The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-05
The Third Term igs Congress.

People who duly breathe the politi-
ical atmosphere of Washington City,
saws the Vorld, and people elsewhere
who intelligeEtly read the signs of the
times, no longer speculate as to wheth-
er General Grant desires a third elec
ton to the Presidency. That he
desires to be reelected that indeed be
intends to be candidate for re-elec-
tfon. is now>seen as clearly as any
Object in The noon lay sun by Demo
Gratis and Republicans alike, and by no
man more clearly than by Mr Speaker
Blaine. whose remarkable fund of tact
and shrewdness is steadily directed
upon the knotty problem of making a
political funeral for General Grant
without sending the Republican party
to the grave along with him. That he
intends to have and to hold the chief
place of power in the Government at
least for four years after March 4, 1877,
if the having and the holding of that
place can be ccmpassed by any means
at his comnlaml, his own acts are daily
placing bey,;r, tEe doubt Of men whom
common sc.sc t@lchcs to believe that
motives IL ,-nir2 decisive and per-
sistent action tie has been piteousIy
inlrlored ~ leading men Of the Re-
publican r'".v 10 GisayOw these dan
gerOus asrit.t:oas, hut he has remained
sullenly nl"-c Wide the thiri-ter
scheme, like . a l:tjcGl car OF Jugger-
Haut, has ga:.e over them one after the
other, from Fix - Chandler. The
people have placed their seal of con-
Gemnation On Grants unsurpations IN
Louisiana, and, being rebuSed FOR re
versing the Louisiana election Of 1872,
he has responded by sending Sheridan
to New Orleans to reverse the election
Of 1874 To relax his hold upon the
power wheTeon he has once laid his
hand is thing which no admonition
can teach him to Go. Wish bulldog
tenacity he holds his grip upon the
throat of Louisiana, as he aims to hold
it upon the throat Of the American
Republic until he shall finally be
choIzed Off lie has openly shown his
contempt for the Republican party,
and has Earciiessly snubbed the few
men who have evinced a desire to make
the Republican party something else
than an appendage to Grant. 4 I'D vet
in the pretended interests OF that party
he demands that Congress shall make
him military dictator over the whole
country, with a specially implied IL
cense to revolutioiize the entire South
to the end that the Republican party
may be perpctuated in power He has
not only sent Sheridan to New Orleans
for the purpose of snotherino the voice
Of the people Of Louisiana as it is ut
tered ut the polls, hut he has placed
him in command Of military district
which includes the State OF 4 rkansas. /
Two weeks ago he asked Congress to
take the responsibility fol giving Sher-
idan work to do in 4 r!lansas and in
other Southern States; and his Third
Term spokesmen in the House of Rep
re5cntatives are now urging Congress
to take the responsibility, as it's asked
10 do. More tEan this, he has very
plainly intimated that unless Congress
takes strong and decided action to the
contrary lie Will at an early day set
Sheridan 1T work in his third-term
campaign. The prctext that there is
need tor fresh military interference at
the South is altogether too thin The
Presidents Arkansas message IS public
notification that the third-term cam
paign is fairly opened. Every Re
publican il Congress who has half the
brains sufficient to justify him in beng
there knows what is meant by this Ar
kansas message and the b;Il proposed
in accordance with it. The respcnsi-
biiity OF approving or condemning this
third-terIn manifesto is adroitlv but
heavily laid upon Congress- The re-
sponsibility cannot be shirked. What
does the Republican majority in Con
gress propose to do about it /?