The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-28
AMERICAN TRADITIONS.
Some Pungent Remarks About the Theorists
Who Denounce Mr.. Blaine.


"Gaths'' New York Letter.
The disgusting theorists and college fools
around Boston who are now eXclaimlng against
Mr.. Blaine for keeping up the traditions of his
country with respect to the States on the Amer
lean continent are entirely unaware that it was
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, who ere
ated the Monroe doctrine who wrote all the pa
pers on that subject and issued them in the
name of James Monroe. After the Democratic
convention is over if | am reminded OF 1t, Will
take up this subject and show that the Monroe
doctrine is nothing but John Adams's and John
Quincy Adams's, and that James u. Blaine IS
the upright successor of the founders OF Mas
sachusetts; that the donkeys now parading
in Massachusetts act as If they had the bar
sinister in them, and were ill-begotten. These
expansions of our country to its present dl-
mansions and boundaries are not without ex-
pense, corruption and accusation. Every step
of war cost us money, yet IN the end no coun-
try has ever profted so much by war as the
United States and her victories achieved by
force have been the cheapest she ever attained
and of the most benefice nee to mankind. The
absorption of northern Mexico and Texas, what
ever may have been the motives entering into 1t.
was of the highest use to all the European races.
1t gave an orderly, substantial government to
huge domains only known before to priests ana
Indians AT that time, as now, there was
squad of feeble half-witted, noisy cacklers
who saw nothing but wrong and wretch
edness to come out of acquiring
those new countries. man could
make o very interesting book, even more inter-
esting than George Moores History of Slavery i'll
Massachusetts, by writing the political mistakes
of Massachusetts, in their order. When Jefferson
acquired Louisiana, they gravely insisted that
the people who lived there did not have the hui
man form, that they ate frogs and jumped like
frogs and could not stand up and walk like men.
While you get a very high type of a scholar and
a statesman out of strong Yankee, you get out
of cheap, querulous, prejudiced Yankee your
horror and ignominy The Hartford convention,
held to protest against the second war with
England, was the work of the fathers of the
young dudes who now refuse to recognize Mr..
Blaine as a New England man because ne was
born somewhere else. The military genius of
the United States never shone so brightly as
when it was set face to face with the best
soldiery in Europe. After the fall of Napoleon,
and the troops who had conquered under Yelling
ton in Spain were released by thousands to come
to Louisiana and steal from us the country we
had purchased from Napoleon, the overthrow of
that large army was perhaps the most complete
defeat, considering numbers, the British ever
had; and in St Paul's Church, London,
large and costly monument put up to the leading
officers slaughtered there attests the national
recognition of the prowess of the American from
tiersmen. The palsy and fear of war of any
kind now found about Wall street, New York,
and other gambling dens, is an un-American
characteristic, and worthy of the cheats and rob
bers who have been plundering their honest and
laborous countrymen with the various schemes
they have put forth
The most absurd twaddle is that of the cow
ards and sneaks who are attempting to show
that James @. Blaine is terribly dangerous
man, because if he had control of this country
and somebody trod on us he might stand up and
throw the fellow off. The college contingent
which is now trying to represent itself as the
whole of the Republican party has two great
questions to meet this summer. First they are
opposed to the Americans defending their own
country; and, second, they want to take the
suffrage away from the white people who now
have it in this country. Horace White, who
now publishes the Evening Post, said to me
about twelve years ago that he was convinced
the American people were not fit for self-gov-
erment This little whiffet. who has chronic
suspicion of all bold men and public
movements, means. if he can accomplish it. to
deprive large portion of the American people
of their vote, and substitute for that kind of
government something else. In short, the pres
idential campaign now upon us has two motives
on the part of these so-called reformers First,
to emasculate us as race, and next to rob the
common people of their suffrage and substitute
some kind of scheme under the name of civil
service REFORM something similar, by which
the force of the popular suffrage will be
broken and the government be independent of
the race which is growing up in this land. Men
who know perfectly well what their idea is
in that respect-were fully aware that they
despse Republican society-require to use
a great many old scandals to make any impress
sion in this campaign The gallant man who
saved the Mississippi valley from that power
which is at this day riding over India and Egypt,
and which above all things in the world desired
to possess the outlet of the Mississippi river was
accused of every crime under the sun. Coffin
hand bills were distributed against him. 1t was
said that he had shot some of his own volunteers,
and among them a preacher. 1t was on record
that he had to pay fine to the civil authority of
New Orleans for treading upon it. He had run
off with another mans wife and lived with her
some time before she had secured a divorce.
Yet the old man became the idol of the Ameri-
present day have one great shibboleth, and that
is that Andrew jackson introduced all the evils
we have into America The great body of the
American people, on the other hand recognize
in General jackson the successor of Washington
in character, III force and in unqualified respect
for his nation and people. AS the campaign
proceeds the issue will not be between the Dem
ocratic and the Republican parties, but between
both of the parties and the etfeminate and emas-
culated handful who are trying to strip popular
government of its virtue.
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