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Lee diogrammae aulvanta iNuatrentio mdthodo. ita ura. ] 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 8 d TUG MEN OF THE NORTH m THEIR PLICE E HISTORY. UY K. Cf. HAI.IBURTON, F. S. A., KKI.LtiW ((K TIIK nOYAI, SOCIETY OF NORTHERN AWTIQrAUlBS OV COPKNIIAOKX. From the OTTAWA TiMES, March 20, 1869. We are enabled to lay before our readers tills morning a condensed report of Uie \ery interesting lecture delivered by Mr. Ham- jiVRToN, on Tliursday evening, before the Young Men's Christian Association ot this city. The lecture was tne concluding one of tlie winter course of the Association, and owing, doubtiebs, to this fact, and tbe high reputation of the talented lecturer, drew torth a large and highly intelligent audience. Mr, Haliuurton well merited all the ap- plause he received ; his lecture wan a liter- ary treAt, which all those present thoroughly enjoyed. The lecturer commenced by pointing out tlie importance of a nation having a firm faith in its own future. Onr heritage lathe Northern portioa of thb Continent. The new Dominion is peopled by the descundints of Northern races. Hare the men of tbe N^^rth in the New World a hope- ful career before them ? What is the stock from which we liave sprung 9 Who are the men ot tlie North, and what is their place in liistory ? The lecturer dtalt with the ques- tion whether it is not due to the coM, bracing winds of the North, that the mea of the Nortii have ever been " the scourge of God" upon the sunny South. He then stretched the national characteristics of tlie four great dominant races that preceded the era when the sceptre of powsr was grasped by northern men. The Egyptain, patient and enduring, could build pyramids that could defy time, but could not build up a nation th&t coulii resist the power of uorthern invaders. " Destruc- tion cumt-th, it Cometh from the North. The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded, and she shall be delivered into the hands of the people of the North. ' The Assyrians, worthy descendants of Nimrod <> the mighty hunter ht- fore tbe Lord," who still startle us by the stern spirit of the con<|ueror that breathes in the man-headed bulls, and in their warlike kings Btriding on with the step of the lion, were destined to fall before a northern power. " Out of the North a people shall come upou her, that shall make her laud duEolate and no man shall dwell tlu-rein." The Oretks conquered the world of lettois by their literature and art ; the llomaus by their political genius, and by their warlike qualites, made the eternal city the csistiess ot the world. Both paved the \i ay for a new era,, for a Christian civUizatiou. But new soil was needed for the growth of a new religion. New blood was required tor a new life. The rot- ten stem of expiring ht-athenii<m could never be a healthy stock on which to engraft a puro faith. And Providence sent the Northern barbarians, as the scourgrs of the South, to sweep away every vestige of the world of the past. The life and energy of youib were need- ed for the establishment of a new rHligion, just as they areneeessary for the formation of a new Dominion. The lecturer here reft^rred to the generous enthusiasm of the lamented UcGee, and the singular influence that such a spirit wields in the formation of nationali- ties. As the firc-worshippera at the begin- ning of tbe year put out ;the .old fires and re- kindled a blaze from the rays of the sun, it was needful that on the eve of a new era in tbe history of the world, the light of the past should be quenched forever,and that kindled by the hands of the North, a bow and a purer light, should blaze from the altars and the hearths of a new civilization. The lecturer showed that our modern literature, science, and juris- prudence have only been productive of satis- factory results when they were Ihe cmhodi* ment of northern idras, and that all attempts to revive the poetry, learning, or laws of ancient Greece and Home have signally failed. The great mission of the men of the North, was to be the foumlers of a new civilization, and to be thectiampious of freedom in every land. The most interesting of these northern races were the Normans or Northmen, whoso sea-king Rollo conquered France, and left Normandy as a heritage to his family. He claimed descent from the gods of the North, as well as from Fornjotr, the old Frost Giunt, the Father of the Wind and of the Ocean. His successor, William the Conqueror, sub- dued Britain, and It is as his heir that Her Gracious Majesty, the royal descendant of' tiro old Frost Giant, now rules over a Northern