Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1866-02-24

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is brief sketch Of the extent of the for
eign dominions Of Great Britain. Let us
look at her strength from another stand
point. She spends three hundred millions
of dollars year to pay her army, her
navy, her civil service, and the interest Of
her national debt. Her navy consists of
Eve hundred ships of war her army is ,at
least, half-a million of all arms.
| | desiie of the Fenian leaders to inquire
who are the men who thus srvern 90 large
part of the globe. Are they Saxons
no; are they Celts : no are they Of the
| Semitic race no or Haymaritic no.
They are the descendants of those terri.
bic vikings who led the people, or rather
pirates of the north of Europe, and who
have ravaged its fairest countries in the
eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh cenu.
ries Of our era. In the early part Of the
tenth century, Rollo, one of these fierce
marauders, obtained settlement upon the
northwest coast of France, where he loea-
ted his Norman ireebooting followers. He
established his dukedom on firm basis,
and gave to the ceded province the name
of Normandy. BY intermarriage for half
a-dozen generations among their Celtic
neghbors, they lost their northern Ian
guage, and acquired that OF the "Lingua
Ffanca.' Rollo descendant, Duke vii.
liam laid claim TO the throne Of England;
ho collected an army of sixty thousand
advonturers, from Normandy, Brittany,
and the neighboring FRENCH provinces;
with those he landed in England A. D.
one thousand and sixty y-six, and at the bat
tie Of Hastings utterly annihilated the Sag
ons at single blow-a blow from which
they have never recovered, and probably
never will. ] smile when I hear people
say that it was not conquest. It was the
most crushing destruction Of a people that
ever occurred. The lands were parcelled
out among Williams followers, and three
four'hs of the lands Of the United King
dom are to-day held by their descendants
In ll72, aided by Irish treachery, they
conquered Ireland. know that some en-.
thusiastic Irishmen will deny this but is
tnot fact that ever since they have held
this grasp OH the Island Strorgb bow their
leader, q Norman, with handful of fol-
lowers accomplished this. in the early
part of the eleventh century Edward
conquered Wales; six centuries later Scot
land became practically a part of Eng
land uu der James [. There is in reality
no English, Irish, Scotch, or Welsh pso.
pie. grant that there are artisans and
peasants who are permitted by their Nor.
: man lords to work and to exc out miscr.
, able existence. This Norman race is brave
4 wise for its own interests, crafty, cruel ,and
, avaricious. Look at the wars of the Roses
e and see this cruelty, bravery, and avaricc
= Poictiers, Cressy and Agincourt attest thi:
bravery in former times. and Waterloo
e which decided The modern Cesar's fate
c was won by Wel,Dgtop, linoal descend
= ant of Norman Chief. They, as race
8 have never shown the white feather upol
!, any battlefield of the world. In the Uni
s ted Kingdom they have established "a,
e imperium II. mpeyio," and with remark
h able wisdom they have made the Saxol
!, thralls of England believe that it is they
= who govern the world. l have so far ex
g hibited, in short opace, the gradual in
c crease and present power Of this Norman
:, arjstocracy but there is one point have
}. lorgotten--tis is this Under Henry VII
: they assisted him to rob the Catholic
= Church of all its possessions So muct
Z for their avarice.
S What force have the Fenians to compete
e with this power Any attempt made t.
Q invade Ireland is utterly hopeless, Th
z cost is completely surrounded with armed
!. ships, so that fast.fying pigeon could no
n obtain ingress to the land without beinj
}. discovered. The friends Of the Govern
h ment in ireland arc Sufficiently able to pa
Is down any and every attempt a, insured
q. ton. The population is about six million
n- of Inhabitants. 1t may be fairly assum
W ed that one and q half millions are Pre-
IS testants not less than fourteen hundre
le thousand of these will be on the side c
D. British rule ; every squirecn Catholic an
a. Protestant, the bulk of the clergy of ever
is denomination, every titled and untitle
Ill aristocrat, every policeman and arme
er soldier, will be on the side of the Govern
H. ment. Now mark, here are the educated
n intelligent, and armed half the Irish PEE
Isl pie arrayed upon the side of what the
be call law and order. They will fight the
a. own countrymen and put them down, b
be cause they have to 6ght the undiscipline'
If unarmed half Moreover, the gold OF II