Year: 1873

From present political appearances the reign
| of Ulysses the Great over the great American
empire will begin on March 4. 1876.
The end of the Republic called the United
States of America will arrive on that date, so
that the centennial of American Independence
which should be celebrated on the fourth day
OF July, 1076-will necessarily have to be post
poped.


Where is the proud American citizen who in
telllgently marks the progress of events at this
period OF our country's history, that can dis
prove our assertion?
Where is the candidate who can stand the
ghost of chance for election to the presidential
chair on our next presidential election-should
we have one?


What an overwhelming defeat would greet
the audacious aspirant for that seat-honored
ere the advent of Buchanan.
Who dares cope with so formidable an adyer.
sary as Ulysses Grant?
The death knell of American independence is
already sounded the days of American repub-
llcanlsm are briefly numbered. and no human
power can avert it-notbing short of the inter-
position of Divine Providence can prevent the
total annihilation of liberty in our grand and
majestic nation.


And why?


because we have tamely yielded up our rights,
and suffered the encroachments of this modern
ou'oe Ooooat duu MS satenteS, ana we nave
now no further power of resistance.


Our avaricious, grasping Grant and his horde
OF plunderers whom we foolishly, in a moment
OF tancied triumph over our suffering Southern
brethren, placed over our destnies, has forged
our Calling chains so quietly aud securely that
our struggles for release do but cause our fest
ering wounds to bleed more freely.


The liberty of our faithful watchers of the
press is gone.


We sit calmly by and see the editor of po-
tential paper, the New York Sun, seized in our
midst and dragged forth from our presence in
violation OF our constitutional laws, to be taken
to the despotic District of Columbia to be tried
by Grants sycophants


And what for?


Because he has vaiantly dared to publish
that which everybody believes to be the truth
concerning these public plunderers.


Look at the South.


Eight years have passed since the termination
of the rebellion, and still we see every Southern
state ground down beneath the arbitrary and
desDotic government at Washington.


Behold the State of Louisiana


Governed by Administration bayonets, in de-
fance of the will of the majority of the people.


Hear the wailing of our prisoners of state,
and see the mourning friends of those who have
been ruthessly murdered by Federal troops.


We pray-but pray against hope-that our
terrible national moral blindness may be re-
moved so that we can see the inevitable doom
toward which we are gidily whirling, ere it be
too late


We have no hope that our besotted and
smoke-colored figure head will ever be sufficient
ly awakened to sense of justice to cause him
to resign.


No He has placed himself in the hands of
the schemers who use him for the purpose of
their own aggrandiZement and so long as the
people Of the United States submit, so long will
the stultiGed Ulysses drive US to perdition, and
tyrannize over our liberties.


The views of the CORNER STONE are the views
of the Independent press of the United States.


Grant has no views through his obfusticated
vision, save those of his base sycophants, such
as the recreant Longstreet and the guerilla Mos
by, who persuade him that he is a greater hero
than Alexander the Great.


In the language of the immortal Patrick
Henry, we will conclude by saying: Cesar
had his Brutus"


Lincoln had his Booth.


And Grapt-"may profit by their example"