, 1874-05-20

held upon hor that demonstrated beyond doubt
the ca,lso of hor death. Coroner Stephens will
impanol . jury and conduct an inquest this
morning.
T1z1RD-rERM POLITICS. Il
MIR. wnttcraon's ncply to His Critics.
Tho Louisville 0ourter-Journal OF May 1s has
strong editorial vindioating Mr. Watterson'a
recent Iettors from Washington on Third Torn
politics. The most material pars Of It ia ~ fol-
1oHss
Con. Graut 'wns aingularly fortunate in
the Geld. President Grant has been singu1arly
st9lcnl in tho White Houae. The world which
heliaveH In 8ucceHs and ovorTates tho value,
though not tho poHor, Of compoBuro and silence,
aoes III hls errors the matter-of-courae which WAS
to DO expected Of sn tnexposienced statosm:.n,
and toHses its cap foF hia a9f4 Of good aenae md
IN The right place apd that hin hofd is not so
very wrong altor Rll, It Ia hut Another YER
sion Of tho experience THAT ne ..will not
forgive good man a single ahorsaotnlng, whilst
first tinao NO catch hin IN . vtftre:: We do not
mean to imply TINT Con, Grant ii a, bad 1nan In
the worldly sense, though he certainly In not =
good one Il we take his moral measurement;
pagne, It is to bo fesrod ho would presently fail
beneath tho table. There Is little room TO DOUBT
however, that bis abilities arc OF the governing
order, and that ho is by no moana destitute 81
l4telleCkua2 strength huQ 1QEGGAsI. Ills Gon0uDt
Of the great surrender, which 10 handled ike
statesman as well Rs like \ soldier, aud his cour-
ago in standing by it's terms, and forcing tho
Administration Of Audrow johnson to stand by
them, At time when the passions Of the North
wore oil aga!nat him, and whom men Of reoog-
nized political standing sought to argue
him down, would DO proof of Lis force Of
will 1t that lad over boon doubted, aud Ia proof
Of aagacity with which be has not been usually
accredited. No man could have outlasted such
schemes as tho San Domingo job, and such
blundors aB the Ohiof-Justico 1nuddte who waa
not judged by different standard from that ap.
piled to tho ordinary routine administration Of
os! l,s a1ars a., ano as tho President has not fall
may he not hope, and with raason, to continue
to survive aud flourish by the same token OF hia
destiny The times arc propitioua9:, There Ia
no popular Idol to cross biz path. There Is no
low-lying fat Of universal suffrage no fortified
objects Of resistance are to be seen. The
strategic positions are in hia possession. The
Southern States arc roady to sell out for mess
porous, are willing to take anything to avoid
q row. Tho old Fourth Of July eentimontaities
arc grown obsolete and ridiculous under the
sSp e xo
poala to the Constitution are either laughed at
or dismissed with Indifference. The sober CON
aideration Of everything, exoopt monsy-getting,
Is unfhshionablo. Bontd an able and ambi-
tious soldier wish q moro promising aod Of op-
eration? There ia no Law to forbid third or q
fourth term. and the Cincinnati. Commercial tells
us that, II Gen. Grant be again elaoted. 1t must
bo with the consent Of thu people, who govern,
forgetting that the violation OF national tradi-
tion affects the moral nature Of the State, and
that The plea that such violations have tho senc-
tion Of "the people Is the oldest Of catches
aud gags. familiar In the mouths Of ali who seek
tho overthrow Of established things. Violence
to known laws may bo punished. Violence to
tradition is revolution.
Finally, tho conditions being ripe. and tho
arc disposed to make a,hght. for republican gov
ernment, and who mean to make at loaBt one
more fight IN sasking to defeat the second re-
election OF Gen. Grant, may not, II they fail see
as acceptable as any other, and, having despaired
Of good government from the uncertainties md
corruptionB Of universal suffrage, that they may
not become reconciled, like their neighbors, to
the strong restraining hand Of the one-man
idea that we are to have coup d'etat, In the
French son8e, OF that there are to be any crowns
or Bcepters about The imperialism with which we
may be threatened. It is not history which re-
peats itself, 1t is human nature and tho details
are furnished anew to each separate repetition.
Nor do wo wish to be understood aa saying that
the one-man power In Anerich, wiao1y used,
might not be preferable to the pow
so VI S l1 n HoR S s9fy and q uaaasy aa.y
is that the preservation Of our Government in
all parts, in it's spirit and in it's form. with It's
triple departments uneltered. and the relation of
the States to tho Union unchanged, Is essential
nance OF Repubcaniam ia desirable and that,
not by overthrow, but by the gradual sttrition
OF corrupting influences OF one sort and another,
It is approaching critical ordeal. It can surely
principles, for nothing short Of bombardment is
likely to move their Indifference, In tho Smith