National Republican., 1883-03-27

drove out the efIeminate Britons that had
lost their manly vigor at the same time they
lost their relish for hog meat. The ancient
Irish were hog eaters and hence Ireland was
the only western nation that Rome could not
conquer. They were hog-eating Irish who
whipped the beefeating Danes at Clontarf
After this the Irish went after strange
gods, fell to eating beef and mutton,
surnamod Brian, their great king,
Boroihme after the Gaelic for cow,
and thus by introducing domestic divisions
paved the way for Strongbow and his Welsh
and Norman hog eaters. The throo great ma
lions of the world to-day arc tho great hog
eating nations-America, England, and Ger
many. The star of France is waning. Some
| years ago she prohibited the importation Of
the American hog, and that once great peo-
pie, foremost of the Christian world in brain
and blood, has become so deteriorated in that
short period that half dozen Orleanist princes
have thrown the whole country into mortal
terror. Germany is going the same way. She
has stopped the importation of the American
hog; her own home supply is not sufficient,
and the glory of the German race will surely
fade. Bismarck can throttle France with one
hand and Austria with the other, defy the pope
and quell the czar, but he is not strong enough
to tackle the hog, That contract is too big
for him"
81 could talk to you all night, giving you
historical evidences that the nation whose
| chief diet is hog meat is brave, brainy, pious,
pure, honest, incorruptible, and invincible,
while those who abandon the hog lose their
proud pre-eminence and sink into weakness
and contempt. Egypt scorncd the hog, and
the Turk and tho Bedoun now desolhto the
land of the lotus and the sphynx. Greece
turned up her nose ut the hog, and her
marble gods are shattered and her genius
carried captive to other lands. Rome
eat hog and conquered the world, but when
her statesmen forsook spareribs for peacocks'
tongues and her generals preferred larks'
brains to pigs feet the scepter dropped from
her nerveless grasp. Instead of the plum and
the buckler borne by the ancient Roman, his
modern descendant carries around monkey
and hand organ. What Greece is France
may become, and the awful fate of Rome
stares with gorgon glare into the eyes of
Germany. Let Germany and France profit
from the lessons of the past, and may Amer
lea heed this warming to never 20 back on
the hog"
80 @s@
al am told that the presidents trip south
is off," said man from Georgia last evening.
d" The death of Postmaster General Howe has
rendered postponement necessary, and as
the president has already delayed start
ing rs long as it was safe, he will
scarcely attempt the journey now.
The weather will be uncomfortably warm
in the south in week or two, and as the
Presidents sole object in taking the trip is rest
and recreation, he will not feel disposed TO un-
dergo u season of inconvenience and physical
discomfort in the hope Of obtaining that rest
Our rpeoplein in Savannah who have been making
elaborate arrangements to give him a grand
reception, will be sadly disappointed, but it
cannot be helped. l do not know where he
will go and do not believe he knows himself
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