Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-07-08

by the author of 'Waverley' was ex-
pected. Through all the important
formative days Of the republic Scott
was the favorlte ;ut.IOr of the Ameri-
cans. and. while his writings may not
be said 10 have had any special weight
in our material and political develop
ment, yet their influence was enor'
nous upon the taste and the senti-
ments .of people peculiarly sensitive
TO such Influences from the very cir
cumetahces OF their environment"
What John Hay said in reference to
the infinence of the pen OF the Wizard
Of Abbotsford upon America can be
said toa greater or less extent Of all
the leaders of English and Scottish and
Irish thought
Englnnd's Associations.
British thinking cannot be divorced
from American thinking. To the Amer
ican mind a map OF the British Isles Is
not a mere collection OF city or town
names. Each spot has its sacred his
tory On account OF the men who have
lived there and whose fields OF infu-
ence were transatlantic as well as cis-
atlantic. Some years ago rode through
SCOTLAND and England on bicycle.
From Glasgow | went to Ayr There
| found that my youthful idol. Burns,
once lived. Prom Ayr | went to Ban
nockburn and Stirling castle. There
found that Bunker Hill was only an
echo Of Stirling castle. Those old Scot
tish chiefs inspired Americas inde'
pendence. Prom Bsnnockburn went
TO Edinburgh. There | stood at the
graves of Guthrie and Chalmers and
went into John Knox's old home and
recognized these men as my teachers
From Edinburgh | went down to the
lake region and there found its poets,
my poets. There ! reverently stood by
the roadside while a nurse led John
Ruskin past me-John Ruskin then
with his mind a Melrose abbey In ruins.
hut John Ruskin stlll-who wrote the
books that are on my library shelves
From there went up to London. Al
most every place stopped could 90
and find the grave of one Of Americas
benefactors.
England has conquered America by
the power Of the tongue. Because the
same linguistic doors are opened to
both people the two nations are one In
sympathy and one IN life. There is an
old saying among the Spaniards. Go
lumbus set sail from Spain and dis
covered America, but not until wash
ington Irving set sail for Spain was
the Alhambra discovered for the
Americans" That is true. From near
ly all foreign lands are we separated
by the great towers Of Babel, the
towers OF unknown tongues" Around
these or over these but few of MS have
the linguistic ability TO go or TO climb
But. though between us and England
rolls the Arlantic ocean 1000 miles
wide, the bridge Of common language
spans il. Over that bridge every day
walk the British statesmen, the Brit
ish reformers, the British authors, th'
British preachers, the British leaders
Of thought
The British empire has conquered III
by the tongue, but not by that alone
Every year she sends over a great In
yading army. This army Of invaders
are stout of muscle and clear of eye
and brave Of heart. They have th'
bravery to cross the seas. Yes, bu
they are also brave enough to brint
along their wives and children, ant
gold. and picks, and shovels, and ma
sons trowels, and plumb lines. Thel
| plainly and bluntly declare that the!
have come to capture our lands. anC
sit upon our merrantile thrones, an(
form their colonization settlements
And as soon as they can get a footholt
here they say they will send over 70
their fathers and mothers and brother
and sisters to come and live with then
| in their new homes which they hav'
| built In the new land and which the.
are already beginning to rule.
| We find in America the English ant
| the Scotch and the Irish families every
where SuppOslng l should ask al
those whom address to arise and sa.
who were born In the British isles ant
who are sons and daughters and grand
children Of ancestors who were borl
there, how many do you suppose woul'
stand up? A twentieth A tenthI 4
fourth? Yes, think fourth or even
third is not overstatlng the numbers
When the original thirteen colonie
won their national independence W
had all told In this country betweel
three and four millions OF people. w
then had a smaller population than ha
the present city of New York. In III
tie over a hundred years we have near
ly 8O,0O0,000 inhabitants. Whence di
these people come7 From the Amer
can cradlef Yes. The American stor
has builded her nests In the chimney
of many homes. But the America
stork from 100000 parents could nc
produce S0,OO0,OOO living descendant
In a little over a hundred years. Th
vast numbers OF the American inhabi'
ants today came over as emigrant
from Europe or their fathers or grant
fathers came thus. And by far tn
largest proportion Of these emigrant
came as an invading army from th
shores Of England and Scotland an
Ireland.
The Great British Army.
Great Is the British army OF emigrf
ton! England defeated Napoleon Bt
naparte at Waterloo with an army q
less than 10000 men. The British en-
pire hurled back the Russian Slav froI
the shores of the Black sea In the Or
mean war with an army Of only 5000
men. Havelock fought Lis way u
from the coast to Lucknow and CawI
pur with only 1900 men. Robei
Give, afterward Lord Give, subjuga
ed the whole Indian empire with only
few thousand troops.
Rut though thp Rritish empire ha