Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . tion of official agents of the ImperialGovernnment. The world must be made safe for democracy. These words represent the faith which inspires and sustainsour people in the tremendous sacrifices they Jiavc made and arestill making. They also believe that the unity and peace of man-kind can only rest upon democracy. To all these the Prussian military autocracy is an implacablefoe. —Prime Minister David
Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . tion of official agents of the ImperialGovernnment. The world must be made safe for democracy. These words represent the faith which inspires and sustainsour people in the tremendous sacrifices they Jiavc made and arestill making. They also believe that the unity and peace of man-kind can only rest upon democracy. To all these the Prussian military autocracy is an implacablefoe. —Prime Minister David Lloyd-George, April 6, 1917. 211 Died on the Field of Honor in France Fighting for Freedom LIEUTENANT EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY, 2nd, of Philadelphia, enlisted early in the war in the Canadian April 19, 1917, he was reported missing in the fighting whichfollowed the taking of the famous Vimy Ridge by the Canadiantroops. Later it was announced that he was killed in action. Hewas the son of William Burling Abbey, of Mt. Holly, New Jersey,grandson of Rev. John Kerfoot Lewis, Chaplain in the United StatesArmy, and namesake of his uncle, Edwin Austin Abbey, the celebratedmural Head of Jefferson used on all diplomas issued by theUniversity of Virginia, of which he was the founder. TO THOMAS JEFFERSON,who, in the Declaration of Independence, proclaimed the belief indemocracy for which all the free peoples of the earth are fight-ing today. Lincoln declared that all the political sentiments he enter-tained sprang from the Declaration of Independence, and nowPresident Wilson is leading the American people in a gloriouscrusade to make all the peoples of the world as free as ourselvesto determine their own political destinies. Romanoff autocracy is dead in Russia. Sic semper tyrannis. HOHENZOLLERNI ET HAPSBVRGI DELENDI SVNT. The world must be made safe for democracy. Thy spirit, Thomas Jefferson, is alive in the hearts of allfree men today. Those about to die for freedom,
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