The Washington times., 1938-07-04
1776---1938

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WE talking about the Civil War yesterday,
w which was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
victory at Gettysburg Today, the 162d anniversary
of the signing of the Declaration of Independence seems
good day to unwind few remarks on the American
Revolution
Of course the Revolution was just that-a revolu-
ton of some of Engands colonists against England
and successful one But another interesting way in
which to look at is step in the long process of
getting Europe out of what nowadays seems to have
been the Americans predestned part of this continent
There was time when France had vastly larger,
though not choicer possessions in North America than
England had. 1t took four to boost the French
west of the Missssippi-King Williams 169O-9O ;
Queen Annes War G7O2-13) King Georges War
Q74448); and the Seven Years War, French and
Indian Wars, whose dates, in spite of its name were
1754-63 The last of these ending actually with Gen.
James Wolfe's famous victory the Marquis de
Montcalm at Quebec on September IL, 1759 the
American phase of general sea and land between
England and France.
In all these wars the American coonists helped the
British Redcoats push back the French 1t wasn't until
ITS that the coonsts turned against the Redcoats.
1t took George Washington years to do it. Even
great battles of the Revolution fought mostly in New
York State Pennsylvania and
washington Won New Jersey-the battles of
H. Io,o+ Du4+1 Long Island, Harlem Heights
AA'0 N"0' D0'''0 White Plains, Trenton,
Princeton, Germantown, Brandywine, Monmouth.
Washington lost was stalemated in, all but three of
these battles Trenton Princeton and Monmouth) but
when it to the siege of Yorktown, Washington
there with the goods and French help and Yorktown
was the end of British rule the thirteen colonies
The Louisiana Purchase (18O3) Spain's cession of
Florida to the United States G819) the Oregon Country
colonization (1846), the Mexican War q846) and the
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
WeStU0F0 tne completed the job of getting
AHorob of E,,,n;ro, European nations claims to
- various parts of our present
territory lquidated
The stage set for the Civil War (1861-65), which
settled forever the question whether the Unions terri
tory to be it is or end along the MasonDxon
Line on it's Southern exposure.
We put forever in quotes above because it is very big
word
Ever since got shut of European domination Euro
. peans have been homesick
WashingtOn's AdUice for US: have vearned to
10 Rotfor Thn1 E,,or take US back physically or
spiritually. Only once have
a majority of suffered rush of homesckness for
Europe to the head That happened in 1917 and
still trying to get the headache.
Washington, wise we'll wise soldier, saw
1t coming He of course didn't predict the date of
entry into the World War But in words that still ring
in print he told the United States of his day that it
well rid of European entangemens and that the United
States of the future would touch Europes buzz
intrigue and hatred at it's peril
That advice is better at the present time than
We being besought by home and foreign radicals and
liberals to throw weight the side of the Marxist
theology in China and Spain. Some of conservatives
would like to line up with the Fascist states in the Red
White which they believe inevitable
We can't win in such war; whichever side we may
choose We only ose just lost in the World War
We may go down with the rest of the world in genera
crack-up of twentieth century civilization.
This newspaper isn't to look with fond eyes on al
things past good things. But Washington's advice
against foreign entangemens is thing that continues