The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-01-11

around in the high place of the great
| Vergennes: while still smaller men,
such as Genet, Fauchet and Adct,
were sent to bring discredit and dis
honor upon France i'm America. Citi-
zen Genet introduced the bull-in-a-
China-shop brand of diplomacy. He
landed at Charleston; began at once
fitting out privateers and opening re-
cruiting Offices got vessels to sea by
lying about their character and des-
tination; Joined the secretary of state
in organizing Jacobin or Democratic
societies in Pennsylvania, Kentucky
and elsewhere, which clubs. Washing
| ten declared, caused and encorr-
aged" the Whiskey insurrection:
wound up his demagogue diplomacy by
vilifying the government for its strict
neutrality and threatening to appeal
| from the president to the people. was
| fired out of the country suddenly. his
velocity being accelerated by the
square-toed boot of the indignant chief
| magistrate.
| And the once proud, but row pros
trate, Spain joined the yelp and cry.
| growing loud and louder against Il
| feeble nation IMPOVERISHED and ex-
hausted by Il desoating war, ready to
| seize all the territory i'm sight. in the
crash that would follow the failure of
the Republican experiment. Godoy the
despicablc paramour oc the Queen of
Spain. was then controlling and blight
ing Spain's destinies; Gardouui was
hostile at all times and everywhere, as
usual. and Governor Miro was SPEND
ing his last days at New orleans, prior
to his promotion. in tamperng with
and tempting the hard-pressed frontier
Americans and promising them free
navigation, free trade and free every
thing if they would only bow down and
worship, not Satan, but Godoy and his
royal mistress.
Time brings it's retributions and NOR
tails are permitted to witness examples
not merely of poetic, but divine justice.
The Spain which snubbed jay, Short
Carmichael and other American agents,
Il little more than century ago. is
about the last country in the world to
attempt such antics now. And singu-
lar to say. the three leading monarchies
of Europe that after the death of
Franklin in 1890. abused our patience
and wronged us most, are now gently
playing second violin to Russia. Ger
many and the great republic, which
have taken their stately places as the
worlds most potent powers of the
twentieth century.
Adding to these complications. nearly
sixty thousand savages in the north
west and southwest We're lurking on
the exposed frontiers of the newborn
Union. Hundreds of brave men had
gone down under their murderous rifles
and tomahawks at Blue Licks. at the
defeat of Harmar and on the retreat
of st. Clair. The pioneer families on
the frontier knew not, when their sole
support went forth each day to win
bread from the soil. that they would
ever see him again alive. The nightly
war-Whoop startled the cattle in the
fields and the babes in the cradle The
burning of Washington's personal
friend, Colonel Crawford, at the stake
and before the eyes of the infamous
Simon Girty, called for an end to such
unsoeakable atrocities.
Yet worse in one sense and mani
festly more distressing than the hos
tilties of the Englishmen, the French
men, the Spaniards and the Indians,
was the war made on the first adnlinis-
tration by the Virginia and other poll
ticians. That public men from his own
state. who knew him we'll and knew
that his motives We're lofty and pure,
should impugn every motive and op-
pose every act, was what the high-bred
Washington could never understand
An unselfSh patriot in every breath
that he drew. he did not know that
ambitious men played Il cunning game
called politics." and that they some-
times played for as high stakes as his
own high place, Allured by such
dazzling prize as the presidency for
eight years, what politicians of ambi-
tion and ability would not play any
concerted combination game to VIM
Three Virginia neighbors found the
winter evenings long when far from
home and well adapted for developing
comprehensive schemes for their mutual
advantage When the facts compel us
to affirm that Washington's trusted
contidant, Madison, reversed himself
in night and from the leader of the
administration became the leader of the
opposition in the house of representa-
tiVes, we need not recall the treachery
of others to prove the first presidents |
dlstracting trials and mental agonies.
opposed in cabinet, senate and house |
in every line of his policy by the three |
most controlling men of his own state, |
1t need hardly cause surprise that |
sroans of pain escaped him, that 'he |
would rather be in his grave at Mt. |
Vernon than he the emperor OF the |
world The Constitution being on trial |
the hercest fight came on it's right in |
This was the political |
Valley Forge that Washington passed |
through, compared with the sufferings |
of which the Valley Forge of the Revo- |
luton was the seat OF luxury. Eut
with the aid of Hamilton JAY and |
Ames, he gave the interpretations de-
clared true by Marshall Story and |
Webster, and from which have flowed
blessings to the more per-
feet and more stable Union and to every
state in the Louisiana region.
But the Lord of Justice, slow to
wrath, at last allowed his hand to fall
heavily upon the demons of the forest.
In 1875, General James Robertson di-
rected Colonel Whitley and Major Ore
TO attack the Chickamauga savages,
near their hiding place on the Tennes-
see river. These gallant soldiers deliv-
cred crushing blow. The same year
General Wayne, aided by Piomingo and
l2O Chicasaw warriors, gained such an
victory over the north
western tribes, that they We're all eager
to sue for peace. This soldier-negoti-
ator's treaty of Greenville put an end
to indian wars, until another great In
dian fighter and treaty maker Old Tip-
peeanoe, nobly filled Wayne's high place
in history. The JaV trentV of 1909 |