Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-26
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.


different tariff and tonnage acts, began To
,nako commercial war upon one another.
~ -,,,,,or had the other three New England
-. .,,r,na,lv c,osed their noy,s IN P,,,,~t
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shiPPns " Wv" "o's "'"o
open, an sct Which she 'oiloweo up ny laying
dutios upon imports from Massach usettA
Pennsy lvania discrininated against Della.
ware and New Jersev n,ii.ued nj once nv
both her greater neivSinrs wss comnarod ~
q cask tapped at botb ends The conduct of
New York became esnecia,iv sclGsh and
blamewortby. That rspid gray tb,wbicb was
M soon IN carry ,ha cl,, an3 tLa .t.,a 10 a no
sItion of primncy in t6e JInion bad already
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can,inns ~ ssa,.ananshin ware e,tromeIv
na,rnx I, his mind tbo waiSaro os Nay
Yo,s ,,eart Tho nmiiing Snwn AMI ,hrns,ing
a.,Ja nI ali har naiahhnrs ana r,rais liz
mn. Tho yIgoyou. an5 .taaaa,st aIrn.,,,o N,
avery iiliher,l and arclns,ya ,naa.,re and
tho ,nost unron, nronisn,, ana,,y to a closer
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s,,any,b ard Tho "n,,,arrio, IL, ,,,riance Of
tho ,,,,nni,v a., ,.,,,i'',, 10 haia aw.v made
hin, MT thia tina Tho ,,,o.t dangerous man i'm
lme,ica rha nn,;ticai yirtnTies presentIy
IN ha won hv uami,,on Schuvler and Law.
ings,on witbont "a hicb nur grand and pacific
taSarai ,,uia,, cnu,d not have been brought
into ha,ng were victories won by most des.
narato Ggh,,nv AGAINST IN, dovped opposition
ar I'i,,tnn ITnder his puidanco the history
-, Sa,, Work. du,ipv tie five wears follow
,n,, ,ha ,,eace oT II M was a sbaneful a,nry, of
vrseJy monopoly ana sectional hate or ALI
the tbirteen states none behaved worse ak.
cent Rhode island A single instance. which
occurred early i'm I7s7, NAV serve as AN tllus.
tr.,ion Tba ciIy of Sew Sn,k with i,s NON
uia,ion of no ouO souIs n al long been an npIied
with fire.wood from Connecticut. and with
butter and cheese, cbick ems and parden yeoe
tanIes from Inc thrifty farms ot Nav Jersev
This trade. IL was obseryed. carried thoI.
sands Of dolIars ont Of tbe civ and into tho
nrrlst. ot do,as,ad yankoe. and dasnisad
Iers.ymon n was rninons to 1oma.iic in.
dustry ssid the men of New Work n must
h, s,cn,rcJ bv thnsa .f,ac,iya r.n,ad;a. ~ ,ha
AZ, Spbn of ,i,,
uat,on ac, and a nro,eciiva t.ri, Acts we're
s..o,dino,,, nss.ad o,,Ii,tnt, ayary Vankaa
sInnn q, hicb ca,,,o a,wn ,hr1uob iJaIi I:.to
anJ a"ary Iarsa,, ,narLa, ~, ,.Sia, ,.as
rowed across from psuIus Hook 10 CoTt-
landt street To nav entrancs fees and obtain
cearsuces at the custom house, Just ~ was
done by ships from London or Hamburg
aud not cart load of Connecticut iirewood
could be delivered at the back door of a coun-
try house in Seekman street until 1t should
have paid a heavy duty. Great and lust was
the " rsth of the farmers and lumpermep.
The New Jersey legislature made up its
mind To retaliate. The city OF New YORK
had lately bought a small patch OF ground on
Sandy Hook, and had built light house
there. This light house was the one weak
spot in the heel OF Achilleus where a hostile
arrow could strike and New Jersey gave
vent to her indignation by laying a tax of
II, 500 year on it, Connecticut was equally
prompt At great meeting of business
men, held at New London, IT was unani-
mously agreed to suspend all commercial m
tercourse with New York. Every merchant
signed an agreement, under penalty OF $50
for the first otiense, not to send any goods
whatever into the hated state for period of
twelve months. BY such retaliatory meas
ures IL was hoped that New York might be
compelled to rescind her odious enactment.
But such meetings and such resolves bore an
ominous likeness to the meetings and resolves
which in the years before l1I5 had heralded
n sthte Oh WAT anu hul BDtl NDTh
done by the federal convention another five
years would scarcely have elapsed before
shots would have been fired and seeds of
perennial hatred sown on the shores that look
toward Manhattan island.
THE WAR IN THE WYOMING VALLEY.
To these commercial disputes there were
added dispntes about territory. The oh ronic
uuarrel between Connecticut and Pennsylya.
nja over the vaIIey of Wyominv was decided
in the autumn Of l-s2 nv a sDecial federal
corr, annn;ntaa 4, accordanca win tho arti.
cIes ot ronfederation, The prize was adj
ind,ed IN pennsvivania aud the Vovernment
Of connecticnt suhmitted as uracefnIIv as
r,.sibIa mt nav, trouhles yyere in store for
tha inhabitants of that heautifnl region. The
traces of the InassarTe Of I5Ts had disanneared a
the houses had haen rebuilt. new settlers
had come in and the prettv VILLAGES had
taLan on thar old look Of contentment and
thrift. when in the spring of 1884 there came
an RECOMMENDATION of disasters During a very
cold winter great quantities of snow had
fallen. and Law piled m huge masses on the
monntaIn sides until i'm March a sudden
overaowed the valley and great BLOCK, of
ice drifted here and there. carrying death and
destruction with them. Houses. barns and
fences we're swent away. the cattle were
drowned the fruit trees broken down. the
stores of food dastroved and over the whole
vaIIev there Law a stratum of gravel and peb-
bIes THE neonie were starving with cold
and bnna., and President Dick inson urged
aho ,aa;si.,,,ra to send nromnt relief to the
mGarsrs Rnt the hearts of the members
wara 40 f,ipt and THAR talk was Incredibly
,inIad N1, NANNY would thew give u
haln the accI,rsed Yankees. II served them