The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-10

DroWskl was largely responsible. his
tory also records how Napoleon broke
his promise to restore Poland, when it
was in his power to do so.
The struggles Of the young republic
appealed to the love of freedom of the
Poles and again Polish blood was shed
SO that others might be free.
The three heroic, but unsuccessful
efforts to save Poland by armed revolu-
ton form chapter in history not ex-
celled in fortitude and patriotism by
any other nation. In the last effort,
the bear who walks like a man,
needed the help of the Prussian eagle
TO prevail over the brave little band of
Poles, whose blood drenched their ma
tive soil without regaining its freedom
Fought by Others.
History also records how the Poles
fought when compelled to fight for
others, being conscripted into their ar
mics. Be it said to the honor and glory
Of those Poles who fought in the Aus
trian and Prussian armies, that once
having donned the uniforms Of those
nations, they remained true to their
cause while the war was being waged
In the war of Prussia against Aus
tria in 1866, Poles fought on both sides
and neither side complained of Polish
treason. In the Franco-Prussian war
OIL 1901, within the memory of many
now living, the Poles fo1ned whole
battalions Of the Prussian army. They
served the Prussian cause heroically,
even though the trend of Polish sym
pathy might have been in France IS
favor. While the Poles had neither adj
miration nor confidence in the ability
OF Napoleon H., who was boulevar-
dier rather than soldier or statesman,
it was but natural that they should
have wished for the success of any
arms against the Prussians.
1t will serve good purpose, in de-
scribing the valor of the Second
battalion, Sixty first regiment, compos-
ed exclusively of Poles, to employ the
language Of German officer, Henry
Schern, in describing the assault upon
st. Martin at the battle of Dijon, Jan.
%, 1871. I quote from his memories:
An Act of Heroism.
'The bugles sounded the charge; the
Poles forming the remnant of the regi-
ment, to a man surrounded the com
handing officer and with tears of ex-
alta tinn in +ho;r ouoc bnmnoJ him -
send them upon the enemy to recover
the standard In an assault upon st.
Martin almost the whole of the Sixty
first regiment was annihilated by the
French guns. There remained part
tf the Second battalion, composed en-
tirely of Poles, and it is this remnant
&C the regiment of which the author
speaks). The colonel sent them out to
the battle field to recover the lost
standard, and the next morning there
returned into the Prussian lines only
one soldier, severely wounded, with tot
tering step and without the standard
All his comrades were lying on the
battle field. The following day the
soldiers of Garibaldi Commanding the
French) found the standard torn into
shreds by bullets and drenched with
Polish blood. Touched and exalted by
this unusual heroism, Garibaldi ordered
the standard returned into the Prus-
sian lines with all honors of war, and
then retired from his position.
Shortly afterwards William I. pre-
sented a new standard to the Polish
battalion and solemnly expressed his
appreciation and gratitude
The German War.
Anent this occurrence as described
by the German author, the Bavarian
weekly, Das Bayerische Vaterland'
wrote a few years ago on the occasion
of the passage of the Prussian ex-
preparation laws against the Poles, as
follows:
Tn view of this fact we have the
clearest illustration of the highest
glory, fortitude and bravery with
which all Polish battalions distinguish
ed themselves in this last war of Ger
many. The war reports are filled with
Acknowledgements of the distinguished
courage of the Polish troops, whose
blood ran in streams for Germany and
for-Prussia. And the reward for all
that shall now be the appropriation law
against the Poles. For all that there
shall now be passed against the Poles
exceptional laws depriving them of
their lands and their own soil, from
their fatherland, and even stripping
them of their own languagel
Does not this unheard of injustice cry
to the heavens for vengeances'
This is verbatim translation of
what this honest German avarian pa
FER wrote few short years ago when
the whole Germany, with the excep-
ton Of Prussia, cried shame upon the
Prussian government because of it's
cruel persecution of the Poles. Moth
ing that could write is able to add
to the Mortified condemnation of such
base ingratitude on the part of the
Prussian government toward the Poles.
No Teuton Quarrel.
We have no quarrel with the Ger
mans. Their sympathy for us and our
oa,7co hos frnounntIv hann oynroocod