AS AN AMERICAN WAR DAY. "The Carroll Theory." THREE GREAT MYSTERIES SOLVED. Why Sunday Has Been a Four-fold More Eventful War What Became of the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?" AND Who Are the North American Indians? The Solution of the Sabbath Problem is One Which Adds to and References Given. By WESLEY PHILEMON CARROLL. = CHEYENNE. SUN-LEADER PRINTING HOUSE, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899, by In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. ΤΟ GEORGE DEWEY, Admiral of the American Navy, and The Most Illustrious Citizen of My Native State, This Little Volume is Respectfully Dedicated, by WESLEY PHILEMON CARROLL. PREFACE. During the recent war with Spain a large portion of the American people-in fact the whole nation-regarded with no little interest, for the time being, the fact that nearly everythingof any consequence, even to the transfer sovereignty over theisland of Cuba, occurred on Sunday. Many people were surprised at these things, as though it was something new in our American history to win great victories on the Sabbath day. All over the land occupants of the pulpit were asked, "How do you explain this?" When the news of our great victories was heralded abroad and all over the land, it seemed to the author that God Himself was calling in no unmistakable terms to the whole nation to awake, and it also seemed that the voice of Divinity itself was calling for some man to rise up among the 70,000,000 of our land and undertake to solve that which seemed to be so singular and mysterious. The author, from boyhood, had known that Sunday had been our most eventful war day, and he had also a theory regarding the fact. At length he resolved to investigate the subject, give the facts and his theory to the public. The author expects, as a matter of course, to be criticised, not only on account of his theory, but in respect to other things also. His way of writing in the first person will come in for a liberal share of this criticism, but the author is free to confess that the only essential difference he has been able to see, as between the style of using the pronoun "I" and the old stereotyped plan of using that other pronoun "we," is that in the first case the writer professes to be but one person, whereas, by using the word we he assumes to be more than one. The objection may be raised that the historical facts cited' by the author in support of his theory are mainly from "surfacehistory." The answer to that would be that surface history, as a general rule, is the only reliable history. The author should say here that the claim is not made that we, as a nation, are commanded to fight on the Sabbath day, unless there be a necessity for so doing, but in a righteous war, waged by a "chosen people," the necessity exists whenever an advantage can be gained by striking on the Sabbath day, which might have been lost by waiting until some other day. A word should be said here which would more properly come under the head of "Errata." Under the head of "Armies That Have Surrendered," it was not intended to convey the idea that Monterey surrendered September 20, 1846-that was the day when our attack began. A careful examination of the authority cited in reference to the surrender of Vera Cruz will show that the articles of capitulation must have been signed on Sunday, March 28, 1847. In the list of "Thirty Great Battle Sabbaths of the Republic," it should have been stated that the Americans attacked at Vera Cruz, Manila, Santiago, and the destruction of Cervera's fleet. The author quotes more frequently from Lossing than any other historian, for the reason that he gives dates more frequently than any other historian. Few, indeed, are the instances where other authorities than those given might not have been cited. Wherever "The World's Book of Facts" is cited, the World Almanac for 1899 is meant. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The author can never forget those who have, by word and deed, given him encouragement and assistance in his work. Among these are Hon. F. E.Warren, United States senator; Colonel John F. Crowley, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Hawes, County Superintendent of Schools, Laramie County, Wyoming; Miss Gertrude Wyoming Dobbins, Chief Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk Wyoming House of Representatives; Miss Mary Bailey, teacher in the Cheyenne schools; Rev. Frank Newhall White, D. D., D. D.; Rev. Sydney C. Davis, Rev. D. C. Winship, M. D., Ph. D.; Rev. E E Tarbill, Presiding Elder Methodist Episcopal Church; Colonel T. D. Randall, of Chicago, and last, but not least, E. A. Slack, editor of the Cheyenne Sun-Leader. THE AUTHOR. |