New-York daily tribune., 1851-07-30
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against Professionalism as agalnst CslnonCEH, ~
are ot hers who have religion and unhapphy pro-
test against all RelglOn-they cannot De c~iei TIo
testant IN the common acceptsuon OF the term put
TO make out that majority oI TINS peopie dIc ~
testsnt the good, bad ami indifferent mus Oe o'u
Protestants So. -.
but said would not discnss any Religious topic
have referred 20 II only N connection WIN iAe -
serton that v are AngiO-Sa bosa aSsef'oAs pe
ino xrone / shall leave 4 however to the theo-o-
RIans, with the above exceptions .o,
But Bulser Lawrence, Tupper and James arg lio'
all VITO have talked Of this Anglo SaxonisMl- bdu
crof, N MS History Of the United states. mas siA-
thai We are Anglo-ssxon. That IS the klna OF nLs
tory taught TO American youth, ana redd IN az,
COLLEGES. poisoning the fountains oi Kho an1
nsrvertiue the American mind from It's devotion 20
ruth 10 believe fiction. Prof tucker 700, oI .ue
University OF Virginia, IN MS elaborate "oih " 'Ae
Progress Of the United states, says that lne Genus
~ "a worthy OF study be @use II illustrates the
proQress Of the AnglO-saxon race lie ingh' az ven
have said that Il illustrated the Restoration OF the
Jews or the progress Of the Esqmmanx wherever
We turn this attempt 20 force Anglo Saxonlstn upon
the people OF the United States meets us. some Oh
the details OF our seventh census, taken iast year.
had reached London, and the LondoR Athead ~. gives
MS long article on the subject, N when II assefls
that the progress of the United states illustrates he
uropress Of the AngiO-SaxOn race Inc oepopuldlon
Of Ireland and Scotland by famine me poisoning ol
China with opium the suferIngs OF tie sikh me
cruelties practiced on kafreland me oppies
and cruetles perpeirared on these American S0to-
MES, which drove them INTO indepehoehee ~ "
much better illustration of the progress oil anglo
Saxonlsm -
II is hat Of a strange coincidence, however,
that an article on our recentlytaken census, pub
Ished in the London TINES, which no Englshman
can deny as good authority, and which arrived by the
steamship Africa In Newly ork, the very day Sr Hen
ry Lytton Bulwer's speech at Capon Springs was
nubshed in that city, states that is Incoect-tndt
is false--to call this country Anglo-SaXon' ms
reproof of the Times however, seems TO have passed
unheeded for the cry Of AngoSaxonlSm Is still con-
tlnued and more nonsense ON the same SUBJECT may
now be on its way from English periodicals. Illus
trating the progress of their race. Those VINO ran
away at Yorktown, New-Orieans, may De par
doned for continually talking about the progress Vi
their race in this country.
The principal proposition, then which | propose
10 discuss is that this country Is not Anglosaxon,
never was and never can be. That 1t is a compound
OF the better portions OF all the White races, and that
Anglo Saxonsm, or rather Engshism, is about the
only race that is thoroughly desplsed and execraed
among us that there Is no dominant race as there rs
no dominant religion but each and all, with the
exception OF the little Anglican leaven, are formed
and forming together to work out the problem OF
free government and a free religion for all
The subject of races opens up wlte neld LOT uls-
cussion Be not alarmed however, for into us tech
nicalities, contradictions and inconsistencies am
not about to launch either for my own or your IN
convenience. | shall not attempt 10 analyze the
American People as TO trace them TO Their proper
parent race by the confguratlon OF their crana the
angle oftheT eye the wool or hair upon theT hedds
Nor shall discuss the unity OF me human race oi
which race was frst-whether Mongohan or Cau-
casan-nor go back so far as Ethnooglsts, TO trace
mankind to his monkey forefathers nor follow
others, starting from the point where man was an
oyster, snug his bivave, down through the Andro-
gvnous state TIL ne stood up and became the decen,
male and female anfhropos that we now md him.
