The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-11-17
DEST!:.--. CO TIE E1GI.IcEI IAECCaCs,

DEST:.-.: c. TIE -::7GLI1iI LANGUAGE.
1h" ';..!e s"ens f.. approaching vixen
the E"y!;sh l;r::,ra.-c viii e: .r,:.a o"cr
'Iic other lan.;u: -, of tie void IRE.
dominates w;.;.':l "ur G,,c&airrs li,!e
dreampt of. When Ln:.. B;.con ai.u.;l &.
futurity il his Writings. lac set hims"i! 20
write in Latin. Il 90 con-uvc,' !:c saws,
that the Latin volumes, h>:". tie univcr.
81, ian@"a.;", may last rs long rs hooks
last. M.t,':i---' hring content "ilh ,hrS.,
i>Ianl rs my wofI' --cuniin,.i himself in
his great works to the l:inTna%c OF llr,~..
is!a:dS; lie cared rot 10 be once nan",i
;I",oaA,' thru"', perhaps lie might Eave
attained I" that had lie dc. ir.,, i. So
!it,; was i:nyi:,h literature known in
France t"o hu;',:"l years ago, ii.a: in Ger
t;!n directions gwen inr the arrangement
OF Il iii'lar:', ali English books a:o passed
over with the cur; observation, ?jr !.,,:3,
trun$miH"Mi.' .Arcrr.im. to Waiter, il,
was :. crowi;r.c aci,ievc'ncr. O.. Cr,rrw-lrs :
vast min! HAT oar ian@"agn Is *l,D.:cn even
under the ;rci'ic.' lie language of Bit
ain crossed Ia. sea lnnw before its li;cra-
:ur", for in Swift, time tie literature is
spoken Of rs l"ing still c"niiu". to these
two i.!anls.' Dr. Johnson, about 4 cen.
/! lrrr ago, when applying TO britain a pas
sage in Il So":;,;;:m S:.Hi"n,' "f Cirrr"
- om'e'& "Ei.a terra qra" c"!i;r r:Ii~.
o"g"$i~ rcrt;citt>, hhti,as Lt;o,, j;,rr,
| q"uinas j:.#ait t$t'-rr,.Scr,lol to apply
| tp our island the coni,.,:aiun e.: the Sa::c
pa>s:::s". tori':'!ny us to hop" ti::t its re-
n"wn will ever pass tho stream Of t;;nses
or the cliffs ol Cancasls.
But enc Il onr E;z.;rlhaa ,oc!e, the
gentle Daui"l, who has ,,"cn s,mEcn %: as
,l.r Auirus Of his #c,., suruliscd that E..-
| ter Things We're in lore for uS. After "a.
m"ntlns that the speech Of our scarce.
discovered Isle" is SO l:t.!c known to IT,.
rest # the world, nc expresses II wish is
!! i;.'.:'ws:
Goa, li:at the ocean Ill IL; ior ri u,r style
Wir':in :..r.c ~'lic ;.!: | marrow limits so;
! i::.I th:: !i:H r.;'u'y -. .,:r s;r~.: 10
| A:i:h, n"w h" heard 10 Ti''lr, 80 :.a.l po,
That tiry ,:l;:h: ?.:ow ,.pN f... I!.a, - COG;
"m; -
! The nt:-ic Of declined ItaIy.'
h"~a,in. of lis gairi"g ground in It,
a'y, lie l"c.rcs rs ,r;nr,rh ~ America
&" " il" knows wil;:'crwc :nay vent
Tue 'rca.nrc OF cur tongue: To,yhat strange
shores
TIL" ;-n':i "f chr best gr"iy may hc sent,
| L cnrici Ei'nawin:: nations with our stores:
| W!ia, w"rl l. in the yc, uniformed Occi.!.:u.
MAY come refined with accents that arc OURS p
The poets aspirations are now fulfilled
S'"r alter he wrote this i'a>sa.e TN. E:.y
ii~!i I;.n"na@e WAS lanteL on a narrow s!sl
| OF land on the western continent; it grew
"p''cc, and lis prospects are now the most
~plrn'hl that the world has ever srrn.-
; In" "ntirc number OF persons WHO sr"ai,
certain OF the lan:uaycs OF No,,!rn, Eu
| rop"-lanynaGes Of considerable literary
'epuie-is hot equal to the number simply
added every year, hv The increase of pop,,
la;i"n, to those who speak the English Ian.
"naye in EngauI aud America alnnc.-
There are p"rs""s now living vino will, il,
all probability, see it the vrrnncular Ian
gua.;e oF one hundred and fifty millions OF
the rar,I's civilized population. Although,
French Is spoken by a considerable proper.
ton of the population in Cana,la and al.
though in the United State, there is :,
large and tolcrah!y compact body of Ger.
man speaking Germans, these lansnare,
must gradually melt away, us the Wc!>l,
and the Gaclic have melted away bef re
'hc E!gi:h in our own islaul. Tile time
VIII sivcdiy he here when gigantic com
mnui'y i'll Amcrira-l'csiLcs risi, & andim
porlant c"l"nies in Africa and Auslraia-
will speak the same Iangung", and that the
language Of u nation holding II high posi-
lion among the empircs of Europe. Wncn
this time shall have arrived, the other Ian.
guag"s Of Europe will Le reduced to the
sallo relative position with regard 10 the
predominant languages as that in which Inc
Dasquc stands t" The Spanish, or the Fin.
n;sh to the Russian. For such predomin
a"ce the English language possesses admir-.
able qualifications; s;audiug, rs it does,
midway between thesGcrnnanic and Scan.
| lao Il, 0f II,
and also uniting the Tue,onic with the 70.
manic in n manner to which no other Ian,
guaseS has any pretention. A prize waa
given in l7o0 by the Academy at Berlin
for an essay Oh the comparison of fourteen
ancient and modern languages of Europe,
and in that essay the author, Jensch, rs.
Signs the palm OF general excellence to the
. English it has also been allowed BY 9th.