Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-08-16
Tho Connucst of America.


i1a Of an English broclnrf, entitled " The
Battle Of Dorking," is just now having
ai run through the paper.
on ask me to tell you, my children, Of the /.
events which Immediately preceded the de-
ruction of the once great American Union /
end the capture Of the country by its present |
European rulers, and to say something, also,
&C the cause which led to these deplorablc .
suits | undertake the task with a heavy /
laart, for when revert to that terrible time
cannot help contrasting our proud condi. !
lion, MP to that fatal year, with the humili. I
ing position occupied now by the American .
no0po. The story is a short one. In the .
% Of 1872 Horace Greeley, the editor Of
paper in New York, was elected President
the United States The people voted for
m because they thought he was an honest
man. Aud so he was But be was also vain
aud weak and he entertained certain funotl-
Nd and proposterous uotious.-about agricu.-
url Natter. for iusiaucc-which he was
determined to force upon the people at all
Yards and despite all opposition lie be-
yel, among other things that every man .
ushi TO 20 to the West to earn his bread
ll long before be was chosen President, be
.cd to advise everybody to move to that re-
Cd, as a cure for all the diseases that could
lefal the human family.
As soon as he reached the executive man
90, which we used to call the White House
Hr. dent Greeley organized an army Of two .
ulred thousand men, and proceeded to force .
b.. entire population Of the scaboard states .
eastward at the point Of the bayonot. The /
utmost violence was used. Those who resisted I
were shot down, and their dead bodies were
aried of TO a national factory which the prcsi-
dent had established for making some kind
ol iantastical fertilizer. All the large cities
4 the east were depopulatel, and the towns
entirely empty. The army swept before
millions OF men, women, and children, until
vast plains west Of Kansas were reached,
the pursuit ceased and the army was
up in continuous line, with orders to
any one who attempted to visit the
OF course, hundreds Of thousands Of
poor creatures persisted from starvation.
seemed to frighten President Greeley,
he sent a message to Congress recon-
ding that seven hundred thousand vol.
a.e. Of book Of his, entitled What |
Snow About Farming should be voted for
relief Of the starving sufferers This was
done, and farming implements and seeds were
implied, and then the millions Of wretched
lutc9sts made an effort TO till the ground. OF
result Of this | will speak further on.
In the meantime the President was doing in.
lutte harm to the country iuanotherway. His
lanlwriting was so learlully and wonderfully
i.d thut 10 living man could read it, Aud
when he sent his first annual message to
Congress, - the document was devoted wholly
So Ae tariff and agrioulture,-a sentence APP
jared which was subsequently ascertained
,0 be, " Large cultivation Of rutabagas aud
beams is the only hope Of the American ma
ton, | am sure" The printers, not being
able to interpret this, put it in the following
iJuu in which it went to the world &" The
,zlr Of Russia couldn't keep clean if he wash.
. himself with the whole Atlantic ocean once
o day Z" This perverson Of the message
Nls Immediately telegraphed to Russia by
the Russian minister, and the car was so in
drnant that he Immediately declared war
Just at this time President Greeley under
tool, to write some letters to Prince Bismarck
upon the subject of potatoe rot, and, after
giving his singular views at great length, he
concluded with the statement that if the En-.
paror William said that subsoi blowing was
mot good in light soils, or that guano was bet
ter than bone dust, he was liar, villain,
and knave !" OF course, the emperor also
Immediately declared war, and became an
ally of Russia and Of England, against which
latter country Mr.. Greeley had actually
begun hostilities already, because the queen.
100 her speech from the throne, had declared
the Tri5une's advocacy Of tariff on pig
IRON, incendiary, and calculated to disturb the
ueace of nations. Unhappiy this was not
lie full measure of our disasters. The pres
dent had sent to the emperor Of Austria
copy of his book "What | Know etc,
with his autograph upon a ay-leaf The
emperor mistook the signature for carica-
ture of the Austrian eagle, and he readily
oned in the war against the United States
while France was provoked to the same act
ly The fact that when the French minister
came to call upon Mr. Greeley to present his
credentials, the president, who was writing
aa editorial at the time, not comprehending
he French language mistook the ambassador
for beggar, and without looking up, hand
cd him a quarter and an order for a clean
Shirt and said to him, :" Go West Young man
10 West !"
% all these nations Joined in making war
oon the United States. They swooped down
3n our coasts and landed without oppos-
u.u. for those exposed portions Of our un-
happy country were absolutely deserted. The
pgesideut was afraid to call away the army
from Kansas at first, for fear the outraged
people upon the plains would come east in
Spite of him. But at last he did summon
lie army to his aid, and it moved to meet
troops reached Cincinnati the foreigners hac
zed Washington and the country east o
t.e Ohio, and had hung the President, the