The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-09-05
JUDGE GUILD ON 1MPERfAL TEN
DENOTES.


A Richmond (Va.) correspondent
of the New York Herald has had an
interview with Judge Robert Ouid,
Of that city, on the subject Of the
third term. In answer to an inter-
rogatory as to the extent General
Grants election to third term has
taken hold Of the minds Of Repub,
can party, Judge Ould said:
IL cannot respond very definitely
to that question. As far as ! have
been able to infer from the tone of
the Republican press Of Virginia |
should think the party was opposed
to third term. But the powers at
Washington are so potent in work
ing changes of Republican sentiment
in Virginia, whenever they set about
any such job seriously, that J cannot
tell how long the Republican press Of
Virginia or Republican leaders will
maintain their present 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 Csesarism, all
the powers Of an imperial govern
ment might be employed without
avail in an attempt to make them
comprehend it."
As to the change in the policy of
the administration and its effects on
the mind Of the Southern people in
reconciling them to Gen. Grants
re election, he said:
at must be undoubted that if
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 ami
versally prefer the former The
South is so tired of its burihens that
1t would readily grasp any hand
that might be held out in honest and
hearty relief, regardless of the ante
cedents of its owner. That was the
secret of Greeley's strength in the
last campaign. His opinion on the
present condition of affairs and their
| probable solution is:
THAT the outlook is gloomy
enough, but not hopeless. We do
not know what changes, as Carlyle
says, the 'whirligig Of Time may
make. There are so many centres
of public opinion in the United
States, and these are so constantly
changing or widening--there are so
many new questions forcing them>
selves upon the attention of the age,
some Of which, like Sphinx riddles,
must be answered under the most
dreadful penalties--that he must be
very wise and sagacious man who
could prophecy surely in these
times. As the questions of the last
fifteen years have been of so much
greater importance than those our
fathers debated, so it may be that
the questions of labor and capital and
transportation, and others of which
we do not now dream in the future,
may convulse society even more
than those which we have known in
our day to lift the troubled waves so
high. Into what haven the ship of
state will be driven no one can tell.
1t will reach some one, for society
cannot always exist in CONFUSION,
as ships cannot live always in a
storm. If we are to judge our flu
ture by the past of other nations we
will not drift into monarchy, Caesar
ism or despotism, without a previous
stage of anarchy. That is the only
pressure which hitherto has forced
a republican people into imperial
ism. They have never flown to
kingly or despotic power, except as
a refuge from anarchy. win this
American republic prove itself an
exception to the line of presidents,
and voluntarily seek imperialism,
not as a refuge from internal disor-
der, but because it loves the chains
by which it is bound and the glory
of the man TO whom it bows as mas
ter 7"