The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-16
INFUSED IN THEIR BLOOD.
SPIRIT OF CONQUEST DRIVES
ANGLO-SAxoNS WESTWARD.

Regent, Mrs. Edward KarOw-Hon.
Pope BarrOw's Address-ExpanstOn
Is But the Natural Result of Anglo
Saxon Blood and Training, and
AEuinaldo Is the Last of the Chiefs
Whom the Tide of Conquest Has
OveraOwn-COI. Server Presented
the Regent with n GaveI Made
From Wood of a Tree That Shell
tered Old Midway Church.
The Savannah chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution held an event.
full meeting last night at the residence of
the regent, Mrs. Edward Karow. No. 3ls
Gwinnett street, east. Many of the la
dies of the organization were present, and
a number of gentlemen also. After an
hour entertaingly and instructiveIy spent
in listening to the address of Hon. Pope
Barrow and a speech In presentation of a
gaveI of historic wood by Col. John Screw
en-, her guests were pleasantly entertained
by the regent hostess and Maj Karow.
Mr.. BarroW's address was a history Of
the Anglo-Saxon race, with deductions aud
pointed references of strength and char
and Saxons with their mixture of Jutes
and Frisians, from their homes on the
coast of Northern Germany for their de-
scent upon the coast of Britain; through
their conquest of the part of the island
that took the name England from the
Land of the Angles" or, angle Land;'
the overthrow of the native Britons the
driving back of the Picts and Scots; their
own defeat by the Normans, Mr.. Barrow
followed she history of the Anglo-Saxons
until he showed the spirit of conquest that
is infused in the very blood of the race.
After telling of the assimilation of the
Teutonic branches that followed the vic
tory of the Normans at Hastings, Mr..
Barrow said:
Without stopping to consider the move
ments of these Anglo-Saxons in the inter
mediate centuries we next take them up
in the early years of the seventeenth CEN
tury, when a small ships company of
them, under Capt. John Smith and Barth-
olemew Gosnold, landed In Virginia and
established themselves at jamestown. This
was in 1907 In 1920 another party of them
landed at Plymouth, Mass, and they too,
settled down to stay. These two were
followed afterwards by many others, until
at Savannah, founding the colony of Geor-
gia. The Dutch were in New York, the
French in Canada, the Spanish in Florida
These Anglo-Saxons and the mother coun-
try, England, soon got New York into their
hands and took Canada away from France
before the revolution, Florida fell into
their hands after the revolution.
The aboriginal Indian tribes were here
In possession of the country when these
settlements iusf Al
Britons were in possession of Great Brit
ain when Hengist and Horsa landed there
The immigrants to America in the seven
teenth century treated the original In
dams just exactly as their Anglo-Saxon
ancestors in the fifth century had treated
the original Britons; that is to say when
they could get their lands by treaty they
TOOK them that way, but when they could
not, they simply killed them, drove them
out of 1t and took 1t by force
From time to time among the Indians
some great chief would make a stand.
unite his people and try to hold them at
bay, just as King Arthur, King of the
Britons, and his Knights of the Round Ia
pie tried to hold the Anglo-Saxons
back; but It was only a temporary
check OF the great tidal wave. Tecumseh.
OsceoIa and other Indian chiefs in vain
organized the first the Algonquin Confed-
eracy, and the last united the Seminole
Indians against the whites They had 10
go down at last. The character of Tecuno-
SEN apart from some disfguring traits
especially is one which excites adrniro3
ton. His address to the tribes of the Al
gonquin Confederacy is as fine I'm its xvav
as any appeal which has ever been ma1a
10 any people to defend their homes He
reminded them that they were the rightful
owners Of that beautiful land. thai the
Great Spirit had given 1t to them. and
that 1t was their duty TO defend n and
drive back the invader. But they were
doomed. Just as the ancient Britons had
been steadily driven back by the AnoIo-
Saxon invaders of Great Britain so tha
Indians were steadily driven back from
the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. From
the days of King Arthur of the old r2rit
ons through Tecumseh and Oceola and
Sitting Bull and Geronimo. and 60 on
Aguinaldo, these Anglo-Saxons have stead
lily marched on in their westward neth
conquering and destroying evervthino
which undertook to arrest their progress
Agulnaldo's turn has come and II will
not be long before his name and his stru0-
gle will add another to the long and length
ening row of milestones which line thA
track of Anglo-SaXon conquest through
the centuries and across continents and
hemispheres.
These Anglo-Saxons came from Car
many to England and from England Ia
this country simply because thew ulsed
the looks Of the country and wanted n
They bought part and the balance thsv
took by killing the Britons and driving
them out of it, and when they landed in
America, they bought some from the In
dams and then proceeded to kilh and drive
out the Indians from that part which thev
would not sell. 1t is the same old story;
1t is being enacted now in the Philinnines
and Aguinaldo will soon ba
where the old kings of the Britons ana
chiefs of the North American
Indians are now. With the exception M
the Salzbergers and the Huguenots every
immigrant to America from Europe came
from a desire TO own and possess lands
and thirst for conquest 1t is the shallow
est pretense to say that the P,lrItans came
10 New England to seek religious liberty
They had religious liberty in England. All
sofute freedom of conscience and of wor-
ship was allowed them there. AS soon az
they landed in New England they began ~
| burn women for witches, to cut out the
| tongues of Quakers and to drive the Ran