Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-07-19
Progress of the AngIo-ssxon Race.

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Progress of the AngIo-sa1on Race.
BY fortunate coincidence, the general total of the
American taken last year, has just been received
and we are enabled, in conjunction with the returns
made the 3lst OF March, forlhis country to measure
the absolute progress of the Ang oSaXon race, IN its
two grand divisions, and to compare the laws OF their
respective growths in relation to each ohe and to the
rest of the world 1t is estimated, including Ireland
and the colonies, that there is grand total of men
speaking the language and manifestng the same
general tendencies of civilization of IS 900, from
which is to be deducted the three millions of negro
slaves in the United States, leaving remainder of fifty
three millions chiefly of AngSaxon descent and deep
y impregnated with its sturdy qualities of heart and
brain, the representative Of this advancing stock.
Two centuries ago there were not quite three millions
of this the face of the earth. There mil
lion persons Of Magyar descent, speaking the Mag
var language, at the present moment in Europe, than
there in Europe and America, of this conqrlerng
and coonizing people, in the time of Cromwell. How
van them for men TO talk of the political necessity for
absorbing small races Sixty years ago, the Anglo
Saxon race dad moi exceed 100000 in Europe and
America. AT that time it not numerically stronger
than the Poles Thirty years ago, it counted only thir.
tyiour millions; being altogether only three millions and
fraction more than the population of France at that
time, and considerably less than the Tuetonic popula
ton of Central Europe. In 1851 it is ahead Of every
civilized race in the world OF races lying within the
zones of civilizations the Scaves alone are more
this plastic and submissive stock have yet escaped from
the bararism OF the dark ages. In wealth, energy, and
cultivation, they not to be compared with the Frank
the Teuon, and the AngloSaxon. Number is almost
their only element of strength.
OF all the which are now striving for the mas
terry of the world impress the future of society and
civilization the stamp of its character and genius
to make It's law, diom, religion, manners, government
and opinion prevail, the Ang o-Saxon is now unques-
tonably the most numerous, powerful and active The
han min ALI, havc hann cha1 abcorh
ed, or ramped out, like Hungary and Poland, by strong
er hordes, is gone by forever That it possible at
enc tme for this people TO be suhdued by violence
TO fall prey to the slower agonies of decne there
be little doubt. In 1850, the United Provinces seemed
more likely to make grand figure in the worlds future
history, than Eng land. Their wealth, activity, and
maritime power the most imposing in Europe
They had all the carrying trade of the west in their
| hands, Their language was spoken in every port
In the great Orient heirempre fixed, and their in
fuence paramount Eng land was then hardly known
abroad Her difficult idom grated foreign ears, and
her stormy repealed the curiosity of cutv-
ted travellers Had the thought OF day arriving when
any single European language would be spoken BY mil
lions of persons scattered over the great continents of
the EARTH from New Zealand to the Hebrides and from
the Cape of Storms to the Arctic Ocean, occur ed TO
any speculative mind, Dutch not English would proba
bly, have been the tongue to which he would have as.
signed the marvellous mission Yet Holland has fallen
nearly as much the Saxon has risen in the scale Of
nations. Her ldom is acquired by few. He. liner.
chants conduct tha;.
eei co'iesLonuehce ana transact then
have many of them clothed their genius in a foreign
salo' vi ,ne o,ner hane' our literature and language
nav s Gney OUT OF ms phase OF danger. Dutch
my 'e'nlsu Erse' basque and other idIoms
u|oeu 20 pel1 h as an intellectual medium but
tongue OF Shakespeare anc of Bacon, is now too rml,
ooeu esel " NC 'orn away NO longer content witt
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