The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-06-03

are, TO use the trlte pQrascs III liz uoAuS
of their friends,'' and if s'their friends
secure the coveted prize for them, they
then accept it with more or less badly
feigned modesty, as the case may be. II
Grants letter means anything at all, it
means that he will be Gin the hands Of
his friends in 1875. The "circum-
stances which may make the acceptance
Of = third-term nomination IAN impera-
tive duty are not stated; but it is toll
erably safe to say that if the Republican
National Convention next year should de- !
eide to put Ulysses S. Grant ct the head
of it's ticket, the circumstances would
be sufficiently apparent to the Presiden-
tial eye to necessitate the discharge OF
ssthe imderative duty"
Milwaukee Sentinel-Rsp.]
Certainly no reasonable man can ask
more explicit expression and Republic
can papers and Republican conventions
will, we think, act wisely if they decline
to engage in any further discussion of the
subject which is thus foreclosed.
philadelphia Tmes-1nd.]
He responds with an utterance that is
painfully inconsistent alike with the &C.
casion and with itself, that is stupidity
illogical, that is pitiably egotistical, and
that is stubborn bid for the Republican
n nomination in 1875.
But how does he speak! Snow for the
third term, | do not want it any more
than did the first and then follows
dissertation on the utter impotence of q
mere resolution of State convention.
= Honestly analysed, the letter
of President Grant is bold vindication
of his third term ambition. bOldcr bid
for its advancement, and still holder de-
fiance of the deliverances of party con-
ycntions and the unwritten law OF sacred
usage and he may now be considered as
fairly in the field for 1875. Off holders
to the front; conventions to the rear.
[Cincinnati Commercial, Ind. Rep.l
Now, that letter is rude and crude and
selfish to degree that is astonishing.
There is not in it CLEAN Of understand
ing of the true dignity Of the ofics Of
President of the United States.
The President insults the common
sense and the National glory Of the people
BY reciting his strange conceits Of per-
sonal sacrifces in accepting the office.
The honor, the usefulness, and the
grandeur Of the position seem never to
have impressed his mind or even to have
touched his fancy. The questions Of
wages and personal ease are uppermost
with him, and he groans over his cares
during the last four years, Is he
thought the burdens which he has borne
At Long Branch, and along all the North
ern railroads, in his prodigious travels
were almost too much for mortal sinews
There is nothing in the Constitution
that prohibits third term, and there
fore Grant sees no objection, except thai
which may arise from his possible f.
tigue. The example Of Washington ant
Jeffer son is nothing to him. He ha'
been taught that they did not save thu
country as he has done.
He may want to step out-but he ha
sometimes an imperative sense Of duty
and it might be unfortunate, even disas
trous, to interfere with that. Thus tn
President appears as one who sacrificet
himself to take the Office, and don't wan
the third term any more than he did tn
first; and he will not take it except upol
! the conditions that he took the second
and Is the Constitution has left he bar
; down, there is no barrier, and Pennsylvl
. MIA resolutions are not to be regarded
hut are indeed very contemplate Liter
.tnre. and the people must have Z car
how thew attempt to put of with onl
, eight wears Is Chief Executive those VII
may have saved them and sacrifice
t,ra ofscs n LONG Br.nch n the rate I
sf,v thon..nd dcllars : wear. Thus Ii
) D.:.;a..t -. he.r a na;ns 10 testif
thst ~ fnl,.lenrth ikeness Of hin
H.. - ch.rl.e Sumner three yea,
t 80 ,.etern;ece portr,iture.