THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 42, 14 October 1867, Page 251

THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.

(Bnnul Oj«i mpn',-in\ s p^^ ( (; Sj^r eiigioTa^4andj ! mOTalß. : is > take/df- tha'i physical fworld/ If anybody like,causes will dforeverproducelilcejeffectariiihistdry, tHdugb'the'jTOnditions alteredjiie will •dreadgreat;andipopular;me^sure8 J ,because rtheyihave erenowendedinftßOuble; add lie prophe--oiesi whenever; Isucb i reforms are about to be.enacted; He his ;^eart,: deride aimba/doctrine-as . Mr - Gladstone laid dowQ candv.jas) Mr'vDlisralli. bas adopted, vhen they-said; thafa-debtßv.-were;due from tb.q ; present to, posterity. - Tfetq religion; morals, and f science—does not believe ]in ..theicpptinuence and general - advance jpfjjour, race and 1 of the natural world,; itstheatre/.He is ) inclined/ < to think that; .events repeat •• Ahemselyes.j be believes in to-day,; much; more thantiiiito-morrow,;; he instances >thg Bark iAges; and the decline., pf -since;-Phidias. and : ; Praxitoles, i!i tpnp.ro,ye tbat;man’s history, moves., in a*, circle, aud that i if we:: gain in ene thing; we., 4o.se jin another. ~ This makes him anxious• to keep wbat/good society., iseems i to . .have ..got, . -especiaLLyiiif ; ; he thinksiihis; own share is satisfactory; . .3?he liberal, •> on ;the ; other hand,tif-he(deseryes-;tlie <nam.e,,lias that rich gift of faith‘. whichu the .Tory lacks.; . :His creed.is,th,e.-"Creed.of aspiratiphi of enlightened discontentjiQf bold ,expectancy; ■ ,The; revolution; he.- dreads, -mosfe is that ewhichf: would rise's up-in defiance r .of . the-eternal slaw of. progress, and rebel,"by enforcingsstaghationiiagainst;the ; manife3t majesty of movement, as revealed ip everything, frpptrythej>blade.; r pf.-TgrM& fg the procession .of the .equinoxes.. ‘to ’ understand . different eyes the 'schools 'of, then‘look: at everything*,, ffhe generous and. “fearless leaders of The World'push'the principles of j uktice' arid- freedom; becaiise they are encouraged ‘ by the whole hniverse. Nature is -the most astonishing and'courageous of Liberal’s.- > she is; nbver contented,.never afraid,-never - out of session, never iweary of-new Acts of Creative Reform! -■&. thing which we observe in her domain, “ death,’.’ “ decay;” <tj 'failure,” we call by a thousand foolish'iiauiee';‘while 1 she,‘otit pf>-wbat' , .we thought 'the ; ashes of her -effort, raises a . splendid; new, unthought-of combination.' Philosophers are l making guesses iny many books 1 at' wlkt she ’did in :the : t WoffdeVful- day s inehow * or • r©ther, thejpaddie ( of ahcienthidebus cofbssal; reptiles'was' succeeded--by the wing, of the bird,' the foot of J the mammal, 'and, last-of all, the exqusife'h'and v of-man./> They conjecture'that’when she crumbled down her pre-Adamite molluscs she was making marble out of tlieir shells for those Greek andßomam sculptors of whom Tories talk; and’that when she covered up their works in’ Poiiipeii • with red hot' volcanic rivers she - Whs providing a--capital -trade in sulphur.’aud’ sulphuric'; acid -for .England’s manufactures and Italy’s revenue. What shb does’- the’ great; busy capital; and what she does ih' a J silent noukbf some Brazilian forest, follow, first.-that same great law, “Bad madegoodj”;or “Geod made better,” wliich -nowhere' stays or falters.. She cherishes a butterfly in the ... palmetto shade for’some 'gift-of -wing or 'color," and we think: her divine. ; Slie weeds a . population with her plagues, , and we call her cruel; but the pliysical.effect ; nnd'-ehd-areplways, though 'invisibly,.ad.vaneing. Take her in history,.: those that ; mourned over the ssilipg/pf the Mayflower -^because“England jo. ugjit- -not,- to - lose men bold enough to think ”r-f,w,ould have stopped the birth of , . State; 1 Take her in zooiogW/she hbral insect working vainly forages/ -hut hy-and-by’e he:mabes-her hnoislaiidj End ; saves a shipload of human lives. Take her in' the blending i of / humani races;,: rishc ..pours Rpmah,; Piet, Dane,vSaxou,. Norm,an’ upon Britons,i.till- these? kingdoms . must have seemed a mongrel hodge-podge of anarchy ; -but, she Raises out of it the race she j had in her mind jail the , whiled ; i hejiAnglodaxon” people we.call them for ’shortness..;sake—just ,a 8 : Royal childreni go,; by.pne; ;oy> two out of tlieir . twenty names j ; . a race- which, .springing ’ from this, diurp little corner of ; creation, has .girdled* the world with' empire, anti made,, English the / thngae of ’ half :th< - globe. ■ ’ .V- .’V by .anybody actually atlthe histories, thus, .and .doyetading. new l Tl *cei tpmewr. c'ountriekj; ga ass to outdo Herself it fresh developments of power and bappi ; ness. Whpn philpspph.ers like Mr Dar.wir - '^d4ier;;U^^eauti^"sec^'!Ub.pr^t]ij^ fate;.ofi'en.: r seems to renew;, tlie Actfflpn 1 l>7i before hhr, silei{t t ,tpf£j.cit|- cons§sictin{ the, appaaspgy cpiqinopphice:. tabies issuec a, iecordnficolonia S.M&|ep^®hn^few)ntra| , yivS;s;l2;Engfißli

