Contents:
1. Cruzita Giron: Keep up the good
work
2. Enemies of Brit-Am
3. The archives of "Brit-Am Now"
4. The USA and Englishness: Of interest
1. Cruzita Giron: Keep up the good work
From: Cruzita Giron
Subject: Re: Tribal Identification:
Reuben-4
Shalom Yair: Keep up the good work,
just love all this history that you
send out.
It is so interesting. Shalom cita g.
2. Enemies of Brit-Am
Certain people said false things about
Brit-Am, about Yair Davidiy,
and about Rabbi Avraham Feld. They
said we said things we did not say
and that in fact are diametrically
the opposite of what we believe.
This is probably inevitable under the
circumstances. Believe about us what
we write to you
and beyond that do not believe anything
without checking with us.
3. The archives of "Brit-Am Now" are
now on our web site.
http://www.britam.org/
4. The USA and Englishness: Of interest
Subject: Anglo-Saxons in Early America
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Here are two quotes of early Amercian
politicians on American kinship
with
Anglo-Saxons. I find them both very
interesting in thier own ways and
the
geographic and political context of
both men is surely important.
"In 1776, Thomas Jefferson proposed
that the seal for the newly
declared
United States of America should represent
'The children of Isreal in
the
wilderness led by a cloud by day and
a pillar of light by night; and on
the
other side, Hengest and Horsa, the
Saxon chiefs from whom we claim the
honor
of being descended.'"
p. 1 Nicholas Howe _Migration and Mythmaking
in Anglo-Saxon England_
"Our old enemies, the British, and
their American friends give us the
name
new Anglo-Saxons. Our name, blood,
and lineage are American and not
Anglo-Saxon. It is true that most of
the Americans are descendants of
Europeans, but the preponderance of
our blood is not of the Anglo-Saxon
race.
There are more of the descendents of
the Irish and Germans in the
United
States than English. In fact, the American
race at present is so
compounded
and improved that we are a stock of
our own." p. 152
John Reynolds (1788-1865) _Pioneer
History of Illinois_ 1852
Ranger during the War of 1812,
Third Governor of the State of Illinois
(who led the Illinois militia
to
battle in the Black Hawk War...from
the front of the column).
Status during the British wars was
certainly a component in these
beliefs. As
far as I know, Thomas Jefferson was
what we might call an 'idea man'
but I
don't think he ever fired a shot in
a battle against any enemy. John
Reynolds, although a generation younger,
had fought in two wars he
blamed on
the British, the War of 1812 and the
Black Hawk War. (Black Hawk had
been a
British Native American ally.)
Their geographic contexts is another
major difference. Jefferson lived
in
relatively cultured Virginia, while
Reynolds lived on what was then the
western-most edge of the American frontier,
where the border with first
New
France and later New Spain was just
across the river. (Most of the
Irish
Reynolds refers to were not Irish Catholics
but Irish protestants also
called
the Scotch-Irish.)
As far as Reynolds personal history,
he says his own father Robert
Reynolds
was born and raised in Monohon Co.
Ireland and his mother in the city
of
Dundalk. He says that his father was
an admirerer of Jefferson but
hated
Great Britain "with a ten-horse power",
neither of which were uncommon
feelings in c. 1800. Although Reynolds
education was not the same as
Jefferson, his father had been a state
representative, and he was a
lawyer
and eventually Governor at a critical
time in the formation of the
state.
Perhaps what is most intersting in
the context to this list is that the
concept of "Anglo-Saxon" was being
discussed at all in early America,
rather
than being a "New England" or 'the
English'. And also that the man who
wrote
our Declaration of Independence had
a different view on the
'Anglo-Saxons'
than someone on the front line with
a rifle. The Reynolds quote shows
that
some people in America, possibly as
late as 1852, were trying to style
themselves/America as the "New Anglo-Saxons".
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