The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-21

ID cultIes With England, Russia, and
Pruss n Agric uIIurul QuestiOns-COn-
quest of America.

Pruss n on iculiurnl Questions
quest of America.
From Appletons Journal.
You ask me to tell you, my children,
OF the events which Immediately pre-
ceded 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. | undertake the task with
heavy heart, for, whenever | advert TO
that terrible time, cannot help con.
trasting our proud condition up to that
fatal year with the Illuminating position
occupied now by the American people.
The story is a short one. In the fall of
1872 Horace Greeley, the editor of
newspaper in New York, was elected
Pres dent of the United States. The
people voted for him because they be-
lieved him to be an honest man. But
he was vain and weak, and he enter.
tanned certain fanatical and preposter
Gus notions-about agricultural matters,
for instance-which he was determined
to force upon the people at all hazards
and despite all opposition. He believed,
among other things, that every man
ought to 60 to the West TO earn his
bread and long before he was chosen
President he used TO advise everybody
10 move to that region as cure for all
the disasters which could befall the hui
man family.
As soon as ne 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 entire
population of the seaboard States west
ward at the point of the bayonet. The
utmost violence was used. Those who
resisted were shot down, and their dead
bodies were carried off to national
factory which the President had estab-
lished for making some kind of fertilizer.
All the large cities OF the East were de.
populated, and towns were entirely
empty. The army swept before il mil
lions of men, women and children, un-
til the vast plains west Of Kansas were
reached, 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 frighten President
Greeley, and he sent a message TO Con-
gress recommending that seven hundred
thousand volumes ola comic book of his,
entitled "What | Know About Farm
ing should be voted for the relief of
the starving su fiereIs. This was done,
and farming implements and seeds were
supplied, and then the millions OF
wretched outcasts made an effort TO till
the ground. OF the result of this | will
speak further on.
In the meantime 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 wholly
10 the tariff and agriculture-a sentence
appeared which subsequently was ascer.
tanned to be, " Large cultivation of ruta
bagas and beans is the only hope of the
American nation, | am sure" The
printers, not being able to interpret this
put it in the following form, in which il
went forth TO the world "The Car oil
Russia couldn't keep clean if he..washeo
himself with the whole Atlantic Ocean
once a day p This perversion of the
message was Immediately telegraphed tC
Russia by the Russian Minister, and the
Car was so indignant that he instantly
declared war.
Just at this time President Greeley
undertook to write some letters t,
Prince Bismarck upon the subject o
potato.rot, and, after giving his singula
views at great length, he concluded will
the statement that if the Empero
William said that sub-soil ploughini
was not good in light soils, or tina
guano was better than bone-dust, h
vas "a liar, villain, and slave y q
curse the Emperor also immediatel
d.clared war, and became an ally O
Knsia and England, against which lai
Ter opuntry Mr.. Greeley had actual
Degu hostilities already, because tn
queen, in her speech from the throne
had decAred the Tribune'S advocacy of
iarlI on Pig.iron incendiary, and calcu
laIeu 10 aeturb the peace of nations.
unhappy, this was not the flu
measure OF lur disasters. The Pres
uent had sen'to the Emperor of Austri