The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-10-22
Political Situation.

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they could look down the stream Of
time and see the great "Civil War"
They obtained Siberia on the coast
of Africa, built its capital and nam
ed II Monrovia for James Monroe.
M any emancipationists liberated
their slaves and sent them TO Siberia.
They advocated peaceful emancipa-
4 ton and wanted the United States
government to pay slave owners
$500 for able-bodied negro men and
proportionate prices for women and
children. II this could have been
done the Civil War would have been
obviated and we should have no race
problem now. All the thousands of
lives lost in the Northern and South
ern armies, and the millions and bill
lions Of dollars paid out to carry
on the war on both sides and the pen
sions would have been saved.
But the abolitionists and demo-
Gratis fought the emancipationists
then Just as the republicans and
democrats fight the prohibitionists
and independent voters now. The
abolitionists demanded that the
slaves be liberated and made citi-
zens. T h. democrats demanded
that they remain in slavery, and
these two parties admitted no mid
die ground for emancipationists.
Henry Clay wanted TO be presi-
dent and finding that emancipation
was not popular he founded the great
protective tariff under the old line
whig party. After laying the foun-
dation for the protective tariff he
saw it grow until it frightened him.
If he had been able to stop the war
he would have done so. He intro
duced one compromise after another.
but he knew they we're only temper
airy. After the great Missouri Com
promise was passed he said to Thos.
Benton in the presence of Jefferson
Davis THE war has been put off for
thirty years. You and / shall not live
to see it, but our young friend here,
pointing to Davis, will live to see it.
Still the tariff grew, and if Clay, its
founder, had lived to see one more
presidential election he would have
voted the democratic ticket and been
forever branded as traitor to his
party.
In the same way, James Madison
saw the injustice of the war of 1912.
England did not want to fight US.
She had all she could do to fight Ma
poleon. But he took advantage of
the French Revolution, the sympa-
thy of the democrats in the United
States because France had aided us
in our Revolution and sent ministers
here to stir up strife between our
government and the populace. Madi.
son wanted another term as presi-
dent. and yielded to the popular
clamor for war.
There was as little need for the
Spanish War. Spain was in no con-
dition to fight the United States and
wanted no war. She proposed that
if the United States would become
security for the 100000 she had
spent on Cuba that she would give
Cuba freedom. Mr.. Mckinley issued
a proclamation favoring our becom-
ing security for this debt, but the
demagogues at once shouted Sow
ard, coward" sent him some sacks
Of sand, and the papers begun to de-
clare that our president needed a
backbone. some sand in his gizzard,
etc. He wanted to be president
again, and yielded TO the popular
cutlery. congress voted So 200, 900
at once to carry on the war when ii |
refused to vote one fourth this much |
as security TO keep the peace.
Statesmen tell US that the life of |
the republic is trembling in the bal
ance to-day. Nick Longworth has
told US that it is agreed that Judge
Taft is to be president for eight |
years, then the "Big Stick" is to