212 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



all other expenses necessary besides, the city would be 

 ever a prey to sickness and plagues arising from the 

 filth of th negro part of the town. Therefore, it is 

 necessary for all Americans to make preparations before 

 they do resolve on emancipation. 



THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA ANGLO-SAXONS. 



EVERY one who reads the London Times, and the 

 London journals generally, will perceive the flattering 

 unction they lay to their souls, that the Americans are 

 Anglo-Saxons, and the proud boasting of the wide-spread 

 of that race, when, in fact, the race is, and has been, 

 long declining. 



From the earliest periods, America has been a refuge 

 for all nations and races of Europe. The Spaniards were 

 the first who made their way to America ; then followed 

 the French and the Dutch. The English had not a 

 navigator to start on any unknown seas, and were in- 

 debted to a Venetian for exploring parts of America for 

 them. 



Spain colonized South America and part of the South- 

 ern States, to which she gave the general name of 

 Florida. The French colonized the North, or Canadas ; 

 and, until a few yeajjs ago, England found it necessary 

 to make use of the French language in all their public 

 documents. The chief claim of England is, that she has 

 possessed herself for a time of America. This is the 

 only claim she can, in fact, make ; for the Anglo-Saxon 

 race in America is not one in ten of its inhabitants. 



The Spaniards, tho Celts, and the French and Ger- 

 mans, are the people of America ; and it is pretty certain 

 that the Celts are the people who preponderate in Amer- 



