The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-29
Didn't he stand like this at Ratisbon I?

A drawing by F. c. Yohn, from "Vive
FEmpereur,' by Mary r. S. An
drews.
A really important book of the pres
ent season is volume entitled THE
Royalists in the American Revolu
Revolution written from an entirely
new point of view and embracing many
hitherto uncollected facts. Curiously
enough the American people have come
to look on the Whig party in the Revo-
lutionary days as the natural party and
to regard the Loyalist party as a crea-
tion of the times. AS matter Of fact,
however. as Mr.. Van Tyne, the author,
has pointed out in his book, loyalty was
the normal condition, the state that had
existed, and did exist. and it was the
Whigs-the Patriots as they caleld them
selves-who did the converting. and
changed mems opinions to suit the new
order of things. John Adams seems to
have had considerable share in creating
the impression that the Loyalist was
the unnS tural party. For ten years, he
wrote IN one of his works, the British
government pursued a system whereby
they formed and organized. and drilled
and disciplined a party favora ble to
Great Britain" In fact he went on to
say, they sedUced and deluded nearly
one-third of the people of the colonies. -
According to the author, the persecu-
ton of the Loyalists by the Wings dur
ing the war and the Punishment or
Z
! these most conservative and respectab BILE
Americans. is a tragedy but rarely par
&ileled in the history of the world. He
/ believes that the youthful errors of the
American republic in the matters Of
finance, diplomacy and politics might
have been in part corrected by the pres
ence Of that conserVa tive element which
/ had either to be driven into exile, or if
permitted to remain. was long deprived
! of political and social influence.
Mr.. Van Tyne has started out his
| book with a stOrv CT an enthusiastic
/ loyalist which attracts one to further
IN the early DAYS of the American
revolution, when, the companies of pa
/ triots were rallying from every part of
the country to repel the British. a regi-
ment of militia, coming up from the
south, crossed the James river at the
little town Of Richmond in Virginia.
! While they were passing through the
! town q shoemaker stood in his door and
| cried: .Hurrah for King George No
/ one took any notice of him. but after
hating in the wood, a little distance
beyond, the soldiers We're cooking and
eating sCTne fish when the shoemaker
came to them and began again to hurrah
for King George. When the command
ing officer and his aides mounted and
were starting or. the shoemaker still
Followed hurra hing for King CeOreA
Thereupo1 the officer ordered the perti-
naclous Tor to be taken back to the
river and 'dUcled. The soldiers brought
a long rope which they tied about the
middle. around the shoemaEer's waist
and seeslwed him backward and for
ward IN the stream until they had him
nearly drowned. but every time he got
his head above water he would cry for
King George The officer finally ordered
nm to be ,tarred and feathered, A
feather bed \ as taken from the shoe
makers own l-ouse. where his wife and
four daughters were crying and beseech-
ing the father to hold his tongue; but
fflli he would not The soldiers tore the
bed open. Knocked the top out of a tar
oarrei, and plunged the king worshiper
IN headlong. He was then drawn out
OF the barrel by the heels and rolled
IN the feathers until he was a sieht:
put still he would hurrah for Kina
George. The officer, now thoroughly
aroused, ordered the fellow to be
cruTnrnedi out OF town with the warning
that If he 1isgued him any more he
would have him shot. The sentence was
executed and the soldiers saw no more
: OF the shoemaker
IHere was 2, ludicrous element in the
shcema ker, IS obstinate loyalty, but in I
more cignit1ed character the sa me de
: terrnlned allegiance could have beer
lound IN the hearts of thousands oi
Amer1ears in the early days of the revo-
lullcD. With those loyal subjects of the
i'r1tlsh king, Samuel Adams and Johr
Adams had to contend when they sci
pouf to arouse America to rebellion
5 ana final Independence"