The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-08-30
BLAINE'S ROYAL BLOOD
The Maine Statesman's Ancestry Traced to
the Mountain King of Wales.

The Maine Statesman's Ancestry Traced to
the Mountain King of Wales.
From tie 81. LouiS Giobr-D c,ocrm.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, August 10, 1854.
In "Burkc's Pccrage Of the British
Isles" the Blaines can be traced back
to Griffith APP lyman, King of North
Wales, a. ID. 1907; derived from Ana
rawd, King of North Wales, eld-st son
of Rodri Mawr King of Wales, \. d.
S45, founder Of the First Royal Tribe :;
arms, three red lions, PEASANT (stand-
ing from this house descended Owen
Gwynnedd, eldest son of Griffith, who
bore on his shield three eagles his son,
Owen Gwynnedd, y. ID. 1872, Prince
of North Wales, had his shield quar-
tered and bore four lions the second
son of Rodri Mawr, King of South
Wales, founded the Second ROYAL
Tribe, and bore lion rampant, within
a bordure the descendants of the third
son of Rodri Mawr, A. d. 10 20, found
ed the Third Royal Tribe, from whom
descended Madoc, Prince of Powys
Fadog the eldest son Of Madoc was
the progenitor of Owen Glendower,
whose progeny was Prince of Ferlys,
the country between the Wye and the
Severn !; this house founded the Fourth
Royal Tribe, and had three boars'
heads, quartered with two lions, on his
shield. 1t is from this house that the
Blaines derive their arms, which are
three bears heads, quartered with lions,
rampant and regardant; crest, fox,
PEASANT; motto "A0N NobiS .Sohrm."
The descent of the Blaines is given
in Burke as follows Bayne, or Blaine
(keynsham, County Hereford ; derived
from Howell Blayney, of Heyop, Coun-
ty of Radnor, ap Merig, ap Griffith, ap
Cadwgan, ap Madoc, ap Hoied lew
GoCh, ap Cadwgan, ap Elyslau Clio
dridd, Prince Of Ferleys). Arms
First and fourth ar, three boars' heads,
coupled sa. armed gu; second and
third, a lion rampant (red), regardant
docking behind).
The Romans, when England was
overrun by the SaXons GOO a. d.,
were driven into the mountains of
Wales, where they fortified themselves
and were an independent nation for
500 years, and founded the four royal
and fifteen noble tribes ofWales. From
this Roman stock James c. Blaine, the
Republican candidate, descended, as
shown by the English heralds, the book
being published under the authority of
Queen Victoria, and where all the duk cs,
barons and earls of the British Isles
have their descents recorded.
VAN CLEvE PHILLIPS.
p. Sit is not to be wondered at
that the English realize that if ]. G..
Blaine were President of the United
States, a scion of their old enemy, the
Kings of Wales, would be at the head
of affairs here, and might be as agrees
sive as his ancestry were in former
times, when the SaXonS and the Ro-
mans measured their spears across the
Welsh border The era has evidently
come when Uncle Sam should COM
mence to assert himself, both on land
and sea. The attention of the people
the last century has all been given to
developing the industries of the coun-
try, and politics have fallen under the
control of bosses 1t is time that we
should commence the study of inter
national law and continental finance,
and make the name of an American
citizen passport in all parts of Europe
and Asia, and dot the sea with mer
chantmen, and the land with the stat
ues of the Goddess of Liberty. TO do
this the President of the United States,
with a thought, should be able to grasp
the physical system of the country and
the industrial and political wants of the
people. Patrick Henry was selected
by his oratory to send forth the mental
spark that fired the train of the Revo
luton ; Washington to achieve our in
dependence Franklin, Jefferson and
Madison to frame a Constitution Jack
; son to stop the war of 1872; Lincoln
to free the black race Grant to put
down the secession of the Southern
States. And the minds to carry out
these issues succe ssfully came down
from our European ancestry. And 1t
may be that a scion of the first King
of Wales, \. ID. S45, is to be elevated
and become the President of this Re-
public of 10000, 900 people.