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PATRICK HENRY
By
WILLIAM S. HART
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"I want an American character, that the powers
of Europe may be convinced that we act for our-
selves."
George Washington to Patrick Henry, October 9,
1795. Copied from the Los Angeles Examiner of
August 1, 1919.
The .above will give all Americans food for recol-
lection. It will be noticed in the foregoing that
George Washington said "The Powers of Europe."
He did not say England. The men who fought the
War of Independence for America were English-
', men. Washington was an Englishman, a Captain
in the English army. True, they fought against
brother Englishmen, but their main opponents
were Hessians, and those Hessians were in the pay
and under the immediate control of King George
IV. of England, a British King but a Hessian-a
German. In our late war history repeats itself. The
Germans were the enemy of our struggling Republic
m 1776 just as they were the enemy of the Allies
in 1918.
About the year 1774, on the James River at the
town of Jamestown, Virginia, there arrived from
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