Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-04-07

The Anglo Saxon Conysderdtion.--tn The
last AfrertiSei' appeared a long, brill ant and
well w.ite ! i,l'l, "pp"sins Francis Niaccnt's
plan Of HE Anglo Saxon Confederation, IL
denominates ii the "Vincent League lis
undoubtedly from the pc of John o'Byrpe him.
sell, who is well known one Of the most cru
dite, ripe and polished scholars In the colintry
Amongst other matters ii complains of Mr.. Vim
cents use oftle term Anglo Saxon, as making
the Americans appear to be all English descent,
and Ignoring the Irish element in their compo-
stion. This is mistaken idea which has been
before corrected In the columns of this paper
from published extracts from his lectures and
writings. Mr.. Vincent as has been before sta
ted, simply uses the term Anglo Saxon as a
name to denolninate the English speaking peo-
Pile, who are under the dominion of the United
States and the British Empire, the latter of
which includes ireland and every colony and
dependency belonging to that government
He uses the torn of Anglo Saxon as the term
Constable IS applied to peace officer, or highway
TO roads. The first term used to he Count
(Commander) of the stable eor0pted to Consta-
bic or otherwise, the master Of the horse, who
| afterwards had the duty fserving processes con-
| nected with his Office This officer has lost his
first duty, and holds only his last the serving Of
wrils. lie has now nothing TO do with horses
| or stables, although from the latter he derives
his name. Highway again formerly meant Il
| raised road, the raising of u road to keep it
dry, and to prevent its being OVERTURNED, is now
applied TO any road, whether raised or lowered
that Is public road. Anglo Saxen therefore
that used TO mean the Anglo Saxons, from which
Angle Land changed to England derives It's
name, (Which country is still called by tie
| Italian anu French Auglo terrr, the ate 'nn
meaning land, both in Latin, French and la'-
ian,) now by GENERAL application meaus Il cit-
zen Of the United states or British Empile, and
| is In no way supposed to mean the Angles the
nf m a.,ff l,aI Of a.
once conquered and Inhabited England. There
fore our writers whenever they Use the term Of
unity OF The British Empirt with any otler
power, say the Anglo-alliaiice. 1t was thus
used in tho Cfimean war; whenever the COM
mon British and French army was spoken of,
they called it the Anglo French army; aud now
there are two papers published, one in London,
tile OTHER IN Massachusetts, (both strong advo-
Gates of MI. Nincent's Anglo Saxon Confelera-
tioh'l VIZ the Anglo american Times, aud tie
Itgfo AA Ticihi this later paper published es-
pec.ally u advocate the measure. So that the
term Angle saxon is proper in the sense which
IL IS used and understood;a citizen of one oi the
two great English speaking powers without any
regard To descent from the ancient Angles
As regards the application of Anglo Saxon tc
the Irish, Mr.. Vincent believes ii is n term a:
proper TO designate them, as the English. From
ms researches lie believes there is as much An
so Saxon blood in them, as in the English. i
| uol more. That The difference between then
Is tie result OF educ tiou, Of their being tie les
ser branch of the Anglo Saxon or mi.eel race
therefore the weaker And Ike all othe
weaker peoples, suffering oppression from th'
stronger branch of their brethren. That hi
: oppression and the difference of religion, is ow
ins the antagonistic feeling between ,hrm.-
) The Irish branch of the Anglo Saxon family, a
! our readers are aware, have adhered mainly T.
The old (the Catholic) faith and arkno sled g,
the spiritual power of the Pope, the other bran
ches have generally belonged 10 the new {
} Protestant faith. The difference in religion la
still further increased the difference in feeling
The oppression of the stronger sect ion of the rae
over the weaker was even attempted in the cas-
| oi Britain with her American colonies, win
. We're alike in religion, manner and customs an,
laws: This failed from n better organized GOV
ernment.lhe distance Of the mother country from
her colonies and foreign assistance being rem
,lered to the latter, but the i'll feeling between
the American and English Anglo Saxons, sti
~ measure continues and 1t is this, that Nj
Vincent desires to remove, by uniting all Tia
iimliy under one government, with equal right
IT, all. lie will answer the editorial in the Ad
ttftiSef in Il communication Ia future humble
Of this paper.
This editorial in the IdrcriiSer has calle,
forth some comments, in the Wilm gluii press
The EreIy Ereniag thinks it 'pickS Mr.. Vim
cents bubble the Commercial whilst aclsuow
Lodging the brillanry of The essay, says tin
measure ''liad begun 10 make progress, and il
not without promise Of success