The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
Can the Ethiopian Change his
Skin?
SUDS AND SOAP BOILERS.

SUDS AND SOAP BOILERS.
Mr.. EDITOR: The " third term"
means the fourth term, and then
hereditary term it is merely a mild
way of suggesting monarchial term.
The indulgence with which the prop
osition is received is ominous. 1t is
Caesar wishfully looking across the
Rubicon. 1t also finds its prototype
in Napoleon's ten years consuIship.
In our political race, it is the distance
ing. and final ruling off the track, of
Jeflersonianism, in contemplation
BOtanically, it is our old democratic
tree of liberty regrafted with John
Adamsism and Hamiltonianism, and
about to blossom. Lastly, it is what
the late war-ralIy, in its aggregate
sense, meant. The black slave was
the decoy duck. Flutter as they will,
the trap is crammed with white slaves,
and this was the game the capitalist
and monopolist were after, when they
stopped mobbing abolitionists and at
filiated with fanaticism. p .-
European statesmen have all the
time had clear insight into the pro-
cess, and are satisfied. They have al
ways conceded that the South was
right according to our system. But
they never liked the system. Their
arguments against it.. SO long as we
were at peace, lacked. the element, OF
strife, disorder, recrimination and an
archy. The North has supplied their
wants, and they are now toltent and
thankful. Indeed, they were willing
to pay us literally in the the Alabama
matter, not because they. held, our
claims, or power, in any respect; but
because we had done them a service,
in, subverting our own arguments and
theories, and enabled theIn the more
certainly and easily to remove the
dangers and disturbances that had
threatened their systems ever since we
had national existence. Movements
on our side, SO. much in accordance
with their predictions, and so benefi-
cial and auxiliary to themselves de-
served some courtesy and compensa-
ton at their hands; and they would
now arbitrate another. bonus or in
dennity, to help Grant and Sheridan
wipe out, not only the Southern States,
but every other State that, is, or ex-
poets to be, in the Union. And It's
not because they desire to see blood
shed and ruin. They desire order
and peace, and to see the masses stead
lily at work. They consider republi-
canism disease, a sort Of epidemic,
in the human system. They never
cared to, sec negro or laborer vote
any where. Their discomfort with
slavery in the United States, if they
ever really had any, was because the
whites were not included. .:,..,.-..
The 'third term" amendment is en-
tirely logical in time and substance.
1t. should preface, while it offers to
quiet, the disorders in which recon
struction is involved. Voters will
differ too seriously unless the ballot
box is shaded by stack of bayonets.
The people are a "factious herd driven
about by their passions" in the Ian
guase of Hamilton and the time has
come, when pro badly the erich and
well born ought to have permanent
share III the government
Will the people resist? Not much.
1t is not very great surgical feat to
stick all the ears on the right or left
side of the heads of the people. 1t
has been done thousand times-was
done recently, and can be done again
Only few tools are necessary, and
Congress menaed one of them the
other day., That old sedition law, and
martial law, with the habeas corpus
interdicted, and another swarm of
such agents as have been described,
will complete the operation, and the
ears will all have gone oyer. Lincoln
did the thing easily enough. His
presses furnished all the reading for
the army. Other presses were given
over to mobs. Spies stood at every
four corners. The slums of war, and
of patriotism infested
every neighborhood. Stewards bell
was touched and free thought disap-
peared. Dungeons yawned. and ruff
fan hands thrust out of sig ht the fore
most advocates of liberty. The ways
and alleys and Railroad trains were
riotous with Falstaff's ''caukers of a
calm world aud a long peace" Men
crawled into Congress with less votes
than constables usually receive, and
such men mutilated and divided Vir-
ginia, the mother of cur earliest and
best Presidents. BY such self-appoint-
ed despots the deliberate voice OF the
State of Ohio on negro Suffrage was
hushed mp, and the graves of several
other States have been dug.
Did people ever do anything great
and glorious that they did not undo ?
viii not our centennial celebrate the
burial Of every fundamental doctrine
of the democratic fathers? But this
is anticipating what should follow
other purposes l have in view-ard at
some other time. These matters
should not "siir ones blood to mutt
n.y." In the language of the Laurate
Of England:
"Shall weep if 4 Poland fall:
Dr. an infant civilization PC ruled with Il rod or
knout?
have not made the world--lct him that made
it. guide
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LAST week, Gordon Claude, of An
naOolis cadet enOinecr in the Naval