The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-04
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HISTORY TO REPEAT ITSELF
By
Col. D. A. Dickert
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Before the dawn OF authentic MS
tory, Europe war inhabited by t2e
yellow Or the brown races. In the
remote past. about three or four thou-
sand years before Christ, there began
from somewhere in Asia, a great war
of determination between the dwell
ers of the dark races, and those or
the whites. From the number that
eventually overran Europe, the
members of these classes must nave
been as the "sands of tht seashore." AS
the yellow or brown race began To
teat back the white or Aryan race,
there began a continued wave of M.
grafton of whites over Europe tnat
continued for centuries. . These ms
gratory Or beaten races, in turn.
fought, exterminated or drove farther
westward the race they found in
habiting this new country. Some
came by the southern route, through
Asia Minor and the Hellespont. These
settled in Greece and the Italian
states. Others by the northern route
through what is known as Russia.
The first to flee the wrath to come
was the Ctlts, who spread over Rus
sia and the eBalkans. Then CAM
Teutons. followed by the Slavonic
tribes. 1t seems the Teutons was the
most powerful and numerous of al
adventurers,- and drove those in frons
of them. to the western fringe of
Europe The Slavonic tribes and the
tribes whe came after finding they
could not move the Tetuens, broke
up into scores of smaller clans and
settled in Russia. BY intermarrying
with the natives, their language chang
ed and they became separate ana
distinct race, each speaking differ
ent language. The Huns came at
much later day and settled in the
plains of Hungary. The powerful
tribe of Teutons aften driving out all
the original dwellers. settled dow-
permanently in Central Europe and
by intermarriage with other races,
sprtad themselves over countries as
far south as France and westward 20
the North Sea. The Angles, Iutes
and Saxons took possession OF the
British Isles and became progenitors
OF the English. For several centuries
this migration wstward ceased, but
internal warfare among themselves.
was of continual occurrence. But 1t
seems the battling between the bar
barians of Central Asia never stopped
for the continued movement westwarc
over Europe. by different races. leT
one to believe their numbers were in
exhaustible and as it was the better
of the time. that Western Europe was
the end of the world When these rec.
es were pressed westward from Asia,
they had to lay waste vast tracts Of
land and eXterminate whole tribes o.
original settltrs to Secure homes for
themselves and families
But in time the spirit of unrest be-
gan to seize the people The westward
journeying of the sun, seemed to lure
them further westward. They over
leaped the Atlantic, and found homes
in America, and spread along, the
eastern coast of the Atlantic from
Hudson Bay to the Gulf These were
descendants of the Teuton race, while
the Spanish race, took possession Of
S. - America. In America the whites
q confronted by a shade of the
yellow race who had first started
them on their westward migration.
For d few centuries this RESTLESS spin
i. quieted down, and the new comers
began building themselves permanen:
homes. But during. and before the
long sleep of the dark ages, Europe
was never permanently relieved from
the hordes coming from ouf OF Asia.
The Goths, Vandals, Suevi, Turks, etc.
They came like bets out of hive Or
ants from an anthill. all following tne
course of the sun. Only twice during
these five thousand years, was an az
tempt made to invade the east, once
by the Greeks. under Alexander, ana
once by the Romans, but in time they
were absorbed by the natives and
today there is not trace Of their
existence.
Again the bug of westward no.
began to bite the people along the