The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-30

the names Of their virtues Legion. But history
the path OF present and future. The people who
have been Indifferent to the small faults in them
and In the organization OF their government who
have allowed their liberties to be encroached upon
slowly IN the sure consciousness OF their superior
power OF volftion. have ultimately found the task
too heavy Tor their shoulders, and the task Is reck
oned too cheap If they enabled to shake or the
trammels at the sacrlfce OF half their fortune and
woud-be Caesar has not the facilities of the Caesar
OF ROme-your President has no legions to rely
YOUR GREATEST DANGER LIES IN YOURSELVES
and In your sentiments. While the other people
OF the world initiate your institutions and make
pilgrimage to the shrine OF liberty and fraternity
you show sneaking f0ndness for their autocratic
institutions Remember you were the pioneer Of
the French and other revolutions OF Europe. Your
country was the pregnant mother that gave
shape and reality to those gigantic ideas OF the
latter END Of the last century that shattered ie
IN some places and broken the venom OF the
your rime and shall be too much battered by the
Insertion OF This letter In your wOrld-renowned
paper I ana with your kind Indulgence perhaps
snail tell AZ some future time more Of what have
seen In your great country in second letter.
Believe me, Mr.. Editor. your very obedient
NEW YORK. August II, 1873 ~
IN. Texans views, ON Csosarism.
OAK FARM, near Austin, Texas. August 10, 1873.
To TIE EDITOR or THE HERALD:-
QucStlO0
Of the possible candidacy Of General Grant for re-
election and, while taking no positive ground in
the premises, rather disapproves such step, as
being at variance with republican principles and
as tending to familiarze the public mind with the
idea OF the continued rule OF one man, which Is
essentially mOnarchical. The HERALD L. always
foremost in
ANTICIPATING IMPORTANT NATIONAL ISSUES,
ana In agltatlng this question OF General Grants
reelection to q third term 1t has given the first
expression to secret alarm lclt very generally
among the people, Alarm Is the word because II
General Grant should run again he must break
through precedent long observed-pull down
barrier raised by arbitrary custom that the mass
OF the people had come to believe constitutional
ODstace-and it is a wise instinct of our nature to
take alarm at any palpable departure from estab-
lshed usages, for usages become established gene
rally because they were born Of necessity aud found
good. But some precedents are observed long
after their usefulness has ceased and their origin
been forgotten, simply because no one rises who
has the nerve to announce
THE VOICE OF COMMON SENSE,
IN opposition to widespread and firmly grounded
superstition. But the Impressions OF education,
simply, must always in the end prove too weak
before the force OF reason, and 80 the prevailing
notion that no man should be elected President OF
the United States three times in succession must
be exploded by the same test ahl.
In the case OF minor civil officers throughout the
country no such idea obtains as that it is incom-
patble with the public veal TO retain them in office
longer than given time. On the contrary, when
county or State official is found filing his post
with marked ability and faithiulness the people de-
head is hoary.
There is no good reason why this should not be the
with every Official the land from constable to
President, but many good reasons why 1t should be
the established practice. When man has become
familiar with the duties OF an Official station, and
shown both capacity and integrity in their per-
Torrance, what benefit to themselves can his peo-
pie hope for by replacing him with some other IN
more confident and
9N GREATER SENSE OF SECURITY
when 1t can reflect that the locomotive OF State is
In the hands OF o long trusted engineer, who has
never wrecked his tralnY In the constitutional
provision for the election OF President every four
years the idea would seem to he not for the pur-
pose Of eecting some new man every time, but to
give the people the adv Of an
CHOSEN proved unsatisfactory to the country. AS
for the danger to the Republic resulting from the
must be all imaginary. He would take the ONCE
again with the same constitutional restrictions
strained any more, but would have the same power
and opportunities for mischief II any there exists.
The TACT Ia
NOBODY SERIOUSLY THINKS THAT GENERAL GRANT
HAS DESIGNS UPON THE REPUBLIC,
but n he could quietly effect change in the or
ganic structure OF the government there are more
people than one who would lend him q helping
hand and think themselves patriots. The Hebrews
king as for bringing their affairs to such pass as
made one necessary. II Heaven has determined TO
ana need
Grant IS not by any means the man of all others
from whom we should pray to be delivered.
The whole truth OF the business Is, II General
Grant sees ft to run third time for the office of
President Of the United States it is
HIS PERFECT RIGHT
to do so without violating any oblG atien or rea-
sonable sense OF propriety, and If the people want
him for third term It is their right to have him.
These sentiments are not confined in their sphere,
nor are they views from q republican standpoint,
your writer Is q democrat, whatever that U.s.
from his birth was Confederate soldier from
May, 1851, to May, 1855; thought he was on the
right side then, and still thinks SO. Il. b. J.