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

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The following is supposed to have
been written In 1872 by MAX Adeler,
who was witness to the terrible scenes
which occurred at shes tiue of which
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saYou ask me. to tell YOU my children,
OF the events which Immediately pre-
ceeded the destruction of the once great.
American Union, and the capture of the
country by its present European rulers
fand to say something also of the causes
which led to these deplorable results. j
undertake. @ the task with 2, heavy heart,
for whenever / revert to that terrible
ti,he cunaot heip contrasting our proud
condition up to that fatal year; with hthe
humiliating position occupied now By
the Aperiean peoplss .Ibs story is. e.
short one. Ia thoIfall of 1872 Horace
Greeley, the editor of newspaper ina
New York, was elected PresidentGof the
United States. The people voted for
him because they believed him to be an
honest man. But hewas vain and weak, ),
and he entertained certain fauatical and
.preposterous notions-7about agricnltu-
raj matters, for instanca, be was deter g
mined to force upon the people at all;
hazards and despite all opposition. He
believed, among other things that every
man ought To- go yto.the West TO- earn
his bread, and long before he was chosen
President he used to advise every body
to move to thatgregion as a cure for all
the disasters (which could befall the
human family. 20
|. "-As soon as he reached the executive
mansion, p.l 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 at the point of the
bayonet. The.utmost violence n an used
Those, who osFesisted weFesshot dowr anli
their g. dead t bodies were 9earted OF to d
Fnational factory which the Presid .at had
established for making domestic fer.ilizs
ers sAH tho ssafgeB cities on tie East d
were depopulatsd, and toWns were empty.
Iheafpy swept before II millions 81
Ismen, women and ichildran; until the vase
dsphihs west .of K Kansas were reached
when the pursuit ceased, and Sthoa army,
was drawn up5in d continuous liue with.
orders to shoot any Who attempted to
yisitGthe East OF gcoufse huldfcds of
! thousands of these poor creatures per-
ished from starvation. This seemed ID
frighten President Greeley, aud he be- sent
a message to Congress Recommending
that 10000 Volumes Of aScomic book of
his, entitled What I Know About
Farming should be voted for the relief
OF theistarying sufferers. This was done,
and farming implements and seeds, we're
supplied; and then the millions Of
wretched oltcasts made on effort TO till.
the ground. OF the results Of this ]
will speak further on.
"In the mean9ime the President was
doing infinite harm to the country ID
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 Con,
gress-the docu cumont was devoted who'll.
ly to the Tariff and To lnsnerienle.,ra4
sentence appeared which subsequently
was ascertained to be Large cultivation
OF rutabagas aud beans is the9only hope
OF the American nation, I am sure
The printers not being able to inter
.pret this, putis in the following sform,s
in which Il went forth to the world
The Car of Russia could Snot keep
clean if he washed himself.in the whole
AtIantic Ocean once a day. This
peryersion of the message was immedia-s
steiy telegraPhed TO Russia by the Buss-
ian Minister, and the Czarxwas 50 in.
dignant that he instantly declared war.
just at this time President Greeley
s1lr undertook to write some letters to
Prince Bismarck upon the subject of
potato rot, and after giving his singular
views at greatslength, he concluded with
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