The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-06-03
IN THE OLD TIME.
Rebuke Administered to Our Anglo
maniacs of Many Years Ago.


really humiliating, to observe with
what veneration a certain class of
our good citizens look upon every
thing of British birth or British
origin, and with what sickly affec
tation and parricidal contempt they
speak of their own country, its pow
ers, its products, its government, its
manners and its institutions This
is neither the effect of ambition, of
power, of honest prejudice, nor of
party heat. It results from innate
and conscious littleness. 1t is the
oblation of low, groveling and syc-
ophantic spirit-of mind that
shrinks from independence and
graduates to tyranny, as atoms TO
the center. It must not be disguised
that there is another class, more
numerous and more respectable,
possessed of talents, If not of integ
rity, and of influence, if not of pa
triotism, professedly attached to
their country, it's interests and its
honor, who nevertheless seem to
look up to. the English with kind
of awful reverence, a sort of Devil
lered admiration, as the source of
all that is sublime and beautiful on
earth!
From whence arises this strange
attachment? Is it to be traced TO
those Turing and amiable qualities
that base and constitute the charac-
ter of an Englishman-tha inflated
arrogance; that assumption Of ex-
cellence; that boast of power, which
admits of no equal and allows of no
competition; that insolent but af-
fected contempt of other govern
ments and other countries; that i'm
potent but imposing attitude; that
nerveless but dictatorial spirit-in
short, that boosted and exclusive
perfection in arts and in arms, In
morals and in manners2 Or does if
arise from their superior observance
of religious duties2 Is our admira-
ton excited by that false and affect
ed piety-that hypocritical devotion
which, amid lust and rapine, muir
ders, massacres and CONGREGATIONS,
sacrilegiously appeals to the cross
and assumes at once the control and
defense of the Christian world? Are
these the captivating traits that
dazzle our countrymen9 Are these
the alluring qualities that Danish
from our breasts that love of coun4
try, that spirit of independence, that
self respect and all those local af-
fections which nature has implanted
alike in the Indian and the Arah2
Or does the remem brance of the ma
ternal solicitude and protection of
England during our filial vassalage
inspire us with this unbounded adj
miration2 Is the debt of gratitude
for the support of our infancy and
for the manifold blessings bestowed
upon us in our ripper years never to
be discharged2
Is our love excited by the recol-
lection of her affectiOnate embraces
at Lexington; her more than ma
ternal fondness in arming the mer-
CHESS savages and pouring them
upon our defenseless women and
children; her employment of the
mercenary barbarians of Germany
and the refuse of her own kingdom
to ravage our coasts, to burn OlIT
cities and to carry fire and sword
into the heart of our peaceful coun-
try-in short, to rob us of our prop
9rty and freedom and to reduce us
to a state of servile dependence, of
base and unconditional submission2
Does the recollection of these things
does her own history or the his
tory of our Revolution fill us with
this unreasonable respect?
Or must we descend to her more
recent achievements and attribute
it to her total disregard of the laws
of nations and of those principles
that govern the civilized wOrld-to
the spoliations of our commerce and
the impressment of our seamen; to
the murder of Pierce, to the base
and cowardly attack upon the Ches-
apeake, to the inhuman treatment
of American prisoners, to the petty
pillage and wanton destruction of
private property at Havre-de-Grace,
to the shocking outrages at Hamp-
ton, to the burning Of the capitol, to
the horrid mutilations and massa-
ores of our defenseless inhabitants
by her Scotch ruffians and savage
allies and, lastly, to that bastard
cruelty, that characteristic baseness.
that bloodthiEsty disposition dis
played in the late murders at Dart
moor prison From New York Cor
rector of 1916.
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