The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17
UNITY OF THE NATIONs--PRo-
PHKTs AND STATESMEN.

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PHKTs AND STATESMEN.
The tendency Of the republic to the
empire was seen in the close alliance
and friendliness between Grants per
sonal government and that Of the Car.
Seward paid Russia seven millions in
gold rather to attest our love for Rus
STA than "a q consideration for heaps OF |
Ice and snow known on maps Of polar
regions as Alaska. It has been sus-
pected that Grant and the Car con-
templated an alliance and that all the
nations were to confess finally the DO
minion of America and Of Russia.
Russia was TO absorb Europe and Asia
while Grant swallowed Mexico and
South America, froze out Greenland
and the Dominion and these two men,
or their Auccessors, proposed to weld
the worlds mastery. While they be-
come unrivAled political rulers Jay
-Ccsld aud Tom Scott seize the scepter
of commercial empire. Russian and
American armies belt the globe while
monstrous railway and steamship lines,
crushing all rivalry and, with two
trans-continsntal railways to supply
passengers and freights defying all
competition, shape, as Scott and Gould
propose, the course OF the worlds trade
and migrations Of Its armies and peo-
Plies. Congress knows not what it
does, while States deliberately provide
for their own final commercial enslave-
ment. They create powers greater
than themselves which must finally
usurp the government Of the Union
practically repeating the Federal Con-
stitution and Regulating commerce
between the Statesi' Our fathers gave
this power to Congress, and Congress
transfers it to two corporations. In
other words, Congress repeats the coun-
try's organic code and States assent to
the final concentration at New York
and at San Francisco of the worlds
wealth. To these two cities we must
forever concede the exclusive right to
impose exactions upon the commerce
OF the States and of the nations. Great
o. we have dreamed that Russia on one
continent and the United States on the
other might become, and often as we
have contemplated possible results of:an
alliance, practical and political as well
- sympathetic, between our Car and
him Of all the Russias, mighty as the
power Of two such ''sovereigns" would
become, it would be as nothing con-
trasted with this welded by the rulers
of the worlds railways and commercial
marine. Nations dare not go to war
without the consent of Rothschild,
but here we create, in a so-called re
public, power mightier than Roths-
child ever dreamed Of. The willy He
brew has only gold and bonds;
railway builders own men and
countless armies Of hired retain
crs. Towns and cities and cor
porations and steamship owners the
world over must do their bidding. A
Federal Congress, in the hands of two
such men, owning votes by the myr-
lad, becomes the veriest plaything, and,
however grand and imposing the
armies and navies of Russia and of the
Union, they are automatic, moved to
fury and borne about by railways and
steamships to do the silent bidding of
the worlds commercial masters. Only
ten days ago Gould secured a second
route from New York City to the
West through Canada. He will final
ly consolidate all roads competing
with his own, and he and Scott will
be rivals until interest suspends hos
tility.
Tho tendency of States, like
that of individual action, is every
where in one direction. Community
effort Is Indispensable, as society is
organized and art exists, to the achieve
ment Of grand results, and If Provi-
denoe have so decreed that churches
and nations must enter upon millen-
NAL dispensation, the sooner absolute
national and popular unity is attained
the better. Free trade will tear down
Chinese walls hetS-,sn nations.
Tyrkisii selfish bigotry and~AAclusive-
ness will be swept into the sea; and
while we condemn as politicians and
approve only partially as Christians,
can we not discover the development
in all these facts of that millennial
unity Of tho worlds peoples which
prephets foretold2 The substitution
of one worlds master for two or three
10 an easy process, and one Scott or
one Gould for the par mobile .Jrdtrum
will be achieved by luck or genius or
s'highway robbery" and then when
Hayes has chucked the roaring lion of
Democracy - Lamar - into the same
sweet pasture with the lamb-Morton
--of Republication and they lie down
together, We will know that the proph-
esied end cometh. We make these
suggestions simply because half the re-
ligious world is watching the course of
events in the East simply with view
70 the consummation OF biblical proph-
coy. We only seek to show how natu-
raj aad easy the contamination of these
wonderful! providential results. Res-
son happily goes threading, on tiptoe,
the paths Of current years, hand in
hand with history and with prophecy.
The prophets of old, as of our time,
were the worlds great thinkers and
statesmen.
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