Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-30
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lHE ANGLU.sAxON TRIBE.
ny THEODORE PARSER.

varieties uf men are MS distinct a. the fingers on
the hand. The races at their centre are distinct,
but their circumference not clearly defined.
Each continct has its typical color. Thus Afri-
ca has black people, black monkeys aud black
elephants America has red men rcd animal
Asia has yellow men and yellow borscs Europe
has white mon, white horses and other white ami
mails. These may have been created in the order
here named, but, there IS no proof Of this yet
known. The distinctions Of race do not constitute
humanity. which underlics the whole. The eau
caSian is the strongest race. l. is devoted to prog
rcss. Its men visit all other countries. Its men
are rarely slaves and generally masters. All con
stitutiOnal republics and constitutional mun0r-
chios are of the Caucasian race. The other races
have never got beyond dcspntic governments, eX-
ccpt IT, the case of the lIungarians.
The Caucasian race has furnished nearly all law
and all learning, poetry and art. Nearly all the
great leaders of religion, as Moses, Isaac, Moham-
med and others are Caucasians. Thrce-fourths of
all the iron and scvcn-eights Of the shipping of the
world arc in its hands.
The Caucasian race is composed of two great
families. The first the people of further Asia. the
other the lndo-Germanc branch. Omitting the
.Asatic and the Asiatic portion Of the lndo-German-
Ic family, the European portion has five principal
stocks-lbero Btsquies, ltal-Greeks, Cells. TcutonS
and Sclavics. There may have been others which
have been lost in the lapse of time.
Tho lectdrer here described the geographical
boundaries OF each of these, alludinc to the peo-
pie of the United States as a bud of great promise
from the European Caucasian stock. Going back
to two thousand years ago, when the families stood
nearly upon an equality, he showed their relative
position and character.
Dropping the others he then directed attention
TO tho Teutons, which, with large brain and spirit
Of progress, have certain peculiar features. One
Of these is the aggressive character and their ex-.
termination of inferior races, Rising in the CEN
tire Of Europe, they pass through the continent
westward and southwark, invading, subduing and
cxtcrminating other tribes in their path.
A second feature of their race was their democ-
racy. Even in barbarism, they were not in favor
of either political or religious despotism. Former
ly the Germans were Arians, and this day they
are protestants.
The third great characteristic is federation.
They are, more than any other race, disposed to
form union for specific objects, or unite to-
gcther to secure unity of action, and at the same
time preserve their individual liberty. The
Celtic race has never possessed this faculty strong
ly.
The 10000, 900 of France have a single ruler to
prescribe all social matters, but forty or fifty mil
lions Of the Germans must have forty or fifty diff
ferent states.
The Teutons, and Basquies of Spain ard the
Celts of Scotland and Ireland are nearly pure.
Some of the other families are much mixed. The
Sclavics are eighty millions strong, and cover a
large space. The Teutons of the west and south
have always been the enemies of the Sclavics, with
whom they have never formed n permanent ALI
ancC. NO mixed language mas ever risen DctWeen
them. Of Teutons, there are three iamilics-thc
Goths, the Scandinavians and the Germans. Of
these the two first have gone out of existence
The German is the most valuable stock in the
world.
The Italo- end Celtic f,milies are decay
ing, and cannot again have their nationality restor-
ed. Even France has touched her zenith, and
her star is now slowly and magnihcently descend
ing, just as Byzautium did, amid art and learning,
sink into oblivion.
The Sclayic race has great power of develop
ment. Her nobl 5 have more brain than the 9TH
ers of Europe. They are in the rough, but she
is advancing, and though | have no sympathy
with her or the despot who now rules, | think
it is clear that a magnificent destiny is before
her.
improvements in arts and science. This has de-
veloped the telegraph and the steam engine, and
all other modes of physical Improvement. All
progress in religion has been in the Germanic
branch of tie Teutonic stock. No Celtic tribe is
Protestant, but wherever Germans are there are
Protestants. All leading pro yress in theology, in
literature, poetry and art is madeby the Germanic
race. The Celtic race in France has not been idle,
but it has had the preponderance in war, not in
. art, theology or mind. All military terms are
from the French. The great leaders of peace are
of Teutonic stock-the leaders of war are Celts.
The teutons are of four subdivisions. We first
hear of the Saxons in III, a.. D., in llolstein.
They united with the Angles in 400, A. D., and
were called Anglo. Saxons. They began aS
gressive wars, and finally went to England and
conquered it. When they became Christians, this
developed but did not change the nature of the
race. When, in the tenth century, the Danes in
vaded and conquered a large portion of England,
they mixed with the Anglo.Saxons and became
Danish Anglo,Saxons. This gave the race a new
love for war. The Danes were fllibusters by ma
ture. When the Norman branch of the Tuetonic
stock went in 1860, to England and conquered it,
and then became amalgamated with the other
inhabitants, a new element Of character was adj
ded.
We have now come to the Norman Danish An
glo-Saxon, which we briefly designate as the An
glo-Saxon. This race has for its leading charac-
teristic, aggressive thirsv for land. This race holds
poss ,ssion of large portions of the wOrld-Europe,
Asia, Africa, America, Australia, and the Pacific
Islands. No other tribe Of men is SO widely
spread. They have gone down deeper in mines,
assembled higher, and speed further than any other.
Not 800 years ago there were less than three mil
hons of this race-now there are forty millions.
Then they dwelt on less ground than the state Of
Virginia, now they hold possession Of onc-sixth of
the world, and rule $50 millions Of other races.
the American branch of this family is going on
exploringly, grasping and flibustering to get Cuba
and'the Sandwich islands, and hoping to re-annex
the rest of the world.
In England the same Anglo stock exterminates
the S~axons-and in this country they extermi-
nate the Indians. Soon the whole Indian race
will be exterminated The Anglo-Saxon race is
not cruel, but coolly shoots down the the oppOs-
ing race. The Anglo-Saxon is the most exclusive
of the Teutonic family. While the other tribes
marry with savOges, the Anglo-Saxon will not,
The Anglo-Saxon is in his own tribe a monoga-
mist, but with other inferior tribes a poligamist
and the children of mixed marriages are not recog,
missed as lawful children. Even in the grave the
proud Anglo-Saxon refuses to have his dust min
glcd with that of the black or the mulatto.
The Anglo-Saxon has more love of freedom than
any other race. In England and this country alone
are their free constitutional assemblies. The An
glo-Saxon is a lover Of freedom both in politics
and in religion.
1t has produced more sects than all other tribes
thus recognising individual liberty. In France
you see no individual fences; in England each
mans little farm is hedged in from his neighbours
Ansio,Slxons also guard all their rights by forms