The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-15

The present eager claim of the Eng
lish that they are "cousins" to the
exclusion of the Irish. Germans. Scan-
dinayians, etc cannot be sustained,
Beginning with Vermont and New
Hampshire there has always been a
strong French element there. Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecti-
cut were kind OF English. New York
was overwhelmingly Dutch, New Jer-
sey was settled by Swedes and Finland
ers, Delaware by Swedes, Pennsyl-
yania had a small fraction Of English,
Maryland was, as the Maryland names
show. mainly Welsh. Virginia was
settled first by nearly pure Normans
from Northumbria, which was not
called England" until late day.
The next wave of settlement in Virginia
was Seotch-Irish. North Carolina was
Scotch. and Scotch-Irish. South Caro-
| lima French Iugunot. Georgia was
first coloni2ed by the poorer classes OF
English, unlike the aristocratic Nor
thumbrian nobility whose younger sons
were the settlers Of Virginia tidewater
country. The New England English
left almost none of their kind behind
them in England. So almost the only
stock in America that was represented
in England was the poorer class, Meth
Odists of Georgia. On that slender
thread hangs the "Angl0-Saxon brother
hood and the cousnship that is ap-
pealed TO by American Tories today in
their efforts to drag the people OF the
United States into an alliance with them
whose purpose is to pull England 4
chestnnts out of the fire of the Car in
North China. In his "Viking Age. Du
Chaillu says the United States form Of
government IS more like that of the old
Northern than any other in existence
Contempt of death was one Of the mos
notable characteristics of the North
men, and Henri Rocheforte, the Frencl
editor, said the other day, In comment
ling on the conduct of our soldiers II
Cuba: No people In the world hav,
such contempt for death as Americans.
We are not English, nor any neare
cousins to them than to any olhe
northern Europeans; rather less thai
more now, for we had less Englisl
than other blood at the time of the Rev
olution, and since then the migration o
other nationalities into the Unite
States has far exceeded that Of tn
English.
There was probably one originf
Aryan stock in nOtthem Europe age
ago; blonde-haired and blue-eyed. tw
features that were involved by residenc
from time immemOral in cold couI
tries. There were also red. haired tribe
Whence this red hair came | am n(
sure. Possibly 1t was from y union h,
0 tween n race with coarse black hair an
the blondes, FOR the original blond
hair is fine, aud red hair is seldom fin'
Black hair on the dead fades 10 red
IS very long time. But | have found re;
" son to think that "Cet" is the co
rupted form Of . Russian word meanin
: yellow, and that the red-halred We
'e Celts. Within any period mean histories
n times there has been Only one viii
n race in northern Europe, and almo
70 any of the names Gael, Gaul, Got
: Angli, Cimbrii, etc, refer TO this rae
l. The dark hair must have come fro
d elsewhere. | suspect that is large
,t Phmnician. AS the blondes and 7,
"a heads of the north invaded every CO
~ ner of Europe and left their descen
ol ants there, and as the PhGnicial
le traded clear to Sweden, and as da
ne Greeks, probably having PhGnicii
"a blood in them, traded up the gre
10 rivers of Russia it is far out of the WI
IN to say today that we are all a compon,
at of the fair northern and the dark sout
,e ern stock; or instead of being Angl
Saxons we are nearly PhGnico- Cell
III or Gelo-PhGnicians; or Phpnic
a Cimbrians. The white people of Russ
I'd are perhaps the purest specimens of Il
q. old white race of the North the Aryar
o. " England from being so often invad
le and from losing her best Aryans
Id migration has today, next to Italy, Spa
~ and Portugal, less Of that blood thl
in any other country. The cry Of "Angl
~ =, SaxOnismn is the shallowest of charl
I'll tanism. GEORGE WILSON.