The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-08
AN umFORTANT HISTORICAL
EVENT.

AN
EVENT.
The interview between Vice President
Wilson and the correspondent OF the
P;ttsburg Dispatch, is to our mind one
of 4be most significant documents which
has appeared since the close OF the reoel'
lion.
+ demonstrates that,-in the opinion
If the second highest official in the ma
fiona! government,-Grant proposes to
insist on being candidate for tniro
term; and that,-to quote the Vice Pres
ident's language, this means "a Perps'-
uol succession.' in other words an en-
pire, retaining the forms and names OF
republican government. II any man
might be supposed to know what Grant $
purposes are, that man is Henry Wilson,
He is an exceedingly astute politician ne
is President of the Senate, and secono "
Grant in rank; he has never been an
alarmist; and of late years he has SHOWN
himself to be a peace-loving and mooer
ate man. We cannot but believe tna'
this interview is intended as note o.
warning to his countrymen of the dang
ers that lie Immediately before them.
Think what those dangers are! In
man who is desperate enough to aspire t
perpetual succession" in this country
desperate enough to trample dow
70 everything that lies in his pathway
y Vice President Wilson says, in effec
that he, Grant, has been ready to owe
% throw State governments, and, by '1or'
M hills proyoke whole sections to rebe
- lion. if thereby he could find an excu
'O for his usurpations. At what point "
90 such man stop! What is he not cap
90 bic Of!
And Vice President Wilson calls up
IS the patriotic men Of all parties wltho
90 regard to old political distinctions
rallv to the standard of the lmperlil
ell Republic. Surely never was it in grea
I'm danger: not even when Lees legions
encamped within sight of the Natio'
-. Capitol. That was war OF sections.
w. the South had triumphed liberty mil
~ have survived in both nations. But
: - Grant is to hold perpetual successie
the Presidential chair becomes thr
- and the liberties of the whole people
We gone forever.
Can he be renominated for third I'll
"a At the first blush it would appear I'M
s;b,e Rnt when one considers the e1
- nous and far.reaching power OF the
- eral patronage; when one remem
~ that all the capital Of the East
nv the republic-hating ar'sto
who are swollen
us arrogance by the ill-gotten plumber o.
~ masses, will, by instinct, rally aroun'
~ tvrant: when one remembers that
mo- nossesses much of the genius of the
Napoleon, with all the cunning, retit
as and self.control Of the last emperor Of
name and when one remembers the
er of corruption and the demoraliz
the Of the people, they may we'll trembl
-, the Republic.
oNll They say that Henry Wilson is an
70 rant for the Presidency and, fher
w there is nothing in the third-term
ton sion. fit be true that MIR. Wilson
,. the Presidency would he assail Ora
)Oll- Grant was not also candidate!
for he create senseless bugbear, II the
of ambition was open to him
and he is a candidate would he not be
to know who his competitors are!
,rc" Mr.. Wilson is Repu5lican,-one
hose most popular in the country. lit
not seeking third'term MIR. "
&C chances are excellent. II Grant Is
y the field would not Wilson seek hi
oil mort for the succession, even as VI
and rem sought the support OF ia
What motive would he have to re
ions. Grant as aspiring to third term
mist mott
1t may be that Mr.. Wilson may
our truth and serve the nation from
, +ho not the highest, as 1t was SAID oy
i TIC emies that the aristocratic planter
oSant Washington, took the part OF tn
nists because Of insults put upon
nDOn the more pretenti,us aristocrats
British army. But let US accept
ana vice. whatever the metive may
above all let US prepare ourselves
Imminent dangers which threate'