Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-08
AFTER GREELEY, WHAT ?
The Conquest of America Gonse-
p quence of Horace Greeley's elec-
tiOnGA Prophetic Tale. Si7.

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The following: is supposed to have
been writer. in 1892 by Max Adalsf
who was witness to the terriblescenes
which occurred lat the time, of which
the story tells: ass IGla asil sasg. G1llfes
THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA. i2't :
You ask me to tell you, my children,
of the events which Immediately pre-
ceded the destruction of the once gfeat
Americah Union, and the capture d
| the country by its present European
rulers, and itosay something also Of the
seauses which led to these deplorabie
results. / undertake the task with "a
heavy heart, for whenever L reyerttp
that terrible time 1 cannot help con-
trasting 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
1872 Horace Greeley, the editor Of a
newspaper in New York, was elected
President of the United States. The
people voted for him because theyibe-
tlieved him to be an honest man.. But
he was vain and weak, and he enter
tanned certain fanatical and preposter-
GUS noti0ns-=abouta agricultural matters,
for instances which he was determined
to force upon the people at all hazards
and despite all opposition. He beliey-
ed, among otherthings, thaEeverysman
ought to go to the West to earn his
bread, and long before he was chosen
President he used to advise eVerybody
to move to thatregionas a cure for alt
the disasters which Gould befaJl the liti-
man family: = - E, III. =. iisis i,I..
As soon as he reached the, executive
mansion, which ives used to,icallsthe
w bite House. President Greeley orr
ganized. an army of two hundred tth5df-.
sand 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 nations.
alfsctory which the President had ess-
.tablished for making certain kind of
humorous fertilizer. All the large
cities ofzthe East were depopulated, and
towns we're entirely empty. earny
swept befbre it millions of men, wo-.
men and children, until the vast plains
west of. Kansas were reached; !; when the,
pursuit ceased and the army was drawni
up la continuous line, with orders to
shoot any person who attempted to
visit the east. Of. course hundredsiefI
,thousands,0f these poor creatures sper-a
ished from starvation This seemed to
frighten President Greeley, and III; sent
aIhessage to- Congress recommending
that seven hundred thousand volumes
of comic book of his, entitled "What
I Know about Farming,'' should be
voted for the relief of the starving suf-.
ferers. This was done, and farming inn
pienents and seeds were supplied; and
then the millions of wretched outcasts
Z - :
m made an effort to tillithe ground. Of
the the resaltiof this L viii speak further
iap1 .'17H '5S,i-..t
I'm the meantime the President was
doing Infinite harm to the. country in.
another Way"aHis handwriting was
SO fearfully and wonderfully bad that
no living man could read it. And so
when he. sent his first annual message
oiCongress-the document was devoted
wholly to the Tariff and to Agriculture
appeared sentence which subsequ-;
emily was asceftained TO be, ''Large Gull
tiyation of rutabages and beans, is the
only hope of1the' American nation, I
amspre. - The printers, not being able1
,to,interpret this, put it in the following
form, in which it went forth to the
world. "Fhe Gar of Russia couldn't
keep clean If he washed himself with
the whole Alta Atlantic ocean once a day."
ms peryetsleu OF the message was I'M
meaiateiy m q teiegrapheds 20 4Sassia ny the
ksslan ny MinlsteF' I1' ana 1p Ine = GIar M was was SO
he' h miiSStalifiy iS u9fiai esi
igaF: -'2q ~ Sairpd -,iisdo'r' ] 81 Z l
i'SStiJ lust at this time President Greeley
laa lapdertook &rEitt4,. &rite, some ppif letters to-
s Prince Eri's Bismareky upon the subject of
potato F0f, ana, atter giYlpg ms lS singular
Views at great length, he eqpeludedt
with reinstatement thatn the Emperor
William said that sabsoh piowing was
netgood IN light soils, or that guaneq
was better than bone dust, he was a.
,ls.'liar, a villain, and a slave" q course
the Emperor also Soimmediatelyde declared