The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-08
THE JINeoIsm OF LINCOLN.
What He said Of Hawaii Ia 1858 and of
Mexico In 1895.

What He said OF Hawaii Ia 1858 and OF
| Mexico In 1898.
The new generation of namby-Dam-
bys in this country is now prattling its
disapproval of the congressman who
have been assailing the Cleveland poi
icy toward Hawaii. 1t arraigns these
public men as LIMOGES" and the policy
which they advocate as ''jingoism, T"
and jingoism is the word applied by one
class of Englishmen who are out of
power to the characteristic British in
reference with and domination over
the affairs of other nations by English
men in power.
In his quiet manner Abraham Lin
coin was very much of a jingo. When
he was pre- sident he had domestic cares
such as never came to the head of a
great nation, yet with all these he had
time to be an American with reference
! to other nations. For instance. in 1868,
when the representatives of the United
States at Honolulu reported that Brit
ish intrigue was rife in Hawaii, Sec
rotary Seward acknowledged the receipt
of the American minister's dispatch,
saying:
The subject OF which It treats viz. the pol
icy OF Great Britain in the Sandwich Islands
the efforts made by its officials there to shape
and control the future destinies Of these
islsnds-and the measures which you Indicate,
with the view Of counteracting these in
fiuences are all deemed OF much Importance.
and they will receive the consideration to
which they are justly entitled"
The above was written by direction
of Abraham Lincoln by one of the
greatest men who have held the Office
of secretary of state, William II. Sew
ard, January, 1864. when one would
imagine that the Lincoln administra-
ton had no time to devote to anything
but the rebellion.
Nor is this the only illustration of
the jingoism of Abraham Lincoln.
Early in 1865, when no one except Lin
coin and Grant knew that the rebellion
was so near collapse, Lincoln sent Gen.
Lew Wallace to the Texas border in
order to communicate with the author
tiles Of the republic of Mexico, who
had been driven from their capital by
the proclaimed Emperor Macmillan,
the tool of Napoleon I'LL. with view
TO furnishing them arms and ammuni-
ton to fight the foreign invader and
the representative of Imperialism.
Gen. Wallace's mission was successful,
and before the collapse of the rebellion
the friends Of the republic had col
lected armies for which the United
States had furnished arms and ammu-
milton, thus saving the life of the
Mexican republic when it was feebly
Pickering. Before his assassination
Abraham Lincoln had decided to assist
the sister republic with United States
troops, so that when the rebellion
ended an army was soon upon the
Mexican border for that purpose II as
sistance were necessary to drive out
the usurper. Such assistance was I'M
necessary, because the earlier jingoism
of Lincoln had not only enabled the
president of Mexico to arm his follow
ers, but it had inspired the friends of
the republic with the courage which
nothing but confidence in the assist
ance of the Lincoln government could
give.
Doubtless Abraham Lincoln was the
chief of American jingOes; and if he
were alive now and should speak as he
acted In 1s64-65 how the Mandy pambys,
poor things, would chatter their de-
testation of him!-IndianapOlis Jour
nal