The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-09
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From the Sacramento Union, July 81. r

From the Sacramento Union, July 3I(
The NEW YORK HERALD alarmed at the move.
ment among the combined federal once holders,
army of1cers the railway corporations, the bond
holders, the Southern carpet-bag brigade and the
capitalists for the nomination OF President Grant
TO third term, has Of late been communicating
Its apprehensi0ns Of peril to the Republic tn Q
series OF editorial articles ON "Cesarsm II
America" We have once before drawn attention
to this subject and quoted literally from tho
HERALD articles. The writer, whoever he may DO,
is q man thoroughly read In the history and poll
tics Of the ancient Roman Republic and the Empire
founded on its ruins by Octavtus He is besides .
person Of phiosOphic mind and statesman rather
than politician, capable of applying the grave
political machinery Of his own country. His artt-
cles ought 10 be collected, printed in pamphlets
form and distributed all over the Union, so that
every reading man may have the opportunity to
peruse and reject upon the suggestions they con-
tain. He frsG and last disavOws ell suspicion Of
President Grants patriotism and attachment t.
republican institutions, and carefully throughout
separates him from the multitude of partisans and
parasites OF corporations and artst0crats, OF
and spectators, of thieves and peculators
who are at the bottom OF the movement and
easy 1t would be, under conditions but little
varied from the existing ones, and with Presi-
dent as popular as Grant, and as ambitious as tho
second Caesar, supported by such vast army Of
the corrupt the hungry. the knavish the rich, the
alien in heart, to Overturn the government OF the
people by the people and for the people, and es-
tablish that OF one man upon its ruins
1These articles, which have appeared In the
HERALD from day to day since the 7th Of July, have
attracted degree OF attention from the press
commensurate with the Importance OF the subject.
The point aimed at by the writer to stir up Con.
gress and the people to the necessity OF q change
in the constitution, so that no man can be elected
to the Presidency for more than term, and also
to give an immediate check to the movement set
afoOt for the denomination and reelection OF Grant
in 1876 The comments Of the journals generally,
while admitting the existence OF some peril from
this constitutional oversight, indicate belief that
the HERALD has magnifed the danger. Nearly all
are agreed that the amendment proposed is much
needed and ought to be adopted without delay.
There is point in the argument which the
HERALD has not made, nor any OF the journals, %
far as we have read them, In criticism OF the
HERALDs articles, suggested 1t is this: That the
greatest danger to the Republic Is to be feared
from the loss OF confidence BY the people them.
selves in the men they select for Repre- sentatives
and Senators. For the last I'VE years treachery
and perndy have been the rule and not merely tho
exception This, too. In most Of the State Legis-
latures as well as in Congress. Pledges, even when
given in writing and repeated over and over again
BY the nominees Of party conventions have been
violated without pretext and without an appa-
rent pang OF remorse More than this, the vioators
OF pledges have been selected from the body OF
State Legislatures as the persons ftsst to enjoy the
lucrative offices Of the federal government. Thus
perfdy Is being encouraged by Q high premium,
and the betrayed people, after suffering all the In
juries resulting from the treachery Of the repre-
sentative, are insuted by his promotion to q
higher sphere In the government. There has not
been day in the last i've years when the great
majority OF the people Of California have not been
entirely with the linton in opinion on the railway
question. The Legislatures have invariably been
elected ON our platform. And yet when they met
they have as invariably sold the people out to tho
railway corporation. This is one State of many
In which the people have like perndious conduct
10 complain OF against their representatives
Congress is In the same boat with these State
Legislatures. The last Congress and the preceding
one were elected under platforms pledgng the vast
majority OF the members to the closest economy In
expenditure, to no more land or bond subsidy for
railways and to the strictest accountability OF pub
lie officers to the government 1t Is no libel to say
that every one Of these pledges was studi0usly and
deliberately violated by the majority. No railway
subsidy bill was so infamous the supplemental
act passed in 1870 increase the land grant OF the
Northern Pacific Nothing could have been natter
violation OF the promise OF economy than the back
salary grab bill, and nothing be farther rom tho
principle OF accountability to the government than
the facts OF fraud corruption and wholesale robbery
proved against the Union Pacific Railroad Company
and members OF Congress connected with 1t In in
terest.
It IL o. logical a. the demonstration OF any prob.
lem In Euclid that these oft-repeated treacheries
must produce-frst, dstrust OF the people IN the
representative; then o loss OF confidence In the
representative form OF government, and finally,
when long continued, to the great burdening OF
the State with taxes, distributed among thieves
and robbers who use them for the oppression OF
the people; that 1t will suggest to the multitude SO
betrayed and oppressed the thought OF securing
relief by appeal rom the perfidious representa-
tves to one man. But the one man must be in
vested with the power to do as he wills, and this
power Is CGsarism. We dare say, and we say IL
with no purpose OF artifcay exciting the fears Of
the people, that II the railway rule In American
politics continues for ten years more 1t has ope
rated for Ave or six years past, the desire for q
Cesar to release the country from the strong and
heartess grasp OF the oligarchy will come up from
the people themselves, no longer able to bear the
burdens put upon them BY the perhdy Of their rep
resentatives.
SPIRITUALIST CONVENTION
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