Iron County register., 1886-08-19
That Treaty With Russia.

Now that those who assisted on the
other side in 1.-The late onpleasantnis"
are in National power, is good time
to inquire into the howness and why
ness of the uprising. 1t is well set
tied maxim of StatecrafI that no ma
ton can regard itself as established ur-
til it has met and crushed great re-
bellion. This means that in the setting
up of every nation antagonistic princi-
Piles are swept in, and that sooner or
later conflict will arise between them,
and that we cannot read the nations
destiny until that conflict has been set
| tied by the triumph of the principles
on which the Government is based.
When a new organization enters the
family of nations the principles on
which it is based are either in harmony
or conflict with those on which other
Governments rest and its interests may
give rise to rivalries.
AS soon as the thirteen Colonies be-
came States they became England's 8
rival in everything looking toward ma
tional greatness, and the great underly-
ing principle Of our Government justi-
,, fled our highest hopes and aspirations.
The Government of England is esser-
tally despotic. 1t divides society into
beasts of burden and beasts of prey. 1t
holds that one class of men is born sad
died and bridled to te ridden, and an
other booted and spurred to ride.
The Government of the United
States is based on the right of every
man to be as good as any other man if
he chooses so to be.
In clear field and fair fight the
issue between those two principles
could not long remain doubtful.
Accordingly, going 10 farther back
than fifteen years before the beginning
of the late war, four millions of British
subjects became citizens of the United
| States. This is not the worst. An
| Irishman in Australia or New Zealand
is well disposed toward the British
Government, but in America he is its
| most bitter foe.
Under all these circumstances, then,
can it be wondered that England would
desire TO cripple or destroy us, or that
the elemeut of our population that
leaned to despotism should be willing
| to aid her.
Accordingly, about the beginning OF
the present century, the attempt was
made TO cut off the Southern States
and unite them to Mexico, and SO cut
US off from the Gulf of Mexico. In
this movement England led and Spain
| followed. France was not involved al
| that time. The American Cataline,
known as Aaron Burr, became their
| tool. Alexander Hamilton penetrated
Burr's plans, who fastened a quarrel
on Hamilton and killed him. The
whole plan came to nought. Gen.
Wilkeson was Burr's confederate, but
was check mated by Andrew Jackson.
| There are compensations in He'll. 1t
is pleasant to know that when Aaron
Burr went out Judas IscariOt and Ben
edIct Arnold found man they could
kick, and the delight of the exercise
was intensified by the fact that he was
the grandson of the great Jonathan
Edwards.
Time passed on, and in 1882 Nullifi-
cation, under the plea of the British
doctrine of Free Trade, arose in South
Carolina. The eyes of the United
States looked longingly toward Cuba,
| and this brought In Spain again under
| British direction. The mantle of Aaron
I Burr belonged to John G. Calhoun
whose whose character is terrific
study. intellectually he was fully the
peer of Clay and Webster. His life
was not stained by any form of sensu-
ality, and yet America never saw such
perfect incarnation of John Milton's
idea of Satan.
| European complications did not per-
NIT us to look abroad for an ally. Rus
sia had not yet conquered the Cauca-
sus and there was no imminent danger
of conflict with England in India.
ProvidentialIy such an ally was not
necessary. Andrew Jackson was Pres
ident, who, having made out, signed,
and sealed warrant for the hanging
of John C. Calhoun, sent Gen. Scott
and military force to Charleston, and
South Carolina postponed Secession on
account of the weather.
Andrew Jackson predicted that the
attempt to divide the Union would be
renewed and that the next time Slavery
| would be thu pretext.
According when that lineal descend
ant of Judas Iscariot. whom Tom Ben.
ton called "the facile Mr.. Buchanan" +"
had been elected President, and under
his auspices the arms, forts and ships OF
the Nation had been stolen as far as
possible, England. France and Spain
set up the Southern Confederacy in the
United States and an empire in Mexi-
co with a view of uniting the two un-
der one government; SO, cutting off the
| United States from the Gulf of Mexico
and leaving our territory long mar
row strip easily cut up.
By this time foreign influence had
become So deeply seated and widely
spread in our country that nothing but
a foreign alliance could save US. But
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