Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1882 — The Anglo-Saxon “Swing of Conquest.” [ARTICLE]

The Anglo-Saxon “Swing of Conquest.”

Among the several epigrammatic sentences uttered by Gen. Grant, and which have passed into history, was one in reference to the English soldier. I do not doubt that when he said it he had in his eye that peculiar gait of his veterans, with which he had seen them so often march to victory. It was in a brief address, I believe, at Gibraltar. He said that he had seen most of the soldiers of the continent; that he liked the German soldiers; that the Spanish soldiers need only good •officers to make them superior, but he had seen nothing to compare with the English. “There is,” said he, “something about them not found in any other soldiers; it may be their Anglo-Saxon blood; they have the swing of conquest.” In that vivid phrase he describes the race, and history, past, as well as the outlook of the future, confirms it. The physique is not gigantic, but the well-knit frame accepts hardships buoyantly, throws off disease readily, rises superior to weariness, and is able to obev the iron will that commands it. jPhrenological Journal. _ The art connoisseur and exhibitor, Prof. Cromwell, was cured of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil. — Norfolk Virginian.