The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-13

and nothing less
But as equally amusing it is, that we our
selves have become by some mysterious
process -" "Anglo-Africans. - We have
searched History for the union of the Angles
and the Africans, and have failed to find it.
Nevertheless, the fact must be patent,
for are we not writing for an Anglo-African
Magazine2
The only explanation we have hit upon,
is a conjectural one, which we think is as
good as most poetic legends, and this is it,
The Angles having learned from their
Saxon brethren, how good thing Slavery
is,-how it ennobles, and strengthens, and
enlightens barbaric people, sent over to
America (as soon as it was discovered) a
vast number of their unadulterated tribe,
with the special purpose, of having infused
into the veins of their children, the new
blood of the undying African. 10 this end
they have persistently refused to inter-
marry, with any descendant even, of the
Celtic tribes Of Europe, (the Africans doing
the same) in order that the chronological
fact might be established, that all variations
from the pure African type in this Country,
should be veritably Anglo-African. So that
it is a demonstrable truth to-day, that in
cases where children have compilations in
dicating mixed blood, all the white parents
are pure Angles, and all the black ones, as
pure Africans.
We think this legendary theory ought
to be received as undeniable (even if it
does contradict itself in its essential state
ments) because if,-we say if-the present
people of the United States are Anglo
| Saxons, and any of us claim parentage
from these, we might be mistaken for
Ang lo-Saxon-Africans. And whoever heard
Of such class of people?-
! Besides this latter prefix would but con-
fuse the whole subject. A writer, in the
first number of this magazine, has shown,
that the Anglo-Saxon is no race at all
Indeed he is not alone in his views
| French, in his work ngiiSh, Past
and Present." says: "We are a people
made up of Anglo-Saxons, and Anglo-Nor-
mans, 1cath not q fea0 GcceSSaOnS from other
quarters beside" NJ F. Upper, who edit
ed the Anglo-Saxon' Magazine, London,
thus confesses People would smile, were
we to call ourselves by such family name
as Celt, or Roman, or Scandinavian or Nor
man, although from each and all of these
separate elements, the component qualities
of our race and of our language have been
largely drawn"
Surely then, we would not take name
| from nameless race!
But how have we become Anglo-Afri-
cans?' The term could only be intended
to refer to the mixed class among us and
if it be inappropriate to them, as we con-
tend it is, how shall it apply to those of
us, who boast of our unadulterated color2
Let us look at the sufix African, as
well as at the prefix Anglo Is it any
more truthful in its application? We know
that many branded as unsanctifed and
unnatural) persons among us, contend, that
as our mothers, fathers, grandmothers,
grandfathers, and beyond, never knew nor
saw Africa at all, and as we ourselves were
born in America, we are not Africans
On the other hand, the up-holders of an
unbroken lineal descent, say, that this is
shocking to their religious, historic and
patriotic belief, because they have been
accustomed to bask in the sunshine of An
cient Egypt, and to gild themselves by the
reflected intellect of that renowned people.
And shall they gAe it up to-day2 Though
degenerated from the full stature of ancest-
raj greatness, shall they not have the poor
privilege of tracing back their lineage for
the short period of 5000 years in the
divine afflatus still rising from the mummies
and so keep themselves inflated with
Egyptian glory2 Yes! certainly! drink it
in by all means, brethren-but how are you
thereby made any the more Egyptian to-
day2
Because some of our fore parents, one or
two hundred years ago, were brought from
Africa, does it prove as to be Africans, and
our posterity such, forever2 Must we, of
all people, be excepted from claiming and
adopting that simple christening, which ma
tivity always confers? Is there anything
so peculiarly blessed in color, or anything
so essentially great in Africa, that we must
never clothe ourselves with our proper cit
izenship, but make haste to give aid to the
enemy, by acting as if we never could be-
come naturalized, even by birth, anywhere
outside of the tribe-boundaries of the Afri-
can Continent2 The poet Wordsworth, in
his ''Intimations of Immortality" sings,
The soul that rises with us, our lite's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
: And cometh from afaT:"
and verify, according to the views now
prevalent among us, our souls must have
all once set, a long while ago, in Africa
and we are only living over again each one
Of us-the life of some original native.
But the title African 1T is believed by
many--is appropriate to us; because we
belong to the African Race. TO this we
reply, that there is no such race. The in
habitants of Africa, like the Anglo-Saxons,
are a very mixed people. Even those, who
by way of distinction are called negroes,
and to whose particular country geograph-
ers have given no better name than Negro
Land,' are-if we are to believe Ethnolo-
gists-nearer in kin to the Superior Race" !"
than is usually supposed, as we shall very
soon show. Let us Gull few facts for the