The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-01-03
Whittier are We Drifting /!

to the Wcll-WlSher OF his country gOOi some
satisfaction, when there is so much 10 create
dependency, is the fact that Journals of high
character and of large circulation, but which
heretofore confined themselves TO the spcci-
atty of which they might he the organ, care
fully excluding all politics, now feel compel
ed to sound the ALARM and call upon the peo.
pie to take heed, that their liberties arc in
danger.
The following admirable article we find in
the Turf, Field ond Farm of December 18Th :
Although the Tut, Field md Farm can in
no sense be called Il partisan, or even politi-
cal journal, we would utter now word Of
warning Capitalization is fast becoming
the walchword of the party in power. Do
our people realize whore ware drifting, i'll
serene Inconsistencies of all danger? The
lamented Greeley, while on his bed stricken
to the death, spoke three short sentences, one
of which is pregnant with the idea we alude
to. Stop, reader, and think over the words
with careluness, and lay them up in mem
ory's storehouse for future use. The grand
brain of the departed man, although in uni
son with the bodys weakness, it had yielded
something of its tenacity and life, struck out
these words in marvellous manner. From
his clouded mind they rang sharp and crisp,
all the more cutting from the darkness coming
on, as the lightnings flash is more vivid as
seen from the blacklist cloud These thoughts,
as expressed by Horace Greeley were II
am gone. My CoUNTRy's GONE. The 1H-
bune'S gone" With the first and last senten-
ces we have naught to do, as they are purely
personal. With the central remark we have.
The far-secing old man no doubt viewed with
apprehension the increasing grasp with
which office holders, from the President
down, sought to clutch the powers given
them by q lifelong lease. Now mark the
gist of it. "My country's gone" True re-
publicanism is dead with my defeat and i'm
perialsm looms with no uncertain shadow
in the future. Do you like the looks Shades
of Jackson, of Hamilton, and Of Jefferson
Scarce have hundred years passed, the
anniversary of our centennial not yet reach
ed, ere we see not fur distant a Court, with
prominent central figure, to which all must
bow. We speak for no effect. The IHLt,
Field and Farm is never political, but we
fear for the future. We utter no complaint.
but the signs of the times are ominous and
forcbodiug. If, as Senator remarked four
years since, Grant is to be perpetual Presi-
dent, arewc not on the verge of losing our
existence as Republic? First for four years,
then for four more, and then what? Mark
already the schemes brought forward for in
filled, and making thirty thousands of strenu-
Gus partisans for the government or rather
the ruler who appointed them, and by whose
grace they retain position. Much has been
already done in this direction, and the gene
raj public looks on with unconccrn and apa-
thy. Too busily engaged, each for himself,
in the pursuit of pleasure or of wealth, we
allow one strand after another of the ropes
making the strength OF the States to be part
ed by the powers that be at the nations
heart andVleW win no alarm the silent spill
eng OF inese parted threaus IN inc hahaS OF
men lolllhg ana surviving lot Iiie'lonS power
LOOK at Vnese schemes; All inc Telegraph
lines 10 pe III lhe iiahas Oh ana consequently
run III Ilc htelcstS oi inc NoNeilimchC anu
hoG ol INC people
10 say lne government Is lhe people Is a
arce ana plihds no one. Inc people, good
nilureu lools, ieTl no alarm ana haIi OF lhem
no iol lotc III an, Every oi'lce-holaer votes,
ana WORKS Us wei. w hat Is 10 prevent these
oillciaI thousands from Delh9 the coming
So9rC WIN u cehtia' scep'teu HSurc as iifsI
leauer ana UNEMPLOYMENT Nheh us done,
Whtt Wlll you, we people 90 are you pre-
Paicu l"i 'iic oi,y aitu! w Inere Is
3,iiy ole-"liliell icpeilloh' 10 lhiS IL comes
n1,snv euio, INe!,e' orAlcci', aye lol Soou'-
Il h ia pioSl ession ~ you Chloid mn
liollS hrc " NC eApehueu' cilch uoilar OF when
ocouie1 " pa, ti'..ii civ -" ~ ic' o"i'iH, run
,oa,!', hcio' .neio anu ctcly Nntic' Hre 10 DC
ouilt uluel inc Sulse ol hatiohai improve
MEMS anu .lie lu,' I:, 10 oG laNeh from inc
puDilc purse W ouiio ana complete lhem
0lcuhlShip IincS "lc W NC run ana kept
running ny supsiulcS granted u,luef the um-
~ pleteA' " services iehu MI III carrying
INC hills ouI uPoh ~ why not suDsialZe
every WOMEN mn III INC f'Ltl, because cloth
Is Iiunu!a ,.I loi our covering garry IL
on; suoslulAe everything; every grant OF pub,
NC money makes more supporters OF venal
government, lor lear, IN any change, they
might lose INC particular leat from which
they ora" ttcll ilcl1es. heauers all, he
puoiicahs' LlpGIalS' democrats, pause ere
IL Is 700 lale' Inc prosperity OF our country
uepehus hoC Oh 'he ruling OF single man
men NC SURF nc liaNes NOV mat prosperity
inc nallale ny Mn'ch 10 liit himself 10 auto
cia.N pUWel' anu ei!s!s an cIeult 10 himself
atone. witch sciuIlhlAe' ana, ABOVE all vote
looh u'o,: "li aGmoi n;e teiloins 10 extreme
CONTINUATION WIN oiSi'tVoi. study well the
ACTIONS o, youi iepi Up; ana see thcin
Oppose WIN W. tIi ''lu every leSai weapon the
taxing Oh .ue poMeis rom .iic states ana To-
caling sucil powers "nGrG they can be more
easily selheu upon ana heia by Vehal paltl-
sans we nave come successfully through
one great trlal OF our people ana sui remain
a Rcpupllc beware leSt III inc second trial
our oemocracy--'. G., republican principles
proves UetCat and Sutler the can of