The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-23
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The northern nations of Europe pride them
selves upon their superiority In energy and
! enterprise TO those of SUMMER cllmes They
believe 1t to be their destiny to dominate the
southern portions of that continent, and speak
contemptuously of the indolont and eifaminate
Italians and Turks, and others who seem
likely TO become the victims of an easy subu-
| cation. In America IL is favorite notion
that the lndomitable Anglo-Saxon is destined
to bear down all before him, Our orators lead
us to infer, from their cOnceited speeches, that
energy and harafhood are the peculiar chlrac-
teristius of the Anglo-SaXon race and the tenn
operate zone, and that, consequently, that race
must become the final lords of the world,
from whom 1t is impossible that power should
| pass.
There is an arrogance of error and sub
Unity Of egotism upon this subject, in both
England and the United States, which are
truly amazing. All history teaches Us that
conquering energy is peculiar to neither race
or zone. If you go to Constantinople, you
will see the Turks passing their days in a kind
of lazy dream, smoking, bathing, praying, and
sleeping-in a continual round of reverie.
You will agree with the Gar, that these
people are unfit to possess that beautiful land;
they must yield place to more energetic
race, which, of course, must come from the
North.
But glance at the past, and see the terrible
Ottomans sweeping with resistless rapidity to
the shores of the Bosphorus, and under the
generalship of MAHoMED II planting the
Crescent on the walls of Constantllople; mark
their successive conquests in the Mediterra-
mean, when all the combined forces of ths
great naval states were scarcely sufficient to
checE their career; and recollect how all Eu-
rope trembled before the armies of SoLYSiAN
the Magnificent. In that age there was no
nation in the world to be compared with the
Asiatic conquerors in energy and enterprise.
Go to Greece, and you will despise those beau
tiful, yet cringing and indolent mea who
lounge and steal beneath the shadow OF the
| Acropolis or among the groves Of Sparta.
They, too, must give way before a more
energetic race. Yet they are the descendants
of men who conquered all Of the world known
to their limited geography. Go to Italy aui
mark the miserable beings who loll along the
streets of the Eternal City, or crouch, stile to
in hand, among the crags of Arbuzzo, TO rob
and murder the unwary traveller whom they
have not the courage to meet in fair combat
They are unworthy to possess that glorious
country. They belong to a stock naturally
deficient in energy and industry, and the
climate has tendency to enervate thom to a
stin more lamentable degree. They must
succumb to the hardy men of the North.
History will tell you that your men Of the
North have yet to exhibit anything like the
cOnquering activity displayed by the Romans
century after century, until the world o
which they had any knowledge lay submissive
at their feet. They gave laws 10 Europe and
large portions Of Asia and Africa Gaul
> Briton, and German went down before theil
arms. Go to Spain, and see u government
which has fallen into contempt, and people
utterly destitute Of manly spirit. They, too
must yield 20 the natural superiority of you
Anglo-Saxon race; or, at least, of a northern
nation. Yet, three centuries ago, the Span
iRrds had achieved one of the grlnde5t EN-
pires Of which we have any recOrd-m0r
, extensive than that of the Romans. Upol
land and sea they were almost Irresistible
' Even the vast cOnqueSts Of Great Britain "a,
Russia at the present day do not surpass thos
) fthe Spanish arms in the times OF CHARLIE
V and PHILIP III.
The fact is, the AnglO-Sixon, in the gloY
Of his present success, iorget5 the past, an
expects too much of the future The conquer
ing spirit is not peculiar to any race, neilhe
, Is the hot sun of the South destructive to il.
' In this country the pride Of race has led t,
the most eXtravagant hopes of the future
1t is our mission to conquer the continen
: and hold it for all time. If our enthusiast
D Fourth-of-July people don't precisely sa
this, they evidently think it. Such anticipa
tions are about as sensible as those Of ma
r who, with all the evidences Of mortality in th
? past and In the present to instruct his mlnC
: thinks he shall enjoy immortality in the Hesl
> We are born, we will live our day, and W
will perish as power from the continent
' even as other powers have perished Of whic
we preserve the records. We are a conquer
ing race. But 50 were the Turks, the Creek
: the Romans, and the Spaniards-sOme {
= them on a much larger scale than we ca
boast. We cannot be more confident Of oil
taining an absolute mastery Of the world, an
holding it, than was the Roman. What rel
son have we TO believe that our fate as
nation will be substantially different froi
) that Of the lords Of Italy?
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