The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-11


termined aspirants by electing General Grant for
third term the republican party Will re-elect him,
ton and without Installing Caesar
Thfrd-A portion OF the republican party-mainly
the onice-holders and their lriends-who frankly
confess that they are IN favor OF reelecting Pres.
dent Grant for third term, because they think t
best Tor the country (unquestionaby It is best for
themseves) and Is not in violation OF the consti.
tuition. Indeed, they boldly declare that General
Grant might be reelected periodically for the re-
mainder Of his life and no harm come to the coun,
try or the republican party. Exactly. This IS
good, and II Is well for the country to know as
much. Such was not the idea OF republicans OF
1900
FOurth-There is small party OF gentlemen which
belong to the late ultra S0utherners-the nre.
that he is the best man ior the South and the
North and for all quarters OF the Union, and IL
goes for mis- reelection why shouldn't ne be Presi,
does not prohibit his reelection every four years as
long as he lives and If he suits the country IT Is
better TO elect him than to run the risk OF trying
another man. These virtuous gentlemen, like
Micawber are looking for something to turn up not
FIrh-And TO this class we belong-a class alto.
Rether independent OF those above named-a brief
class OF American citizens who declare that II We
can restore the government to its constitutional
basis, and secure its administration in an impartial
manner, according to the constitution, by which
tiers according to their own ideas and dispositions
under the right guaranteed to them by the con-
and also Cmsarism, towards Which a third term
Is great stride.
But these same unselnsh and patriotic citizens
patriotic locally and nationally alike-declare that
II we are not to live under this happily restored
constitutional governmental the bigoted fanatics
and the sordd partsans OF the North are to be per-
mltted ad nottun to persecute the people Of
great section OF this Union through the
federal government-t0 abr0gate alike all State
and personal rights In that large section and to
outrage that is to disturb their peace. separate
them from their families, destroy their business,
barbarism and themselves to the terrible oppres-
sions OF intOlerable burdens and wrongs to resist
which they are deprived OF all power; why, in that
case, 1t matters not who rules or what beco mes OF
the government. Clearly, the people thus oppressed
would have more to hope from the zone -man"
power than they can hope for from q government
which had become the mere instrument OF
bigoted, sordid and malignant sectional public
sentiment on these grounds they would hail the
emperor, and would be justified in so doing.
We do not Overstate the case. The "recOnstruc-
tionn measures which, we are given to understand
were ordained by Heaven, were the most heart
less and treacherous that were ever adopted by q
Of the North, through the federal government'
conferred the right to vote and entire political
equality with their white fellow citizens OF the
South upon the negrOes-the late slaves OF the
SOuth-whO were utterly incompetent to exercise
the rights given them. The act was one that for
denied by republicans. 1t was received by
sns h nar not STss talked % apoas It was was
backwards and with a covering to throw
over 1t. 1t was contemplated murder Of the
was perpetrated; and, as when Duncan and his
household were assassinated the bloody daggers
were left upon their bodies to show that they did
the deed themselves so were the people OF the
South accused OF having made the measure neces-
sary. The ballot was proclaimed as necessary for
s and foowns up this Ges IaWs wers
passed which upon their face proclaimed dstrust
OF the white man and placed him at the mercy Of
10 al a6 NV fha rD1Vo md
They were liable to arrest on tho most frivolous
pretexts to trial by prejudiced jures, TO convic-
tlon upon &c pdrte testimony, and to imprisonment
far from home-anywhere where the federal exec
uttve chose to send Them
II was the reign OF terror. The land was hlled
limit to such wrongs heaped upon them by gov
eminent to which It had submitted, and which 1t
ardently desired 70 make as fair, as prosperous
But what was the course OF their Northern fellow
citizensf Election alter election followed, and
sions continued. The negro was placed IN the as
cendent in several Of the most prosperous States
OF the South and their governments were admin
istered in manner so oppressive, so wasteful and
dishonest that the wonder is how 1t could possibly
The white inhabitants Of those States were help
less, and instead OF being relieved from the terri
zens had given them, the federal government
strengthened the hands Of barbarism and corrup
ton and showed no pity for the white victims
who were refined and as Intelligent and as
just as any people on the face Of Gods earth.
Now, then, we say. and we believe every Southern
man will say, If the federal representative govern
ment Is to be used by controlling section OF this
Union thus to Cypress another section in manner
an var hen "a dsos % eRe Us
emperor II he is good he Will be impartally SO.
II he is bad he Will be equally impartial in the dis
pensatiOn oil his vicious policies. His imparriality
In either case would tend to harmony and union
among the people, They would soon learn to I'M
Of dement's, and il, on the other hand, we had a
brutal tyrant to obey, the consolation would be
great TO those who suffered to know that their el.
low citizens shared their fate anu would be united
with them alike in sorrow and in resistance to
tyranny should resistance be resorted to.
wronged their own characters and so outraged the
constitution IN approving our expressions may be
lea to repent ana struggle Tor the reestaoishment
"Away with CasarismI Up with the constitution
Liberty and the constitution foreverl'
But let us say that the calm talk about o third
term OF General Grant among the republicans
certainly offers poor encouragement to the hope
for this happy revolution OF Northern public senti
ment. True, the constitution authorizes the third
or the fourth or the fifth term for zone man; but
our forefathers considered the long continuance OF
one man In power at the head OF the government
30 dangerous that no man to this day has ever
dared to go beyond the second term. and, from
1924 to the present day. it has been the declared
policy OF all parties that the Presidential ONCE
should be limited to one term of four years for
OF its occupants.
When country forgets the virtues and the
usages Of its fathers it is in bad way, and we do
not think the warning Of the HERALD out Of place.
From the Troy Daily Wing administration, An
gust 26l
1t is not necessary to 60 over Grants life to show
that he is not and has not been a Cesar He Is
very unlike Caesar. We might draw out COMPARE
son and show that Grant does not belong to an
old and aristocratc family that he was not
trained In civil AFFAIRS; that he lived quiet and
obscure life until he was called from his retirement
TO take part In the war; that, unlike Cesar, he is
not scholar nor an orator nor politician prac-
tced in all the arts OF the demagogue; he has not
had rivals at the head OF armies all striving to OBJ
tain the supreme power. When he had beaten Lee
he disbanded the rebel legions and he led his vic
torious troops to Washington, not to usurp the
government, but TO dismiss them and return them
TO their homes and shops and the arts OF peace.
The United states have no resemblance to Rome.
They are not a city that has warred against and
destroyed others. They do not hold the world In
subsection by armed egions commanded by con-