Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-07-23

"Casarism."
The notion seems to posses some peo
pie that President Grant is to become
candidate for re election in the next ma
tioral canvass, and thereon they are de
livering themselves of long articles of tn,
danger to the Republic by such renom
inarion and re ELECTION. The assumed
allusions they make use of to help then
on with their pleasant writing have the
merit of being historical, classical. They
call it "Cesarism." and it sounds well
but when the sound subsidies there is an
end of it.
1t would be pleasant reading to learn
from articles from the pen of some Of
these classical gentl, man something more
than nicely dressed assertion, something
wherein President Grants official or pri
rate department bears the faintes. resem.
hlance to the official or private deport-
ment of Julius Caesar, from whose line Of
individual and State policy Ca-arism
originated OF derived its name-except-
ing. of course, Gr,1t's military achieve
ments. He may, indeed. possess the
military genius Of the great Julius, who
destroyed the liberties of Rome but to
his credit he has never displayed the
ambition of that Roman Gen eral, whom
lis critics and defamers charge him with
lolding constantly before him as model.
When they thus charge him with Cesar
ism they forget that they are destroying
their own former arguments of ignorance
against him, for how can an ignorant and
nnlettered man take for model men and
measures of bygone days with whom or
which he is unacquainted.
Cesar had a policy. Grant has pol
icy. 1t, however, requires peculiar pen
trat;on, given to few men, to discover
resemblance where none exists. Grants
policy of administration thus far pre-
sents no similarity to that of Caesar. 1t
only naked assertion that the critics
Ellave presented. Give ms light Tell us
- herein Grants manifestations are like
Cnsars. C@sar's policy was a military
policy; he usurped the powers of the
Roman Senate he individualized the
whole Roman government.
Grants policy has been the opposite ;
it has been a civil one, one strictly con
fined to Congressional enactments and
rules of courts. He has repeatedly
through State papers defined his pol
icy to be that of the will of the people
as expressed through the ballot box. To
this his critics. may have the sulphurious
charity to reply that he employs Ian
guage as the French diplomatist en-
ployed it, simply to Disguise his real
purposes Again it would be highly in
teresiing to learn from these classical
gentlemen wherein the policy of the Re-
publican party, which has become the
controlling governmental policy of the
country, resembles "Caesarism.'
Again. it would be imparting unknown
information to show the analogy between
the government set up by Julius Caesar
and the government of this Republic as
administered oy President Grant. From
Caesar came line of Empolers, Caesars,
and the extinguishment of whatever of
Republicanism that had existed in the
Roman government. Through Grant, as
the administrator of the ideas of North
ern civilization in governmental affairs,
every vestige of iudividualism has been
rooted out and complete Republic, such
as Rome during her palmiest semi-Re-
/ ublican days scarcely conceived of, has
been established. If the critics know
better, why do they not tell wherein
Grants policy is like that of "Caesar
i'm ~
1t is all a "boob." The moral and
Intellectual status of the American peo-
pie is such just now that no nan or set
of men could with the shadow of a chance
Of success play the role of Caesar or
Caesarism, no matter how much they
might so desire TO do.