The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-21
SIX NOBLE VOLUMES.
Contain the Diplomatic Correspond
ence of the Revolution.
Rev Light Thrown on Various Epi-
sodes Which Contributed to
shape the History of the
United States.
Especial Washington letter.

TACTS partially stated cannot be
fully understood. The four Cos
pels are required in order to
gain an understanding of the life OF
the Christ, because each synoptist tells
only his side of the story, or the
story as seen from his standpoint.
Facts of history can only be under
studio when reasons are given for the
actions of the prominent actors on
the worlds stage.
The history of the revolutionary
war which gives us only the move
ments of the armies is an inccm-
plete history. That is perfect mar
rative which tells us why Washing
ton, Gates and other generals moved
as they did move, and which tells us
all about the resources upon which
the armies and civilian officials de-
pended for their maintenance.
A full century elapsed before the
congress authorized the publication
of the diplomatic correspondence of
the revolution, without an under
standing of which no complete his
tory could have been written con-
corning that period. In 1888 the pub
LEGATION was authorized, and it is in
six volumes. These volumes are to be
found in the congressional library,
| the department of state, and in few
of the libraries in the great cities of
the land; but very few earnest stu
dents of history have access to them.
The congress ought to have them
printed by the hundreds of thousands,
and send them broadcast to the peo-
pie, instead of sending their own po-
litical speeches, which are of inf
Eitely less consequence.
The report of the committee on
printing, which has been loaned to
the writer, says: "a knowledge of
the revolutionary diplomatic CORE
spondence is essential to the under
standing of our revolutionary history,
and of the treaties executed during
and at the close of the revolution,
which form in large measure the ba-
sis of our international law. This COR
respondence shows the movement of
the French politicians in 1776 to SUI
persede Washington by Marshal Brog-
1
lie; the movement of the American
politicians in 1776-77 to induce Wash
ington's withdrawal and to have
Franklin recalled from Paris; the
atrocities of British troops, and of
refugees in the United States put
forward by our diplomatists as a
claim against Great Britain, and set
off against British claims for in
demnity to loyalists; the extent to
which the fisheries were controlled
by American fishermen, prior to the
revolution; and, what is still more
important, how general was the I'M
Outstanding between the negotiators
that the treaty of 1928 was not a
treaty by concession by Great Brit
ain, but of partition, under which the
United States retained all the terri
torial rights previously possessed by
| them in North America when part of
the British empire.
ut also shows the intrigues against
Washington, and sets forth the unique
majesty of Washington, which com
PEELED those who intrigued against
him, when they camo into his pres
ence and saw him in the solitude of
his grandeur, if not to become, as
was the case with De kalb, loyal ad-