" 49,, y. 'NlcIIltes. How this utterly
u uhrePuol'can Cm'arism has mastered the
\. tePuoH.ah party and dictated the presi-
he tgnUa' %'Ii stalking into the senate cham.
he u'' ,'seIi, while II vlndctive spiri, visits
er s"ou republicans who cannot submit. how
or me pse''leht himself, unconscious TINT the
president has no right to quarrel with INV.
p"d!' insists upon quarrcling until he ~.
ueco'"e The great president quurreler, with
rs more quarIels than ali Other nrasida,,i
,s together, and all began and continual I ~,
IL himself How ms personal followers hooI
r. him IN quHrrels, iusul, those be iS. Dn,A
ana then not departing from hi. spirit cry
OUT WIN Shakspear We will have rincs
D ana things and fine array and Hnsl7v
70 now TIE chosen bend Of the republic =
90 known chiefly for presidential pre,en.
Of Iiohs utterly indetensIbe IN character
To- aeaogaiory to the country and fail of evil
h. influence making personal objects n mi.
n'als pursuit, SO that instead of beneadent
presence he Is n bad example tbrouyb
@hom the Republican institutions suffer
VI anu the people learn wrong.
OF would that these things could be for
n goltoh, but since through ofiicious friends
&c we PRESIDENT insists upon second term,
they fuusl la iinr.d Nalna,, ...,tt