The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-28
THE MELBOURNE CONSULATE.

THE MELBOURNE CONSULATE.
Capt. Dawson, Defends Maj. Morgan's Ap
pointment,; and shows that he is q Citizo'
of this State. -
I a meeting of the Blackville Demo
cratic Club was called last week to con
slider the appointment Of Maj. Morgan
as Consul to Melbourne. Capt. Dawson
went to BlackvilIe, and was invited te
address the meeting. He accepted the
Invitation, and gave the reasons for Maj
Morgan's appointment as follows;
+ Capt: Dawson said that he had nc
doubt; when he determined to attend the
meeting of the club, that he would find
himself among friends, for he had right
to consider himself among friends when.
ever he was among Democrats in South
Carolina. He was present o.day because
of the notice calling the club together,
which was published in the County news.
papers. 1t involved an appointment for
which he considered himself responsible.
1t showed him, what, indeed, he knew
before, that there Mas question as to
the propriety Of that appointment. 1t
could not be considered, therefore, with
out considering himself. To condemn
that appointment, no matter on what
grounds, or how tenderly it might be
done, was to condemn the man who re-.
commended it. standing here to-day"
he said, "with the assurance that have
nothing to retract, nothing to be asham.
ed of, and nothing to apologize for, l felt
that my proper course was to come and
give my reasons for making that recon-.
mendation and then, when all the facts
shall be before you, will submit myself
to your good Judgment.
Gas understand it, the objections to
Mr.. Morgan are twofold in character.
One applies to his Democratic record ;
the other to his citizenship. AS to his
Democratic record, it has been stated in
the newspapers, I believe, that he is, or
was, or has been a Republican. That 1
deny absolutely. As evidence of the
allegation that he is Republican we are
pointed TO pamphlet written by him,
and published last year, entitled Amer.
ica's Egypt
Unfortunately I have not copy of
that pamphlet with me, my own copy
being bound in volume with others.
I have, however, letter of Congressman
Aiken which has been published recent.
ly, and in which he gives the paragraphs
in that pamphlet which, in his view, are
most offensive, and which, he says, prove
Mr.. Morgan to be a Republican. All of
you who know the kind regard which
Mr.. Aiken has for me will appreciate
this.
s'Now I undertake to say" Capt.
Dawson continued, "that if you search
that pamphlet with small.toothed comb
you will not find anything more objec.
tionable than is quoted in Mr.. Aiken's
letter. 1t has never been asserted by
Mr.. Morgan that that pamphlet was not
published before Blaine's nomination.
The plain truth of the matter is that the
pamphlet was written early in the year,
and was made ready for publication i'm.
mediately after Blaine's nomination.
The illusions to his nomination were
then introduced.
Having thus stated what was in the
pamphlet, Capt. Dawson proceeded to
show what was not in it, "There is not
a word about the Democratic party, about
Civil Service reform, about the Tariff,
about corruption in Office, about central
ization, about the need of administrative
reform. It is simply plea for vigo-
rous foreign policy. When it was 6rst
brought to my attention by Mr.. Morgan,
I told him that he was right in the doc
trine which he advocated, but wrong in
the nan; that we did want policy that
would make an American citizen respec-
ted everywhere, and that the Stars and
Stripes should be to him what the
English flag is to an Euglishman
in every part of the world; that We
would see the need of this vigorous
foreign policy as we have seen it at Pan.
anna and in the Santos case; and that
the mistake he made was in thinking
that Blaine vas the proper man to carry
it out. There is nothing unusual in a
Democrat being in favor of particular
feature of the Republican policy. 1t has
been seen again and again that Demo.
crat has believed that some particular
plank of the Republican platform was
better than corresponding plank in a
Democratic platform, and has spoken
and written in favor of his opinion. So,
too, Republicans have preferred Demo.
cratic declarations on particular subject
to the doctrine or practice of their own
party. But these diIsentients as to one
special matter stand by their own party,
as rule, on election day. The test of
Mr.. Morgan's political views is not
whether he wrote pamphlet that could
be construed in advocacy of Blaine's
election, but whether he voted the. Re.
publican ticket. Mr.. Morgan was living
in New York at that moment, and had
been living there long eneugh b to allow
him to vote there if he desired to do so.
He did not vote the Republican ticket.
Could he have voted there, without
abandoninghis citizenship here, he would
have voted for Cleveland and Hendricks.
The publication of the pamphlet by
Mr.. Morgan was, in Capt. -Dawson's
opinion, strictly a literary venture. The
subject which it treated was one of great
public interest, and the vigorous foreign
policy which Mr.. Morgan so earnestly
and intelligently advocated was in accor-
dance with public sentiment. 1t was
expected that the pamphlet would natur-
ally. have a large sale, which did not
prove to be the case. 1t fell fiat. Very
few copies were circulated, and only one
newspaper, published in the Northwest,
so far as he knew, ever condescended to
notice it. No substantial aid, therefore,
was rendered Mr.. Blaine by its publica-
ton. =
Even if it be granted that Mr.. Morgan
liked Mr.. Blaine, that was no discredit
to Mr.. Morgan's Democracy. There
we're reasons why he should like him,
perhaps, since their ancestors came from
the same State, and their families had
always been friends, but no objection
oon1d he rroad apainst Mr. MORGAN on