The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-21
MAJOR MORGANs APPOINTMENT.
Col. Aiken Condemns IL and Gives the
AppoIntee's Record.

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MIR. EDITOR: The press of the State
and country have very justly criticised
the appointment by Democratic Presi
dent Of Blainite Consul General tc
Australia. Numbers have enquired, who
is this appointee? No one has answered
the inquiry satisfactorily. do not know
that can, but propose to publish, by
your consent, few facts concerning him
aud 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 l have
always thought him a cosmopolitan.
A b,otEer, hailing from Louisiana, was
the Republican Minister to Mexico under
Mr. Arthur, and brother.in law, Gen.
Drum, has been for some years the Adju.
tant General Of the Army OF tho United
States, resident in Washington, D. G.
Another brother.in.law is the editor.in.
chief Of tho Neps and Courier. Biai
Morgan married wife in South Carroll.
na, and for two or three years farmed
below Columbia, supplying that market
with Neans-grass hay, seven tons oi
which he told me once he had cut from
one acre in O single season. He soon
abandoned farming, however, and South
Carolina also, aud for the past few years
his face has been a familiar one to tho resi-
dents of Washington City. During the
late presidential campaign he was quite
active, and after Mr.. Blaine's nomination
published small pamphlet, tho title
page of which reads, '"AMERICA's
EGYPT. MIR. BLAINES FOREIGN
POLICY, BY JAMES MORRIS MORGAN,
late Of The 6. s. Macy am! the EgNp.
tian army"
In this pamphlet Maj. Morgan dc.
clares in .he outset, that Mr. Blaine's
foreign policy was and is one that would
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States, and that when Mr.. Blaine entered
President Garfield's cabinet he resolved
upon three ideas.
Firt, to uphold, at any and all costs,
the Monroe Doctrine
Second, to hold Mexico and tho South
American Republics responsible for any
unjust treatment of the citizens OF the
Unityd 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 fair way of join.
Ing her sisters in captivity. To-day
France is attempting TO build canal
across the Isthmus Of Panama, will, q
view doubtless of ultimately controlling
the Central American States. Mr..
Blaine said, we have 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 treaty with the Columbian Repub.
lie, conceding to the United States simi.
lar control. Mr.. Blaine, therefore, abro-
gated the provision of tho 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 ia out Of date, &c. Maj. Nor
gan continues, y can easily understand
why Great Britain would not like to see
Mr. Blaine in the Presidential chair" :"
aud quotes the Pail Mall Gazette Of
London, issued "Gfier the nomination. OF
Mr.. Blaine, as saying wherever Mr..
Blaine can oust the British fiom the
position they. hold on the American con
tinent he will endeavor to replace Eng
lish influence by American. u
the progress Of the electoral campaign"
l have italicised the above to show
that Mr.. Morgan's pamphlet was pub
some weeks perhaps, and was written by
securing Mr. Blaine's election.
second idea was to uphold the rights oi
citizens of the United States in Mexico
Central aud South America, and to shed
light into the darkness of America'l
Egypt, "for Mexico is, or promises to be-
America's Egypt" Ho then draws q
parallel between Egypt and Mexico
citing chat 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 eartheu gods, are all
| as familiar to the Mexican as the Egyp.
tian traveller Roth thasa racaa ora In
dolent and dooile, and possess great pow
ers of endurance beneath burning sun
The Mexican peon is the Egyptian fellah
In both countries the women veil theil
faces, the Mexican peeping from beneath
with one black eye while the Egyptian
risks two, much to the envy of their ever,
watchfnl and jealous parents, brothers
and kinsmen. The robber Bedouin o
the Sahara 10; tho robber Bandit of the
Sierras. Egyptian agriculture Is Mexi
can. both people plowing oxen yoked by
the horns, and using the plow that hal
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
poaR man puts his wife to work while hi
lies In the graRs near by to watch her
"Boukra" in Egyptian means "Manana
in Mexican, and both mean "to morrow
implying that the national motto Of each
is, "Never do to-day what can be put OF
till tomorrow" The two government
are very similar; Egypt Is called a des
potism and Mexico o republic; neithel
understands tho meaning Of free govern
mens. The Despot in Egypt is called {