The New York herald., 1879-10-30
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
SOMETHING ABOUT CKsARIsM.

From the Commercial Advertiser.l
The HERALD is apparently in a repentant mood.
It regrets that 1t allowed its common to impe
It to recall to its readers that 1t General Grant
who strangled the rebellion and saved tho people
from themselves when he vetoed the Imitation BILL
and forthwith begins to frighten itself by crying
''Cesar!" "Cesar!" 1t informs the Commercial that
the great julius rendered country services like
arant-"equally great in war and peace"-and then
1t stops very impressively though to warn the
country. because Cnsar and Grant resemble each
other in this respect. that the American people
to beware Of their fellow citizen. whom the pomps
aud circumstances of imperial aud royal life have
made truer. more devoted republican. IL possible,
than he before he went the seas. When
the HERALD has been betrayed into showing the
solid common and shrewdness. which after
all underlies the sometimes frothy and generally
erratc course which It Is pleased to pursue, it
usually does something that verges on the
ludicrous. in the endeavor apparently to show
thar it is not bound to anything-oven plain
common sense. Perhaps 1t thinks this ia inde-
pendence. If so, 1t is Of queer nature; for IL to
point one day to such services Grant has per-
formed, both in war aud peace and the next day to
coniure up the old raw head and bloody bones
Cesar ghost story. in the effort to prejudice his
countrymen against the simplest American within
the broad bounds of the Republic to-day, is indc-
pendence then give the most rabid, reckless and
mendacious partsanship. for that is preferable. We
have heard good deal In the last Ave years about
.C@sarism." The HERALD invented it in the last
years of Grants second term. 1t was then charged
that General Grant was consumed with ambition to
become President for life-Dictator Emperor. He
was soldier who loved power. the people were told
and for him to take a third term would be viola
tion of all precedent. and the beginning of
and Jackson in refusing third term was referred
to. but all reference to the fact that Washington
lived but few months after his retirement, and
that Jackson was old. broken down man-"nevcr
q day In health"-when he went back to the Her.
mitago. was carefully avoided. Caesar and Grant
both great in war and peace and there the re-
semblance TO each other ended. Cmsar was ambi-
tious. He was nrst made Consul for ten years.
Statues wore erected to him In the temples ON the
Rostra and In the Capitol, where he to stand as
IN eighth among the seven kings Of Rome. In tho
Of their alteration they desired TO place
his image in the Temple of Qurinus himself with an
inscription to him-"Thc Invincible God"
His birthday was made perpetual holiday and tho
month Quincts renamed lin honor of him,
July. His person was declared sacred, and
to inturo him by word or deed was to be counted
sacrilege. Finally they arrived at conciu.
sion that he was not a man at ALL No longer Caus
temple was to be- built to Caesar, another Quri-
nus. aud Anthony was to be his priest. or
CBsur IL may Do said that lie came into tho world
special time. He wasT friend OF tho people,
but he tndulged In no enthusiasm for liberty. He
never dilated on the beauties OF virtue or compli-
mented a Providence In which he did not believe.
He fought his battles TO establish some toll
erabie degree Of justice In the government of this
world, and ho succeeded. though he was murdered
for doing IL.
These are the words Of English author whose
sketch OF C@sar has recently attracted great deal
of attention. In what we have quoted anything
bo found which points to anything in Grants carcerf
1t seems almost absurd to gravcly discuss this mat
ter and to make such quotations. But alas for this
hasty. busting age. Men are engrossed In their
private affairs that they allow their newspapers to do
their thinking for them, and when such journal as
the HERALD mystoriously but vaguely whispers
''Cmsar" when Gran. Is mentioned many very intel
eent begin TO that Grant is destined to
the destroying agent OF this Rspublc o Cesar