The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-07-04
THE TWO ANGLO-SAXON NATIONS.

THE TWO ANGLO-SAXON NATIONS.
In the year 1907, 10o persons of the
Anglo-Saxon race landed on Virginian
soil and founded the first British
colony on the American shores. From
this small beginning, added to year by
year, grew the thirteen original states
of the Union, with population in 1916
of about 100000 souls. Various
causes had sent to this country some
of the neblest, bravest, and best of the
Anglo-SaxOn race. Religious persecu
ton sent us the Puritans of New
England; love of adventure sent
thousands to the Carolinas and Vir-
ginia; love of quiet and peace sent the
Quakers of Pennsylvania; the Gro
wellian revolution sent the Cavaliers,
and the spirit of Trade and Commerce
sent out its thousands. All were i'm
bued with that intense love of free
dom and the spirit of independence
which could not brook religious intol-
erance, oppression and wrong. That
same spirit, which, in their forefathers,
wrung from King John en- the field
of Runnymede, the Magma Charter of
the rights of the Anglo-Saxon race.
AS the years passed on, this spirit
grew up, intensified if possible, by the
sense of absolute freedom in which
they lived the boundless extent of
country before them, the daily stories
of Indian ravages on their frontiers,
wild adventures in the forests, and the
courage, energy, and trials of the
pioneer and the trapper. They still
loved the land from which their fore
fathers came, loved her with courage
and loyalty rarely if ever equalled;
they braved all dangers and trials to
extend her name, her power and her
influence. 1t was only after long
course Of oppressive acts imposed upon
them by King George the III. and his
cabinet, acts too we'll known for me to
repeat here that this love for England
waned.
The principle of taxation without
representation, or in other words, with
out the consent of the people, must
ever fail, and it failed here. It first
met resistance to the Stamp Act. which
was repealed. Then came further op-
pressive acts, other unjust taxes, which
met with armed resistance and finally
eliminated in revolution. That the
revolution was successful must be at
tributed to three causes. First: The
indomitable will, energy and courage
of the Colonists and their thorough
acquaintance with the country in
which the war had to be carried on
Second: In the nature of that country
and in the total ignorance of il
shown by the commanders of the
troops sent out to suppress the 're
volt, and by the distance of the Brit
ish from their base of supplies, for al
supplies had to be brought from Eng
land Third That during grea'
portion of the revolutionary war
England was engaged in war with thu
combined powers of France and Spain
so that most of the forces engaged
here were mercenaries, hired troops O,
: Hesse, and the Electoral troops O.
Hanover, (of which George III. wa
, Elector,) and not the trained soldier
of England.
| The revolution, as we know, was sue
/ cessful, and on the day we celebrate
: July 4th 1916, the thirteen colonie
J, declared their independence ant
1 formed a new nation, the Unite'
. States of America. When peace cam
l in 1888, George III. was the first t.
/ recognize the new nation, as he wa
/ the last to consent to the separation o
e the colonies from the mother country
= 1t has proven well for England, we
J. for the whole world that this separa
i ton took place. Well for the worlt
e for it brought to light new ideas
y government, founded on universe
: freedom and the brotherhood of mai
l. and however much we have deterit
d rated from these ideas, however niue
corruption and wrong have crept int
our political atmosphere, howevt
much monoplies, trusts, capitalists an