Atlanta Georgian., 1913-09-23

BRUSH people. And they glory
in 1t. The American people have
never had war with the British
people-they only fought the
British rulers. The British peo-
pie were doing the same thing az
the same time. They were fight
ing their rulers, and on the same
grounds. They were demanding
for themselves the freedom which
the colonial forces won on the
hard fought fields. Washington
and the Revolutionaries had no
better friends in the world than
they had among the earnest men
in England, whose names ara for
ever bound up with the develop
ment Of British liberties. Qua
Kers, Unitarians Congrezat ton
alists, Baptists were the unfslter-
ing friends of the American Rev
olutlOn.
y URING our war with Spain.
the British Government
was coldly Indifferent. The
British people were enthusi-
astically pro- American. I dis
played the American flag in nv
home from the beginning of the
war until its close; and what I
did, many other Englishmen did.
On the Sunday nearest to July I.
in the year OF the war, my church
in Liverpool printed for use in
the public service, MY Country.
'Tis of Thee" with the American
and British flags prominently dis
played. | take it that it will not
be suggested that this was the
only church in Great Britain
where such a spirit obtained.
Crowds waited outside news
paper offices for news of the sea
hshts-and l saw them, And 7
heard them cheer American sue
cesses. It is the same thing now.
1t Will be the same thing as lonc.
as there are two Englands. The
England of the foreigners. who
have ruled England for more than
eight hundred years, may persist
in misunderstanding and in blum
dering. But the England of the
English people, the English peo-
pie tilling the fields and building
the cities, and sailing all the seas
OF God, win continue to admire
and love the American peopte
M Y native city Of Nottingham
and there is no limit to my
pride in that one-time hotbed of
radicalism and revolution-pre~
sented, far back in English his
tory, a curious spectacle. It wa.
a walled town, strongly fortified,
and it's castle is one of the show
places Of Great Britain. Inside
the walls of Nottingham were two
Nottinghams, separate and dis
tinct boroughs, one the Nothing
ham of the Norman conqueror.
one the Nottingham of Danes and
Saxons. by that time becoming
one flesh and one spirit. There
were French courts of justice and
English courts; there were
French markets and English mar
kets; there were French churches
and English churches; there were
French laws and English laws
and. Of course, there were there
spoken the Norman French Ian
suage and the English. Down to
the beginning of the seventeenth
century, incredible as this NAV
seem, two juries had TO be sum
1noned, one from the old French
borough, one from the English.
Which things, though absolute
ly true to literal fact, are writ
ten allegoricaIly." The wise
American will not hold the Brit
ish people responsible for the ac-
tion Of the British rulers. He will
not ascrlbe TO one England the
misconduct OF the other. And IL
he is as fair in his thought OF
the British man or woman as tna
British man or woman Is in
thought Of the real American, he
will remember that there are two
Englands. the England of Will
liam the Norman robber. and
the England of Harold, the Sax
on; the England of THE Bloody
Mary" aud the England Of Will
liam Shakespeare, the England
Of the late Marquis Of Salisbury
and the EngIan9 OF LLOYD Gaorze,