The Republican journal., 1899-05-18

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to their taste, they attacked the Britons
themselves and from that time for nearly
OF quite one hundred and fifty years, they
and neighboring tribes of Angles, Jutes
and Fresians waged war of conquest ano
determination against the Britons.
The Jutes were a Teutonic tribe from
Jutland that appeared TO have gained The
first permanent foothold by forming d
small kingdom in what then, as now, was
called Kent.
The Saxons Sword men) in OF about A.
d. AZ, formed settlements on the south
ern and southeastern coasts.
in A. D. 400, two Saxon ''Ealdormen, "
Cerdic and Cynric, founded settlement
on the coast of what is now Hampshire,
which later grew into the Kingdom OF
WesseX under Cedric.
At about the same time of the invasion
by the Saxons, the Angles, another leu
tonic tribe, from the neighborhood of
what is now called Sclleswig- Holstein,
formed numerous settlements in Britain,
and in A. D., 547, several of these settle
ments We're united. under Ida, into the
kingdom of Bernicia, and later several
other Anglican settlements were united
into the kingdom Of Mercia.
Both Saxons and Angles formed other
small kingdoms throughout Britain, and
although the Angles occupied much the
and gave their name to all the invading
Teutonic tribes, as they all began to be
known as the Angles English or Eng
lishry, and from that gave the name to
that political division of Britain known
as England, yet the Saxon kingdom of
Wessex seemed to gain the supremacy,
the other Teutonic kingdoms in Britain.
During the century and a half of strug-
Cling, one with another, for supremacy,
and unitedly waging war OF extermina-
ton against the Celt, they completely
oblterated every mark of language and
customs that the Romans, or Latins.
might have left behind them, and sup
planted them with their own.
In the early part OF the seventh century,
becoming converted to Christianity their
war of determination ceased, but their
wars of subjugation continued; yet such
was the change brought about that fire.
quent intermarriages between the Teuton
and the Celt were made, and they began
to recognize Common interests and com
mon country.
But during most of those many years of
bitter warfare, no written history exists,
and, in the traditions handed down by the
Celt and Teuton alike, facts and fiction are
50 interviewer that historians do not agree
upon line of separation. Macauley says
of those times:
''Her shores were, to the polished race
which dwelt by the Bosphorus, objects of
mysterious horror, such as that with
which the lonlans of the age of Homer
had regarded the Straits of Scylla and the
city OF the Laestrygonian cannibals. There
was one province OF our island in which,
as Procopius has been told, the ground
was covered with sarpents, and the air
was such that no man could inhale it and
live
''To this desolate region the spirits of
the departed were ferried over from the
land of the Franks at midnight. A strange
race OF fishermen performed the CHASTITY
office. The speech of the dead were dis
tinctly heard by the boatman; their weight
made the keel sink deep in the water, but
their forms were invisible to the mortal
eye. Such were the marvels which an
able historian gravely related in the rich
and polite Constantinople,"
After the six centuries of contention
and the Teuton and the Celt had acknowl-
edged common brotherhood and had be-
gun to cultivate the arts of peace, COM
mon disaster overwhelmed them by the
invasion of the Danes, which began about
A. D. 7S9, and eliminated about A. D.
lob, when Swegen was acknowledged as
king or tyrant over England.
In order to give a view of the character
of the Danes, and the results of their in
vasion, / can do no better than to turn to
Macauley, from whom l quote:
'During several generations Denmark
and Scandinavia continued to pour forth
innumerable pirates, distinguished by
strength, by valor, by merciless ferocity,
and by hatred of the Christian name.
mo country suffered SO much from
these invaders as England Her coast lay
near to the ports where they sailed; MOI
was any part of our island so far from the
| sea as to be secure from attack
1.-THE same atrocities which had attend
ed the victory of the Saxon over the Celt,
were now, after lapse of ages, suffered by
| the Saxon at the hand of the Dane.
"Civilization, just as it began to rise,
was met by this blow, and sank down once
more. Large colonies of adventures from
the Baltic established themselves ON the