The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-06
THE TRAIL OF THE HUN.

Since we declared q SIate VI "oh
existing between this country and
Germany we have not been without
those, who, affecting to be willing
to help France, have in mournful
numbers told US how much we ought
to hate England, and as between
England and Germany we should not
take sides, unless of course and per-
haps on the side Of the Kaiser. Some
Of those who have so stated in their
ignorance have been sounding
boards for traitors. Those really
responsible for this talk have had
less of love for France than they
have told us, and less real consider
alton for their own country. Be-
cause as we have said before, it was
not really England that made war
on us in the Revolution, but Ger
many in fact, and among those VINO
came over to fight our forefathers'
waging a war for independence,
were the hired Hessians, who fought
us for the money that was in it.
In confirmation of what we have
been saying, we give our readers a
recent editorial from the Greenville
News, so ably edited by Hon. Rion
McKissick, at once a gifted writer
end a scholar who knows what he is
talking about, as well as the way to
nut the truth. Here is the way he
tells it:
The Kaiser and Huns of 1776.
"Often since this war began the
statement has been made, especially
by Englishmen, that in. the War OF
the Revolution, the people of Eng
land opposed warning on their bro
theirs in blood and ideals in Ameri-
ca and that George the Third, then
King of England, was really Ger
sran. A most interesting statement
by way of corroboration was made
by Alfred Noyes, the famous Eng
lish poet, in a speech this year at
the dedication of the memorial to
american and British soldiers at
Princeton, Revolutionary Scttle-
field. On this occasion he said:
"1t is difficult to realize, in these
surroundings, that your countrymen
and mine were once engaged here,
on this very ground, in killing one
another to make a German holiday;
while sound, very like those con-
cussions which you hear now, in the
distance, was once heard here in
grim earnest, a sound that meant
mot the mere blasting of stone from
those quarries under the hills, but
the destruction of human life in war.
"T said that we killed one an
other to make a German holiday,
and it is something more than an
attempt at an epigram or time
serving paradox. 1t is plain his
torical fact that the Revolutionary
ar was an earlier phase of the
war of today. It was a war of our
Englishman, George Washington,
against a German King. It is un-
necessary to remind you Of the ia
miliar protests that great English
men like Chatham and Burke made
against that war; but, on an occa'
sion like this, it is fitting perhaps
that we should remember how rep
resentative those real men were OF
all that was best IN the splrlI o.
England. When Chatham attacked
the war against the English colon
lists in America as "most barbar
Gus, cruel, unjust and diabolica
war" when he said, "if were al
American, as I am an Englishman
4 would never lay down my arms
while q foreign troop was landed IL
my country, never, never -" HI
ras speaking not only for himself
4 hut for al true Engiishmen every
whore. And when he said "a for
eirn troop" he was not alluding t.