The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-05-11
WAS MARSHAL NEY EXECUTED?
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WAS MARSHAL NEY EXECUTED?
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Weston went to France and got all
the information about Neys life
and it is now known that he was an
educated man. could tell you sew
eral more incidents relative to
this man, but | have no doubt you
know about Weston's book and |
must assure diy believe that this
wonderful man was none other than
Marshal Ney.
Very truly yours.
H.H Newton, Jr.
Bennettsville, Marlboro Co.. S. C.
Answer.
One of the most peculiar traits
OF the human race is, the reluctance
to believe that one who is claimed
to be dead, is dead.
There are people who believe, to
this day, that John Wilkes Booth
was not killed in the barn and bur
led at Washington; but that he es-
capped, and lived many years in
peaceful obscurity.
Many others are confident that
the young Bourbon prince, who
would have been Louis XVII had
ne lived, escaIed from imprison-
"tAN uiSu al
many years after his supposed de-
cease In the prison in Paris.
Many of Napoleon's old soldiers
refused to accept the statement
that he died in 1921. They con-
tinued to believe that he would
come again"
Therefore, it is not phenomenal
that many intelligent people should
feel certain that the South Caro-
INA school teacher, who claimed to
be Ney. was Ney.
But the undisputed facts of his
tory explode the theory that this
American Ney was Napoleon's mar
shal.
L. Napoleon III exalted the New
family and; the Prince of Mosko-
wa, Marshal Ney's son, was high in
favor at the imperial court.
why, during all the years of the
reign OF Napoleon, did not the al
leged Marshal Ney. of North Caro-
INA, return to France, where he
would have been ecstatically well
coined, royalty feted, and reward
ed with unbounded liberality. The
question admits of but one answer.
The North Carolina man was not
the Ney who was the hero of the
retreat from Moscow, not the Ney
'oSSiioo, hoI lle Ney WHO VINO
was the brave des braves
2. New the Marshal. would not
nave wept at Napoleon's death. At
bottom, he cherished no affection
Tor the old Commander.
IL was Ney who threatened Ma
poleon, at Fontaineblau; brutally
inIlmatlng he would resort to per-
sonal violence. if Napoleon did not
sign the act OF abdictation.
He was furiously angry with Ma
poieon during the Waterloo cam
palgn; and left the field cursing
MIN, and slandering him.
8. His family would have been
In the streets, had he escaped to
America. His son, and ali the 9TH
er members of the Ney family, knew
he had been executed; and they
mated Wellington, and Wellington's
famil on that account.
4. were, there anything in the
story, the French government would
nave taken notice of it: and the
remains of her illustrious soldier
would nave been carried back to
MS native land just as Napoleon's
own body was claimed, and magni-
ficently entombed, and Just as we.
ourselves. brought home, tardily
enough, the supposed body of John
Paul Jones.
5. Not only did the Bourbons
take, without question, the odium
attached to the murder of Ney. but
Wellington did likewise.
6. Marchal Michael Ney would
nave changed his given name to
Peter Stuart leaving his sur
name unchanged
z. Had Ney escaped by the
connlVance of those who had charge |
or his execution. his family would |
nave been most eager to establish |
that fact. The Neys have never |
taken the slightest interest in the |
North Carolina man.
g. So far as l can recall at this
time, the greatest part of the Wes-
Ton DOCK rests on hearsay evidence |
would be glad to learn upon what !
authority rests the statement that |
Ney FAMILY consented to the |
exhurN 'tion of his body in Paris.
offer FSself skeptical on this detail.