The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-05-18
THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA.
Consequences Of Mr.. Greeley Election.
A PROPHETIC TALE

witness of the terrible scene which occurred
at the time of which the story tells
THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA.
You ask me to tell you, my children, OF
the events which Immediately preceded the
destruction of the once great American
Union, and the capture of the country by
its present European rulers and to say
something also of the cause which led to
these deplorable results. l undertake the
task with heavy heart, for whenever |
revert to that terrible time I cannot help
contrasting our proud condition up to that
fatal year with the humiliating position
occupied now by the American people,
The story is short one. In the fall of
1877 Horace Greeley, the editor of news
paper in New York, was elected President
OF the United 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 fanatieal and
preposterous notlons-about agricultural
matters, for instance-which he..was deter
|
ards, and despite all opposition. He be-
lieved, among other things, that every
man should go to the West to earn his
bread, and long before he was chosen
President he used to advise everybody to
move to that region as a cure for all the
disasters which could befall the human
family.
AS soon as he reached the Executive
Mansion, which we used to call the White
House, President Greeley orgonized an
army of two hundred thousand men and
proceeded to force the entire population of
the seaboard States westward at the point
of the bayonet The utmost violence was
used. Those who resisted were shot down,
and their dead bodies were carted off to a
national factory which the President had
established for making some kind of humor
GUS fertilizer. All the large cities of the
East were depopulated, and towns were
entirely empty. The army swept before it
millions of men, women and children, until
the vast plains west of Kansas were reach
ed, when the pursuit ceased, and the army
was drawn up in a continuous line, with
orders to shoot any person who attempted
to visit the East. OF course, hundreds of
thousands of these poor creatures persisted
from starvation. This seemed to brighten
| President Greeley, and he sent message
to Congress recommending that seven hun
| Iral thnr o., r
his, entitled "What Know About Farm
| ing, " should be voted for the relief of the
starving sufferers. This was done, and
farming implements and seeds were suppl
ed, and then the millions Of wretohed out
casts made an effort to till the ground.
Of the result CT this l will speak further
on.
In the meantime the President was do
| ing infinite harm to the country in another
way. His handwriting was so fearfully
and wonderfully bad that no living man
could read it. And so, when he sent his
first annual message to- CongTess-the doc
ument was devoted wholly to the tariff
and to agriculture-a sentence appeared
which subsequently was ascertained to be
Charge cultivation of rutabagas and beans
is the only hope of the American nation,
[ am sure" The printers not being able
tointerpret this put it in the following form,
in which it went forth to the world: "The
Car Of Russia could't keep clean if he
washed himself in the whole Atlantic
the message was Immediately telegraphed
to Russia by the Russian Minister, and the
Gar was so indignant that he instantly
declared war.
Just at this time President Greeley I'M
dertook to write some letters to Prince
Bismarck upon the subject of potato-rot,
and after giving his singular views at great
length he concluded with the statement
that if the Emperor William said that SUBJ
soil blowing was not good in light soils, or
that guano was better than bonedust, he
was ga liar, william and sl.vep' OF
course the Emperor also Immediately declar-
ed war, and became an ally of Russia and
of England, against which latter country
Mr.. Greeley had actually begun hostilities
already, because the Queen, in her speech
from the throne, had declared the Tribune's
advocacy of tariff on pig iron incendiary,
and calculated to disturb the peace of
nations.
Unhappily, this was not the full measure
Of our disasters. The President had sent
to the Emperor of Austria a copy of his
book, " What Know" &C., with his auto
graph upon tly-leaf The Emperor mis-
took the signature for caricature of the
Austrian eagle, and he readily joined in a
war against the United States; while France |
was provoked to the same act by the fact !
that when the French Minister came to !
call ON Mr.. Greeley to present his oredent-
ials, the President, who was writing an
editorial at the time, not comprehending the |
French language, mistook the Ambassador |
for a beggar, and without looking up hand !
ed him quarter and an order for clean |
shirt and grubbing hoe, and said to him,
eco West, young man, so West!'
SO all those nations joined in making |
war upon the United States. They swoop-
ed down upon our coasts and landed with !
out opposition, for those exposed portions of
our unhappy country were absolutely de- !
serted. The President 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 the army to his aid, and it .
moved to meet the enemy. 1t was too .
late. Before the troops reached CiEciI- !
natl the foreigners had seized Washington
and all tho oo.nnt4y east Of the Ohio, and
hal hung the President (whese loss was /
not regretted, the Cabinet and every mem
Der of Congress, The army dsbanded in
alarm, and tho invaders moved to the far
West, where they found the population
dying of starvation because they had fol-
lowed the advice of Greeley's book to 'sTry |
for your first crop to raise lines, and doaAt ,
plant more than bushel Of qpiokiimo in a
hillr' Gf aoursa .hesa wratehed Deonle /