Nor shall | discuss the influence of climate upon
color-whether the Negro was once an Anglo-Saxon,
or whether by the appliances OF climate an Anglo
Saxon NAV not yet turn back, and crisp his halr ana
bIacken his own character INTO Negro be 1t
theirs no ddrken counsel by words without knoWl-
edge to discuss the pathological, chronological and
mloroscopical affnities of the Human Race, from
the European to the American Mediterranean
If ever there was a true illustration OF what the
scotchman understood metaphysics TO mean, where
one man was explaining what he dl ina understand
to another who could ma comprehend hlm IL is lhs
science of EthnolOgy. Hardly two writers can agree
upon a single point. Indeed believe they have not
yet decided whether the Ancient Egyptians were
black or white whether Anthony sacrIhced ms am
bition at an Ebony shrine or whether the American
Indians are the lost tribes of Israel In the whole
range OF science there IS probably nothing so rude
and undigested the study OF Man. III 1t be the
nobest study of mankind it is most royalty neglected
Had the command been gwen by Moses with the
wisdom Of Solon and Delphc oracle combined, and
rendered sacred by inspiration, to man, DO not know
thysel there could not be less known than there is
Man has turned his attention to the Heavens, ana
calculated, to the moment, the movement OF the
Heavenly bodies their conJuncuons aud obscuTa-
tions In times past and for centuries OF centuries TO
come. He has ranged over me space between Mars Mars
and Jupiter and has discovered the place OF another
planet now revolving IN shattered fragments. lie is
sil searching for and finding more OF ITS revolving
PARTICLES, once with NeSta, Juno and their sister
asteroids. forming but one bright unity, female
leAuty OF the Solar System But 10 the conunclons,
obscuratons and relations OF races, OF that great
body OF humanity severed INTO more fragments than
perade the system of which We are part, we
know almost nothing Indeed authors on this subject
agree nothing but that every but themselves
is unworthy OF study or belief and this is about the
only point which are inclined to believe them
all Here is one field where reading leads TO no en-
hghtenment and study 10 no profit. We have as
cended the highest mountains and pierced the most
impenetrable forests, searching for the origin OF
Ne have the lead almost 10 Oceans
bottom but INTO the depths of doubt, surrounding
mans origin, we have scarcely thrown alne. we
have scarcely rSked penny or spent lie III ex-
ploring the sources OF that rlveT whose stream IS
humanity and which seems not more darkly muffied
IN the veil that obScures the future than IN the lgno-
rance which still broods undisturbed upon the past
With the contradictions of Hlppocrates, Hcrodo-
tus Nelbhur. Blumenbach, Cuvier, Prichard Knox
and Latham, shall not tire you. Sab JfdIes hS esf
sat
races-the iranlan, including part OF Asia Africa and
the white races of Europe and America. The Tar
tar Mongol or Turanian race-the American race, or
Insian-the Malay race and the African Ethiopian or
Prchard subdivldes and clasSfes these races more
minu,ely. The African for instance into llotentots
Africans papuans and Alforans and other races IN like
manner, distinguishing them by hngual, mental and
ply pecuarlteS.
Cuyier designated these races by mountains
Thus, the Caucasian from Mount Caucasus, the
Altac or Monaghan. and the Atlantic or descendants
from Mount Atlas. Tins mountain theory originated
With the idea that the high mountains were the parts
of the Earth first fitted for human existence, the
highest points would be the soonest dry cool
enough for mans reception. The hills too were
nearest Heaven, where mortas were nearest the
gods and Caucasus was the scene OF the Sutierlngs
OF Prometheus who stole FIRE from Heaven, or stud
led astronomy | shall not mix mythology, ethnolo-
gy and sstrolosy together, nor explain the connec
ton between tins Prometheus, the son Of the mytho-
logical Japetus chained 10 the mountain from which
the OF the Scriptura Japhe originated, and the
her Df m hD N fD
the descendants OF Scriptura Ham We may OBJ
serve, however. that the monuments of mans first
achievements recorded ancient history and the
sacred writings, were not mountain-tops bui river
sides There stood Neneyeh and Babylon, and there
was Eden.
Knox upsets the theories Of all who had gone be-
fore him. and leaves the wreck which he makes