The New York herald., 1873-09-10
CESARISM.


The NEW YORK HERALD continues to discuss the
question Of Cesarlsm with ability. Those who
favor Grant having third term treat the contem-
plated danger as joKe and laugh at the HERALD's
predictions While we are not an aarmist we
look at the question in the same light as the
HERALD. There is no doubt that Grants hangers
on are anxious that he should have q third term,
and II would keep them in place and power they
would consent to make him President for life, or
even an Emperor II the traditional rule that guided
Washington, Jackson and others OF grea test and
best Presidents to lay down power at the end Of
eight years be departed from 1t Will bring danger
to the Republic. We hope to see the American
people put their feet upon this attempt while in
Its infancy. Those who love liberty cannot be too
watchlu for Its preservation.
From the Minneapolis Tribune tadm,pistrati9nl,
august ao.i ''s'' z: - :.
Inc 1'1oVne distinctly dsagrees with the Wasn--
lngton Republican, whichy advocates General
GrantS Reelection to o third term or the Presi.
dency This opinion is not born of any apprehen-
sion that he would abuse that confidence in any
way, for no man less inclined to maintain power
by force, no man less likely to execute coup
d'etat, ever sat in the hrst chair OF any govern
ment In the first place the President loves popu
lar liberty, respects popular rights, believes in the
Republic and desires to see 1t perpetuated to bless
the and belle the evil prophecies Of kings. II
quent he Is thoughtful Moreover, the boldest
and worst demagogue that ever climbed to power
would know better than to attempt to subvert,
for his own uses, the government that has been
established and defended by the American people.
But, while deem the Presidents second re-elec-
tiOn unavoidable, 1t would be violation OF prece-
except for extraordinary reasons. The Washington
Republican quotes, as Q reason why Grant should
Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were urged to run
for third term; but 1t forgets to mention the fact
that they uniformly refused seriously to consider
the proposition. The people OF this country
never more jealous Of their public servants than
they are to-day, and 1t is wholesome sign. Moth
ing that we can think OF would alarm them more
than such an attempt as Is proposed. Thurl0w
Weed expressed the general feeling the other day
ington, II he were on earth.n
There Is no excuse ior a breach Of precedent,
midstream, when swapping horses Is perilous
There is no great emergency pending. All is tran
gull and prosperous, on land and sea, In mine and
great peace and serenity are mainly the direct
result OF General Grants military and civic policy;
% he eaa OF the The owes h%
gratitude, and 1t will constantly do its utmost to
pay this debt And u Is largely IN gratitude to him
that his friends protest to-day against his being
thrust into position where he could do no good,
where he would be a target for malice, hatred and
all uncharitableness. and would be sacrificed In the
end.
The republican party has plenty OF other men
amply qualified for the high trust; sherman and
Sheridan, from among the military, and Blaine,
Washburne, Logan, Colfax Hawley and Morton In
civil life.
From the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer, August 29.l
General Grant has never been partisan. In
1885, had 1t not been for his quarrel with Andrew
Johnson, he would have been In q dilemma as to
the party from which lie would take the nomina-
tion for both were ready to tender 1t. Johnson.
sustained by the democracy, drove General Grant,
who had no decided political views, into the arms
statesman, he has-as Whitelaw Reid OF the Tri-
bune expresses it-much "hard, horse sense" and
q pretty thorough knowledge Of the American
people; too much sense and too much knowledge
indeed to array his ambition against those tradi-
tions, stronger than law that heretofore have
trOlled the terms OF the Presidential otlce. In his
elevated position he has been feted and battered
and fawncd Ontill he must feel no matter his strong
sense, that he Is a sort of dem-god, particularly
when 10000 Ofce-hoders now burn incense to
him and form shadowy crowns for his head In the
smoke. 1t is enough TO rouse anv dormant aspira-
tiOns for a dictatorship that Grant may nave to
see himself thus lauded, particularly when he, the
head OF great nation. looks back over the short
space oi fourteen years and sees himself an un-
western town. with forty dollars q month as his
sole compensation. To such a man, were he am.
bilious, nothing might seem Impossible.
but Grant knows that the ofiice-seekers and nat
Jerer5 are not the eXp0nents OF the forty millions
OF people In this Republic, and that movement
to reelect him would shake the nation from centre
to circumference, as did the firing OF the
FIRST gun at sumter in Gi. The brave men VINO
cheered him into Office, who sustained him Wnne
there would revolt, and forgetting the past, psce
IN power one who would better represent the Ieei
ings and the spirit OF the nation. We do not tnink
| that Grant dreams OF third term, for ne mus
know that he has all OF tho worlds goods tnat ne
csp enioy. snd that bis rstremsnt In '7d VIII III 'ne