Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1867-12-07
Anglc-sa xonism.

Error is brazeil. persistent. clanorons. But It's
chief attribute is au'acity. Else, the American
public had not been continually bored by the
thousand-timcs refnted claims of superiority which
.knglo-Saxonism is wont to exhibit. 1t has been
said that a lie oftrepeated wears the semblauce Of
truth; and. in the face Of historical evidence 50
danuins to Angln-SaAon pretension. We may not
doubt that this aphorism is ever present to the
minds Of its advocates.
The prosecutions of The Acadians, merely glanced
at in recent issues Of the "Louisianais, v are but a
faint sketch Of the Lealtless crnelties TO which "Ar-
glo-Saxon blood has subjected its victims III every
spot of the habtahle earth on which the Anglo
Saxon cloyen foot has been planted.
An Unsuitable thirst of dominion; rapine, blood
shed, treachely, and uuvelenting despotism, charac-
te>ize its hoasted sonqucsts. The subjugaticn Of the
ancient Bri,ons was ciirctrd by The original Saxons,
less by honorable conquest than by deep designing
treachery, and breach Of ~plishted faith aud there is
no conquest made by the Auglo-Saxon race for he
last Thirteen centuries, that is not marked by similar
baseness. Witness Canada. where. a few years ago,
AnsloSsxon tyranny drove the inhabitants to re-
volt. Witness Southern Africa, where the Cafirs are
continually rising up in armed resistance. Witness
VI 1'uteiiA hNi' NY ANU NtitS at "lstiltW ava
before the pestilcu,iul breath Of Anrlo-Saxon "ciyi-
ization.' Witness Asiatic Iudia where HE estates Of
the natives Princes have been appropriated by m,g-
ceuuy Auglo-SaNon traders, and the inhabitants.
who We're driven to Law FIJI resistance by Il long
course of systematic tyranny, actually blown info
fragments from the caanon's mouth. And oh wit
ness Ireland, agonizing under 700 years Of Anglo
Saxon mislnle. If history be not a monster false
hood-lf the unparalleled tyranny prac,iced by the
Anglo-Saxon race in Ireland be not a fable (aud il
is wel-uigh f,bulous) surely, on that count alone,
Anglo saxonism stands convicted of the greast
crimes against humanity ever yet perpetratcd.
The unbelievirg pharaoh's prosecutions Of the
1sraeHtes; the Roman empero,s' crurlties towards
the early Christians, Were %clenfucy itself in COM
parlscn with the seven centuries Of demonstrating
experiment made by the "civilizrd and enlightened"
Ang}u-Saxon on the PROSTATE, long suffering &c cen
Isle We need not recount the particulars. History,
often flsilied by interested s~eribblrrs, reveals at last
to the common gaze, the ingIorious fact, long patent
to the mind accustomed TO resrarch-tllat Anglo
SaHouism is absolutely drunk with the blood of a
people whom ii prrteitel to reclaim. And this lis
tory traced in letters Of blood. must be the rv,rep-
during seal of Reproduction On -Anglo-Saxon Boosting
And YET, in the teeth of tles, facts, we find men
of intelligence boldly rroclaiming the superiority ef
-tllAnglu-Saxon unhlu>hingly priling themselves
on THEN Anglo-Saxou descent; and insisting that
American Observation-Disclosures of greatness she has.
OF had before the late troubles-is mainly or wholly
due to the Anglo Saxon element pernra;ing Amer
lean life.
As we said at the beginning, Error is aulacious'
B1t with respect to Anglo-SaNon achievements in
our own country worll it be TOO much to say that
the landing Of the "Maylowcr.' with its precious
cargo OF long ,yisagcd Anglo-Saxon pnyitans, was
the first great curse that beiel the Continent Of
North America We think not and we feel certain
that every Candid mind. viewing the troubles through
which ON country has passed, by the light Of au-
thentic history, will admit that the present almost
anarclicul condition of this Republic, is Immediate
ly OF remotely traceable to that calamitous debarka-
ton.
ProfessinG to have fed from persecution. the An
glo-Saxou "~Iilgrims" had scarcely obtained a foot
hold on American soil. when they proved themselves
to be the most intolerant of bigots-consigning to
tolturcs and to death. all who differed in the leas:
from their furious tanaticism; despoiling and pe,se-
cutting the poor Indian and s~courging, hanging and
exiting even their own kindred
If the annals Of the country We're not present to
furnish the proof, it Y would indeed be hard to believe
those things OF a race SO highly selt.gloritied it
would lie ard to believe that this Wanted Anglo
Saxonisln actually devoured its own offsming and
gloated over the havoc; and equally incredible would
it be, that its advent TO the shores of America with
its untold baleiul Influences. should be annually
commencement nv NOT the 1aast nE,r,,.l ,r 80.
lean citizens!
But now to bring this prolific subject nearer
home; it is historically true that when the Colonies
achieved their Independence, the Indian troubles
that followed were i~nstigated by Anglo.Saxon lea.
lousy OF the growing power of the young Republic
and it is no less true that in he two wars with the
tyrant mother" the .AngIo.Saxon thirst for blood
surpassed even that of the savage i~nhabitant of the
forest although the red mans trrocity was sharp
ened by the he'll -btsotten Anglo-Saxon policy OF
buying American scalps!
Historically true it is also, that Anglo Saxonism
bought Africans in their native wilds beyond the
Atlantic and sold them in America-nuavanteeiur
them to be forever slaves aud that when the traffic
ceased to be profitable, Anglo-saxonism became
suddenly pious, and Enthusiastically denounced slave.
~ as a deadly SIN. Yea more, Angto-SaXonisn bel
lowed forth to the world that tie inhabitants of the
South were little less than incarnate demons for con-
'inuing an institution introduced by the sorlid puri-
tanical AnSlo-Saxons themselves.
And so, in pursuit of this fanatical idea or hypo-
critical pretcnsion (tor it is clear that our self.right-
eous Anglo-Saxon brethren oscilate between both)
the orators of the superior clement for a long Sc
ries of years, engaged in a crusade against the mo
raj guilt" of the South ; sought, time and again, to
kiudle the flames of servile ipsurrection, turned An
glo.Saxon pulpits into political ros,rlms, infamed
the minds of a united people with sectional hate,
bounded on the maniac, Brown, TO attack the armory
at ~lIarper's Ferry, and eventually precipitated the
country into an internecine war. which has well nigh
dissolved the government established by The blood
of our Revolutionary fore-fathers.