Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-08-21

mean to fight in any other form THAI
through the laws appointed ways.
Is to the Grange and its true objects
we have spoken so often in commen-
dation that 1t is not necessary 10 gay
anything here.
THE POWER OF the PREsIDENT-
! THE THIRD TERM TWADDIE
From the Albany IN. KY journal.
Nothing is moro faliacious than that
the occupant Of the Presidential chair
raay, If he choose, perpctuate his own
succession indefinitely or for life I'm
less his principles and policy are in
harmony with the popular sentiment
lie is as powerless and harmless as any
private citizen in either shaping or
controlling events.
The experiment has been tried. Ty.
Ter sought to create party to elect
him to the Presidency. he gathered
around himself few adventures who
battered his vanity and made free use
Of his patronage. But with all the
power and prestige of the Office, and
with all the zeal and liberality of his
friends, he could not make so much as
la ripple upon the surface of the
p0litical waters.
The same thing was true of Fill.
| more. The death of General Taylor
placed him in the Presidential office.
He as pired to an election by the peo-
pie. His friends battered him with
the idea that such result was practic-
able, and he used the patronage Of his
Office with INSCRIPTIONS zeal to effect
this coveted result. But, like Tyler,
he found his power az impotent as the
wind in securing for him what he de-
erred. No party, and but few indiyid-
uals would do him reverence. He
dropped into obscurity more suddenly
than he acquired fame, and is to-day a
living proof Of the insuficiency of the
power possessed by the incumbent of
| the Executive chair to, continue him.
self in the Office. To have his aspira-
lions answered, his principles and pol
4 icy must be in harmony with public
| sentiment
And SO Of Andy johnson. By the
death Of Lincoln he was attired in the
robes of Executive dignity. He sue.
ceeded to the Executive chair when
the country was in a. transition state,
when the power aud patronage of the
Executive was vastly greater than ever
before, and when an INSCRIPTIONS ex-
ercise Of this patronage and power
might be expected, il ever, to influence
public sentiment and secure to him the
object Of his ambition. But neither
had the weight Of feather. He could
not control q town caucus, and he was
literally Kissed into the retirement
from which he has not yet emerged
and probably never win.
These illustrations afford the very
best answer to the farcical suggestion
that General Grant, by the influence
which the patronage of the Executive
secures to him, intends 10 force him
self upon the people through third
term, and that because OF this power
the people will be impotent to resist
him in his C2sarian aspirations! Moth
ing is moro absurd. If General Gran,
should indicate any such purpose
he should indicate in the remotest way
his intention to force himself upon the
people, as Tyler, Fillmore and John.
son attempted to do-be would fall al
| they fell, and become as they have. q
monument Of the weakness and folly Of
an unregulated ambition.
| A President is only strong when he
keeps even step with the music Of
public sentiment. Running counter to
| this sentiment, il General Grant had
the distribution of the patronage Of q
hundred Presidents, he would find
himself as weak and powerless AS tho
foolish men referred to, and Whose
greatest service to tho country con.
sists in the fact that their futile efforts
are remembered to point a moral" fol
the benefit of any one who may come
after them, having the same ambition
and the same erroneous idea Of iht
best mode to gratifying it.
But the statement is a,ithoritively
made that General Grant does no
| wish to be elected 10 the Presidency
people have no desire that ne Shouts QUIZ
| be. 1t is possible that he would ad'
minister the Government as wisely
and as we'll through n third as through
a second term but no one, least Of al
General Grant himself, deems it wist
to establish precedent which neithel
the present nor the prospective exigcn
cies of the country would justify.
The cry of Casarism is the Stiles
piece of demagogic ciap-trap that evel
cmanatcd from the brain of idiocy
And that men of recognized sanity re-
peat the absurd suggestion only illus
trates the low depth to which Democ
racy has fallen during its long year,
Of compulsory abstinence from Office
and power. II is by tho propagation o
such extrsvagant fa|sehoods that tht
demented leaders Of that party hope
some time during the present century
to reach the surface and be again rein
stated in the positions from which
they were thrust for their sympathy
with slavery and their disloyalty Il
the Government. 1t is Of q piece o
the whole volume of fslsehood ani
nonsense with which the Democratic
press now teens. but which has ne
more influence upon the people OF
public sentiment than the whistliDg o
the wind.
HrGULAND TOWNSHIP, ]