The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-07-08
The Proposed Third Term for Gen
eral Grant.

eral Grant.
Without being particularly demon
strative in politics, this journal IA
vored General Grant for President,
He is now serving his second term.
No President has ever served more
than two terms. George Washing
ton, the Father of his Country and
+ its first President, was the first to set
the example Of declining even to be q
candidate for third term. This
voluntary REIMBURSEMENT Of power
has been regarded by many as the
browning glory Of his most illustri-
Gus character.
John Adams, the second President,
was not reelected, and consequently.
served but a single term.
| Thomas Jefferson, our third Presi-
dent and author of the Declaration of
independence, followed the example
Of Washington. So did James Mad
ison, than whom no man acted more
important part in the formation and
establishment Of our Constitution,
So did james Monroe.
| *
John Quincy Adams, like his faith
er, was elected. only once.
This brought us to the time ofAn-
drew Jackson. The opposition was
ve:y violent, but the support of him
was still more powerful. He had
been a military man, and possessed
an iron will. 1t began to be reported,
and soon became pretty generally be-
lieyed, that he would seek third
term. But the old hero took an ear
ly occasion, in message to Congress,
to disclaim any such intention, and
thus promptly to silence what he ey-
identity regarded as scandal.
| Van Buren, was elected but once.
Harrison and Taylor both died soon
after entering upon their respective
terms.
! Tyler and Fillmore were never cleo,
ted President, but succeeded as Vice.
President, the former to Harrison,
the latter to Taylor.
Franklin Pierce was not so much
as nominated for reelection. Neither
was Buchanan.
Lincoln YVES assassinated after en-
tering upon his second term; and
johnson, who succeeded him, barely
E squeezed through, after impeach-
ment, a single term. sea a2aa,
Thus we see that in the long line
of Presidents there is no precedent to
be found for even so much as an at
tempt to be elected q third term
70 be sure, there is no provision in
our written Constitution against q
third term. But the tradition which
limits the office Of President to eight
y years has become so fixed and sane
tilted in the minds Of the people by
| the uniform example of our greatest
men that it possesses all the force of
! a constitutional provision Any at
, tempt to depart from it now would be
looked upon with we'll grounded sus-
picion as the first treacherousJ step
toward the overthrow of liberty and
: the foundation Of empire. ra@a
!, We do not doubt thatsuch move.
. ment would be met by a most crush
ing defeat. But this would not! be
t all. The popular reprobation would
I blacken and brand the name of him
: who should seek to be satiated by h
; longer lease of power than that which
Washington and Jefferson and Madi-
Il son and Monroe and Jackson found
sufficient to fill the measure Of their
: ambition. No reputation is so high
u that it cannot be sacrificed Arnold
was unquestionahly one of the great
y est generals of the Revolution, but
: beneath the obloquy and infamy
which cover him, even his military
= genius is lost to view. oas 3I t
! At the end of eight years General
4 Grant will quietly walk out Of the
White House, Or he will forever place
himself outside of the esteem of the
g American people.-[N. Y. Ledger.
k@ Among Sartoris' travelling
traps was a dozen bottles of fine old
Bourbon County, He laid in this
stock for his own private eonsump-
, = tion, and by the time the steamer
reached Queenstown there wasn't a
drop of the precious find left; Whom