The Weekly North Iowa Times

The New York Evening Post (Republican)

cannot defend the military interference with
the Richmond election, and therefore whips the
Administration over the head of the Emperor
of the French, as follows:

"Nor is the example of the French Emperor
without its instruction for us. Our late insurgent States have been, from the nature of the
case, under military rule. They are still held,
to no small extent, by major-generals, who act
in conjunction with the Provisional Governors:
Arbitrary interferences like that which is said to
have set aside the election in Richmond, are still
tolerated on the ground of military necessity;
and there is danger that we shall "extend and
multiply these military interpositions instead of
reducing them. Not a few, indeed, of our un-
reflecting and impetuous politicians would
make an Algeria of every one of the late rebel
States. But with what effect upon them, with
what effect upon us, with what a complete ex-
tinction of local institutions, and with it of the
spirit of self-government! with what an entire
forgetfulness of that harmonious union of local
and general authority, which has been the
Source of our strength and glory as a republic!
While older nations are abandoning their centralism, let us hope that the United States.
which set them the example of freedom, will
not now take up their cast-off errors."