Fears of Military Despotism in the United States

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1878

Fears of Military Despotism in the United States

THERE are some things which we have fondly deemed forever impossible in the United States. We could not conceive of the combination of circumstances which would render them possible, much less probable, events. Among these was the failure or abandonment of Republican methods, and the establishment, even for a time, of a military despotism. Yet we can to-day, without difficulty, imagine a combination of circumstances in which the better elements of the nation would welcome the strong hand of a Grant or a Sherman to save society in a crisis from dissolution.—Christian Statesman.