The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-15

are retained, while their cause is exposed to
change. There is no One Cen say authorize
lively that President Grant will, under all
circumstances, refuse q nomination for q
third term. We know of nothing in
his character or his history from which
we can draw a positive conclusion either way
1t is much easier to measure the official
pyramid Of which he is the apex, and which,
with all the instinct of its adhesiveness de-
sires to remain as it is. Every particle thereof,
from the country postmaster and the Custom
House messenger up to the Cabinet officer, is
personally interested in having President
Grant succeed to President Grant forever.
The party has possession of large majority
of the States. Its ability to remain in power
seems only limited by its will, and that shows
no sign of relaxing. 1t is, then, the oppor-
tunity for great display of virtue in the
figure at the apex of the pyramid to let the
world know that the Republic is to be pre-
served by his fixed determination not to re-
main where he is after March, 1877. Therein
lies all the difficulty of the case. Only by an
exercise Of the most unbending will can he
shake off the shackles that the courtiers around
him use TO bind him to his chair. Knowing as
they do how to put the most fragrant incense
in their superheated thurible, we are con-
strained to watch if the President will yield to
the intoxication One journal, in commenting
on our interest in this question, states that we
write Sin the genuine alarmist vein.' This
is not true. We know no topic that deserves
a 1.-THE Of the patient consideration that this
demands; but we sincerely deprecate the idea
that it should be made the subject of that
hasty, crude, Incorporate discussion which is
conveyed when men talk of an "alarmist vein."
In the patriotism of General Grant we hope
for shield against immediate danger to the
fabric reared by the fathers and preserved and
beautifed by the children of the country. We
must look not only at his case, which serves
as an example, but far beyond, to where in the
unknown futurity circumstances undreamed of
now may give man not one-ffth as good the
same opportunity of retaining the Presiden-
tial chair indefinitely, which is the fortune of
General Grant to-day We ask our contempt
raries to throw fippancy aside in treating
this subject, and to rise above party
in periodically considering how best
the curb may be placed upon personal
and party ambition in q matter so momentous
to civilization and to free government. We
which exists, as palpably as man exists, in the
government Of the United States to-day. We
know that republics have been strangled in q
night by hands that could less surely rely on
their forces than General Grant could if he
chose to make tho attempt. We have seen
republics become feebler and feebler through
the indifferentism which grows out OF piethoric
purses and which allowed ambition from
within or without to eface their liberties and
their very names. We have seen corrupted
republic grasped tightly by Marius and by a
Sylla stagger forward pace or two only to fall
forever before the blow Of Caesar Imperator
Our danger may lie in any Of the three-per-
sonal power, indifferentism or corruption. 1t
is to guard it from all of them, or from others
not yet developed, that we appeal to the patri-
otism and thought of the country.
The Cholera in the South-vvhat Has
Been Done to Prevent It's Coming
to New York.
We have the painful intelligence from the
South that the cholera is raging to SO great an
extent in some parts of that section of the
country that the inhabitants of regions thus
far spared from visitation of the scourge are
called upon to raise subscriptions to assist
tho people of the stricken localities. In
Huntsville and Birmingham, Ala, this is
notably the case according to our exchanges
from that direction, while Nashville, Chatta-
nooga, Memphis, Greenville and other places
in Tennessee are infected to more or less ex-
tent with tho prevailing disease" although
at last accounts the epidemic was believed to
be abating in severity.
Now, in view of the fact that the cholera is
undoubtedly prevailing to severe, if not IN
alarming, extent in one part Of the country,
we ask, for the twentieth time, perhaps, What
have the authorities of the city of New York
practically done to prevent the King Of
Epidemics from paying visit to this metrop-
oils? 1t is a notorious fact that, beyond
shutting from afar the abominable and death
dealing odors from the offal depots and from
the fat and bone boiling establishments on
the North River, and beyond clearing out
certain human subterranean habitations where
corruption and disease have been allowed to
tester until the grim spectre stalked unchecked
among the poor wretches who have occupied
those filthy dens, but little has been done to
prepare the city for regular cholera siege. In
regard to the ofal depots and fatrendering
establishments the health authorities have
beaten a cowardly retreat from the position
they first assumed-to wit that the whole
putrid business must be abandoned by the
LIST of the present month. Instead of this
the villanous work has been permitted to 90
on until the present moment, to the great detri-