Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-03-07
THE CAUCASIAN RACE.

The following extract is taken from the life of
Alfred the Great. II shows IN a striking light
the immense energy of the Caucasian race and
their commanding influence upon the destiny Of
the human family
For three thousand years the Caucasian race,
have continued in all circumstances and under
every variety OF situation, to exhibit the samo
,sui and lie same InGomIIapIe prowess. No
calamltles however great-po desolating wars,
no destructive pestilence, no wasting famine, TO
night OF darkness, however universal and gloomy
have ever been able to keep them long in
degradation or barbarisln. There is not now a
oarbarous people to be found in the whole race,
and there has no. been one for more than a
thousand years.
Nearly all the great exploits and achievements
too, which have sgnaized the history OF the
world, have been performed by this branch of
the human family. They have given celebrity
TO every age in which they have lived, and to
every country that they have ever possessed by
some great deed, or discovery, or improvement,
which their intellectual energies have acc nm
Pllshed. As Egyptians they built ii e pyramids,
and reared enormous monoliths, which remain
as perfect now as they were when first compile
ted thirty centuries ago. As Phenecians, they
constructed ships, perfected navigation, and ex-
plored, without compass or chart, every known
sea. As Greeks, they modelled Architectural
embellishments, cut sculptures in marble, and
wrote poems and history, which have been ever
since the admiration of the world. As Romans,
they carried complete and perfec, military or
ganization over Fifty nations and hundred mil
lions of people, with one supreme mistress over
all, the ruins of whose splendid palaces ard
monuments have not yet passed away.
Thus has this race gone on,aways distinguish
ing itself, by energy, activity, and intellectual
power, wherever it has dwelt whatever language
1t has spoken, and in whatever period of the
world 1t has lived. II has invented printing, and
filled every country that it occupies with perma-
nent records OF The past, accessible Ia all. 1t
has explored the heavens, and reduced TO precise
and exact calculations all the complicated mo-
tons there. 1t has ransacked the earth, system
atized, arranged and classified the vast melanIe
of plants, and animals, and mineral products t,
be found upon its surface. IL makes steam and
falling water to do more than half the work ne
cessary for feeding and clothing the human race
and The bowling winds Of the ocean, the very
em5lems Of resistless destruction and terror. it
steadily employs in nterchangDg 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 diff
ierent branches Of it have been placed, evnced
the same grea: characteristics, marking the ex-
istence OF some innate and constant constitu-
tonal superiority, and yet, in the different braa-
eoes 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 distinguished from other branches, as the
whole race is from the other races with which
we have compared them. Among these branch
Is, we, Angio-Sixons ourselves, clIIm for the
Angio-Saxons the superiority over all others