Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-07-28
the citizens Of New York; al" R.
if BY nothing else, by the, have -

tlun al the lcolif ~ i''s ''''''
luoat,nr; and the great m1ss oi cutti'a'oFS
# the soil continued 10 be the same through
all these changes, that is continued /" h' ''''
.ieut Britnns.
IL q newspaper article it would he imposs'-
bic to exhibit the proofs OF this TACT; Out MI
I;il},r,. l., T;ro,c before the AnSlo-9aAoh
,Jc,,' WAS invented. states very plainly that the
body of the people remained always on the
svil and the ve.s.aDic hece' ii'ihs'i' an
Au.,c land not al obtuse onc) aud WHO, hir-
self. lived under the ieptarchy, Is IL" "naH-
| swerub!c authority iVr the same
uHrc England was ruled hy the Piantasc-
,.-s , Ereacn family (,ot vi Normandy. but
If Anjvu,) then every rich and noble person
wished 10 DC considered Il frcncllir;n; ana
! ,nr er,S,rsr Insult one could rticr was to car
a man an English porkcr. When the Iud"ES
and s,uarts came Ill, everybody was again
british and it WIS not until alter they Snt Il
Ii.-u Dutcl, dynasty On the throne, that loya!
aud courteous Uierait bcthruSht them oi St.
lect.ng High Dutch ancestors. 1t was heio u
&c Il point II loyalty that the nation Si'ou'" he
rs TcutOuic It's possible: SO that the new Ah5i"
Saxon doctrine may be termed the Sake
Uobourg-eud-Gotha theory.
H. therefore, we Contederates were sure
even that we arc all descended from English
men, that would be no reason ior calling our
selves Anslo-Saxons we eau have no interest
and no pride in the Saxc-Cobours gencaloGy
we are not bound to serve the dynastc vows
,r Dutchmen, nor tu select such ancestors as
British courtier-authors may assign to us.
But let Eugishmen be us Teutonic as they
please, we are not, us Il people, descended from
En- rlishmen at all Even Virginia, though
originally settled, and in great part owned,
by English families, Of the Iacoblte party, was
by no means peopled by them. She became
the receptacle Tor Cromwelfs prisoners OF
war: ana after the battle vi Dunbar, and after
the capture Of Droghcda, the Lord Protector
sent cut to the plantations more Involuntary
immigrants lal; Celtic, Scottish or iriShl than
lind ever gure Out to the said plantations OF
t:!eir Own ivcc will. Nirg ina ut this day. Is
by no means 50 English in its population Us
arc those States in Yankee l;:pd. which are
properly called New England. The other
Confederate States are still less 50 than Nir-
snja Oh accoun; ot tie large proportion Of
French and Spanish blood in those countries.
On the whuic. il i very curious and inter
c,,ins investigation : and one which our Iltera-
~ apd scientific people will find it we'll worth
while to explore fully ANA patiently, without
references to poitica! .ieahu>ics or ranlt'"s.
In tic meantime, we see in t." Co"!r"c-
racy very general disposition 10 decline the
compliment which our Transatlantic breih-
rca intend 10 pay us;n claiming lis rs Anglo
Saxons:" Cor they have thought seriously
of doing us this honor ever since the bIttlcS
beto.c Eic!.lyui. They began then to say
!; was cvidcnt-ipso .ii.cto-;ha. the Contedc'
rate States were rcnplci hG Il more pure and
Genuine Ango-Saxon breed than the Yankee
! country. At tue same time. our friends Of
the Latin races are ri":A'img kindred with
! MS also. Perhaps we had better, for r,'v rr"s-
eut. suspend our Judgment, and not choose our
| ancestors in ,s;inanHst yet. Strangely
/: !: !. q. ]: !: !. !. !: !:
BILE q ~ Il - ll$S Years ago, having
| no II [hominy, and having
| full GteraH Of Boston,
| who - - b." indeed, made
Naturally. - - nave thought that
there would have pcaiYnuch greater sympathy
between the Northern States and England than
between England and the Southern States.-
There is ten times more English blood North
| thrn South Nevertheless, suci, has been the
| interest of commerce, that the people Of the
! North hate England with Increased bitterness,
while among those Of the South who arc Jaco-
bites. the British connection is popular Can
there he any thorough fusion Of the Northern
| and Southern States? | think not. The
| Union has no centre. and it is now impossible
| 10 make one. 1t will be shaken to dislocation
| whenever IL serious question arises between
| the States"
CoIcrid.c was sound as prophet: not less
, So probably, as au cthnnlogst The Rich.
| mond Wing. has pronounced warmly against
our Tcutouic genealosy, being unconsciously
| Influenced, perhaps, in some degree, by the
too evident hostility of those who call them
selves our kindred. Says the Wig:
"The French people are almost unanimous
| in siding with us against the Fcdcrols. They
Justly and truly maintain that we, like the
French, belong TO the Latin and Celtic races
the North 20 the Teutonic, German OF
Dutch races. Our ancestors were Norman
| French. Scotch, Irish, lluguenotS, Welcb,
Spamiards and Catholic French. The North
| is descended chiefly from the English Saxon
element. and from iu!ilcl, socialistic, agrarian
| and Free Love Germans, whose extreme radi-
cal and revolutionary propcnsitcs have in
,lucc,l tn migrate to the North, the land OF
| ism>, within the last thirty years"
Certainly there is no great induccment at
prcscm,--if the thing were matter Of prefer
cnce--to admit tic English claim of relation
ship If they are more than kim they arc
less than kind" But us we said before, the
whole subject deserves Il serious and patient
investigation.
| ANDERSON AND PETTIGREW.