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

ical and general superiority OF the great
Yankee nation, the audience are called upon
to lend themselves, as stops to an organ, to
be played upon, while the performer cen
cludes with a grand Fugue movement, on
"Anglo-Saxon blood" All, yes what a
glory, to be able to revert to their piratical
origin, and so, tracing this pure blood, as it
comes in historic stream, through hundreds
of years, see poured into it every now and
then, an infusion Of fresh liquid, got from
the conyicts and runaways of the old world !
Some of which blood, no doubt, pu'sating
through the f. T. V and other i. + of
our day, constitutes their highest claim to
be our masters and rulers.
1t is now about 1900 years since the An
glo-Saxons separated their double name,
and called themselves English and to-
day after the mighty influx of Celts, Teu-
tons, and their multiplied varieties, who
have intermarried and produced distinct
varieties, which are neither English, Celtic
or Teuton, this nonsense is kept up about
the Anglo-Saxon Strange indeed is
it, that the calling over of Horsa and Hen
gist into Britain, should have brought toge-
ther, the only two tribes on the face of the
earth, worthy to perpetuate so distinguished
posterity How is it, that living near
each other before the conquest of the Is
land, they never at home evolved their so
vitalizing qualities2 Was it the after geo.
graphical position, or their own innate
Though till then pent up greatness2 And
| if blood corpuscles injected into the veins
of the little Angle and Saxon barbarians,
can with aristocratic exclusiveness, preserve
until now their ante-piratical nobility; and
in spite of degrading brass collars imposed
! by Norman conquerors, and in spite of the
admixture of the inferior blood of to-day,
tell in the present almighty Yankee nation,
so that one drop difused in the bodies of
thousand individuals, makes them in def
ance Of their Spanish, French, Irish or any
other blood Except African , all Anglo
Saxons, what is to prevent Our taking rank
with them, seeing that we have common
history in misfortune We know it is Gus
tomary to quote the curse of Canaan against
us, to prove our blood contaminated But
Noah's curse could not have amounted to
much, as against lis especially, seeing that
both the Asiatic and European branch of
his family, have repeatedly been in serv-
| itude
! Ham had four sons, Cush, and Misraim,
and Phut and Canaan. And Noah cursed
/ Canaan alo'ae, for what Ham had DONE
This was very doubtful justice, to say the
least of ito discriminate thus unfairly
between his grand-sons and if the curse
took effect, which we don't believe, for it
is conceded that Noah was no prophet, and
! had no right, after drunken carousal, to
curse anything, except the wine that had
! fuddled him. we ask the Rev. Doctors of
! the day, to point also to the curse by which
the Anglo-Saxons were marked out for Sla-
very.-Did Shem and Japheth at any time
behave naughtily to their father, and did
he curse, not them, but one of their child
ren,-and if so, which one Was it Co
mer, or Magog, or Tubal, or Elam, or A
shur2 The event must have happened some
how, and by divine direction or counten-
ance, for how otherwise could so superior
race as our Anglo-Saxon cousins, have
sunk down into the mire of bondage, for
getting its high and conquering destiny
And what though, when in thraldom,
they did not, like the Negroes of St Dom
lingo, rebel and throw off the yoke, yet we
must believe, that the lack of this event is
hiatus in History, never intended by
Providence to exist.-Who can doubt, that
the Anglo-Saxons have ever been too God
like to wear the chain-except under COM
pulsion
Was it any fault of theirs, that the Nor.
mans adopted
The good old rule, the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can
No more than it is the fault of the American
Slave to-day, who covers before the united
religion and guns of our Christian Republic.
Let us be charitable; and where history
shows, in this superior people, anything
like a craven, submissive spirit, charge it
not to any impurity in their " systemic cir
culation," but rather to the obstinacy of
events over which they could obtain no con-
troll. That crimson current has never fail
ed in its heroic pulsations, but has ever
been sort of pool of Bethesda, in which
"peoples" have washed and become re-
generated.
Talk not of geographical position, social
condition, intellectual opportunities our
Reformers set very little store by these
things. What is wanted according to them,
is blood And the further off the source
seemingly, whence it is derived, the better,
that is, provided you don't trace it beyond
the Fillibuster days of Horsa and Hengist,
Noah and Mrs. Noah may be ancestry
enough for some folks; and Adam and Eve
for some others, but Horsa and Hengist
are father and mother to the great Anglo
Saxon race, and all ability on the earth
must be made referrible to them. We ex-
pect the claim will soon be set up, that the
ancient Egyptians themselves were Anglo
Saxons and the trifling circumstance that
| these last did not come into existence for
25O0 years after the first had achieved their
greatness,sis an anachronism that ought not
to weigh a moment against the pretension.
Moreover, dilution does not weaken the
virtue of this A. s. blood. AS in Homeo-