ra( 0, and sways the sceptre of the sea. Here in the New World, we, who are sprung from these men of the North, are about to form a New Dominion in this Northern land„ it wottby home fur the old Frost Miunt, a%aa proud domain for his royal descendant. We have here strangelv uiiited together, all the original elements u> ••.. British race. We l>ave the Celt, with his trdtlitionsof "good king Arthur," from whom, through her an- cient firiticih ancestorii, her Gracious Majesty may claim descent ; we have the 8axun or Teutonic element, and in Quebec we tiave a race that have come from Normandy and Brittany, the one the land ot the Northmen or Notmana, and the other inhabited by a X!!eltlc race, cherishing the Ancient British traditions of King Arthur and bis twelve companions. The Norman French of Quebec may well led promiiwhen they remember that tbeycaa claim what no otht-r portion of the Empire can assert, that they are governed by a monarch of their own race, who holds her sceptre as the heir of Rollo, the Norman 8ea>klng who first ltd their ancestors forth from the forests of the North to the plains of Normandy. We hav« called the Dominion by the name of Canada. There is much in a name for a man or a nationality. I like lodiah names for towns and for provinces, and there is something melodious and plea- Hing in the name of Ganadn, which favourably contrasts with the wretched dog-latiu name of Nova Scotia. Newfoundland, New Biuuswick, Prince Edward's Island, can anything be more unhappy ? For a province J. freely ad- mit that Indian names are nrifeiable , but should we ever b( cume a nution, we need a name that will have some historial tradition, or at least some meaning and significance. Wliat doeg daiiadii mean ? Is it Indian ? Tbe Htiroh and the Mohawk stare at you when you ask them to explain it, and even the Mecmac declines i.ie hono^ir of its ac- quaintance, and tells you he never beard tell of such an Indian. We have been driven to Portuguese or !Spaui!<h, I forget which, and to the doubtful tradition that the early dis- coverers looking for gold were told there was Canada, " no gold here, ' or " nothing here." Canada then either does not signify any- thing, or it means the land of nothing. What a glorious national coguomeii to select! What a destiny — to be a nation of nobodiies living in the land of nothing I 1 atn remin'led ot a story of a humourous frierd of mine, a son of the late Judge Archi- baldi who has inherited his fathei's humour and wit Whenever he comes to Halifax, he is beset by an old servant who is always on the lookout fur a half-crown. On one occasion he came up as usual, " Oh 1 Master Peter, I am so glad to see you, you're always the saiue, always the same." « Yes," replied Ma'Ster Peter, who happens to be on the shady side of fifty, but is still Master Peter, "yes" he answered slapping his empty pockbt, " I'm always the same, John, you'll find no change about me,' What our witty fiiend asseited of himself in jest, history will suppose that we have seriously claimed for ourselves as our national characteristic, that ours is " the laud that knows no change." WV s'nuld we puzzle bistcry by g-lving our- selves a name of which it cun make nothing ? Kx nihilo nihfyfu. We are no nameless race of savages, who have no past which we can recall with pride, and no future which we can work out for ouiselvea and our children. We are the sons and the heirs of those who have built up a new civilization, and though we have em'grat-jd to the Woi«tern world, we have i^ot left our native land behind, for we arc still in the North, in the home of the old frost giant, 'and the cold north wind that rocked the cradle of our race, still d!ows through our forests, and breathes the spirit of lilierly into our htartn, and 1( nds strength and vigour to our limbs. As long as the north wind blows, and the snow and the sleet drive over our forests and fie Id p, we may bo a poor, but we must be n hardy, a healthy, a virtuous, a daring, and it we are worthy of our ancestors, a dominant rag©; Jwii lis then, shoiild wo over beconto i% natioB, nerer forget the labd that we live in, and the race from which we have sprung. Let us revive the grand old name of Norland, " the Land of the North ; ' We are the north' men of the New World. We laust claim the name and k-endt r ourselves worthy olt it. Wherever we may go, we shall dud it " famil- iar as a househ'old word " and the flag of the northmen once more flying upon the ocean, will be a livili'g memorial of a glorious past, and the herald of a noble future. I once stobJ amid a crowd of touri&ts in a ruined abbey on the Tweed. The viry