Daily American telegraph., 1852-10-30
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ANGLo-SAxoNlsM.-Th Belfast (Ireland) Ban
ner Of Ulster, has lately been "pitching into"
the London Times for its attacks upon the Irish
people. From u recent article we make the fo,-
lowing extract:
For some time past theN Times has been re-
newing its fuminatons against the ''wretched
Celtic race,p whose determination from the green
fields of Ireland the writers in that journal re-
gard as essential to the consolidation of "Anglo-
Saxon" dominion. This bitterness in relationto
one of the Oldest races in Europe, is AS senseless
as 1t is malignant while the ''Anglo- Saxon" pre-
tcnce upon which it is based is one of the grossest
fables ever put forward under the color of veri-
table history. The assumption that the present
race of Englishmen are Anglo Saxons" is just
as true as is the history Of est. George and the
Dragon" or the romance of King Arthur and his
knights of the Ground Table" Until within the
last quarter OF u century, the ''Saxon" element
in the English character was hardly ever thought
of-an undoubted Norman descent was formerly
regarded as equivalent to patent of mobility,
and it is only when Ireland is to be trampled
upon that contrary hypothesis is started.
Daniel DE Foe, it will be admitted, knew some
thing of his country's history and of the domi-
nant races amongst its population and in his
"Truc-born Englishmen," Daniel De Foe describes
in the following terms, the real pedigree OF this
''Anglo- Saxon" race, about which SO much news
paper boastng has now become fashionable:
The Romans first with julius Caesar came,
Including all the nations of that naIne
Gauls, Greeks, and Lombards, and, by computation,
Auxiliaros, slaves of every nation
With Hengist Saxous, Danes with Sueno came,
In search Of plunder, not IN search OF fame
Scots, Pcts, and Irish from the lib rnian shore,
And conquering William brought the Normans DER.
All these their barbarous offspring left behind,
The dregs of armies, they Of all mankind;
Blended with Brtons who before were here,
OF whom the Welsh have blest the character.
From this amphibious, lborn mob began
That vain, iltnatured thing an Engishman
The great invading Norman let us know
What conquerors in after times might do;
To every musqueteer he brought to town
lie gave the lands which never were his own.
And here begins our ancient pedigree,
That so exalts our poor nobility;
Tis that from some French trooper they derive,
Who with the Norman Bastard did arrve
The trophies OF the families appear
Some show the sword, the bow, and some the spear,
Which their great ancestor forsooth did
These In the herald's register remain,
Their noble mean extraction to explain.
Yet who the hero man tell,
Whether a drummer or a colonel;
The silent record bushes to reveal
Their undescended, dark original
horrid crowd of rumbling thieves and drones,
Who ransaeked kingdoms and dsreoped towns,
The Pct and painted Briton, treacherous Scot
By hunger, theft, and rapiDe hither brought
Norwegian pirstes buceansering Danes,
Whose redhared offspring everywhere remains
Who, Joined with Norman French compound the breed
Wise Providence, to keep where are,
Mixes daily with exceeding care. .
We have been Europess ssink, the jakes where she
Yods all her oilal outcast progeny.
From our fifth Henrys time, the strolling bands
OF banshed fugitives from neighborng lands, -
Have here certain sanctuary found,
The eternal refuge Of the yagabond;
Where, in but half an age of common time,
Borrowing new blood and manners from the cline
Proudly they learn all mankind 70 contemn,
Aud all "a their race i are :. True born Enslshmen"
Dutch, Walloons Flemings, Irishmen, and Scots,
Noudols, and Valtolins, and Hugonots,
In good Queen Bess's charitable reign,
Supplied us with three hundred thousand men.
Rcigion--Cod we thank thee sent them hither,
Priest rrotestaRts, the D-l, aud altogether;
of all professions and Of every trade
All thai persecutcd afraid,
Whether for debt or other crimes, they fed,
David at Hachah was still their head
A True. born Engshman's" contradiction,
In speech and irony, in fact and hction;
A banter made 10 be test of faols,
Which those that use II justly ridcucs.
A metaphor invented TO express
akin TO all the universe.
One reason stated by De Foc in his preface,
for the supplication Of his satire, was this q
am one" said he ''tbat would beglad to see Eng
lisbmen behave themselves better to strangers,
and TO governors also, that one might not be re-
preached in foreign countries for belonging to a
nation that icaRts mdnners." In addition TO the
reason here assigned, there is perilous inexpe-
dency in the incessant attacks Of the Times upon
the Celtic race, and in the proportionate exulta-
tion of its imaginary "Ango-Saxon tribe,
when, in point Of fact, single pure specimen Of
the latter is as rare is the breed Of the 'pea-
cocks" which Splomons ships brought from
0phir during their tricnnial voyage.
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