The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-19

Seattle Angus. -. iSs&
To the Efifcr. So many eaisshocdS about
The reszt-3ns ~ the United States 60 some
Of The foreign nations have Of late osen
published by he American press that no
body could undertake 20 correct them M
iess having a number os papers az his dis
Eosal We are presently living under Ire
sign q the English lie. ant as long as a
majority % cur newspapers and OF he
people willingly submit 20 that aane!a1 In
fu~nce, cse minority people. who .oathe
he SPECIALIZED English friendship policy. can
do nothing bat wait until a healthy public
feeling seis in and removes the blight. But
when American writers snieayor 10 Guido
the English lie by forging historical facts.
Il becomes necessary 10 peint out their
falsehcoas. lest they be taken 20 be the
ruth and. before we know II. inocuiasea
into American history.
/ refer 20 an article published In last
Sundays Pcst-Inteiiigeneer. headed: The
Relation Of Allies In which the author
Evans Cook. shows a iamenrahle disregard
o. historical truth. He states thar IN
the revolutionary war the Americans had
no allies but a few Frenehmen aud some
friendly Indians. while the English had the
HesssaGs as their allies. purchased 20 hep
suhdue the American forces" an shoinin-
able falsehoo.l that is nj. less contemplate
because II has repeatedly been stated be-
i1iss ne 4&@t IS tilal ne taesSsaisS NcaN
neither English allies nor bough; by the
English. They were Simply soldiers VINO
by order Of their prince were sent on board
Of ships and sent 10 fight against the
Americans. the same as the thousands Of
Irishmen and Germans who form half Of
the United States regular army We're
shipped 10 Ct;ha TO fight against the Span
tsh- The consent OF Neither sas asked.
bat in case Of the Hessiars IL must be
many OF them deserted 10 the American
side, and most nf them stayed In she United
States and became settlers when the war
was over. Besides that. the services OF the
Hessiaas ~ the English We're more than
offset by the thousands Of German sol
6iers and officers who fought for the
Americans and rendered such prominent
services tina: the United States. as we'll az
some of the states governments. caused
public monuments 10 he ser to az least
four German heroes of the revolution,
Won Steuben, De Kaln HeTkimer and
Nuh,enharg.
Speaking OF our civil war. Author Cook
writes that the Americans had no ally but
Russia, which stepped in and would allow
no Interference between the North and the
South. Very nice story that is, bur il Is
= myth which. although 1t has made the
rounds of the American papers time and
again. does not contain one solitary word
Of truth. Russia was. al that time. too
much weakened through the Crmean war
to assume a wariike position 20 any Eu-
ropean power. and it never did so in favor
Of the United States. Russia sent US nei-
ther men nor money nor any sympathies
II Is simply through an error in the names
that any friendship on her par, was ever
thought or spoken Of: the real friend in
our reed having been Prussia, which not
only refused 10 recognize the Southern
81 Nh
France ard England did SOL hut again
sent many thousands Of men ard officers
from Germany 10 the United States TO
fight for the preservation of the Union no
less than 235,e(9 Germans having thus
served In the Northern armies from 1861
to 1885 That the Germans also bought
millions of dollars worth Of American war
bonds which were not salable in France
England Russia or even in the United
States, is a piece of German friendship %
the civ!ltwar time that has long since been
forgot;eh
And ii Is very appropriate here to state
how German friendship towards the United
States was returned by the latter a
few years later. when Germany was fight
Ing for its existence. In 1870. in the middle
OF the Franco-Gefman war, the American
secretary Of war sold for si4.n00D1 TO
France the same arms which only five
years previously many thousands Of Ger
mans had carridd in helping to fight the
battles Of the United States. The fact that
the American government had s0lemnly
declared its mentality between France and
Germany was not deemed NJ impeachment 20
the ignominious Transaction
Finally the article in question states that
The ducb.es OF Schleswig and Holstein.
being parts of thA possessions of Denmark
were taken by tke Germans because Bis
marck wanted place called kiel in Hol-
stein as a naval harhor." Such ignorance
is iudierous. Neither Of the duchies was
ever Danish possession; they had Ger
man inhabitants and German princes BUT
when Schieswig- ho.stein and Denmark be-
came allied through having the same
prince and the Danish government tried
10 turn the independent duchies into Dan
ish provinces then Scl1ies wig -Hoistein re-
heiied and was finally liberated from DEN
mark by the German Bund mot the Ger
man empire. which then lid not exisy)
hope, Mr.. Editor, that tn the interest
II historical truth you will publish this
correction. Yours truly.