The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-08
The Country Press on Grant for o
Third Term.
The Administration Press Charged with
Dodging the Issues Raised
by the Herald.
Significant Response from the Washington
Chronicle Of Sunday.

that connect the President with the cOmb
nations that are supposed to be trying
to effect that contamination. The HERALD,
more than any other journal in the word,
studies and comprehends the popular feel
Ing OF the day, and while rural papers,
are, In many instances. inclined 70 re-
gard the HBRALDs articles on that subject
~ . p6Atical nightmare, as mere sensational
asm, there is yet behind ana above all this sone-
tAAng 1t that goes for anything but pleasant fore
holdings. lit 10 q scare, and Is seriously regarded
- ssch, why 10 not the administration journals,
whose expressions on that topic ma their way
with accurSseness into the HERALD columns, come
plainly and'soldly out and put an emphatic denial
tpOn the political records OF the day. They burden
themselves with platitudes and equivocations, and
dismiss the matter by protesting against such early
agitatiou OF the matter.
tFron the Ottunwa uowa) Democrat, July 3l.l
We publish In tins impression Of the Democrat
remarkable article from the NEW YORK HERALD.
Remarkable because it discloses facts which should
awaken the minds Of the American people to a
great danger which threatens them; remarkable
because 1t comes from the HERALD, q paper noted
Tor its almost prophetic utterances. That the
Grant administration ia preparing TO perpetuate
Itself is a fact OF which have long been aware,
and events are daily confirming the suspicion. 1t
AZ demonstrated already that the American people
are as easy to be trampled upon as Europeans or
Asiatics and under the specOus cry OF loyalty and
the Republic Grant and his office holders hope to
retain power even at the cost and at the risk Of
CGsarism.
INorE.-The article referred to, which Is given
In the Democrat, is the one entitled 'Is the Gov
ernment Machinery OF the United States Fitted for
the Rule Of Caesar 2'']
From the Greenvile (Ala.) Advocate, July ST.
In a series OF highly interesting editorials on the
subject OF the probable candidacy Of General Grant
for the third term the New YORK HERALD has
recently deliberately discussed the danger OF
Cesarism that may lie in the acceptance, by
General Grant, of q third term, II offered by his
party. The silence OF leading republican journals
and politicians on this subject is regarded by the
HERALD as omnous and significant, and the
patriotism and good sense Of General Grant appear
TO afford the only hope which the HERALD has that
IN attempt viii not be made to convert the Re-
public into an Empire.
From the Burlington Iowa Gazette, August IL
The NEW YORK HERALD sounds the alarm, and
says that in the very year that the people OF this
country intend TO celebrate the centenary OF their
independence and liberty, and probably within
few days OF that ceebration-July T. l876-the
once holders and ambitious friends OF General
Grant propose, 1t is thought, to nominate him for
the following November. Just o century Of free-
dom to culminate with the FIRST and an important
step toward C@sarisml This is matter for grave
consideration. Three years will soon pass away,
and then the crisis viii be upon US. some OF
our contemporaries think we have mo0ted
che question too early, and others that we
are creating needless apprehensiOns. We think
not The question was raised first not by u.s.
but by an administration organ in Washington,
half estngly and half in earnest and then quietly
encouraged by the ardent friends OF General Grant
himself. Then the silence OF the President gives
rather an ominous coloring to the proposition Of
his friends. Besides, the American people have
1allen into such a state Of indifference or apathy
regarding public AFFAIRS, partly from the exhaustive
enects OF the late civil war and partly from the
enervating influence OF prosperity and the growth
OF wealth and luxury that considerable time is re-
CURED to arouse them. And IL should he remem-
bered that the enormous patronage and political
machinery OF the federal government. controlled
by the President and his supporters, can only bs
held In check or overcome by awakening the pub.
lie mind in time and preparing for the conflict
long In advance.
From the Monmouth IN. j. Inquirer trepublican),
July 9l]
General Grants worst detractors have never
denied 70 hun the possession OF good common
sense, and this being characteristic, Will prevent
any desire or intention on his part to perpetuate
ms power for third term. He is said to have
been annoyed already by the foolish talk OF de-
signing politicians in relation to his candidature
for another period Of ONCE, and we feel confident
that he, at least has lent no countenance to any
such rumor. His two administrations have been
successful ones, and the country has never been
more prosperous or more respected abroad than
during the five years he has already been at the
head OF the government We have full confidence
IN him, and prophesy that when his present term
has closed he win retire private life, and live as
he lived before the country put him the head OF
anairs-the qnet, unostentatious life OF o private
citizen.
From the New Orleans Picayune iopposition),
July 2ol
Such tremendous revolution as the overthrow
OF Tree government over "a, 0ooO 600 Of people and
the establishment of q despotsm In its stead can
not be the work Of q day. 1t mas been the work OF
many years. II began with the disregard in the
Northern States OF the constitution and laws OF
the United states before the war. 1t was pushed
on by the arbitrary assumptions Of power by the
government OF the United States during the war.
IL was set up after the war by the reconstruction
acts OF Congress over the Southern States and
the fraudulent amendments TO the cCnstitu-
tion IL achieved by the military power
Of the United States, and it briskly
into glorious effiorescence when IT de-
Geo the SURFACES OF the people OF Louisiana, over.
turned their government and set up despotc
military government in its stead The acting Gov
ernor OF Louisiana, installed by Its power clearly
his oficisl dependency by his reports
10 the government OF the United States OF the
fiscal condition and operation OF the government
q louisiana Nov, In all the stages OF the progress
y Cesarisn,. up to the last, the HERALD was an up.
iolder of its policy. And when President Grant
declared that the course he had pursued towards
ouisiens he should pursue towards all the other
tates, for the first time the Northern press
eemed 70 be awakened to the trne design OF des-
otism over the South. Previous to this
eclaration they seemed to suppose that