The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-06-28
The Royal Alliance.

Inc uiSibllCn from lLOUuOu TIC Otu-
err day, speaking of the projected ALI
ance between FREDERICK Dent
GRANT, the Presidents eldest son, and
the youngest daughter of Queen VIC
ToRIA, only goes to confirm General
Blair's estimate of President Grant
Although it comes only as a tolerably
well defined rumor, it goes far toward
explaining a number of things which
have hitherto been but partly under
stood at all.
1t is now perfectly clear why Mr..
Seward has been travelling around
the world with such ostentation in a
semi-oficial capacity. He has been
hunting up a suitable alliance for the
royal family of the United States
History is replete with just such in
stances of wife hunting and husband
hunting among the blue blooded.
The hitherto dark points in the
Joint High Commission will now be-
come clear. The remarkable CON-
plAsancc of the administration and
its friends, the grave surrenders of the
treaty, the un-republican ~hupkeyism
of Congress and the Cabinet, the roy
nj feasts and the court liveries are no
longer enigmas.
They we're all to. secure the favora-
BILE opinions of Her Majesty's repre-
sentatives, and promote the interests
of Prince Frederick. Of course, this
proposal for a royal alliance came from
Grant himself. He knew hat his on
ly chance to set up an empire and
found a dynasty, was to unite with
some n of the royal families. There
are various reasons why the English
branch of the House of Hanover
would offer the greatest inducements.
BY making this union, one of the
royal House of Grant would immedi-
ately come to the throne in America.
One of the stipuIations ofthe proposed
contract is that the younger Grant is
to be made a citizen and Prince of
England and Viceroy of Canada
From that moment the Grant dynasty
is fixed in America. Under any
circumstances the United States would
be annexed to Canada, and Frederick
Grant would be what George Wash
ington refused to be Viceroy of Amer
lea. In this may be seen the 'advan-
tage or disadvantage, as the case may
be, of owning a little Ratchet when
n is young.
But in tie mean time the elder
Grant will proceed to another direc
ton to establish the dynasty. He will
suspend the writ of habeas corpus un-
der the Ku-Klux bill in all the States
in the Union between this and the
Presidential election in 1872. The
whole country then being ina state of
resurrection, no election a be held
according to the Reconstruction acts.
The country can not do without a
head, and proclamation will be imme-
made that, as self-government
has proved a failure, nothing but a
constitutional monarchy can save the
country. Thereupon Ulysses S. Grant
will have himself declared the ruling
monarch and enforce his authority
with the assistance of the army and
navy, assisted by his son, the Prince
and the Princes mother-in'
Her Britannia Majesty.
Here is the whole programme in
brief. Its minor details may be a lit
tie different, but this is to be the prac-
teal result. In the event that the
elder Grant carries out his idea the
Vioeroy Frederick will continue Re
gent of Canada until King Ulysses
Indicates, or pays the debt of nature,
when as the heir to the American
hrone he will unite the two. nations
and the ideas of Lord North and the
Ministry of George Ill, will be car
RED out. America will become the
great western arsenal and dependency
Of the British Empire, which will then
be the foremost power of the world.
There can only be one drawback to
s part of the scheme. If he
nherits the avarice of his father, some
sharp American will buy his chances.
We have one or two young gentlemen
Pittsburgh who have reasons to be-
ieve that the Princess Beatrice does
not look upon them coldly. With a
title assistance from their paternal
.e~latives they can count their millions
nee and a half upon their fingers
Hence, if young Frederick is
nerchantable, either of them will buy
lis chances. If he resists all over
there is no prophesying about
lis future.-P0st.