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that trod on English ground, and even baser than they ; but 

 in features and colour, why, ne plus ultra. 



It will be said the monuments of antiquity have not been 

 examined, and only a partial history of mankind has been 

 taken under review. Answer : The monuments of antiquity 

 are occasionally examined with an intense desire to get at 

 facts nay, now and then a skeleton and a skull ; and it is 

 surprising to find that the slave then is now the master. 

 The Jew in chains is the chief among men for meanness, 

 for intellect, for integrity, and for generosity. In fact, there 

 is not at present a great nation upon earth which does not 

 view as half-effeminate and degraded the people who once 

 were sovereigns upon earth. 



You say history is at fault ; races never change. If, then, 

 they do not change they must die out ; and so history, as a 

 record of facts, must be very defective. Well, it is true 

 history is defective, but geography is scarcely so much at 

 fault as the chronicler. If, then, the geographer is mode- 

 rately correct, and given races leave one locality in Asia and 

 come to another in Europe, where were the present 

 occupants of Europe, or what were they doing, 3,000 years 

 ago, or 2,000 years ago ? Were they in the wilds of 

 Tartary ? Nay, say the Franks, eastern and western, are 

 descendants of the remnants of Babylon and Nineveh ; and 

 the Goths, or Saxons, etc., etc., came from somewhere, but 

 arrived on one side the Caspian before touching Sarmatia, 

 Asia Minor, or Europe. Their pedigree is wonderful, and 

 their deeds mighty. But how about these Teutons, Saxons, 

 and Alemanni, etc. ? Why, if they were not great they 

 ought to have been great, for we are their children ; and our 

 forefathers buried their greatness in the wilds of oblivion, or 

 in some menial and pettifogging community, so that history 

 is silent, because the children did not honour and write for 

 mankind the deeds they did in the past. 



