The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-21

MAJOR MORGAN's APPOINTMENT.
Col. Aiken Condemns 1t and Gives the
Appointee,s Record.
|. MR.. EDITOR: The press of the State
and country have very justly criticised
the appointment by Democratic Presi.
dent of a Blainite Consul General to
!, Australia. Numbers have enquired, who
is this appointee? No one has answered
the inquiry satisfactorily. do not know
that I can, but propose to publish, by
your consent, a few facts concerning him,
and his political tergiversations.
| Maj. Morgan, as he was known to his
associates during his short sojourn in
this State, was generally accorded citi-
zenship in Louisiana, though 1 have
always thought him a cosmopolitan.
A brother, bailing from Louisiana, was
the Republican Minister to Mexico under
Mr.. Arthur, and a brother-in-law, Gen.
Drum, has been for some years the Adju-
tant General Of the Army Of the United
States, resident in Washington, D. G.
Another brother.in.law is the editor.in-
chief of the Neacs and Courier. Maj.
Morgan married wife in South Carroll.
ma, and for two or three years farmed
below Columbia, supplying that market
with Means'-grass hay, seven tons OF
which he told me once he had cut from
one acre in single season. He soon
abandoned farming, however, and South
Carolina also, and for the past few years
Ihis face has been familiar one to the resi-.
dents of Washington City. During the
late presidential campaign he was quite
l;active, and after Mr.. Blaine's nomination
ipublished small pamphlet, the title
page of which. reads, "AMERlCA'S
EGYPT. MR.. BLAINE'S FOREIGN
liPOLICY, BY JAMES MORRIS MORGAN,
late Of the c. IS. Navy and the Egyp'
tian army"
In this pamphlet Maj. Morgan de-
iclares in the outset, that Mr.. Blaine's
iforeign policy was and is one that would
rebound to the glory of the United
States, and that when Mr.. Blaine entered
president Garfeld's cabinet he resolved
upon three ideas.
Firt, to uphold, at any and all costs,
the Monroe Doctrine. =
Second, to hold Mexico and the South
American Republics responsible for any
unjust treatment of the citizens of the
United States, and for any Infringement
of what is considered the Law Of Ma.
tions.
/ And third, to conyoke Congress of
the Independent States Of the American
Continent for the purpose of forming a
united phalanx of Western Powers
against the Powers of Europe.
Maj. Morgan says, from the day the
Suez Canal was finished England and
France have been struggling for the con-
troll of Egypt, and have taken possession
of all of Northern Africa but Morocco,
which seems to be in q fair way of join.
| ing her sisters in captivity. To-day
France is attempting to build canal
across the Isthmus of Panama, withia
view doubtless of ultimately controlling
the Central American States. Mr..
Blaine said, we have a Monroe Doctrine
which forbids transatlantic Nations
from intermeddling in the affairs of these
cis-Atlantic people. The Clayton.
Bulwer treaty of 1850 between the United
States and Great Britain practically con-
ceded to the latter power control of any
canal to be dug across this Isthmus.
Subsequently the United States entered
| into a treaty with the Columbian Repub.
lie, conceding to the United States SINH
lar control. Mr.. Blaine, therefore, abro-
gated the provision of the former treaty,
and said to all European powers-hands
of, We are the masters of this Continent; ;
times have changed :; your Clayton. .Bul.
wer treaty is out of date, &c. Maj. Nor:
gan continues, 81 can easily understand
why Great Britain would not like to see
Mr.. Blaine in the Presidential chair"
aud quotes the Pail MaN Gazette of
London, issued "qtter the nomination. of
Mr.. Blaine, as saying wherever Mr..
Blaine can GUST the British from the
position they hold on the American con-
tiuent he will endeavor to replace Eng
lish influence by American. y
ENGLAND soiA s0atch NTH estreme solicitude
the progress Of the electoral campaign"
I have italicised the above to show
that Mr.. Morgan's pamphlet WAS pub.
lished after Mr.. Blaine's nomination,
some weeks perhaps, and was written by
him as campaign document to assist in
securing Mr.. Blaine's election.
Maj. Morgan further says, Mr.. Blaine's
second idea was to uphold the rights of
citizens of the United States in Mexico,
Central aud South America, and to shed
| light into the darkness of Americas
Egypt, "for Mexico is, or promises to be,
Americas Egypt" He then draws q
parallel between Egypt and Mexico,
citing that the two countries are almost
Identical in every respect. The minarets
and domes, the street-dogs and water.
carriers, the adobe huts of the poor and
the stone.houses of the rich, the sportive
but merciless and insatiate little flea, the
ragged beggars and earthen gods, are all
as familiar to the Mexican as the Egyp-
tian traveller. Both these races are in
dolent and docile, and possess great pow
ers of endurance beneath burning sun.
The Mexican peon is the Egyptian fellah.
In both countries the women veil their
faces, the Mexican peeping from beneath
with one black eye while the Egyptian
risks two, much to the envy oftheis ever
watchful and jealous parents, brothers
and kinsmen. The robber Bedouin of
the Sahara is. the robber Bandit of the
sierras. Egyptian agriculture is Mexi
can, both people plowing oxen yoked by
the horns, and using the plow that has
come down from the times of Abraham.
Chastity has no place with either race,
because neither the Egyptian nor the
Mexican believes in the virtue of woman.
The rich have their duennas, while the
poor manputs his wife to work while he
lies in the grass near by to watch her:
"Boukra" in Egyptian means "Manana" :"
in Mexican, and both mean tomorrow, /"
implying that the national motto of each
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