The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-01

the black republic, Who declared that he did this
as republican and to save the party from this
gagged In a patriotic service, and anxious to save
the c0lOred people from outrage, was denounced on
s n SS 4 ns
known to be In intimate relations with the Presi-
Ssn guilty q these the party
citation dedicated TO human rights and to the
guardianship Of the African race. TOO plainly It
was becoming the instrument OF one man and his
set at defiance the constitution and instru.
colored people. The President was to be main
tanned at all hazards. Notwithstanding his aberra-
tons, and all who called Thorn In question were to
be struck down. In exhibiting this autocratic pro.
tension so revolutionary and unrepublican In char
acter, ! mean to be moderate In language and to
keep within the strictest bounds The facts are
indisputabc, and nobody can deny the gross viola
ton OF the constitution and OF international law
INSULT TO THE BLACK REPUBLIC.
INC whole case being moro reprchensibe, as also
plainly more unconstitutional and more Illegal, than
mpeachment. Believe me, sir, should Oil gladly iy
leave this matter to the Judgment already recorded
II It were not put in issue again by the extraordl-
nary EFFORTS radiating on every line OF Office
to place Its author for second term as
President; and since, silence gives consent,
more noteworthy when it s considered the name
OF the candidate thus pressed has become sign Of
uniting the republican party-so that these extra
Ordinary efforts tend directly to the disruption Of
the party, all or which he witnesses, and again by
President 81 will not rcnounce my chance OF a
icond term" The extent of this personal pres
re- and the subordlnaton OF the party to the win
OF an Individual, compel US to consider his preten-
sions. These, too, are In issue:-
PRtSi DEfJFIAL PRETENSI0NS.
son what meat doth this our Caesar feed" that
he should assume SO much. No honor for victory In
war can justify disobcdence to the constitution and
to law; nor can 1t afford the least apology Tor any
v.
ident!al office. President must turn into king
before it can be said OF him that he can do no wrong
He Is responsible always AZ President he is the
foremost servant OF the law; bound to obey its
slightest mandate As the cl3ct Of the people he
but also Of fidelity and industry In the discharge OF
his conspicuous Office, with an abrogatlon OF all
g the ps
we find to our amazement, how little it accords
with this simple requirement.. Bring it to Che
ana law dlsregardei, but tae Presidential Office it.
self is treated as little more than play
osr an then s stsr TS sre 9S Ss as
tails are ample, showing how, from the
beginning, this exalted trust mas dropped to be a
personal indulgence; where palace cars fast horses
and seaside Offerings figure more than duties how
personal aims and objects have been more promi-
tia Office has been used to advance his own family
on scale of nepotsn dwarling everything OF the
KIM IN our history, and hardly a eguaed IN the cor
vailed; how in the same spirit Office has been con-
ferred upon those from whom he had received
gifts or benefits, thus making the country
rep his personal obi ations; how personal de-
voton to himself rather than public or party ser
vice has been made the standard of favor; how the
vast appointing power conferred by the cOnsttu-
ton fol The general welfare has been employed at
his will TO promote his schemes to reward his
friends, to punish his opponents, and to advance
his election TO second term: how all these as
sumptions have matured in personal government
seml-mliCaly In character and breathing the Mill
tary spirit, being species OF Cnsarism or person.
alism, abhorent to republican institutions, where
subservience to the President IS the supreme law;
Grated by system OF combinations having their
orbits about him so that
LIKE TIE PLANEr SATURN
end here; for his rings like those OF the planet are
held in position by satellites How this utterly I'M
republican Cmsarism has mastered the republican
party and dictated the Presidential will, stalking
into the Senate chamber ITSELF while vindictive
spirit visits good republicans who cannot submit
How the President himself, unconscious that Pres
ident has no right to quarrel with anybody insists
idential quarree with more quarrels than all other
Presidents together, and all begun and continued
by himself How his personal followers back him
In quarres, insult those he insults and then, not
"We will have rings and things and fine array;''
known chiefly for Presidential pretensions utterly
indefensibe in character, derogaory to the country
and OF evil influence, making personal objects
primary pursuit. so that, instead OF a benencent
presence he Is bad example, through whom
10 do wond e hna ana oase e
could be forgotten, but since, through officious
friends, the President insists upon second term,
them. 1t Is easy to see that C@sarism, even in
Europe, is at a discount; that personal govern
ment has been beaten In that ancient field and that
Caesar, with Senate at his heels, Is not the fit
model for our republic. King George the Third of
England, so peculiar for obstinacy and narrowness
had retainers In Parliament, who went under the
name OF the Kings friends. Nothing can be allowed
here to justify tue inquiry, "Have we King George
among us 7" or That other question, "Havc we
marty in the Senate of the Kings frieu1s?v
PERSONAL GOVERNMENT UNREPUBIICAN.
Personal government Is autocratic. IT is the one
man power elevated above all else, and Is therefore
in direct conflict with republican government whose
consummate form is ri-partte-executive, legisla-
From Mr.. Madison, In the Federutis learn that the
OF these powers In the same hands may
Justly be he very tr ~ ny
powers OF another is tyrannical invasion, always
reprehensible in proportion to its extent John
Adams tells US in most instructive words that
1t Is by balancing each Of these powers against
the other two, that the efforts In human nature
toward tyranny can alone. be checked and re-
strained and any degree Of freedom preserved in
the constitution. Then, again, the same authority
says that the perfection OF this great idea Is by CIV
ing each division power to defend itself by mega
tive. In other words, each is armed against inva-
sion by the Others. Accordingly, the con.
so S Tsns IT, declared s
that the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary
Departments shall be separate ana distinct,
longing to the other nor shall any person execute
the powers OF more than one Of them at the same
time.
The constitution of Massachusetts,, dating from
1880, embodied the same principle in these memo.
rabe words 1.-THE legislative department shall
never exercise the executive and judicial
Towers or either OF them. The executive shall
never exercise the legislative and judicial
powers or either of them. The judicial shall
never exercise the legislative and executive
be government 3 law; Shd not 81 fiisi sovert
ment 81 laws and not of men is the object OF repub
llcan goyefnment nay MORE 1T is the distinctive
Therefore personal government in all its forms, and
especially when it seeks to sway the action OF any
other branch or overturn its constitutional mega
tive s hostile TO the first principles OF republican
Institutions and an unquestonaOle outrage. That
our President has offended in this way Is unhappily
too apparent. The President is a civilian. To COM
prehcnd the personal government that has been H.
stalled over US we must know its author.
HIS PICTURE OF THE PRESIDENT
His picture Is the necessary frontispiece-not
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