The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-09-04
The South Turning to Csesarism as its
Refuge.
rFrom the Shreveport Times

ed out, in series Of very able articles, the
tendency of this government to Cesarism,
and sought by the most earnest appeals to
arouse the people to sense of the danger
that threatens the Republic. The sagacity
of the Herald has not been at fault; it has
clearly OWNED the inevitable issue of the
prevailing political and economic theories
the GENERALIZATION Of the Stotes and the
usurpation of all the powers OF government
by the Federal Administration-Imperial-
ism in the forms of the repubic-Csesarism
But can the Herald hope to check the fall
Of rspubhcanism by its appeals to the
people in behalf Of the constitution; by
sounding the old rallying cries of liberty ;
by eloonsut discourses on the right OF self
eovsrnmsnt, and scsthing denunciations of
usurpss and tyrantsi There may be some
of the ola love of liberty, there may be
great deal of left in the heart Of the
Northern people; but they have placed in
the hands Of General Grant power more
potsut for tAs destruction Of civil liberty
than their love is for its preservation. In q
spirik of naliguant hate, they have given
over 10 epolistion by rings and unprincipled
politicians, and to the mercy Of multitude
Of ienorant and brutal negroes eleven of the
Stsfes which were, the very citadels of re-
publicauim, and where the spirit of civil
hbaty had erected its purest sanctuaries;
for the persecution Of these States they have
permitted Congress and the Administration
70 disregard the gusrantses Of the constitu-
ton. until The constitution has. ceased to
command the reverence Of any portion Of
the country; they have permitted every.
principls Of justice, magnanimity and
honor 10 Be violased by the Government in
launching il fsree and vindictivs wrath
at thsss Stats1, until justice, magnanimity
and honor, = public virtues, have fallen in
to utter contsmpt; prompted BY cupidity
and sectional vanity, they watched ap-
provinely. The appropriation Of the public
domain and the expenditure Of the public
revenues in the crestion Of gigantic rings
and nonopoliss which are grown stronger
than. .thsy are themselves, and which they
are powsrles to overthrow.
Such il the state Of affairs the radical or
republican party has brought about, and out
ofwhich is arising with unmistakable dis
tinctnea Cssuism.
Nor win the grim reality down at the
bidding ofths Herald or the eoursss Of the
northern psopls, and the country may soon
be startled by the development in the
South, which has been hated, brdgered,
robbed, persecuted and trampled in the
dust, Of wide spread and powerful organiza-
tion of white people, to sustain Gen. Grants
pretentions to life time presidency, or, if
be desires it, to sceptre and imperial crown.
We hold that among all the races Of men
there hasDxisted none in whose hearts burn.
ed q higher, haughtier and truer love Of
liberty, than that. which once animated the
people of the South; and csnxuered, they
have for years, under persecution, robbery
rnd contumely, been true to their ideas OF
freedom, sacrificing with o chiyalrous devo-
ton their all in the support Of these lofty
sentiments But the last hope Of restoring
the purity of the republic, or of obtaining
Justice under the government the. radical
party has sat over them, is rapidly vanish
ing, and they are fast making up their
minds, that their only hope of relief; that
only refuge, is la Imperialism. They re-
member that Gen. Grant was formerly
democrat yf liberal views; that he never be-
Hsvsd in the policy Of enfranchising the
freedmen; the he displayed lofty
magnsuinity in accepting the surrender Of
Gen. Lee; that, sent on a tour throughout
the South By President johnson, he gave q
trouthful and. kindly report They consider
in this connection, that the apostles Of hate
zee the leaders of the republican party; that
the scoundrels who have plundered these
States and smittsn than With ruin have all
been radical politicians and republican
smisaries; that republican party has re.
sardsd the negro vote - its backbone OF
strength, and By the most unjust and un-
nsrciful system Of tactics, organized it as
unit against the whites and the true interests
of the South: rsmsmbsr all these things
and many more Of ihs Same nature, and they
naturally conclude that their best hope is in
smsneipsting Gen. Grant from the tharldom
Of his part By placing him above it; as well
q above the South-"in short making him
Dictator, Perpetual President, Cesar, or, if
no desire Il Emperor. The people Of the
section are beginning to feel that II Gen.
Grant were Independent, he would be just,
or a. least, rsnoced above all factions and
parties, and equally independent Of sections
and ali States, al would alike feel the
weight Of the government and all alike
snioy IL protection and participate in its
bls.ings. Finally they feel that any change
Win b. for the best, and that any species Of
sovsrnmsut d preferable to the Infamous
momar.l dsspotism, which recognizes intelli.
ssnos and virtue as political disabilities, and
rewards with the highest Offices Of the States,
rascslity. ignorance and brutality; which
drives smigrsnts from their borders, capital
from their cities, and smites as with curse
their wide and and once productive tslds
They are csasing to hope for restoration OF
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