were sbefcween Ehglirii sides,i!7 between Irish-born fpmftles j-dea{vingJ neany 50 ;per< cent.: of latioh is rendered : possible /-because; .the. {Victorian lasses, of home , growth—the aboriginal maidens,; .8o;]:to (Bpeak-/“ have not yet--grown? ,up;.an Kauffi| cient; to, / perplex ithedcalculatibn. “ Befote lolng/’we; shall bet. unpble r to; Bay'/!fV?hl| nationality,■exceptthafc ofjthe strongyoung ddlo'ny; J bridprfand bridegroom. But zforr the past/six years we- are safe in notfngl this 0 wide-spread in i, British iwhioh is working -out on/a great scaleithe caspal instanced to be/found'/herajand there, oof courße, at home, and ;a’malgamating the English,ilrish;’ahdiScotch hloods;tb,iform a' bran-new race/of Britons; at the/Anti; p^lesi if;-!.- . ~V;*:i*v? ! -'/Now/^whatever. difficulty -Mr,«Disraeli may find in making->a/Reform-Bill to/suit the,/three kingdomß, we hope/to have them pnanimous 'in l agreeingiwith; us that, 'the ’race which will l some dayr; result from /this miscegenation ought <to be strikingly good. A'll l thagreat deeds of the; world have been done ! by Inixedobreedsjf as-eveisybody knows whofreads history-in the light-of'ethnology. Whabought not to come, then,. ; in a new and' rich land, under .a. bountiful sky, with the 'southern' half <of. the .globe for aj train; ing-field, out -/of , this /intermingling of English;; Scotch,, and Irish , stocks,' all good to begin with.?, Depend upon . it, Dame Nature is preparing here some chapters of human 1 History/ which will- be«worth reading to'those who )livc<;to .turn tbe pager/ Theeourage andchastity; of.the Irish,' the ’sense and-;>solidity.:.of-.ithe /Scotch, the pataenee -and physical gifts/of the English,' ought to produce;-and ,will t -produce,.:* splendid breed of men women. Planted on this new. and, fertile'soil together, and growing froni one roo.vwhat Stiircly; lusiy; fragrant* human blossoms will -there’ not be found by-and-bye shooting from the/Rbte, the Shamrock, and' the Thistle 1 The stress of circumstances .under whieh this happy ‘amalgamation > takes, place is an instance of the' way lin which the, grand operations of man’s history are initiated and wrought 'but. Nature plays matchmaker, in the young colony; with a vyide . territory and splendid r climate to //tempt: bachelors and spiUstersi to their pleasant fate, and settles the broad lands in...dowry upon three families of her,..children whom she favprs and loves. But what is ; all this to us ? ” those will ask who nerer felt the delight of anticipating and rejoicing/in the ihani| test .^^tihief k'ir«d;i?rrHi'is diidehd doubtful; whether. .tiie : faith and the ; joy which-thesesilent i-changt'sffor good produce ih Some ininds can be transferred l by argument to others ; for there is a radical difference- between", men who trust in the future of humanity ,and those who do not/ Still, the- wish and the effort to leave the world happier, higher,, and better is a noble instinct of nature, and in our colonial empire” we see it bringing its own high" reward .in tangible prosperity and a splendid future. " '