The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-12-03

Ilu6. when our 9oSAf crosses tnS huOtCOu,
be doesn't go on q grand burst, bat pru-
IDENTIFY Campo on the bank, and either
fortifes or slips back, if things look too
squally, and says he really didn't know
what creek it was when he crossed over.
He crossed back at the Louisiana ford
in double quick, but he left IA outpost
on the wrong side for all that. Now at the
South Carolina crossing he has been caught
again in his invasion will he recross this
timef He hesitates. The fret outcry is
very great, but he wants to hear from the
remoter and deeper voices.
In the meantime Ruger equivocates he
really did not know what the soldiers were
doing; the corporal of the guard mistook
his orders and went too far /; gentlemen can
be assured they will not be iRterfered with
now, if the peace is only kept under the
pressure of Northern indignation he even
permits the Democratic memb to enter
their Hall of Legislative session; then,
trembling at the ground they are gaining,
sends word TO them that at q certain hour of
the next day he will eject from their midst
certain members. Truly Cesar hesitates.
That certain hour of the next day has
come and passed and the threat is not
executed. The hesitation still exists. viii
Grant go back, or has he crossed the Ru BIZ
con finanyf
If we have formed q correct estimate of
the man, he will not go back. Before, he
had several years for final preparation !;
now he has but three months. Grant isSrunk
with power He will not give it up peace
fully, either to Tiden or to Hayes. His
plottings have been, as We believe, not to
elect the Republican nominee, but to create
q confusion and perhaps a collision out OF
which should grow his opportunity to hold
on.
But drunk as be is, he is not mad. He
knows of backing on which he can surely
rely. Ee is fully aware of the imperialis5
element in our population he knows the
power of rings and monopolies and char
tered thefts; he knows as we'll their
aud leaniugs; te knows that
capital favors strong government, not
indeed as q master, but as an ally; he
knows that the army and the navy are under
his orders, that the door of the Treasury is
open to him, that one hundred thousand
office holders are at his beck and call, that
the whole machinery of government is in
bis hands.
OF course, drunk as he is with power
abused, Grant still feels that the game ia
3 bold one and may be easily lost. But
then he has only three months left for action.
If he does not go forward now he will
never have another opportunity his sun
will be set forever. An empire is ahead of
him, behind him, a gulf of infamy. He will
probably find sympathy enough in few
lays to sustain him in his South Carolina
policy. Then will follow the Louisiana
Boards forthcoming outrage,
then the Louisiana and Florida govern
nents will be established on the South
Carolina precedent, and, after streng gtheniDg
his hands by all these things and by
understandings with Republican gov
orners, Grant will be ready to pit the Sen
ate against the House of Representatives
and declare himself President ad interim.
This will be revelations; it is revolution
now. Will Mr.. Tllden wait to see the
whole game played before he makes a move
of his ownH