The herald., 1894-03-11
AN ECHO OF THR OLD AMERICAN
SPIRIT.

There is one man in the Democratic
party mot to speak OF others, such as
Blsnd) in whom all square-toed Demo
Gratis take great interest, and that per.
son is Senator Morgan of Alabama.
This old time statesman takes real
interest in the United States In bis
eye this country 10 not simply an annex
OF Great Britain. Though he balls from
Alabama, he has read the history of the
wars with England beginning in 1910
and resumed in 1912. He knows their
beginning and their ending. He is
familiar with the battle of Yorktown, in
which Lord CORVALLIS figured in an
ignominious surrender, and with that of
New Orleans, in which Sir John Pack en-
ham and his Peninsular veterans did
sprinters' work before the victorious
legions of General Andrew Jackson.
Senator Morgan is typical American,
and he has had the "howdacity" to rise
up and ask why the British nation have
debarked troops at Blue6slds, in the
Mosquito nation, apparently in violation
of the Clayton Bulwer treaty, and, more
Important still. in infringement of the
immortal and never to be surrendered
Monroe doctrine.
1t Is to the undying honor OF the
American Republic that, in the midst
of q rebellion that shook this country
all round from its center to its circum-
ference, Mr.. Seward. then secretary OF
state of the United States, had the
nerve requisite to protest against the
invasion OF Mexico by allied European
powers. The son Of the Dutch admiral,
who masqueraded az Napoleon the
Third, took advantage Of our interne-
cine troubles to associate with himself
England and Spain, and, at least tao.
lilly. Austria, to plant a monarchy on
this continent in the person Of Maxi
milan, a brother OF the emperor of
Austria. England and Spain shortly
dissociated themselves from this
buccsneer enterprise, not from any
compunctious visitings OF conscience,
but because they saw that the Ameri-
can republic was indivisible and WAS
bound, under the supervision OF Provi-
dsnce, to be invincible. With the fall
of the Oonfederscy at Appomattox
Court House came another warning
from Mr.. Seward as to the inviolsbility
of the Monroe doctrine, and Louis Ma
poleon instructed Bazaiae to pull uD
stakes and get out OF Mexico, offering
to the misguided Maximilian a safe re-
treat in the center of the French CO.
horts. That unfortunate nincompoop
neglected the warning voice OF thou
sands of oppressed and outraged Mexi-
cans, and met the fate which he had a
thousand times deserved at the hands
of Mexican firing platoon at Queretaro.
More power to the elbow of Senator
Morgan, say wei While Mr.. Baysrd is
playing oleaginous toad-eater as ambas-
sador OF the United States at the court
Of st. James. this noble American,
chairman of the senate COM
mittee on foreign affairs, insists upon
knowing whether or no the Monroe doc
trine and special treaties are being in
ringed by England. This will be ter
-ible shock TO the Four Hundred in
New York city, and will produce q dull
,hud in Wall street. To think that there
Ihould be q Southern senator of the
United States impious enough to dare
20 arrest the progress OF Britieh sggres-
lion anywhere is well calculated to send
shuddering chill to the very center OF
Anglo-mania. Yea! verilyl Now that
he memory OF Lexington and Bunker
Hill, of Valley Forge and New Orleans,
lad been nearly blotted out in an over
sea OF shoddyism, it is cruel,
t is too basely cruel, to attempt to
lgain erect a genuine American spirit
It is enough to cause the blood of q
genuine Goldfish aristocrst to disinte-
yrate in his veins. and to leave him
instance of the victim in
and played out desuetude
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