The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-16
The American Spirit as
1t Was 1856 Years AGO

er in defense of the lying legends than
others have fought for the sake of the
truth.
Yet the reasons for the myths now
reVerenced We're perfectly simple and
natural.
Though there vas a large loyalist
party explained Mr.. Fisher, lin some
places a large majority. it was so COM
rletely defeated. hunted down, terror
ICED and driven OUT of the country,
scattered in Canada and various other
British possessions. that. to use a vul-
Garism. thcT never opened their
heads again only in recent times
has n n had the face to collect
their evidence and arguments from
the original sources and publish them.
The successful party in America isnor-
ed them. to make it appear that the
revolution was d great. spontaneous
uprising of the Whole American PEG
pie without a faction or disagreement
among themselves. In England,
strangely enough. they were suspected
of being half rebels and were treated
as somewhat contemplate objects of
charity, or. at best, as mere provin-
cials.
I'm the second place." added Mr..
Fisher. We're long a very disunit-
ed people. Our writer's and able men
struggled to build up a nation and
give dignity inc respect to everything;
to make no damaging admissions, to
let no smallest fact creep out that
might be taken advantage Of. 1t vas
too much to expect that they should
describe the factions and turmoil of
the revolution as they really were:
the military absurdity of the British
Genera Howe. letting it go by default;
the rr1lplfI and narcoo1lfinnc in{3{ctoI
on the loyalists. me their large num-
bers. So they described a revolution
that never happened and never could
happen, a Observation-Disclosures
revolution. all spontaneous. all united.
merciful, noble, perfect, all virtue and
grand ideas on one side, all vice. wick
edness, e~ffeteness and degeneration on
the other"
With which candid preface Mr..
Fisher reviewed one life of Washing
ton, which furnished a pedestal of di-
vinity for the national hero and left
him so much of a demigod and so lit
tie of a man hat most of him, the real
him, has evaporated until thu full
blooded, human. intellieibly great
Washington is as much of a mummy
as any Pharaoh who ever stank of
bitumen. 1t was written by Jared
Sparks. president of Harvard college,
q perIerVld patriot, who, for his
try's sake. did a lot of artistic lying
and turned his facile pen to much
journeyman's work in plain and fancy
forgery.
There was a third cause. The pa.
triots In the revolution were too busy
lighting and hustling to write any his.
tory; they a both hands and thei1
mouths full making it. But over ir
England the whig party. in opposition
to the tories. was publishing analyses
OF events in America in it's Annua'
Register from the eloquent pens OF
orators k Burke and Chatham
These gentlemen argued that the reb.
els needed only be treated kindly tc
come running back to their allegiance.
and they pictured them as SUFFERING
angels. The basic truth. Mr.. Fisher
pointed out. was that the colonists be
longed to the irreconcilable magma
charta breed who would be the equal.
Of the best Britons at home or would
be Independent rulers of themselves
The tories after a while, did yield t.
them everything they could possibl,
ask except Independence; but theii