| Show from republicanism to empire the historian gibbon tells us that until tho the reign of the virtue and even the tho good sense of the emperors had been distinguished by their zeal or ali all affected acted bever reverence for the senate and by a tender regard to the nice f frame rame of civil policy instituted by augustus am gustus but the youth of severus had been trained in the implicit obedience of camps and his riper years spent in the despo despotism tiam of military corn mand posterity who experienced the fatal effects ef T acts of his maxims and example justly considered him as the principal author of the doctrine of the roman empire could the president divest himself of spirit of partisanship bieh bleh bich bristles all through his hia ialo late nw age aoe and had lie he desired to hold out oui the olive branch of peace to the contending fact factions lons lobs in louisiana lie would haven chosen as his district commander a soldier like hancock who as in his assumption of command in new orleans in 1867 instead in of a blood and thunder proclamation announced his authority with the calmness of a statesman and the tile clearness of a jurist who would have distinctly defined defined the relative powers of the tho civil an aal military administration of authority and would nave have kept the latter in subject subjection loii to the former he never would have denounced as the freemen of louisiana who were struggling 0 against the despotism of an executive government which the president admits to have been the creation of a gigantic fraud no wonder that under cover of his sanction the legislative isla tive department of louisiana was as effectually wiped out as the same general sheridan cleared as with a flame of fire the valley of virginia so that a flying crow could not there find a grain of corn such a proceeding can find no favor the intelligent ame Awe american amerlean rican people and tile the rumble of the earthquake of popular indignation cannot be mistaken I 1 am amazed at the tile infatuation of those political leaders who either intently acquiesce in or openly approve the dangerous in of the military arm in the legislative affairs of a state the ancients said whom the gods wish to destroy they first firs t make mad but in this case it seems to be that canine madness which the doctors call hydrophobia for while they are burning with thirst for popular favor and public office they are blindly running away from them I 1 aa as mad d dogs 0 gs jump a stream with their pare parc parched lied tongues hang bang ing ng out it is amusing amu sing aing too to see these apologists for despotism affecting incredulity at the popular wrath throughout the country and telling us it is the clamor of the newspapers ho bon hon n william pinckney pinc eney kney white mite at baltimore |
