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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
of Cæsar, been prone to slavery and serfdom in all their degrading forms, it is because there was a general reason for it. "It is," says the Emperor, "because the wants and the interests of a society in labor required other means to be satisfied." In other words, the Roman people were no longer what they had been in by-gone days.--The conquest of Greece, of the East, and of Carthage, had let in a flood of luxury and wealth which had utterly corrupted the people. The civil wars of Scylla and Marius had given ample proof of this before Julius Cæsar came upon the stage. The people had begun to think all about property, and nothing about liberty; and it is a melancholy truth, illustrated by a thousand modern examples, that when the love of money has once gained the ascendant, every evil that can flow from a total depravation of manners is but too apt to follow. If Cæsar had not taken upon himself to be master of Rome, somebody else would have done so — some one among the many military c