The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-30
A Spectre Of Cesar.

The Springfield (Illinois), Register, in dis
coursing on the third term, says:
Of Grants desire to serve a third term
there is no doubt. His ambition is boundless
and he desires to be honored beyond any
other American citizen in the past or future.
We say the future advlsedly, for it is evil
dent the end of the present system is APP
preaching. Capitalization is nearly perfect,
and, if not checked before 1876, will tructfy
in monarch. Gen. Grant may be elected
third time, but no other candidate ever
has been, or ever will be. The past, at least,
is secure and for the future, it is pretty GER
tain that, if we continue to elect Presidents
at all, we shall do so only through a return
to habits of thought and modes of popular
feeling which will effectuaily prevent the
success of any third-term candidate.
The Courier Journal has the same subject:
The stride from WashingtOnism to Caesar
ism is undoubtedly long stride, requiring
nothing less than the legs Of a Bennett or
the intrepidity of a Dana. But, when we
survey the intervening chasm, may we not
discover few stepping stones which, almost
unseen, have come into existence the last
seventy-ive years Have not the sappers
and miners been at work here no less than
il old Rome.
Look at South Carolina and Louisiana.
Look at the machinery in the hands of the
President. Look at the decentralization Of
the South, most helpless when it is most
worthy of encouragement and support.
Look at the complacency of the North,
which regards the consideration Of organic
questions with Indifference where it does
not treat them with derision, and
is only seriously in earnest when
aroused to acts Of hostility against us
on this side of the line. Look at the mod
ern agencies for hurrying toward the
designs Of revolution, the telegraph, the
locomotive, centralized banking system,
all reachable by the skillful and compact
organization which finds itself in position
to command and use them. Look at the
progress We have made in the revolutionary
science; the emancipation of the slaves the
enfranchisement Of the freedmen; the
domestic equalization OF the blacks. Look
at the state of the country at the state OF
parties. Then, taking backward glance
at history, say whether we have not, and in
abundance, the elements which have in all
time produced great national changes
No nation is immortal. Every form of
government, like every dog, has it's day, and
ours may not be more than just begun.
God forbid that we should think it has
passed. yOnO the pOlnC OF respondent
morning, if it is to be prolonged by mere
conceit. But, conceiving the beauty and
force of all that patriotic vanity is able to
say for itself, we think it wise at all times
to watch the course of the sun, to note the
changes of the sky, and, without the total
sacrifice of character for gsof sense, to
hearken to the reasonable apprebensions
contained in the wonder.
"-whether
The cloud in the west will bring foul weather.
Our "cloud in the west" may portend
nothing or it may portend all that it's pecu-
liar aspect has betOkened in times past. We
simply propose to provide against it's men
acing suggestions, SO that if it does rain, as
rain it may. we shall be able to stake our
selves in out of the wet" The Rep blicans
affect To he MIC htily amused at this Then