Show CAUSE OF A WAR cow A L PIG BROUGHT ABOUT A CONDUCT WITS ENGLAND it all happened in this wise two citizens of Provi deLce R I 1 fell into a most unseemly seemly discussion oa account of the lawless trespass ines ings of a pig owned by one of them the aggrieved party possessed a fine garden in which it was his bis custom to spend his hours of leisure weeding grafting and transplanting the flowers sod and vegetables in which be but often as he be entered bia garden in the evening his bis ears would be saluted with a grunt runt and a rustle and the fat form of his bis neighbors pin pig might be seen making a hasty flight from the garden in aich which it had bad been placidly rooting all ail day in hf high h dudgeon the gardener sought his bis neighbor and complained of the figs pigs frequent visits declaring that a little ittle time spent in repairing the pigsty would restrain the animals roving propensities but to this the owner 01 ol of the pig responded that if his neighbor would keep his rickety fences in proper repair the pi pig mn might ht take its daily airing w without phout temptation and the garden would not be endangered repeated misdeeds on the martof part of the pig fanned the shouldering ing fires of dissension into the flames of 0 open p en hostility at last the crisis came the owner of af the garden rising unusually ea early aly one morning discovered the pig contentedly inu mucking ching the last of a line fine bed of tulip bulbs flesh and blood could artaud it no longer seizing a pitchfork which lay near at hand band the enraged gardener plunged its sharp tines tinei into the hapless pig and bore the body thus fatally impaled to the sty where it met the gaze of its owner an hour or two later thereafter it was war to the knife between the two neighbors now what had bad all this to do with the w war ar of 1812 the answer is simple the two neighbors belonged to the political party known as tue federalists through I 1 sh all the outrages that great britain inflicted upon the united stat states while seamen were being impressed presse chile american vessels stopped stomped on the dizh seas jeaa and while every possible indignity was committed against the flag of the united states state the federalists remained friendly to great britain and contested every proposition for the declaration of war but toe the democratic party was eager for war and as british oppression became more unbearable the strength of the democrats increased it so happened that the election district in which the two neighbors lived had bad been about equally divided between democrats and federalists but the latter party had always succeeded in carrein car carrying the elections but in 1811 the owner ot of tire the garden was a candidate for fair the legis legislature liture on the federalist ticket his neighbor had always voted that ticket but now with his mind filled with bitter recollection of the death of his pig he cast his ballot for the democrat when the ballots were counted the democrat was found to be elected by a majority of one when the newly elected legislator took his bis seat his first duty was to vote tor for a united states stales senator lie ile cast his bis vote for the candidate of the democrat who was also elected by a majority of one when this senator took his place in the united states senate lie ae found the question of war with great britain pending and after a long and bitter discussion it came to a vote the democrats voted for war and the feder federalists aliAs against it As a result of the voting war was declared a again aidi by a majority of one vote st nicholas for july |