The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-05-25
The Handwriting Of God in the
Government Of Men.

from their moorings. It took that to
break US away from propositions and
now we can see the better fortune in
it. War has it's curses and war has its
blessings too. War is better than
slavery and bloodshed is better on
the race than tyranny. At the end
of each revolution the Anglo
Saxon has been able to look
ed back and gently whisper to
himself, "broken fetters, shattered
environments, greater liberties civil
and religious!.." And to the thoughtful
ones this means greater responsible
ties and renewed obligations to come
up "to the help of the Lord against
the mighty"
The Anglo.Saxon was once himself
slave, but Runny Meade witnessed
his revolt against the nobility of Eng
land and the Magma Charta, the bill
of rights and the habeas corpus were
only so many grades in his elova-
tion. In their proper time and IN
wise succession came the Puritan re-
volt in Oliver Cromwell's day-the
revolution of 1858 under the Prince
of Orange But England and the
colonies labored under the burdens
and relics still left from the feudal
system and the dark benighted mid
die ages. Against these our revolu-
tionary ancestors again revolted in
l776 and the constitution of our
great republic banished these barba-
rious vestiges forever in exile from our
shores. England was greatly blessed
and learned lessons from US which she
has only improved in~part, but allows
herself still to be fettered, her use
fulness impaired and her future be.
clouded by traditions and barbarous
customs from which nothing but
necessity and compulsion will dive
her and the sister Kingdoms on the
European continent.
Mexico was greatly blessed by her
war with US in 1916, and 1850 had
learned enough to virtually adopt the
constitution of the United States. In
this contest now with Spain Cuba will
be freed and Spain will learn lesson
by sad experience which her history
shows she can learn in no other way.
The governments in Europe will see
that they are long pace behind the
American patriots. Interferences
and assistance in the European pollti-
cal situation means only land grab
bing EXPEDITION, it means territorial
extention for control and for revenue
or for pillage and plunder.
Tits too late in the end of the
Nineteenth Century to witness the
scene in Cuba with any degree of
liberation. The kingdoms in Europe
stood by and saw the bloody tragedy
in Armenia and by the cold blooded
code known as international nutrality
declared that noninte1ference was
proper. Numbers in this country
say that Cuba belong to Spain and
as such she has alright to kill and
eat them if she so desires, or to crush
them by sword and famine and all
kinds of inhuman torture. The po-
sition taken by some CT our news
papers in this State is simply pitable
The News and Courier exhausted al
it's powers TO prove to US that the
Cubans were no worse treated thar
Sherman treated South Carolina il
1865. We live here in the midst O.
Sherman's raid and hundreds of u:
can testify that is base malicious
falsehoSd. It is a libillous and COW
ardly deed to misstate the facts O
an invading army to justify our self
ish aims and hide our treacherou
intentions. Our women were not as
saulted, our little ones were not butch
cred. There were no barns or dwell.
ings burned in this community wher
the owners still occupied them. Ou
of six saw and grist mills here q
Bull swamp only one was burned
Gin houses and cotton were general
DESTROYED. The stock was general,
taken, especially horses and mules
Corn and provisions here were take
for use but not wontonly burned @
DESTROYED. I was not thirteen year
old but [ was at home with N
mother and sister and saw the Who'll
columns of blue pass on. Grow
men were not molested who were nc
Confederate soldiers. [ know onl
of this community but why lighte
here than elsewhere? l see no res
son why such should be, for we liz
here in sight almost OF the capits
where secession was inauguratet