The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-14
G E S A r I S M /.
The Third Term Proposed for
General Grant.
Views Of the American Press on the Scheme
to Overthrow the. Liberties Of
tie Republic.

tie Republic.
From the Lockport IN. W Union (democratic),
July o.
The HERALD makes no mistake in direct
ing attention to the issue which must overtop all
others until it Is finally and irrevocaby settled.
Mr. Grants usurpati0D in Louisiana equals, In de-
iance OF law, any single act Of Cesar in his pro-
gresslve overthrow of the Roman Republic. TO
evade the fate Of that Empire Mr.. Grant must not
be allowed to enter upon his third term. 1t may
have been noticed by the Observing that those re-
publlcans who last FAN denounced. In advance
any project looking to Mr.. Grants continuance IN
ONCE beyond his present term are now reticent
upon the subject, or venture the assertion that
third term is likely to become necessity 'But
to say" remarks the HERALD that this is not
living issue Is to say what Is not true" No paper
has cquaod the HERALD In shrewdy pointing out
vital questions in political Canvass 1t is vain to
talk OF tariffs monopolies while this question is
pending.
From the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (democratic).
July o.
THE COMING ISSUE.
The NEW YORK HERALD OF the 5th, in an
editorial article written with great ability
and force, reviews the past epochs Of our
OF the coming ISSUE While proessodly friendly
to General Grant; while giving him credit
for saving tho Republic in time of and for gov
erning it wisely and honestly God save the mark
in time OF peace; while implying that q second
term OF the Presidency was a just reward OF dis
| tinguished public services, the HERALD fears that
] the personal ambition OF the President will make
C@sarism-the assumption OF continuous power
| the issue which the people must determine IN
1870 The writer thinks that the presenta-
ton OF such an issue will be a suicidal
act. Grant. though the leader or his party
as completely its master as was ever JEFF
ferson or Jackson-cannot hope for success
third time. ''Great as General Grant has
shown himself to be, and powerful as his party I'M
doubtedly is, the suggestion OF third term, ser
ously accepted on his part, would be virtually to
leap from the Tarpean Rock and leave name In
history to be remembered with the names OF Burr
and Arnold" The metaphor is q little Mixed per-
haps but the language is certainly strong and en-
phatic enough. Every important act Of
the Presidents since his second inaugural seems
to indicate that he IS preparing for third term
that C@sarism If to be the issue; Cgsarism with
all its tyranny and corruption its viciousness and
depravity, without the prosperity the glory and
the grandeur which made its despotism endurabe.
To this complexion must it come at last unless the
people remain true to themselves and true to
the faith OF their fathers, the founders OF
the Republic. But, while the HERALD has
discovered the fact It is not the first
to discover the truth sagacious statesmen fore
saw and depicted the evil more than year ago.
Charles Sumner, whose republicanism is as un-
doubted as his talents, told Congress and the
country Of Cwsarism from his seat in the Senate
| more than q twevemontn since. Horace Greeley,
| the great journalist, the man able, honest and
| sincere, whose untirng exertions, whose perse-
verance, unfagging industry and indomitable will
made him the founder of the republican party and
contributed In no small measure to its subsequent
victories and long continued success, saw the
danger anu sounded warning in the columns OF
the Tribune. Other republicans saw 1t and sought
to save the party from the suicidal nomination
at Philadelphia. When they became convinced
that further exertions within party lines would be
useless they renOunced their allegiance They
determined to act for themselves, and the
Cincinnati platform and the nomination of Horace
| Greeley was the first formal protest against the
| One-man power. The democracy, losing sight OF
lesser evils In the presence OF great and immediate
! danger, coalesced with the reormers and fought
with them, shoulder to shoulder, the battle Of '72.
But the strategy OF the enemy caused the true
| grounds of quarrel to be ignored and forgotten.
The conflict was wased upon false issues, and the
Cincinnati movement encountered crushing de-
|
and though the last nght was lost and the enemy
has the prestige OF success, the prospects for VIC
tory will be better than they ever were before
Casarism, which formerly lay in ambush, now rears
high its brazen 'front.' and there is mistaking tie
character Of the foe. Unless the masses have be-
| come accustomed to Observation-Disclosures the
democracy have lost their ancient courage and for
saken their ancient faith-victory must come to us
in 10.
From the Springfield (Mass.) Journal republican
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. July 1O.l
THE THIRD TERM, AND WHY NoTS
1t is an interesting and suggestive-though, per-
haps not necessarily alarming-symptOm Of the
abnormal pathological condition In which the body
polite now finds itself, that in the first half year
OF an American Presidents second term, so many
politicians and political journals should be found
discussing the chances OF his securing q third.
| Thus, q Washington correspondent informs the
Boston Post that a conference Of onlce-holders was
held last week at Long Branch to ''arrange the
preinlinaries," and that 1t is 'not denied" the
| President knew OF it. Further that the prime
movers count, first, upon the patronage; second,
upon the influence of the mOneyed interests-the
railroads, national banks, protected manufactures
and great capitalists, that supported General
Grant effectively last year; third. upon
the inability oil any other one candidate to
rally around him majority Of the party; fourth,
upon the inability OF the opposition to concentrate
| and act In unison. The mention OF the moneyed
| interests here recalls the somewhat famous argu-
| ment OF the Boston Journal and other republican
organs last year, that any change OF adminlstra-
ton would be necessarily injurious, If not calami-
tous to capital and business, since 1t would sub.
siitute uncertainty for certainty. We said at the
time that this argument, II solid, would hold as
true in 1876 1872 and in 1850 in 1876 that 1t
was logically and practically, an argument for the
| empire. We say so now.
Thus, too, the NEW YORK HERALD has treated It's
readers this week to several editorial articles IN
the genuine aiarmst vein on the ad
vent OF ''C1sarisnln in this free and