Year: 1873

night winds. There are the Southern
States to be reconstructed not reconquered
and robbed, but reconstructed with gen.
erosity, manliness and wise craftsmanship.
Before we experiment on new plans
of suffrage let us see what suffrage is doing in
the South and make sure that in saving the
Union we have not added to our States a new
Poland or new Ireland. Above all, more
menacing and burdened with graver dangers,
is this spirit of Cesarism which pervades our
politics and threatens to destroy the Republic
itself in the nomination of Grant for O third
term.


This is the dominant issue. Shall we have
Cesarism or republicanism2 Grant is the
master of the situation. He can nominate
himself if he chooses. There is no power in
his party to break his control of it Whether
he does or not, the issue remains. If he re-
tires from the canvass then we owe to his
magnanimity relief from great danger
While we should honor him for doing so, as
he would be honored in all time, we should
feel that that constitution is imperfect which
leaves the peoples liberties at the mercy of
any mans magnanimity. What we want is a
nobler, purer public spirit Cmsarism does not
rest with Grant alone. Perhaps of all the men
giddy height on which fortune has placed
him one knows not what dreams may come,
especially if one sleeps under the incense of
a court Of fatterers. We Led C@sarism in the
Credit Mobilier-C Cesarism in its worst form
and although that arose before the time Of
General Grant, in the evil days of Andrew
johnson, the men who were involved in it
Garfield, Dawes Wilson, Bingham, Kelley,
Patterson-were the mainstays of the Presi-
dents administration. Chief among them
was the unfortunate Colfax-a man who left
tho Vice Presidency under cloud as great
and as deserved as that which enveloped
Aaron Burr when he retired from the same
Office. Men Of this class made Cmsarism pos
sible in Rome, and they have lowered our pub
lie tone. When we see the President cover
ing Mr.. Colfax with his endorsement and
sending another Of the unholy combination as
Minister to foreign Court, what can we say2
What can we think? How art thou fallen,
o Columbia, from the days of Jefferson and
Adams, when men like these rule the State
and command the respect and affection of
the honest, simple, straightforward soldier,
Grant


This, then, is our new departure! We have
nothing to gain except as the country may
prosper. We have no hope except that virtue
will once more be regarded as an attribute Of
craftsmanship. We are engaged in no crusade
upon the republican party, except so far as it
may be led by the worshippers of C@sarism
like sheep into the shambles. We certainly
have no grievance; none with Grant nor with
any member of his administration. We
might resent some of the comments in which
Dlr. Fish indulges upon the press, and now
and then upon the HERALD, and remind him
that Disraeli and Gladstone and Palmerston
and Theirs did not disdain the power which
impresses him SO unfavorably. But we have
no feeling towards Mr.. Fish but kindness
He is an eminently respectable, conservative,
narrow-minded, irritable statesman, who has
given the administration character without
strength, and who will long be remembered
for his honesty and zeal And so with the
other members of the Cabinet. They are
nothing to us but as men who labor in the
vineyard as best they may, only to pass away
when the sun goes down and be followed by
new laborers tomorrow. So long as they
work we'll and avoid the constable we do not
see that they concern us in any way whatever.
The question whether we are to have Cesarism
or republicanism does concern us, as it does
our children. In that contest we are enlisted,
and we shall serve to the end of the war;