The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-28
Judge Ould on Our Imperial Ten
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the New York Herald hasShad an in
terview with Judge Robert Ould, of that
city, on the subject Of the third term.
In answer to an interrogatory as to the
extent General Grants election to o
third term has taken hold OF the minds
of the Republican party, Judge Ould
said:
~ cannot respond very definitely to
that question. As far as have been
able to infer from the tone OF the Rec
publican press of Virginia / should
think the party was opposed to a third
term. But the powers at Washington
are 80 potent in working changes OF re
publican sentiment in Virginia when
ever they Get about anv such job seri-
ously, that l cannot tell how long the
republican press Of Virginia or repub-
lican leaders will maintain their pres
ent position. The negroes will obey
the word of their leaders as the rank
and file do military orders. A good
many OF them don't know what
third term means, and, as for C9sarism,
al the powers OF an imperial govern
ment nigh be employed without avail
in an attempt to make them compre-
heud il"
Is to the change in the policy Of the
administration and its effects on the
minds OF the Southern people in recon-
Cling them to Gen. Grants reelection
he said:
ut must be undoubted that il there
was presented the alternative OF a third
term OF administration by General
Grant friendly to the South, and new
administration hostile to our interests,
our people would universally prefer
the former The South is 70 tlrcd Of
its burlhens that it would readily grasp
any hani that might he held out in
homes, and hearty reliet, regardless OF
lie antecedents OF its owner. That
w4. the secret OF Greelsy's strength il
ae last campaign" His Opinion or the
resent Condition OF a:Iair5 ard their
rpH&ble solution is:
That the outlook is gloomy enough,
at not hopeless. We DO not know
ci,"t changes. as Carlyle sags, the
Hlirlgig OF Time may make. There
are so many centres Of public opinion
in the United States, aad these are so
constantly changing or wideniuC-therc
are - many new questions forcing
themselves upon the attention Of the
age, some OF which, like Sphinx riddles,
must te answerei under the mos!
dreadful penalties-that he must be
very wise and sagacious man WHO
could prophecy surely in these times,
As tae questions OF the last !i.teen veGcs
have been OF 90 much greater imror-
tance than those our fathers debated, 20
it may be that the questions OF
lsLo. and capital and trauspor,a-
ton, and others OF which we 10
not now dream in the future,
may conyulse society even more than
those which We have known IN Orr 0wn
day to lift the troubled wave 50 high.
Into what haven the ship OF state Will
be driven no one can tell. II viii
reach some one, for society cannot a3~
ways exist in convul5ion, as ships c.u-
not always in a storm. If We are 70
judge our future bv the past Of other
nations we will not drilt into monarchy,
Cmsarism or despotisn, without pre-
yiOus STAGE of Of anarnDv IlG, 2
the only pressure which hitherto ha-
forced republican people into imperi.
alism. They have never howa 70 king .
" or despotic power except as Gc.uge |
from anarchy. VIII this American |
republic prove itselfan exception to the |
line otprecedeuts, and voluntarily seek |
imperialism, not as a refuge from ~
ternal disorders, bat because it loves |
the chains by which it !, Jouai, aad |
the glory of the maa 10 whom Il bows !
as master2'