dead seemed to be dying a second death, for the monuments on which their names siill liuger- ed, and which told ot them as the f jrmer owners of the surrounding country, and of the burial aisle, were crumbling away, or being hidden by the luxuriant ivy^ and the garul- ous old guide told ud qilaint leg'eiids of those whose t<imbs we saw, and lamented over the ■* good lairds of Westolin," whose lands had passed into other families, and whose name had become extinct. " No," we replied, know- ing that one of our party bore the itadle and was descended from the race whb^e lost resting place we were exploring, " no, they are not all dead and gone — for here is one of the old stock who has come from America to show you thac though they may have died out in the Old World, ihcro aro litill some of them left across the ocean who will preserve and perpetuate the name of the " good lairds of Westouo." The efi°< ct was magical. The old guide instantly deserted ui to inform the villagers that one ot " the old residenters'' was still in existence, and had returned to the old homestead, and in a few minutes we were amused by watching a rustic ciowd that had collected around our friend, gazing upon him with open-mouthed delizht, As they insisted on his remaining there a fevf days, we left him behind us, not rmong stran- gers, but among those who beheld in him all the local traditions and memories of '' ^be good lairds ot Westoun," embodied uod rv°-^ vived. And thus will it be with ourselveii History, the guide to the pa^t, tells the natioi.s of the daring de«:ds of the Northm.n. How they made every land the witness of their chivalry and valour, leaving their trophicfi fa I- I 4 i. £urope, Asia and Afrit'a ; how long elgen oc- fore the daya of Columbui', they dificovered the New World, and how centuries before Jacques Cariiur wis born, they coasted along the short s of the Mew Dominion at least as far south as Cape Sable, and thus by right of dia- coTery made it their own. And it laments that the Northmen have ceased to be a people, and have been merged and lost in the Danes, the Swbiles, and the BritUh rac», that tho name of Norland is furgolten, aftd that Nor. Vnandy has become a mere province of France. But when it is whispered that in the New World, nit n of the North, sprung from the old 8tocl(, whose fl etsare whitening every ocean, and who c!aim to be the third maritime pow- er in the wurld, liave assumt d once more that old familiar name ; when it h known that the hhips of tbe Nuithmen are once more to be 8 en in every sen, and in every port, history will rejoice at seeing the past revived, and the world will give them a friendly grieting as they once more take ihiir place in the family of nations. 1 mnst now conclud-, but bofi>re doing so, I must n<)t b -. guilty cf a want of that courtesy to the fair sox which has ever been the peculiar cha^MterfErtic of the North. We have heard much to-night of the men of the Notth, but we have forgotten those who W( re not less important in moulding the character of our lace — the women of the North. Time will now fail me to remedy the omission, yet ji'stice and courtesy alilie re- quire us to pay them the tribute of a moment's remembrance. Nothing surprised the Romans morj in the character of Northern nations, than the respect paid by them to women. The Roman historian while extolling the do- megtic virtues of our ancestorti, was indirectly holding up to contempt the degraded state of society among his countrymen. Nothing, he t lis UH, was more to be admired in the man- ners of the N6it'a th'in the inviolability of marriage. "No one among them" he fayi>, '( makes a jest of vice, for it fB not with tbem as with us an age of corrupting and corruption." The presents to the b.ide were hot a rich trousseau, but cattle, a shield, a helmet, and a sword, as emblems to remind her that she must be willing to share not only the toils ot peace, but also the d mgers of war, and that she should be prepared alike to live and die with her husband. Sic vivendum, aie pereun- duin. Nor was this only a matter of form. To tlie coward death was a penalty which he bad to meet at the hands of the womem, if he dared not fall facing the foe. The Romans were amazed when they vouterltheCymbri, at seeing the Celtic mothers in their fury slay- ing husbands, brothers, and foes alik.?, and perishing with their children by their own hands. The respect which Northern women thus meiited and received, developed in time into the romantic feeling of chi valry,Hnd it still lingers in that deference which is paid in mod- ern society to women, and which so strongly contrasts with