The National tribune., 1893-11-30
SOME AMERICAN rKEcEpENrs.

plotted against and overturned the native
| Governments" and installed rulers of their
own in place of such.
| To begin with, the early part of the 18th
century saw the good King Powbatan ruling
peacefully and successfully great stretch of
country watered by the Chesapeake. the James,
and the Potomac. From all that has come
down to US he was an unusually good monarch,
and entirely free from the vices that dominate
| Queen Lilliukulani. He seems to have been
rather inclined TO discourage undesirable i'm
| migration by the free use of war-club. and
was little soft on the favorite- daughter side
of his makeup, but for all that he appears to
| have been a very fine man, and makes good
subject for the foreground Of an oil painting.
He would look well postage-stamp when
we come to celebrate the Booth anniversary of
the settlement of Virginia. There came into
his peaceful and happy realm in 1905 band of
"aliens and adventures" led by notorious
adventurer named John Smith who had been
by turns an apprentice, mercenary soldier, pi-
rate, and Heaven only knows what. The rest
of tho crowd were Of the same stamp. and they
had all been sent out of England for that coun-
try's good. They took forcible possession of
such of King Powhatan's lands as they wanted,
and without so much ceremony as saying by
your leave" In lucid moment Powhatan laid
out to kill John Smith, which would have ma
terially changed the looks of the directories of
to-day, but was persuaded out of it by Poca-
hontas, who had the common weakness of
young American women for distinguished
foreigners. The result was that " the force,
fraud and violence " of those "alieus and ad-
ventures" built up quite Commonwealth.
somewhat known to fame as Virginia.
Several years later, another baud of ''aliens
and adventures " of much better morals than
Capt. John Smiths but so cranky and intoler-
able that they werc driven out of England, and
invited to leave Holland, landed OH Plymouth
Rock. As Chauncey Depew tersely puts it:
They first fell OH their knees. and then fell on
the aborgines." Capt. Miles Standish and his
famous army of IL men were a military force
quite insignificant in comparison with that
mustered by the Provisional Government of
Hawaii, but the native Governments" from
Long Island Sound TO the Bay of st. Law
renee were closed out like factories at the be-
ginning of Tariff Reform Administration.
All of the native rulers lost their jobs with
great suddenness. and those who successfully
lodged Yankee bullets were caught sooner or
later by the unerring New England rum, and
filed paupers' graves. They still I'll them,
except where the march Of civilization has con-
verted the graveyards into desirable truck
patches and town lots Six prosperous States
now occupy the territory which succumbed to
the force fraud and violence" of the alien
and adventurous Puritans.
In 1917 Peter Minuet, all alien adyenturer
from Holland, and who was the Claus sprcckels
of his day, bought the whole of Manhattan
Island from the simple minded natives for
goods valued al $24. The Kingdom of Tam.
many, which subsequently, seized the Govern
ment from the later and still more simple
minded natives, draws an annual income from
1T of about $S0000O00.
In 1854 the French, with the consent and
cooperation of the native Governments" had
obtained possession of all the country lying
between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes,
and were carrying on profitable trade with
the Indians. This did not please the aliens
aud adventures" on the eastern side of the Al
leganies. and, headed by young man named
George Washington, they set out to break the
thing up aud get the country for themselves.
1t was rather rough Shedding at first. Wash
ington was whipped and he and his men taken
prisoners. They got assistance from England
in the shape of a force Of British soldiers under
Gen. Braddock, but again the French and In
dams batted them out in one inning. Finally,
however, the indians and French had to go,
and the great States of Ohio Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, and Wisconsin have risen on the
ruins of the overturned native Govern
ments."
In 1776 the aforesaid George Washington
and number of other disconnected spirits
among whom were large sprinkling of adyen-
turous aliens but recently arrived in the coun-
try-revolted against the fatherly rule of King
George III, q wooden-headed old German, who
was crazy most of the time, and stupidity wicked
when he wasn't insane. For all that he was
much superior morally to Queen Lilliukulani.
A large portion of the people of the country
still wanted to remain loyal to the King. but
Washington and his friends made it very sultry
for them as we'll as for the Kings troops. They
were run out of the country and their prop
erty confscated. Some were hanged, many
were shot, and not a few given ose-ftting
but uncomfortable suits of tar and feathers.
With the aid of the alien Marquis of Lafayette
and several thousand alien but very welcome
French soldiers. Washington and his friends
finally lorcibly and violently turned down
the Kings supporters, and set up Govern
ment which is getting along tolerably well to-
day, thank you.
For 300 years the Spaniards. Indians, alliga-
tors, malaria, and flowers were in amieabie
possession of the sub-tropical Floridas," and
drooled away the sunny years in lazy happiness.
This did not suit the alien adventures who
neigh bored them OH the north. and one fine day
in 1917 band of them. led by turbulent
spirit named Andrew Jackson, swooped down
Oh musical Suwanee and Pensacola, hanged sew
eral Indian Chiefs and white leaders, whipped
others Oh their bare backs with cato nine-tails,
and knocked the native Governments -
Indian, Spanish, and high mixed-higher than
the kite flown by the famous Mr.. Gideroy.
The Mr.. Jackson who directed this ' force and
violence" subsequently served eight years as
President of the United States, and the country
that he laid his rude hands now constitutes
the State Of Florida and parts of Georgia and
Alabama.
Along about 1880 the rich lands of Mexico
beyond the Sabine River began to attract the