The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-08-03
American Politics and the European
War.

war
Some of the VIGOROUSLY bigoted
and ignorant Abolition newspapers of
this country are laboring with more
zeal than knowledge to make a little
political capital for their disreputa 1le
party out of the warm Europe. These
hucksters in politics are so desperate
ly in need of some sort of side issue
to relieve themselves from the ac-
emulation of infamy their acts have
given the party, that they seize upon
the national antipathies of the for
eign element in the United States to
procure votes to sustain a despotism
here while pretending to sympathize
with some particular despotism in Eu-
rope. They calculate that there are
more German voters in the United
States than Frenchmen, and proclaim
ing their sympathy with Prussia, hope
to retain the large German Republican
vote which has been gradually resum-
ing its natural position in the Demo
cratic ranks, under the bigoted na
turalization reforms and negro equality
insanity introduced by the Abolition
lists. This last desperate resort of
bankrupt politicians will prove a
failure. Most of the foreigners of
this country have a lively recollection
of the oppression they suffered from
kings and tyrants in the old country,
and their sympathy for either billiger-
ent is qualified by the fact that the
wal is one between kings, whose af-
lection for the people can be measured
by. the quantity of revenue eXtorted
from the hard earnings of the poor.
This newly awakened s~ympathyof the
loyal press Tor European monarchies
and consolidation is as natural as it is
significant. The Abolition idea has
ever been to make a consolidated de-
spotism out of the Federal Union /;
and for the same reason hat party
will endorse any despotism in Europe
which seeks to overthrow the rights,
liberties and sovereignty of States and
peoples. But the intelligent of our
people. native " foreign born, cannot
long be misled by such stupid subter-
fuges as the abolltiorists resort to, nor
can they have their attention taken
from the infamies and corruptions OF
our own Government by the dust and
turmoil of a conflict on another con
tinent. We have here an administra-
ton as corrupt, as imbecilc, as wicked
and as tyrannical as any in Europe
a government which wilfully tramples
upon it's obligations TO the ConstItu-
ton which created it and gave it lite
"a government which conspires to
overthrow hat Constitution, and con-
centrate in itself and its mental eau
cuses all the powers Of government,
regardless of the rights of the States,
the interests of the people, or the hon
or OF the country. Perjurers swear
obedience to the Constitution to rob
the Treasury. thieves are employed
to levy tithes upon the people through
the ingenious preversions of the i'll
strument invented by cunning rogues
paid to isconstrue its plain provisions,
that brigandage may revel unchal-
lenged. Under the administration OF
this Abolition conspiracy monnopolies
fatten, thieves grow rich, an aristo-
cracy of blood money grows apace, in
dustry languishes,' public morals de-
generate, the social system is debauch-
ed, the natural distinction of races
established by the Creator are obliter-
ated, and the flag of the country has
become the emblem of despotism at
home and the shield and ally of de-
spotism abroad. The monopolists,
the contractors, and the money sharks
warmed into life by our W unhappy
sectional war, smell the blood of the
butchered victims of European de-
spotism, and dance in glee over the
prospect of doubling their sanguinary
spoils by speculation in the misery oil
mankind; but the masses of our peo-
ple-those who honestly earn their
livelihood, and who have no iendish
aspiration to grow opulent off of the
sweat of the poor and the blood of the
brave-can find no comfort in the
slaughter of their fellow men in 6
wasteful war between rival dynasties
The war in Europe can effect no per
manent good, no matter who wins
but a reform in the administration o.
our own Government is an i~ndispens
able necessity for the preservation o.
any remnant of popular liberty and
healthful civilization. The election
this fall of a new House of Represen
tatives-the total overthrow of the
Abolition conspiracy which throttle:
and robs the poeple-the just enforce
ment of the obligations Of the Con
stitution upon those who assume te
administer it-and the return to the
principles upon which the Fedora
Government and Union were first es
tablished, are events to be accomplish
ed of more transcendent Importance
to the people of the United States
than any battle hat can be fought by
the armed millions of Europe. Lee
us look to the accomplishments OF
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