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bu, 10 grants OF land-as fertile and as
valuable no doubt as any to be found III
Texas. The Saxon pirates eagerly ac-
cep'cd the invitation. They volunteered
bv thousands; and under the command OF
Hengist and Horsa-heroes quite as re-
spectacle as Mlrabeau Lamar or General
Houslon-they poured into the country.
They repulsed The Plcts,-whose soldier.
ship seems to have been about on par
with that of our Mexican neghbors, and
delivered Great Britain from her invaders.
What followed, is somewhat remarkable; q
probably 1t is the very particular act oftheir
llus,rlous ancestors, which most cXcltes Inc
vrtuous envy, and is most likely to provoke
the emulation of our modern Anglo Saxons
Having driven out the invaders. and see
ing Britain to be n fine country, with much
excellent land, and the inhabitants little
able to resist them. these vlrtuous, heroic,
chivalrous Anglo Saxons resolved to por-
ton out the whole among themselves.
without any regard to he claim or remon
slrances of the former possessors, and in ut
ter contempt ofall previous grants, wheth.
er TO companies or individuals.
10 the luilment of this maganimous re-
solution, the Anglo.Saxo commenced n
war of determination against their British
| friends. From time to time, new compan-
les Of volunteers" arrived from the con
tinent; and in the course of century or
two of barbarous aud bloody warfare, the
| AngloSaxonS succeeded in subdulng the
native Britons, IN destroying their cities,
burning their churches, roofing out their
language, and where they did not exter.
inmate them, in reducing the whole people
to an ignominious servllude. The British
were nation comparatively civilized; for
the Romans had introduced their language,
laws, arts and institutions into the island {;
and the christian religion had been early
preached there and was generally received.
All this the Saxons overturned; for they
were pagans as well as barbarians
| Having subdued the Brtons, the Anglo
Saxons spent several centuries in fighting
among themselves. They waged series
of bloody contests, without object or aims
except the mere love of fighting, and which
according to Milton, are as little worthy OF
n place in history as the battles Of hawk
and kites. Meanwhile, however. they were
visited by certain missionaries from Rome
where the papacy was now completely cs'
lablished; aud by series Of impudenl
=
converted to the catholic faith, and soor
became famous throughout Europe for thelI
extreme superstition, and the implicit ODE
dnce with which they submitted to the
Roman ponlitf. Having turned monk,
and devotees, they gave up their tondnes
! for war; and before long their coasts were
ing Danes and Mortimer, who followed tn,
| g h.,
! These Danes, finding the Saxons wIthou
: courage or spirit, overran and plunderet
the whole country and finally, one Of the
|, chiefs made himself king of England. TIL,
| Anglo,SaXon princes succeeded in regain
ing u throne which they did not long re
Q tam. A new invasion was undertaken an,
=; successfully accomplished by William o
] Normandy. A single battle decided tn
fate of the island. The Anglo-Saxon
were stripped Of their lands, which wer
5 divided among the Norman adventures
and this handful offoreigners was able Il
tread he whole Saxon nation under foot
e to supercede the use of their language an
= avs, and to eXtinguish forever their ma
: lional existence. Henceforward the Angl
h Saxons are only known in history ;-excep
!, when they chance to find place IN congre:
), ,onal orations or newspaper editorials.
d Now what can equal the utter faulty
except perhaps the unblushing impudenc
= Of those political mounte-banks, VIII
gravely and seriously assure the America
II people, that they are Indebted for ever
s thing excellent in their institutions, CON
mendable in their character, and noble
,r their sentiments. to the single fact, that |
I. tracing back their pedigree for ten cent?
- RIGS. they will find these Anglo Saxon p
lie ratcs-.these brutal, bloody and superst
;. rlous barbarians to have been among the
e ancestors?
Y, Assuredly we have great cause of gra
h, tiude. and the fact may well inspire
with lofty notions Of the capabilities
I'd human nature, that by the progressi,
amelora,ions oftime, and the concurrent
of fortunate circumstances, being descendt
from such ancestors, we have come to
-, such as we now are. But our gratitude
~ due to The progress of knowledge and
-, arts; and TO the gradual development
Ia the Unborn energies Of humanity; not
- the accident of Saxon or of Ceh,c blood.
~, This attempt to carry back the pa
nm lie sentiment to the prejudlces of the Da
~, Ages, and to induce a republican people
-, aScribe TO their ancestry and descent. tn
n tor which they are indebted TO The onwa
n spirit OF innovation and Improvement. mig
- well be lett to die of innate emptiness, we
~, II not evidently the child not of folly, b
~ of wllful spirit of fraud and plundcr,-
=, spirit that is now, and always has been, 1
M grand stumbling block in the march Of h
49, man improvement.
nd Our modern Anglo Saxons, who if tn
to feel the honor of their ancestry, feel al
US, some touches not of It's pretended, but of
yes real spirit; our modern Ang 10 Saxo
10 openly avow the wish aud the design to c
pe gage this nation in war of conquest q
lad plumber, to which they disdan to inGlcG
,rn any other bounds than the limits of /
on American continent Most modest, M
he magnanlmous heroes!
nat Yet the very extravaganza ofthese spt
ish ulallons is great reason why we shou
vIl be on our guard against them. The me