Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-09-26
ID. w. Voorhees, Opinion OF the
Iris Inn m.

may be laboring under the delusion that :
he made t,cO speeches on that interesting ,
but we are satisfied they are both
one speech. with a few slight variations"
The speech is a remarkable ons-remsrkA-
BILE in many respects. but in none more
than its bitter hostility TO the Celtic race
of men. 1t is DOVE upon the Irish with
production. Not content with denouncing
them as an inferior race of men. the learned
author seems DESTROYS to cut them off from
all the advantages Of the free institutions
of this country. He excludes them. an
inferior race. from having any right to the
blessings given to US by our Revolutionary
sires, and says this government was made
for the Anglo Saxon alone On page Is,
where Mr.. voorhees, is speaking Of the |
equality of the races, he uses the following
language
at is time that the great minds that
dressed naked liberty in the hsbiliments
of the American Constitution and confined
her to the care and vigilance Of the Anglo
Sa1on race on this continent, should be
viudicated from the odium which would
justly attach to their memories il they had
denied The supsrioray Of The race for ,ohom
they made this government"
1t is at least fair to presume that Mr..
! VOORHEES, meant to say just what he wrote
in the above period, aud It would be reck-
less to suppose that hs who would consent
to address an institution of learning, would
make such declarations as the above, with
out understanding their full force and
meaning. What qhen are the doctrines
embraced in this period LIST. That the
destinies of our Federal Constitution were
given in charge to the Anglo Saxon race,
on this continent ID That an odium would
attach to the memories Of our fathers, if
the superiority of this race was not recogni-
zed, and 3d., that this gsuernmenf ras made
for them alone. twill be remembered by eve.
~ historical scholar, thatthe Anglo Ssxons
on this continent, are alone those Who ave
in their veins English and Saxon blood
the descendants of those Ssxons. who a
great many years ago marched from the
shores of the Baltic and northern Germany
invaded Britain. conquered it, and by in
termarryiLg with the Inhabitants, gave tc
history the race known as Anglo Saxons-
English and SaxoDs. Thus does Mr. Voor-
hees exclude aud stigmatize as an "iDferior'
race. all of Celtic origin-all that nobl.
!. race of men who originally Inhabited tn,
. south and west of Europe-the early in
babitants of Italy, Gaul, Spain and Britain
= More especially docs Mr.. Voorhees, thu
brand the Irishn.an as an inferior race, 10
! they, perhaps are the most perfect type o
y the Celt.
Let us look further and see what al
/. opinion Mr. Voorhees, has Of the Celts. o.
r page l6 of his address he says:
h 1.-The entire supremacy of the Anglo Sax
on race in all useful achievements iDiu no
= be questioned by the eniighfened student"
S The Celts are here stigmatized as an iu
!, ferior race again. On page Is he says
but this Western Hemisphere, this grea
American continent is The chief theatre fc
d the display of the vast power and resource
d Of the Anglo Saxon race" II is no plac
, for the display Of the power and resource
e OF the Celtic type of men. we suppose p
that type which has given as much refine
u ment and more learning to the world, tha
any other. 1t is no place for the descend
5, ants and countrymen of Emmett. of Cur
e ran, OF Burke and Of Moore. This elan
: OF the free aud home Of the brave" accord
II ing to Mr.. Voorhees, is not for these, but
,, reserved for the Anglo Saxons alone --fc
/ what he calls the Irresistible superiorit
!. of the Anglo Saxon blood"
IS We will make no further quotation froI
o this speech at this time. From beginnin
:, TO end it is filled with sentiments similar
y the above. IL is remarkable Mr.. Worries
:, should be so selfish. as to assert that tn
= country, and the free institutions Of Anne
,e lea, were intended. by our fathers, for II
l. benefit of the Anglo-Saxon alone, and tn,
all other races of men are inferior to then
We We do not know, but we suppose that a
IN the blood which courses through the ver
n of Mr.. V. must be pure Anglo-Saxon--
i. there was one drop of Celtic blood in hin
s. he would, we have no doubt, open vel
I'd and let il out.
l. While he thus stygmatizes this Celt
ID race Of men as an "inferior," We wond
OF il he will not be willing to accept the
y, votes two weeks from to-dayf Will
h let the inferior Irishman vote for hir
I'd while at the same time he asserts that th
e. Government was made for the superior, Il
ne Anglo Saxon race? Can he expect I'll
Irlshmau to vote for him, when he 81,
tina, this Western Hemisphere. thls gre
American Continent. is the chief thea,
:. for the display Of the vast power and r
sources of the Anglo-Saxon race alone
Will he not give the honest. hard workir
:. Celt any participation in the snjoyments
:, the freedom which we all eejoyf VIII
'" some of their fathers helped US achieve O,
nc liberties. There is no, battle field Of Il
~ American Revolution upon which the
" was not shed Celtic blood in defense
American liberties. The has never bee
oi an assemblage of men met together. upo
a' great occasions, for the last ten centure
" but among the most eloquent, the mo
a' gifted and the most refined. are those
ne whose viens are Celtic blood.
as Why then does Mr.. Voorhees,, in one Eel
he swoop, say. that all this race of men, a
ELL Of an inferior typef
ut
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