The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-07-26

glishman. / would never lay down my
arms while foreign troop was landed
in my country, never, never" he was
speaking not only for himself, but for
all true Englishmen everywhere. And
when he said "a foreign troop he
was net s4.uding to his own country
men. but to the German troops the
twenty thousand Hessians whom the
German King had been forced to hire
because Englishmen had refused to do
his dirty work.
The Kings proclamation of the state
OF war, when 1t was read from the
steps Of the Royal Exchange in Lon
don, was received with Kisses from
the citizens Of London. Their repre-
sentatives made protest to the King,
until he was forced to leave LOndo'
to escape them. The four members
Of Parliament who represented Lon
don voted against the war The Re-
corder of the city wore mourning pub
Iicly for the brothers he hadlost,
fighting against the new tyranny at
Lexington. 49,, fats,f
Lord North, the time-serving prime
minister, confessed in 1879 that he al
ways knew at heart, that the war
would be runouS. Darlington, the
Secretary OF state for War called
the policy of the King madness"
Shelbournet after many fair protests,
resigned from the Cabinet. The Duke
of Grafton wrote to North protesting.
His letter was ignored and he then
obtained a personal audience with the
King, with whom he pleaded in vain
against the war On the next day
he made public protest in the House
81 Lords He was summoned to the
palace and instantly dismissed from
his office of Lord Privy Seal by the
arbitrary command of the king, who
was trying to revive the divine right of
monarchs in England in precisely the
same way as the Kaiser is attempting
1. today in criminal policy" Green
Vile Sharpe, the great anti-slavery adj
vocate, resigned a government post,
upon which lie was entirely depen-
dent, and was thrown without re-
sources, on the world.
Soldiers and sailors resigned their
commissions rather than serve. Cha
than removed his son, Lord Pitt, from
the army, so that he might not fight
against the Americans, The Earl OF
Effingham resigned his commission
and received a vote of thanks from the
corporations of Dublin and London
for doing so. Sir William Howe, when
appointed to the command of the
British forces, accepted it only under
protest and because he felt himself
bound by his military oath. Colonel
Burgoyne also accepted only under
protest General Conway not only re-
signed his commission, but moved an
address in Parliament to stop the war
Immediately Admiral Keppel refused
to fight. And the list of protest
could be extended almost indefinitely.
Does ii not explain why the military
maps ON the s0-called British sid
the maps Of the battle of Princeton
were all drawn up in German? The
originals can be found in the Primo
ton library, II anyone wishes to con-
firm it.
And look at the names that signed
the Declaration of Independence
the Constitution of the United States.
viii you find any Bernstorffs or Hin
denburgs among them? Why, every
name appended to our constit ltton
was made in Britain. their very syl-
tables were formed in Britain-Wash-
ington, Langdon, Gorham. Johnson
Livingston, Paterson, Franklin, Hamil-
ton, Norris. ALI came from Great
Britain. and there is only one that
did not come from that smaller part
Os Greot britain which is called Eng