American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
RawIins's Legacy to Grant.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York World, under date of October
10. thus speaks OF what he calls the pio-
gramme devised by General Rawlins, for
merly Secretary of War, and left as leg
acy to Grant:
General Rawlins's plan, his legacy to
Grant. is briefly this To be a second
term President you must be an aggressive
President. In all sorts of domestic ag-
gressiveness you must expect TO build up
a party against you. In every case OF
foreign aggression, unless that be Of a
very stupid or a very tame sort, all per
ties ut home unite to support you. Cuba
is our proper goal. Buta direct attack on
Cuba will unite Europe against us. Santo
Domingo is half way. If we attack 1t
Cuba gravitates to us necessarily From
SantO Domingo we can menace Jamaica so
effectually that England must settle with
lis at once on our own terms or fight. Ii
she fights we conquer Jamaica. Bermuda,
Canada. and the Windward Islands. Ii
she settles, ours the glory of having tanned
the British lion. In either event, by a
successful occupation OF SantO Domingo
we annex valuable territory and make
your second term an assured thing"
This was the first, the open and initial
part of General Rawlins's programme,
the primary steps Ofwhich are to be traced
in the appointment of SickleS and Grant 5
negotiation with SantO Domingo. This
plan. it must be recOllected, did not fail
was not abandoned, but was merely laid
over. Rawlins's death disconnected some
of the arrangements, caused others to be
suspended, but the essential parts of the
conspiracy retained all their viability, and
do so still.
The second part of General Rawlin's
programme was to the following effect ::
| The President who has a Senate in full ac-
cord with him can rule this country as he
10 nd nf hn yxrich nj
the large masses of the population. A
| President who manages things properly
can always retain twO-thirds of his friends
| in the Senate and so practically control
the whole legislation of the country.
During the war Mr.. Lincoln accomplished
this end by process ingeniously COM
pounded of Ostracism and the admission
of new States with fictitious communities
| We canno: ostraciZe just now because we
| are not at war Just now. We can admit new
| States, and if those States are composed
of negro communities they are ours to
use as we please and as long as we please
| Give lis four or six new Senators from
| Texas. two from Santo Domingo, two
| from Hayti, two from Jamaica. four OF
| six from a new slice of Mexico, and New
York and the West are neutraliZed, are
pOwerless, just so long as we propose to
keep them so.
This was Rawlins's legacy to Grant
| This is to be the policy of his new term
if he secures it. This is the secret of the
intolerable condition of our Mexican from
tier lit has been juss so ever since 1850
Of the new claims against that State, OF
| the new claims acainst Spain. of the bill
last session to build new gunboats, etc
| The trouble with England is settled
France is crippled and helpless, and Grant
can now go to work to set up his black
empire by a direct attack upon Cuba
Hayti, or Mexico, just rs he pleases, Sc.
cure of interruption from abroad, and, il
the Congressional elections do not go toe
strongly against him, of interference witt
ring pursuits it is hoped and expected til,
second term viii. insensibly slip into /:
third. lie 7oi est mort-uire lie roi ! may
as well be said of lie Roi CarOtte Gram
rs of lie Grand Monarque Louis XIV