The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-13
BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER.
SYMPATHY SHOULD EXIST AMONG
ALL ENGLISH PEOPLE.


Judge Emory SDeer's Interesting
Address Before the Sons of the
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Who De-
pIOred the Crowns Oppression OF
the CoIonies-Tbe Principles of
Magma Charta Exist in Our Con-
stitution To-Day-why Americans
should Support and sympathixe
with England.
There was a striking spectacle at the
annual dinner of the Sons of the Revolu-
ton last Tuesday evening as Judge Emory
Sheer approached the conclusion of his
respowe TO the toast, '"rhe United States -"
There were gathered the sons of the pa
triots of '76. There were the veterans and
distinguished officers Of the United States
Army on important duty here.
The speaker had concsely and rapidly
developed the facts of English history
and demonstrated that the constitution of
our country was the final product of the
efforts of Englishmen struggling upward
to the light of liberty and law through
many centuries. His hearers had listened
with eager attention and frequent bursts
of applause as he depicted the "free neck
ed man. and the free weaponed man"
on the small peninsular now Schleswick
iutting into the German ocean, the
prineyal home of the noble and yirile
stock from which spring the English
speaking race" how they crossed the sea
with Hengish and Horsa and carried their
institutions with them, and builded their
homes on the ruins of Roman villas.
He asserted that the Anglo-Saxon was
the only German race which founded an
independent nation on the site of Ro-
man province. The Franks. had swept
across the Rhine and spread over the
sunny slopes Of France, but modern
French was the language of the vanquish-
ed and not of the victors. The fair Lom-
bards had left no trace of their charac-
ter In the swarthy compilations and dark
hair of modern Lombardy. The Cloths
had sWarmed through the tabled passes
of the Pyrenees to be subjected TO the Ro-
man language and customs of ancient
Hispania and modern Spain.
Not so with the English. The ancient
persisted. The Anglo-Saxon conquered the
vikings by absorbing them The Normans
came, but Henry / was subdued by the
charms of Matilda. Thus the blood Of the
Conqueror was mingled with the royal
current which palsated in the snowy
bosom of that beautiful descendent Of
Alfred the Great, and soon 1t was that
the descendants of the warlike host which
hurled it's power against the entreneh-
ments Of the Saxon-Harold at Hastings
gloried in the name Of Englishmen.
He argued that Magma Charta presented
no novel doctrine. II was but the reiter-
alton Of the laws of Edward the Confess
sor. to which Stephen Langton, the noble
prlmate of England. had sought to swear
the tyrant, of whom a contemporary said:
Foul as Il Is, hell Itself is dedled by the
fouler presence of John" So well known
were the principles of Magma Charta that
IL was discussed, agreed upon and signed
In a single day. While other nations we're
lapsing into that popular lethargy which
is the sure outcome of unresisted despot-
ism, Englishmen were more and more wor-
shipping their laws. When the first
James rated his judges, as II they were
scuilions, because they would not admit
lin to their consultations, Chief Justice