The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-07
THE BOYCOTT PROPOSITION.
The Idea an Old One-FoIlowing His
torical Precedent.


torical Precedent.
Whether it be universal truism that
history repeats itself, it is true as fact
that mankind under the same conditions
and surrounding active circumstances, will
do the same substantial acts over and over
again. however remote one period may be
from another. Every one acquainted with
the early history Of New York, while il was
yet New Amsterdam, and under the
dominion of the Dutch, will well remember
how the Dutch boycotted the British nation,
the historian saying, FINALLY, to strike q
violent blow at the very vitals OF Great
Britain, multitude OF the wiser inhabit-
ants assembled, and having purchased all
the British manufactures they could
ind, they made of them huge
bonfire; and in the patriotic glow
OF the moment, every man present, who
bad hat or breeches of English workman
ship pulled it off and most undoubtedly cast
IL into the flames to the lrreparable detri-
ment. loss and rum of the English manu-
features. In commendation of this great
exploit they cree ed a pole on the spot,
with device on the top intended to repre-
sent the province of New Netherlands
destroying Greas Britain under the simuli-
tude of an eagle picking the little island of
old England out Of the globe, but either
through the uuskillfulness of the sculptor
or his ill-timed waggery, it bore a striking
resemblance 10 goose valnly striving TO
get hold Of q dumping"
The faithful historian Of this period does
not make it exactly clear whether the gov
ernor of New Netherlands, Peter Stuyves.
ant, opposed directly and openly the boy
colt of the English. But the inference is,
That he was so much engaged in devising
measures OF greater Importance for the pre-
servation Of his people that the boycott
failed to receive his high and mighty ap-
prevail 1t Ii remarkable, as well as pain
full, to note what fatal and
mis- reproducing blunders great and
mighty governors sometimes make
in dealing with momentous questions. Who
knows, or can say, that had the mighty and
saRacious Peter Stuyvesant recognized,
approved and encouraged the boycott thus
suggested by tine wiser inhabitants with
that vehemence of martial spirit so
peculiarly his. coupled with his unmatched
fame and military renown, but what the
civil government, known now as the United
States of America, would have been written
the United States of Holland
Ii history be philosophy teaching by ex-
ample, should not all from the wiser in
habitants" down to the governor, and
aslant to the Van Colear editors ponder
well the ruin and misery to the north this
boycott might producel
The sudden passion to engulf a whole
section in ruin is so little consonant with
the heretofore expressed feelings of brother
hood that the conduct of these wiser IN
| habltants, governors and editors, in sug-
| costing a boycott, appalls the. imagination
and paralyzes the reason.
In the nature Of things there must be
basal atom of some kind upon which the
| suggestion Of a sectional boycott Is founded.
1t is said that because of the probable en-
| anfF N,f Ed. LII.
| state or international boycott should be
inaugurated. This is simply the old fight
| over again between the "Long Pipes" and
short Pipesn to down each other if they
| can and elevate themselves, and nowhere
does it appear that the welfare Of the
| country is considered
| However, the boycotters perhaps belong
TO that class of highly starohed Drained
| citizens, who reason not themselves, nor
hearken to the voice of reason in graver
matters of state, but are guided entirely by
historic precedent, and the practice of the
| conscript fathers, finding an analogue In
Prof. Goodwin Smiths review article, "The
Hatred Of England" being blind to the
converse fallacy Of accident" and the
folly of the occasion, gathered themselves
| together in the New Amsterdam of the
south-Atlanta-and resolved following
historical precedent of the first interna-
tional boyoott) mem. con:
1. We are the most enlightened, the most
| dignitied, the most formidable and the most
ancient people upon the face Of the Garth.
| 2. The people Of the south have no COM
MERGE or dealing whatever with the north
il the election bill is passed.
| 8. If any one in the south objects to these
resolutions, that the Tarpean rock punish
ment be inflicted upon him; that is to say,
tarred and feathered. The right Of appeal
| is hereby denied.
And thus the commercial and business re-
lations OF sections and nations are ruined
and swept away. and all are made strangers
one to another. T. P. L
BrooksviLIe, Fla, Aug. 8, 1890.