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 1892 by Max Adcler
who was witness to the terrible scenes
which occurred at tho tieae of which
the story tells:
"You 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
and to say something also of the causes
which led to these deplorable results. i !
undertake the task With heavy heart,
for whenever I revert to that terrible
s;ino csnso: help contracting our proud
condition up to that fatal year; withTthe
humiliating position occupied now by
the American: people, The story is o,
short one. In fhosfaiiof 1872 Horace
Greeley, the editor of Newspaper In
New York, was elected President of theS
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 fauatical and
preposterous notions--rabout agricultu-
raj matters, for instance he was deter I
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 eatn
his bread, and long before be was chosen
President he used to advise ,egerybody
to move to that region as cure for all
the disasters (which could befall the
human family. Fk
CAS- soon as he reached the executive
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 at the point of the
bayonet. Thosutmost violence was used J.
4 Those who resisted were3shot doEs. and
their dead bodies were. carted OF to n
national factory which the Presid .at had
established for making domestic fertilizs
ers AN the large cities OF the Eas,
! were depopulated, andtowns were empty.
The army swept before sit millions Of
kmen, women aud children; uhtil The va st
kplains west ot Kansas were reached.
when the pursuit ceased, and the army,
was drawn upin continuous liue with
orders to shoot any who attempted to
yisitthe East. OF course hundreds of
thousands of these poor creatures per-
ished from starvation. This seemed to
frighten President Greeley, aud he sen.
message to Congress recommending
that 100000 volunles of comic book of
his, entitled what 1 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
wretched outcasts made on effort TO till
the ground. Of the results of this /
will speak further on.
"ln the mean,ime the President was
doing 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 Con-
gress-the document was devoted Who'll.
ly to the tariff and TO agriculsure-a
sentence appeared which subsequently
was ascertained to be large cultivation
OF rutabagas and beans Is thegonly hope
i OF the American nation, am sure
The printers not being able to inter
pret this, putit in the following FORM,
IN which II went forth to the world
The Car of Russia could snot keep
clean if he washed himself in the whole
Atlantic Ocean once day This
perversion OF, the message was immedia-
tely telegraphed to Russia by the Russ
ian Minister, aud the Czarswas 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'lepgth, he concluded with
The statement thati the Emperor VIII,
liam said that fub-soil ploughipg vas
not good in light sol. or that guano,
was better than bopedust, he was "a liar,