Washington telegraph., 1850-03-20
THE CAUCASIAN RACE.


the life of Alfred the Great. 1t shows in
the Caucasianrace and their commanding
influence upon the destiny OF the human
family
For three thousand years the Caucasian
race, have contiued under all circumstan-
ces and in every variety of situation, to
exhibit the same traits and the same in
domintable prowess. No calamities,
however great-no desolating wars, no
destructive pestileneo, no >voe.inS fernino-
no night of darkness, however universal
and sloomy-have ever been able to keep
them long in degradation or barbarism.-
There is not now a barbarous people to
be found in the whole race, and there has
not been one for thousand years.
Nearly ali the great exploits and
achievements too, which have signalized
the history of the world, have been per-
formed by this branch of the human faml-
ly They have given celebrity to every
age in which they have lived and to every
country they have ever possessed, by
some great deed or discovery, or achieve
ment, which their intellectual energies
have accomplished. AS Egyptians they
built the pyramids and reared enormous
monoliths, which remain as perfect now
as they were when first completed thirty
centuries ago As PhGnicians, they con-
structed ships, perfected navigation, and
explored without compass or chart, every
known sea. As Greeks they modelled
architectural embellishments, cut sculp-
lures in marble, and wrote poems and
history. which have been ever since the
admiration of the world. AS Romans,
thev carried complete and perfect mill
tary organization over fifty nations and
a hundred millions Of people, with one
supreme mistress over all, the ruins of
whose splendid palaces and monuments
have not yet passed away. Thus has
this race gone OH, always distinguishing
ITSELF by energy, activity and intellectual
| power. wherever it has dwelt, whatever
| language it has spoken, and III Whatever
period of the world it has lived. 1t has
invented printing, and filled every country
| that il occupies with permanent rec ords
| of the past, accessible to all. 1t has eX-
| pIored the heavens, and reduced to pre-
else and exact calculations all the COM
plicated motions there. 1t has ransacked
the earth, systematzed, arranged and
classified the vast melange OF pants, and
animals, and mineral products to be found
| upon its surface. 1t makes steam and
falling water do more than half tne work
necessary for feeding and clothing the
human race; and the bowling winds OF
| the ocean, the very embles of resis.less
destruction and terror, it steadily employs
in in,erchanging the products of the world
and bearing the means of comfort and
| plenty to every cline.
| The Caucasian race has thus, in all
ages, and in all the varieties of condition
| in which the different branches of it have
been placed, evinced the same great
characteristics, marking the existence OF
some innate and constant constitutional
superiority and yet, in the different
branches subordinate differences appear
which are TO be accounted for, perhaps,
partly by difference of circumstances, and
partly, perhaps, by similar constitutional
| diversities, by which one branch is dlstin-
guished from other branches. as the whole
race is from the other races, with which
we have compared them. Among these
branches, we, Anglo.Saxons ourselves,
claim for the Anglo-Saxons the superior
ity over all others.