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FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1918.
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THE TRAIL OF THE HUN.
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{Since we'declared a state of war
existing between this country and
Germany we have not been without
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those, who, affecting to be willing
to help France, have in mournful
numbers told us how much we ought
to hate England, and as between
England and Germany we should not
take sides, unless of course and perfhaps
on the side of the Kaiser. Some
of those who have so stated in their
?" . ignorance have been sounaing
boards for traitors. Those reallyresponsible
for this talk have had
less of love for France than they
have told us, and less real considerfation
for their own country. Because
as we have said before, it was
not really England that made war
on us in the Revolution, but Germany
in fact, and among those who
. came over to fight our forefathers,
waging a war for independence,
Were the hired Hessians, who fought
f_ us for the money that wa3 in it.
In confirmation of what we have
\ been saying, we give our readers a
recent editorial from the Greenville
News, so ably edited oy non. iuon
McKissick, at once a gifted writer
tnd a scholar who knows what he is
k talking about, as well as the way to
pii: put the truth. Here is the way he
tells it:
The Kaiser and Huns of 1776.
"Often since this war began the
statement has been made, especially
by Englishmen, that in the War of
the Revolution, the people of Eng _
land opposed warring on their bro
there in blood and ideals in America
and that George the T^ird, then
King of England,' was really a German.
A most interesting statement
by way of corroboration was made
by Alfred Noyes, the famous English
poet, in a speech this year at
the dedication of the memorial to
gv.-'is .
American and British solciiers at
Princeton, a Revolutionary battlefield.
On this occasion he said:
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" 'It is difficult to realize, in these
surroundings, that your countrymen
and mine were once engaged here,
on this very ground, in killing one
another to make a German holiday;
while a sound, very like those concussions
which you hear now, in the
distance, was once heard here in
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iiot the mere blasting of stone from
those quarries, under the hills, but
the destruction of human life in war.
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u *I said that we killed one an
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other to make a German holiday,
and it is something more than an
attempt at an epigram or a time
serving paradox. It is a plain historical
fact that the Revolutionary
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"war of today. It was a war of our
Englishman, George Washington,
j-/ against a German King. It is unnecessary
to remind you of the familiar
protests that great English "??
nira Phnftinm Rnd Burke made
against that war; but, on an occa[
' sion like this, it is fitting perhaps,
that we should remember how representative
those real men were of
all that was best in the spirit of
England. When Chatham attacked
the war against the English colon.
Ists in America as a "most barbarous,
cruel, unjust and diabolical
war;" when he said, "if I were an
American, as I am an Englishman,
I would never lay down my arms
k while a foreign troop was landed in
v'j tay Country, never, never . . he
' r;v ' was speaking hot only for himself,
pV" Imt for all.true Englishmen everywhere.
And When he said "a foreign
troop/' he was not alluding to
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I 'us own countrymen, but to the German
troops, the twenty thousand
Hessians whom the German King had
been forced to hire, because the
Englishmen had refused to do his
dirty work.
" 'The King's proclamation of the
state of war, when it was read from
the steps of the Royal Exchange in
London, was received with hisses
from the citizens of London. Their
representatives made protest to the
King, until he was forced to leave
London to escape them. The four
members of Parliament who represented
London voted against the
war. The Recorder of the city wore
mourning publicly for the brothers
he had lost, fighting against the new
tyranny at Lexington.
" 'Lord North, the time-serving
prime minister, confessed in 1779
that he always knew, at heart, that
the war "fcould be ruinous. Barrington,
the Secretary of State for War,
called the po^cy of the King "madness."
Shelbourne, after many vain
protests, resigned from the Cabinet.
The Duke of Grafton wrote to North
protesting. His letter was ignored
and he then obtained a personal audience
with the King, with whom he
pleaded in vain against the war. On
the next day he made a public protest
in the House of Lords. He was
summoned to the pafcce and instantly
dismissed from his office of Lord
Privy Seal by the arbitrary command
of the King, who was trying
to revive the divine right of monarchs
in England in precisely the
same way as the Kaiser is attempting
it today in Europe. The Duke
of Richmond protested, also vainly,
against what he called a "criminal
policy." Grenville Sharpe, the great
anti-slavery advocate, resigned a
government post, upon which he was
entirely dependent and was thrown
without resources on the world.
"Soldiers and sailors resigned
their commissions rather than serve.
Chatham removed his son, Lord Pitt,
from the army, so that he might not
fight against the Americans. The
Earl of Effingham resigned his commission
and received a vote of
thanks from the corporations of
Dublin and London for doing so.
Sir William Howe, when appointed
to the command of the British forces,
accepted it only under protest
and because he felt himself bound
by his military oath. Colonel Burgoyne
also accepted only under protest.
General Conway not only resigned
his commission, but moved
an address in Parliament to stop
the war immediately. Admiral Kep_
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pei reiuseu to iignu Aim tut; not v?
protests could be extended almost
indefinitely. Does it not explain why
the military maps on the so-called
British side, the maps of the battle
of Princeton, were all drawn up in
German? You can find them in the
Princeton library, if you wish to
confirm it.
