ARE THE AMERICANS ANGLO-SAXONS?
[To TRA EDITOB OF TEM " SFECTATOR."]
Sin,—You have dealt with the question of Americans as Anglo-Saxons lately. Permit me to send this list of Army and Navy officers for you to glance over. They are simply given as appearing in Harper's Weekly, with portraits, for
several weeks, and are copied entire. Two German, possibly three; one Italian; one French ; one Dutch,—out of eighty- one names. All the rest squarely British. Admiral Dewey's ancestor came from Dorsetshire in 1633, and with others of the same company founded the town of Dorchester, now a part of Boston. The only gleam of light in this deplorable war is the thrill of common consciousness between our two countries. For the fact that there is a large element of humane passion among the many motives involved only makes the stupidity of its manifestation more grievous.
That the Master is working out his deep purposes is our only abiding peace for heart and mind.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Navy: Dewey, Lamberton, Clark, Goodrich, Gridley, Sigsbee. Wilde, Walker, Cotton, Pillsbury, Richman, Hall, Fickbohm, Ward, Fremont, Hutchins, Helm, Usher, Sharp, Schley, Evans, Taylor, Sampson, Higginson, Chadwick, Cook, Selfridge, Barry, Colahan, Dillingham, Nickels, Coffins, McCrea, Snowden, Vree- land, Gleaves, Shoemaker, Wood, Purcell, Harrington, Philip, Ludlow, Chester, McCalla, Jewell, Merry, Converse, Maynard, Dayton, Leary, Brownson, Mackenzie, Todd, Swinburne, Symonds, Cowles, Gherardi, Bernardou, Brainard, Emory.
ARMY : Miles, Merritt, Brooke, Otis, Coppinger, Shafter, Graham, Wade, Merriam, Breckinridge, Frank, Ludlow, Henry, Carpenter, Arnold, Williston, Anderson, Sumner, Coghlan, Dyer, Wood.
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