The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-07-27
After Gfeefey-Whata

THE CONQUEST OF AMEaIuA-2-THk CON-
sEoUENoEs OF HORACE aREEEEY's
EtEcTIoN-PRoPHETIo TALR.
The following is supposed to have
been written in 1892 by Max Adcler
who was witness to the terrible scenes
which occurred at tho tiuae of which
the story tells:
"You ask me to tell you, nay children,
of the events which Immediately pre-
ceeded the destruction of the once great
American Union, aud the capture of the
country by its present European rulers !;
and to say something also of the causes
which led to these deplorable results. i
undertake the task with heavy heart,
for whenever revert to that terrible
time l cannot help contrasting our proud
condition up to that fatal year; with the
humiliating position occupied now by
the American; people, The story is a
short one. In thosfalllof 1872 Horace
Greeley, the editor of a Newspaper In
New York, was elected President of the
uuited States. The people voted for
him because they believed him to be an
honest man. But he was vain and weak
and he entertained certain fauatical and
preposterous notions--about agricultu-
raj matters, for instance he was deter.
mined to force upon the people at all
hazards and despite all opposition. He
believed, among other things, that every
man ought to- go to the West 10 earn
his bread, and long before he vas chosen
President he used to advise Everybody
to move to that region as cure for all
the disasters (which could be.all the
human family. &
GAS soon as he reached the exec utiye
mansion, which we used to call the
White House, President Greeley. organ.
lied an army of two hundred thousand
men, and proceeded to force the Seaboard
States westward q. the point of the
bayonet. The utmost violence was used.
Those who resisted werclshot dowu,'' aud
their dead bodies we're cartcd OF to a
national factory which the Presid ,at had
established for making domestic fertihzs
crs All the large cities OF the East
were depopulated, and towns were empty
The army swept before IL millions OF
men, women and children, until the vast
plains west sot Kansas were reached.
when the pursuit ceased, and the army
was drawn upin continuous liuo with
orders to shoot any who attempted te
visit the East. OF course hundreds of
thousands of these poor creatures per-
lshcd from starvation. This seemed to
frighten President Greeley, aud he sen,
message to Congress recommending
that 100000 volumes Of comic book of
his, entitled 'What / Know About
Farming, should be voted for the relief
Of the starving sufferers. This was done,
and farming implements and seeds were
supplied; and then the millions of
wretchcd outcasts made on effort to till
the ground. OF the results of this |
will speak further on
"ln the meantime the President was
doing infinite harm to the country In
another way. His hand writing was SO
feartu!ly and wonderfully bad that no
living man could read it. Aud SO, when
he sent his first annual message to Con-
gress-the document was devoted Who'll.
ly to the tariff and to agricuI.ure-a
sentence appeared Shich subsequently
was ascertaincd to ha ntn-r. ...,t:...s,,,;,
OF rutabagas aud beans is the only hone
4 OF the American nation, / am sure. ;
The printers not being able to inter
pret this, put it in the following form,
IN which 1t went fortht the world :
The Car of Russia could snot keep
clean if he washed himself in the whole
Atlantic Ocean once day This
perrersion OF. the message was immedia-
tely telegraphed to Russia BY. the Russ
ian Minister, and the Car was SO in
dignant that he instantly declared war.
just at this time President Greeley
undertook to write some letters to
Prince Bismarck upon the subject of
potato rot, and alter giving his singular
views at great'length, he concluded with
the statement that if the Emperor vii.
liam said that tub,soil ploughipg was
not good in light soil. or that guano