The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-08-29
GRANT AS CESAR.
What MIR. Stone, Of the New York Jour
nal OF Commerce Thinks A War In
cident Heretofore Unpublished.
NAV York Herald Interview. ]

the Presidency at all, when he was
General Of the army. He ought to
have rested on his laurels. He then
stood high in the respect and gratis
tude Of the whole nation. need
not tell you that so much cannot be
said of him now. Soon after the war
the Democrats tried to secure him as
their candidate for the Presidency.
He then refused, and / remember he
remarked IN conversation that he
believed in the ne-term principle.
No man, he said, should be elected
President for more than one-term.
But, 10 spite Of his opinion then ex-
pressed, he has coveted and obtained
the Presidency for a second term,
and although, If am not mistaken,
he has stated in his second inaugural
address that he would retro to his
vines and fig trees at the expiration
Of the four years, ! see no reason
why he should not feel disposed TO
try for third term.
HOW A NATION LOSES ITS LIBERTY.
Reporter Do you believe, sir,
that Cmsarism could gain foothold
in this countryf
Mr.. Stone Ii not Casarism in the
literal sense Of the word, something
very like it. | remember, when a
boy, read in history how small
number Of soldiers. headed BY des-
POT, obtained absolute power over
millions; how these millions looked
on with Indifference and allowed
themselves to be kept in subsection,
making no effort to shake off the
yoke. ! then thought, "Ah, but our
liberties could not be taken away in
this manner. We should rise against
any attempt to encroach upon our
rights" But when / saw the high
handed acts Of the Government dur>
ing the late war, without any protest
from the mass Of the people when
| saw citizens put into Fort Lafayette
without warrant or the slightest evil
dence of guilt, but merely in obedi-
ence to the touch of Mr.. Stewards
little bell, | thought our liberties
were not 80 secure after all. In il
lustration Of this | will tell you an
incident of the late war, which has
never been published. A gentleman
in Brooklyn, staunch Republican
and member Of the Wideawake Club,
had young daughter, who left the
Packard Institute at the outbreak Of
the war. She carried on the usual
girlish correspondence with former
achoolmate, young lady in the
South, who was crammed with secesh
notions, as most Southern ladies were
in those times. Correspondence from
| the South was then seized by the
Government. Among the letters
opened was one addressed by the sc
cesh girl TO her friend in Brooklyn
full Of childish gush about the En-
pire JEFF. Davis was going to set up
| the fine time they would have, ant
how she would be happy to receive
her friends visit in Secessia. One
fine day, as my friend of the Wide
awake Club was sitting at dinner in
his shirt sleeves, carriage drove
up before his house, two men rung
tho door bell and asked to see the
head of the family. In his shirt
sleeves and hatless the gentleman in
question came TO the door, when the
two men seized him, and, threaten
ing to put daylight through him If he
resisted, put him in the carriage
1t was in vain that he begged them
TO allow him to get his hat and coat
and make some explanations to his
family. The ruffians refused, and
conveyed him to Fort Lafayette
For whole week after his family
could not account for his mysterious
disappearance, until few lines from
him, written on q slip of paper, was
brought to his family by discharged
prisoner from Fort Lafayette, who
managed to conceal it in the sole of
his boot when the mystery was cleared
up. Prominent Republicans inter
ested themselves in his case, and
procured his release, which it was
not difficult TO obtain, for he was
known as Republican; but had he
been Democrat he would have re-
manned six or twelve months longer
in prison, aud all for . school girls
letter. A few men talked Of getting
up an indignation meeting about it,
but what good would it have done !
If A. T. Stewart or John j. Cisco or
any prominent merchant had been
carried to Fort Lafayette there would
have been little stir about it. 1t is
thus the liberties Of nation are taken
away, when the people become indif-
ferent and quietly submit to despo-
tism. The American people are now
accustomed to the grasp Of an army
of Ofiice-holders and acquiesce in it.
THE HERALD AND cRsARIsM.
Reporter-Well, is it not your
opinion, Mr.. Stone, that the Herald
has done something to check Cesar
ism by sounding the bugle Of warn
ing while it is times
Mr.. Stone--0n the contrary, |
think if President Grant is elected
for third term he will have to thank
the Herald for it. 1t has taken all
the Wind out of the opposition. 1t