The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-18
THE WAR OF ISI2.
How . Pig Brought that Conflict
 About.

It all happened in this wlse: Two citizens of Providence, R. L, fell into most unseemly discuss ion on account of the lawless tres passings of pig owned by one of them. The aggrieved party pos sessed very fine garden, in which it was his custom to spend his hours of leisure, wedding, graft ing and transplanting the flowers and vegetables in which he de- lighted. But often, as he entered his garden in the evening, his ears would be saluted with a grunt and rustic, and the fat form of bis neighbours pig might be seen mak- ing basty flight from the garden in which it had been placidly root ing all day.
 In high dudgeon the gardner sought his neighbor and com plained of the pigs frquent vis- its, declaring that a little time spent in repairing the pig-sty would restrain the animals rowing propensities. But to this the own- CT of the pig responded that if his neighbor would keep his rickety fences in proper repair the pig might take his daily airing with out temptation, and the garden would not be endangered.
 Repeated misdeeds on the part of the pig famed the shoulder ing fires of dissension into the flames of open hostility. At last the crisis came. The owner of the garden, rising unusually early one morning, discovered the pig con- tentedly munching the last of a fine bed of tulip bulbs. Flesh and blood could stand it no longer. Seizing Q pitchfork which lay | near at hand, the outraged gard her plunged its sharp tines into the hapless pig, and bore the body, thus fatally impaled, to the sty, where it met the gaze of its owner an hour or two later. Thereafter was war to the knife between the two neighbers.
 Now, what had all this to do with the war of 1872? The an swer is simple. The two neigh bors belonged to the political party known as the Federalists.
 Through all the outrages that Great Britain inflicted upon the United States; while seamen were being impressed, American vessels stopped on the high seas, and while every possible indignity was being committed against the flag of the United States, the Feder- alists remained friendly to Great Britain and contested every prop osition for the declaration of war.
 But the Democratic party was eager for war, and as British op- presslon became more unbearable the strength of the Democrats in- creased. It so happened that the election district in which the two nelghbors lived had been about equally divided between Demo crats and Federalists, but the lat ter party had always succeeded in carrying the election. But in 1911 the owner of the garden was candidate for the legislature on the Federalist ticket. His neigh Dor had always voted that ticket; but now, with his mind filled with the bitter recollection of the death of his pig, he cast his ballot for the Democrat. When the ballots were counted, the Democrat was found to be elected by a majority of l.
 When the newly elected legis- lator took his seat his first duty was to vote for a United States senator. He cast his vote for the candidate of the Democrats, who was also elected by majority of 1. When this senator took his place in the United States senate he found the question of war with Great Britain pending, and after long and bitter discussion it came to vote. The Democrats voted for war and the Federalists against it. As result of the voting war was declared-again by a majority of l vote.