Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-11
Casarism in America.

to be overrun by armed troops, carpet
baggers and scallawags. The edict has
gone forth over the signature of the
American CESAR. In 1905 the vexed
question of slavery eliminated in the
breaking up of all harmony and fra
ternity among us as people; the en-
gendering of sectional hatreds; the In
itiation of deadly political strife; the
withdrawal of several of the States
from the Union, and the Inauguration
of civil war. The yawning sepulchres
of five hundred thousand of our slaugh-
tered fellow-men; the swarming of the
country from Maine to Louisiana with
friendless, hopeless widows and or
phans; the paralyzing of every branch
of industry; the ruin of our trade and
commerce; debt of near three thous-
and millions of dollars; broken Con-
stitution, and divided and demoral-
ICED people! That these were the le-
gitimate results of our internecine
struggle, truth and candor will not
deny. We need not stop at this late
day to inquire upon whose shoulders
the great fault lies, but it may be
profitable to ask ourselves if since that
time we have done all in our power to
retrieve our fortunes and to heal the
wounds left bleeding at the final sur
render on the banks of the Appomat-
tox. One of the inseparable evils Of
war, and especially of civil war, is the
Generalization of the people and the
bringing to the surface the very worst
elements of society. This remark is
peculiarly applicable to our condition
at the termination Of this bloody war.
At that time, with the exception, prob
ably, of LINCOLN and SEWARD, we
had scarcely man who was not more
or less imbued with Casarism-not a
statesman of ability in whom the peo-
pie placed confidence. Hence it is we
see the high places of our government
filled with second and third rate men,
without single element Of states
manship or true greatness. And the
logical result is before us: govern
ment without nations policy and
without the confidence of the people,
and consistent in only two things-the
holding on to office and the squander-
ing of the public revenues. With an
ephemeral creation of blood and car
mage at its head, whose highest ambi-
tion seems to be to eclipse every snob
in the country in the elegance of his
surroundings, the sumptuousness of
his entertainments, the splendor of his
equipages, and the dexterity with
which he handles the ribbons, with
cigar in mouth and four-in-hand-but
little can be expected of the present
government. But when shall the pres
ent government terminate? That is
the question. We have all heard of
the psalmist who played upon harp
Of thousand strings - the present
government has but one. Upon this
string it successfully played itself into
power, and upon this string it has
maintained itself in power down to
the present hour, and it is now taking
the same string for another and an
indefinite lease of power. This string
is pretended fear of another uprising
in the South, and the consequent ne
cessity of our CESAR to meet the emer-
gency. How preposterous! But will
the people longer dance to this
tune? For nine years, the people of
The South, after yielding to the
stern results of war, have patiently
endeavored to accommodate them
selves to the situation, and had the
lamentable Lincoln lived, there is no
question but that the South, long be-
fore this day, would have resumed
her former position as happy and
prosperous people. But, unfortunate
ly the government fell into the hands
of the scum brought to the surface by
the memorable struggle. Without
merit of their own, expedients had to
be resulted to, to hoodwink the people
and maintain themselves in power;
hence the Southern people have from
time to time as the interest of their
cases required, been subjected to
indignities which would have
exasperated any people on earth.
The negro, without experience
or preparation for the great
change, was at once raised to the DO
litical place of the white man in effect,
and absolute in the relative position
OF the two races. In this the South
quietly acquiesced, but the Govern
ment, fearing the influence of the old
master over the Negro, sent swarms of
its paid adherants into the South-(at
the head of whom was pious CESAR
by the name of HOWARD, who has re-
Gently been whitewashed at Washing
ton for having robbed both whites
and blacks)-to counteract this danger.
Not satisfied with this, our CESAR
took it into his head that the Negro
was abridged in his social rights, and
forthwith we have Ku-Klux Bills.
Civil Rights Bills,and nameless other
bills,ostensibly for the crushing of the
pretended secession proclivities in the
South, but really to bolster up Caesar
ism at Washington. And now as the