Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-03
The AngIo-SaxOns Rubbed Up Little,

The AnglO-SaXOns Rubbed Up a Little,
Joseph J. McKenna writes to the N. Y.
Irish News from Knights Ferry San Joa.
quin county, Cal, as follows:
DEAR SR:-Enclosed are two dollars fnr
which please send me your journal for eight
months at the end of that time if l still re.
nam here will renew my subscription
our paper affords to Californians an excel
lent summary of Irish news, and well fills the
void felt by many Irishmen on reading the
other pPpers which come to hand on the ar
rival of the Eastern mail
II see IIarper's Weekly (by the way new.
er see the heading of that Journal without
thinking of the old song
''Por this is the nation
OF Civilization
And sweet botheration
Heigh whIlilu whack!")
selzes the so far unfortunate opportunity of
the laying of the Atlantic Cable to sound new
p@ars in honor Of that myth the Anglo Sax
on race-totally overlooking the fact that Mr..
ID. ID. Field believed his brother to have been
engaged in cementing union between the
two branches of the "Anglo Celtic race. 1t
would be difficult matter to find denomi-
sen by Mr.. Field for the population of Great
Britain and Ireland on the one hand. and that
OF the United States on the other but. no !
Harper will push it down our Celtic throats
that we are Anglo SaXons, and tells us more
over that it is their indomitabe energy and
stubbornness which the other nations. or
races rather, so much deplore in the Anglo
SaXons In my opinion, however, the only
thing that the other nations deplore in what
he calls the anglo Saxon race, is their want
OF good faith and their thevng propensities
two things which have marked their me-
mory indellibly in all the other races" (not
excepting the cousins) with which they have
come in contact and one Of these same pro-
pensties might say both and prove it from
his own columns, if were willing to trespass
on your space) is pretty largely shared bv
the editor of Harper's Weekly-for instance:
saw in number of that paper a piece said
to have been sent by Baltimore Clerk" IL
Illustrative OF the ingenuity of women, which
gives on reading every alternate line, sense
the exact reverse of that which It gives on
reading it continuously. | recolect seeing
the same piece, many years ago, in 1he Dub.
I'm Penny journal. That is only one of ma
ny such thefts which have noticed in that
sheet; and yet Harper has the effrontery TO
take Horace Greely to task for plagiarism
ArcadeS am6o
at is but little wonder though. that the
papers which echo "Anglo Saxon" in the u.
States should be obliged to steal Irish litera-
ture to fill their columns, they have very few
Irish contributors, and therein are in the re-
verse position of the English press The
anglo Saxon" genius invcnts but little that
is abstract from utilitarianism, and, when
they do try it, sometimes fall into very conf
cal blunders, for example: Graham publish
ed few years ago plate illustrative of the
Ten Commandments" the artist put rail
fence around Mount Sinai lie also illustra-
ted the Angel descending with food to Elias,
and represented the angel as accommodating
Elias NTH gridiron to cook the food upon,
no doubt As an offsett however, if it real
" was an Offset. might mention the decora-
tion of the San Francisco theater, which on
the performance or singing of LA Norma"
by Kate Hayes, was decorated with an eight
day clock in the corner"