Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-13
THE ANGL0-SAXONS.
A Brief Sketch of Their History and
 Origin.
Their Conquest or EnEIand-Th ir Ro,f, 9 In Europe - Their Geneaiosy - The
 Ar-yan Family.

The genealogy ot nations eau b traced far easier than that of indIvidr
 als. While history always takes cogn
 zsuce Of the acts Of nations. the deed
 of individuals, unless they gre purtieu
 larly prominent, are generally over
 looked.
 The term Anglo-Saxon is derived fro,
 the names Of two German tribes wh
 invaded England in the fifth eentur,
 They were the Engles and Ssxons. <
 large delegation of the Saxon family ba.
 settled in England before the time O
 Caesar. The territory they occupied wa
 rom Portsmouth to Wells of Norfolk
 and was called Liltus Saxonicum.
 In A. D. 40, under the two Saxo,
 kings, HengIst anu Horsa, a regular in.
 yasion was made into Brittany. Tn, Celts, ot the same Ar yan stock hs them. | selves, were conquered, to A rrea. ~. tent, and reduced 10 slayery.
 In 4. D. 527 the Ea.les came oyer rom the mRIn iaui Of Europe and com
 pleted the conquest They were ,nos
 powerful of all the conquering tribe,
 and were of the same great tf.rna,
 family as the Saxons, ald spoke tb, same language. The latter welcome, them, aided them in their twenty S.su
 warfare, and readily amalgamated wi them Hence came the term Anglo Saxon. Then came the Saxon hen iarcny, or seven kingdoms, winch exis.r, ilI Egbert, in 4. D. SZ7, united them
 From the powerful .EIg!es tue term. England or Kngle-land Is lerlyrd. lb. Anglo-Amerlcans are their descendant. in Amerlca.
 The An glo-Saxon, or English. is one of the Low German family of IeutoDIr languages. Its ttrliest forms are ul.- known IL was not till after the Anglo Saxon invasion oi the fifth century thsi IL began to form literature, the Bible belng about the first book ever pr,ut.g in English In later years througn false pride of scholars, who den .uu,.d tfs snow thelr learning, great many words have been added from the dead iau- guRges of Latin and Greek Tb- D itch IS the present connecting lIuk between the English and the German.
 The Angles were Of the Germ ln race or the Sueyl, who originally occupied the country east of the Elbe river and between the mouths of the Saale and Ahre. The Angles afterwards settled ln The duchy of SchleswIg, portion of winch IS yet called Aneeln. T 0 Su | are mentioned by Cesar in bis work called "De BellU Calico" They occu- pied the territory east of the khlne to an indefinite extent. The term of Suey was collective designation of great number of the German peoples.
 The SaxOus are also or the German famliy. They are called Saxous from ''a-ns, knife. The SaXnus are first mentioned by Ptol=my They inhabited the district sou-u of the JlnbriaU pell-su-e. i large number had fe. led m England before their king, delgISt and HUrsa, undertook t1 con Ter Inc country. Those who remained Ia Germany were cal ei Alt-Sach-en, 2 distinguish them from the Saxsns WL ! emlgrated Co England. The pe1pi 4 oaZouy to-day are ;he descendants { ]. -h- AIt-Sachsens.
 Toe Germans first made their Gp- 2elrAuca n S-yrla, what IS now "a wes'- ! ern province of Austria, in c. ll3 . v aere hen they defeated the R1maus 1. AhN. NEiH HAt't AruAlf HAhaAnu lN . j IiiUs Cesar, but after wards regainel | their Independence. describes tn, u | IS of hIgu stature, fair complexion, re- l or yellow hair, and Of great bodily | strength. The woman were cnaste ! he men delighted m athletic ex--c.-t> They possessed great love of nDrril 1 They worsbippei DO idols. Their trsdI | -I5us rel ted the creation of the " rid ! and they believed that God had human l shape.
 The evidence of family relation is i. l language. The Germans are of th | Western branch of the great Ar-yaI ! family, whose satiye land was iH A-ia. ! -gsy of the Caspian sea and north of tu. | mountains, know now a Hurkestan. The eastern branch settled l lu America, Persia and northern Iu.Ia | The Western branch, composing tb, ! Celtic and Germanic nations, who sue | ce-sively emigrated to the northwest, l settled in Europe.
 So, then. the order of descent Ina ! been from the Ar-yaUs to the Germans, ! from them the Survi, from these tD th. 1 Angles and SHLOns tO the English | and thence to the Americans. Inc Sam | 'f races Is going on in Americ l now that occurred in England af er l. | Saxon cOpunest