Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-15

which the Lord our God hath given us 20 which land
is 10 be all that, with carnage and devastation and
enslavement, we can wrest without wanting foot
of from weak and wrelched neighbors! In this
happy derivation, rejecting so much flial praise
upon our sires, there many beauties besides the
dutiiulness Of setting forth, in heraldie blazonry
the crimes only Of our ancestry to prove our pedi-
gree. First among these beauties comes the fact
that this patronymic OF ours is meant for those who
know about as much of who the Angles, acho the
Saxons and acho their joint descendants were, as
they do OF those Jewish affiliations which run back
to the twelve sons of Jacob, or those Welsh
rolls OF descent which count, through Ap Owens,
ap Hoels, ap Gwyniths, ap Catesbys intermina-
BILE, up to the Flood. 1t is the plain yeomanry,
the worklng-men," who hardly know or care
where their fathers, if honest men, came FROM
and whose utmost acquaintance with history scarce
ascends to our own Revolution, that are now to be
tckled with this unknown parentage from two OBJ
scure tribes of the Suev out of the Cimbrian Cher
sonesus, which even to have heard of supposes that
one must have studied the works Of the ancients,
both in French and Latin. Oh, miserable humbug
OF History! But again it is the " Republican"
teachers OF our nation, those who hold that " an
honest mans the noblest work of God" and have
ever laughed at the man who drew any merit from
his grandfather, that are now constructing for us
fabulous gepeaogies ridiculous as Garter-King-at-
Arms or the whole British College of Heralds ever
hatched out of antiquarian parchments. Hereto
fore, have TINY not, to fire the populace against
pedigrees, sung to US
What can ehnoble fools or sots or towards
Alas, not all the blood of all the Towards
and now they would get up nobility by the whole
nation for us, by claiming that we, Honest Men
, NHN' 80 -----, 10. every notner,s son no.
BILE, because we are the fabulous offspring Of the
robber barbarans and heathens, who, under Hen
gst and Horsa, came over from the woods of Ger
many, by British invitation, to them from the
ravages of the wild Picts; but, presently joining
those ravagers, became themselves scourge ten
times more mercilessl And for what are we, leap
ing overt the kindred and the example OF WASHING
TONS, HENRYs, FRANKLINs and all our own genuine
heroes Of honest policy and defensive vaor to seek
forged lineage of the pagans who came as friends
among On unarmed people and fell to butcheripg
them III is, of course, that we may initiate the
ruthless deeds Of Anglo-Saxons, not their subse-
qaent glory Of founding wise and free laws, resist
ance to bad kings, and true and stable popular
liberty. Was there not an Anglo-Saxon ALFRED,
as well as Hengists and Horsas Why must we
pass by the great law-giver of our race-f we are
of any certain race-to take our escutcheon from its
mere savages But no: ALFRED, like WASHING
TON, gave union to a people and saved them from
foreign sword, when utterly overrun. But do not
mention him there may be "moral treason y in
naming an Anglo-Saxon such as he. Hush, too,
about WASHINGTON! 1t is a name 10 make inva-
ders and ensavers tremble, even under their own
victorious banners! Say no more of him: even
whisper of his acts here might be heard in Mexico,
and would give aid and comfort to the enemy"
No: mention only men that have made nations
weep despair slayers abroad, betrayers at home.
Speak of conquerors codly cruel, who can sit afar
from the field of danger and calmly plan the de-
structon of people, TO be executed, if at all, by
drawer and ADLER hands. If, you talk Of those that
have saved nations, the nations we would trampe
on may overhear us. Freeze up their spirits by
commemoratng the glories of all who, belonging to
barbarous ages or the and shame of civilized
ones, have drank the blood of mankind Deny
that there ever lived Mtades, Tell, a Wallace,
Gustavus Vasa, a Hofer, Bozzaris, Palafox,
a Riego, an Abd-el-Kader; and celebrate the vir-
tues and the patriotism of Arnold who sold, and
Santa Anna who was expected to sell, his country.
Talk with seryty at home, that, hearing it abroad,
men NAV be struck with admiration, and submit to be
your Presidents victims slaves, just may suit.
Breathe no manly sentiment, lest some Mexican
heart might catch it Utter no word of humanity
for il might infect your fellow-citizens Say no.
thing about honesty or common sense, which only
to mention is under the present reign, nothing short
Of high treason. But would you, the other hand,
prove your iustrious descent of Anglo-Saxonism
would you, savage and servile at once, bring toge-
Their across whole ages all that is ferocous in the
beginnings of race and all that is despicable in its
worst dcgeneracy; would you, in Short seize both
ends of Anglo-Saxonism at once and outbully
Horsa while you out-drivel Pecksnif-why,
your fortunes made; enterprising fellow, you
mean to succeed-nay, must succeed, you are so
fine specimen of that great heroic race, the Anglo
Saxon. Sir, we respect, we admire You. You are
an ornament to the age you live in. Such men are
the bulwarks of all the principles which make
commonwealth great, illustrious, and happy. You
are n true natriot n friend of humanity, stay of