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 its origin to the same great source; each speaks a language whose affinities may be traced through numberless modifications; and each still preserves those prominences, of character, that quiet courage, that unwillingness to unite, and cordiality when united, which so remarkably distinguish both the Scandinavian and the Teutonic branches of the Gothic race.

Thirteen hundred years have elapsed since certain men of the North first landed on the shores of Britain. They were few amidst the many; they began as the servants, the ended by becoming the lords of those among whom they dwelt. The yielding Briton fled to the moumains of Cymrw; the hardy Saxon possessed himself of the rich fields, the fertilizing streams, the forests and cities of England.

For what Britain has become since that period, we refer to History. What she would have been but for those hardy Northern adventurers, who can say? To them, as far as inquiry can trace the progress of intellect upon institutions, she owes her greatness and her glory. They were the stamina whose seed is gone forth to the ends of the earth, subduing and creating magnificent nations, and planting the Gothic family in every quarter of the globe. Wherever they have gone, they have carried civiliaation with them; wherever they have rested, they have laid the foundation of freedom and of happiness.

Happily the period of hostile rivalry appears passing away. The history of by-gone centuries is not the history of friends and brethren. We have met in bloody bravery, to exchange hatred for hatred and injury for injury. We have been rendering to each other evil passions and evil deeds; we, who ought to have been refreshing and invigorating and exciting one another by the interchange of high and holy thoughts, of generous purposes, of warm affections, of beneficent doings. The debt of justice is due from England to the North. Our men of science and of song have found their way over all Scandinavia, while Scandinavian genius has not received its merited welcome here.

Much has been done in the North since the brethren parted, and many a strain has been sung worthy of the voice of Fame and the place of honour; but those strains have not been heard in England. We make our appeal against this neglectful indifference; and with the best auxiliaries which seal and