"And look at the names that signed
the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the United
States. Will you find any Bernstorffs
or Hindenburgs amongst them?
Why, every name appended to your
Constitution was made in Britain
their very syllables were formed in
Britain?Washington, Langdon, Gorham,
Johnson, Livingston, Paterson,
Franklin, Morris. All came from
Great Britain, arid there is only one
that did not come from that smaller
part of Great Britain which is called
England.
"These are not fancies, these are
plain historical facts; and when a
German plaintively asks why, when
he. becomes naturalized in America,
he must prove his loyalty by learning
"English," the answer is that he
must do so not because it is "English",
but because it is American,
and we do not intend to return to
the Tower of Babel. The various
nationalities that have enriched your
country and mine will gain nothing
by trying to contradict historical
facts. They have their own gifts to
give; ttiiu iieitucr in jruui wuhuajt,
nor in mine, do we deny those gifts;
but neither can we deny the plain
facts of history in this particular
historical development. We are united
by something stronger than the
bonds even of blood. We are united
by the bond of a common language,
a language enriched by the associations
of a thousand years. The
great charters of freedom, frora
Magna Charta to the Declaration ol
Independence, have been slowly
wrested from tyranny by those whc
spoke our tongue."
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SECOND PRIMARY. , i
The second primary election will
;be held on next Tuesday. At that
,1 election the voters will cast their
| ballots for a candidate for the short
i term in the United States Senate,
for a Railroad Commsisioner, and
for a Commissioner of Agriculture.
In addition to this a candidate for
Comptroller General is to be nominated,
Mr. Sawyer having died a few
days before the first primary, and
the Democratic Executive Committee
having ordered that the primary
for this office be held on next Tuesday.
County Chairman, Wm. P. Greene a
advises that the tickets have been) M
shipped to him, and that they will in V
all probability be received today, ^
and may be called for, as well as .
those enrollment books which were
returned. The managers of election I
may call for these books and tickets, I
or any persons in the vicinity of a I
polling place may call for the same. I
It is suggested that there are men I
on the jury from the several com- I
munities and any of these may call |
for the boxes and tickets for the I
polling precincts at which they vote, I
if they will turn the same over to I
the managers. ^
"CHARLEY'S AUNT," g
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It makes you forget where you are, H
whom you are, wnat you are, ana
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j STORE TO CLOSE AT |
SIX O'CLOCK DURING WAR |
We, the undersigned merchants of g
' Abbeville, S. C., do hereby agree to J|
! close our stores at 6 o'clock P. M., ?
during the duration of the war. Saturdays
and pay days at the Shops "
j excepted: i Cason
& McAllister. j
i Parker & Reese. j J
Haddon-Wilson Co.
Wm. H. Cobb Co.
The Rosenberg Mercantile Co.
Philson & Henry.
Mrs. Jas. S. Cochran.
J. M. Anderson Co.
L. C. Haskell.
J. S. Bowie Co. Wholesale Grocers
A. M. Hill Co.
T. M. Miller.
Amos B. Morse Co.
W. D. Barksdale.
F. S. Hill, Market.
Kerr Furniture Co.
Stark Vehicle Co.
J. Allen Smith Jr. v
W. T. Cason.
T. H. Maxwell.
Moore Bros.
W. A. Calvert.
Hot Hustler Racket.
E. R. Thomson.
| D. Poliakoff.
L. W. Keller & Bro.
- W. E. Johnson.
R. L. Mabry.
A. M. Smith.
L. W. White Co.
S. J. Link.
R. Kirkwood.
Dargan-King Co.
Hall Investment Co.
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I THE KAISER LAUGHED AT.
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J The Kaiser never had a thing to
jmake him so angry in his life. An
j American moving picture company
| took pictures of him in a series of
| funny poses and thereby placed him
in a class with Charley Chaplain
and Fatty Arbuckle. Think of it!
| The great and divine Kaiser, the
[proud and egotistical monarch, crawl
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and thousands of people jeering and
. laughing at him. It was enough to
I make the old geezer cum.
1 Well, Mr. Glenn Kay once showed
, a very special picture called, "The
. Beast of Berlin." The same coms
pany, which produced that, is offer
i! ing a farce on that picture entitled,
J "The Geezer of Berlin." If you
r. want to enjoy> a. good laugh at the
> Kaiser's expense, go to the Opera
House on Monday, Sept 9th.
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I wish to announce that I have or
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thousand dollars worth of musical
I have over a dozen of the most
now in stock. All pianos have the
Pianos at from three hundred doll;
Player Pianos at from five hundre
dred dollars. I will have a playe:*
hundred dollars.
I have made a special order for
here in October, which is sol d for n
All of the pianos I have on hand
and before the great advance in pi
of what the goods cost. Pianos c
what they were four or five years a
Call and see my entire line. Act.
may be secured.
Coil A* urrifp ni? nKmnf? and I arm
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JOHN A. H
The Greenwoc
Reference:?The Bank of Gre(
est Bank in Greenwood County.
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