Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-08
IN ThE OLD TIME.
4 Rebukc Administered to Our Anglo
 msniaos of Many Near- Ago

maatacS of Many hearr Ago
 1t is not only astonishing, but
 really humiliating. to observe witI
 what veneration a certain class oi
 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
 CTS, its products, its government, it's 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. It is the
 oblation of low, groveling and syc-
 ophantic spirit-of a 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, its interests and its
 honor, who nevertheless seem to
 look up to the English with n kind
 of awful reverence, Il sort of bewil- dered admiration, as the source of
 all that is sublime and beautiful on ealthl
 From whence arises this strange attachmentl Is it to be traced to those turing and amiable qualities that base and constitute the charac- ter of an Englishman-that 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 boasted and exclusive perfection in arts and in arms, in morals and in mannersl Or does it arise from their superior observance of religious dutiesl Is our adInira- ton excited by that false and affect ed piety-that hypocritical devotion which, amid lust and rapine, mur- ders, massacres and confagrations, sacrilegiously appeals to the cross and assumes at once the control and defense of the Christian worldi Are these the captivating traits that dazzle our countrymenl Are these the alluring qualities that banish from our breasts that love of coun- try, that spirit of independence, that self respect and all those local af- fections which nature has implanted alike i'll the Indian and the Arabi Or does tho remembrance of the ma ternal solicitude and protection of England during our tilial vassalage inspire us with this unbounded ad- mirationi Is the debt of gratitude for the support of our infancy and for the manifold blessings bestowed upon us in our ripor years never to be dischareedl
 Is our love excited by the recol- lection of her affectionate embraces at Lexington; her more than ma ternal fondnesS Tn arming tho mer- ciless 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 our cities and to carry fire and sword into the heart of our peaceful coun- try-in short, to rob us of our prop erty and freedom and to reduce us to state of servile dependence, of base and unconditional submissionl Does the recollection of theSo things does her own history or the his tory of our Revolution fill us with this inmeasurable respecti
 Or must we descend to her more recent achievements and attribute it to her total disregard of tho laws of nations and of those principles that govern the civilized world-to the spohations of our commerce and the impressment of our seamen; to 1 tho murder of Pierce, to the base l and cowardly attack upon the Ches- apeake, to the inhuman treatment l of American prisoners, to the petty 1 pillage and wanton destruction of | private property at Havre-de-G Grace, | to the shocking outrages at Hamp- ! ton, to the burning of tho capitol, to the horrid mutilations and massa- cres of our defenseless inhabitants | by her Scotch ruffians and savage | allies and, lastly, to that dastard that characteristic baseness. l that bloodthirsty disposition dis played in the late murders at Dart moor prisonl-From New York Cor rector of 1915.