The Irish standard., 1898-06-25

Z Du1lQer OF the hrSt American railway!
whence two of our leading sculptors,
Powers and Observation-Disclosures our
most distinguished political economist,
Carey?-whence the hero OF Winches-
ter, whom our city with all the cities of
the North, has recently delighted to
honor? They were all Irish by birth or
extraction.
Even to the Welsh element in our
population, our country is indebted in
no small degree for it's prosperity. OF
the signers of the Declaration of In
dependence eighteen had Welsh blood in
their veins, and among them were
Samuel Adams, John Adams, Stephen
Hopkins, Francis Hopkins Robert
Morris, B. Gromnett, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Harrison, Richard H. Lee
and Francis H. Lee. Among our revo-
lutionary generals, Mad Anthony
Wayne, the fiery Ethan Allen and Daviu
Morgan. together with Charles Ice,
John Cadwallader. and many others
We're of Welsh blood: and so were five
of our presidents, viz: John Adams,
Jefferson, Monroe, John Quincy Adams,
Harrison and Buchanan
We may add that our next president,
the hero OF Nicksburg, is not OF Anglo
Saxon descent, but of Norman French.
via Scotland.
How We came to be infested by the
Anglo-SaNcn mania it would be hard to
tell. Even in EO GLAND &c ,;,j;,
enough; but there it is beginning to be
laughed at by men Of sense, who per-
ceive the absnrdty of Englishmen
claiming to be Anglo Saxon, when
there is no such race in existence, aud
never was. Those who Parrot this
boast should reau Defoc's 'rrue-born
Englishman," in which, at time when
1t was customary to denounce King
William as IA foreigner the author
was at pains to instruct his countrymen
how many mongrel races had conspirea
to form that vain, Unnatural thing
an Englishman,' and showed, in limp
ing verse, but unan5werable logic,
that
true-born Englishman's contradict
In speech an irony, in fact fiction;
metaphor invented to cx,lrcss
A man a kin to all the universe.
Anything more motely and hetcrogcn-
eous than the Anglo-SaXon blood even
before the Norman invasion, made uY,
as it was, from the veins OF Britons,
Romans. SaXOns, Picts, Scots and Danes,
it would be hard to conceive. 1t be-
gan with the Celtic, of which it is Il di-
lution-that very Celt with which GER
tam writers are fond Of telling us it is
in deadly antagonism and cnmty. Next
comes the Roman blood-biood shared.
more or less, by every people in South
ern and Western Europe, to say moth
ing OF parts of Asia ANA hfrica-and
which W" know was derived from the
nlEgllng together of all the races o.
ancient Italy and of the ancient world.
Then follows the blood Of the plcts and
Scots, the Jntcs. Angles and Saxons.
the Danes the last of ell the Normans.
who, as Dr. Latham says. were from
1irst TO last. Celtic on the mothers side,
and on that of the father, Celtic. Roman
and German, and hence brought over
to England only the elements; it had be-
fore - Celtic. Roman. German and
Morse All this shows plainly that the
idea OF an Anglo-Saxon race, composed
OF pure Anglican and Saxon clements.
is sheer nonsense. 1t shows tnat the
English Ang!o-SaXon race is composed
or tho same constituents as the leading
l1lEoDeaE races, not excepting the
FRENCH; and that hence 1t is simply alb
snrd for Americans 10 call themselves
Anglo-Saxons, when they have con-
founded and are daily more and more
confounding. the confusion OF the Eng
fish blood by infusion from the veins of
all other nations of Europe
The truth is that, made up as we are
OF SO many nationalties, plugging to-
gether, head and points. in one truckle-
bed.' we are as mixed, piebald and
higgledy- piggledy a race as the sun ever
looked down upon. Compared with us.
the Roman, who first comprised all the
vagabonds of Italy. and finally incor-
porated into the empire of all the semi
barbarans of Europe, were homo
geneous race. To plume ourselves on
our Anglo-Saxon extraction Is as rldc-
ulous as tho inordinate pride of ances-
try rebukcd by Defoe. which led the
self-styled "true-born Engllshmun" of
his day to sheer at the Dutch
Forgetting that themselves are all de-
rived
From the most scoundrel race that ever
lived,
A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and
drones
Who ransacked Kingdoms, and de-
peopled towns,
The Pict and painted Briton, PREACHER.
GUS Scot,
BY hunger. theft and rapne hither
brought:
Norwegian pirates. buccaneering
Danes,
Whose redhaired offspring everywhere
remains;
Who. Joined with Norman French,