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pal rulers were established at an earlier period thar
in France and England The Burghers Of Castl
ian towns, instead Of purchasing their immunties
and almost their liberties, from the hands of MAS
ter. as had been done elsewhere, by rendering to
the Barons stipulated service, were invested with
civil rights aud extensive property on the more lib
eral condition Of protecting their country.
The Anglo-Saxon who had expelled the ancient
Brton was IN turn invaded and overcome by the
Norman. who parcelled out the country to his vic
torious followers on the tenure of military service
and thence onward they lived aud grew as one ma
ton. always enlargng in power. constantly increas
ing in wealth, and ever improving in resources and
in knowledge.
| The Celtiberian, or the Spanard. as he NAV
henceforth be called, was i'm like manner Invaded
10y the Moor, who rapidly conquered and possessed
all the more fertile provinces of his country, the
native occupants retiring TO the mountainous re-
gohs. From these Businesses, after lapse of fiji.
ty years the Spaniard again descended i'm war, and
with an unring hate that was implanted i'm every
bQsom from age TO age, he pursued his old invader
with successive wars, until after the lapse of eight
Kindred years. the Moor was expelled from Spain
The lberian blood still flowed liz the veins of the
S,anlard, and showed that he might be overcome
bit never subdued.' This long encounter of the
Moor was defence of his religion as well as Of
country, and long service in defence of the Cross
;gains the Crescent has marked theSpaniard's cha
meter, with an obstinate attachment to his own re-
igion and an intolerance of all others.
After the lapse of more than a thousand years
nom the time when these two races of Celts had
planted themselves in countries so distant from each
nheg, they both began at opposite ends of their
Continent TO the ocean in search of other conn
tTies, and both sought the shores OF America
Each pursued his own parallel of latitude, and, af-
ter infinite suffering and carrying death to untold
thousands OF the native occupants, each founded
Colonial Empire-each Of which in time threw off
is subsection 10 the parent country, and, through
l. IN III.
And now these long separated races Of Celtic
blood, which parted from each other more than fiji
cen centuries ago on the confines OF Asia, have
net in conflict with each other in the interior of A
nerca. The elder race, that of Spain, by IFS in
ut lberian blood less inclined TO nvasOn--morc
lueScent and therefore more attached TO home-iS
lighting on its soil for the defence of home and
COUNTRY. The Mexican regards the presence of a
oreign enemy as proof of an nsatate ambition,
which aims at tile subjugation OF his country and
he overthrow Of his religion. i'm the maintenance
# these he shows unwonted and desperate en-
huslasm. The younger race---the Anglo Saxon,
# the purer Gothic descent. for the Norman inva-
ION was but an inauguration by the same Gothic
took -filled with the old Celtic spirit OF grasping
lew countries, proud of warlike honors, and fired
With the ardor of conscious superiority, is pressing
m, till the antagonist shall yield and sue for peace.
The pride OF the Spaniard may prompt resistance
o that last point which works his overthrow, ra-
her than save himsefb by demand of peace ex-
ended as boon to his neriority. Where shall
uch a conflict end p? VIII the Anglo Saxon, wea-
of his pursuit, and, satiated with victory, return
With barren honorS to his home in the North2 1t
little likely, and contrary to his history for thou
and years. VIII the Spaniard bow himself to the
oke, and quietly consent TO become 4 submissive
ubec resting under the rule of others, in the seat
his ancient home, won by the vaor of his ia
hers p? The story of his career for two thousand
l,rt,s A.. IL
breed with the continued pressure of the iron hand
f war, and the reduction of his numbers shall
make resistance hopeless. But when that day shall
e reached through so sad career, there remains
mother race, far more numerous, who retain an in
hatred to their white conquerors at
he lapse OF three hundred years, and they will be
eady and apt TO transfer that hate 10 any successor
their present masters, and be for ready use in
warfare. The history of these IA
es shows that they should have never met in war,
nd the contemplation of the future is filled with
adness and omincns Of long trouble TO their pos
Gritty