the low estimate in which they were held in the days of ancient Greece and Rome. " lam sick ofhearing our poets iforever harp- ing upon the Eunny South as " the land of lOvo ; and song." The land of love I It may bo the parent of wild passion, « the fiery, the fickle South," "Where the rage of the vulture, the love of th^ turtle, " Now melt into sorrow, now madden to erime," but domestic love and affe: .ion find only a congenial home in the North. Why should we call the South <> the laud of song"? Tbe tuneful warbler^ of tbe throve are all natives of the North, ai^d annually re'turn to their home to make it the land of love and Bong, and to rear up a hardy and a healthy brood. The- bright winged birds of tbe South have no song, and even the annual emigrants from the North lose the gift of melody when they leave tht ir own shores. Thotigh the forests of the South are strangely silent, we must not forget the little snow-white cum;>ano2a, so called from its note resembling the ring of a bell, which perched far up aloft on the top of the highest teak tree, looks as i¥ some good spirit of the North, in the form of a snow flake, had wan- dered away with the emigrants. It may ring its chime. But it rings in vain. The anthem of the woods is silent. The exileg are mute, for, like captive Judah, "how can they sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" They are true sons of the Noith. We may wander oif to the plains of India, to the mines of Australia or Nevada, or to the plan- tations of the Mississippi. We may forget, and even turn our arms against the land of our birth, but the tuneful emigrant will nevter forget her. As sure as the streams begin to flow and the flowers to bloom, he will, if he is living, be here to greet them ; ahd bholild he be crippled by accident, dr maimed by some bird of prey, and unAble to B';comptk.'>y his companions in their homeward jcurney, he will pine for the land of his birth, like the crippled pauper who team the deserted pier eagerly watuhes the crowded hoihe boimd packet ship till it passds out of sight on its way to his native land, and tbe tears steal into his eyts as he turns away with the vain wish in his breast that heaven would but give him wealth enough to carry him across the ocean, or that he had the wings of a dove, " for then he would fly to his home and be at rest." No I depend upon it, even if our little friend is unable to cross the ocean, and is a prisoner in the South, his heart will still be with us, and he will flutter along the sea shore, and gaze wistfully over the ocean, as his companions become a speck in the north- ern sk;, and vanish in the distance. But if all goes right he will be here next spring, and we shall hear him singing his song in praise of the land of the Nort^ of " tbe land of love and song." It may be the robin carolling from the top of the tallest spruce tree, or the linnet^ aft half tipsy with delight it sways to and fro on some bending spray, pouring forth its gubhisg notes of joy. As, however, our littlo friend is some thou- sands of miled a\^ay from us, I may venture to give you the burthen of his song. I am only his interpreter, and all translations, ag ybu know, lack the freedom and the sweet-<i ucss of the original. ^. TIE MORTU— '< THE LAND UF LOVE AND SON'O.'' "Oh tell her awallow, for thou knowost each, That bright and Aurce, and tickle, is the South, But dark, and true and tender is the North." —The Princess. Lcavos were flying, Falling and siKhing, Fading and dying, Under the maple trees ; Under the trees I heard, Was it the leaves that stirred ? Voice of a fay or bird, Saying to mc, Singing this pitiful song to me, Away ! away t Away, We must not stay ; Away Across the sea ! And every note My heart it smote, Till I wept at the wail of the little birdie, ^or I knew twas the spirit of song I heard That sang to me thus with the voice of a bird. Farewell to the North, the ctern cold North, The home of the brave and the strong. To the true, the trusting, tender North, Deaf land of love and eong 1 Hark 1 winter drear It comes a near, We dare not linger long. There*s a path in the air, man may not know, That guide us o'er the main ; And a voice in the winds, man may not hear, Will call us home again, When the winter dies, And the west wind sighs To hear the linnet's strain. In the South, the fierce the fickle South : No voice of song is heard ; Though the oriole, like a sunbeam flits With many a radiant bird Through the mangrove's shade, No leafy glade By tuneful notes is stirred. Hark I Through the sleeping forest riugs The campanola's chime. It calls in vain for the matin hymn That wakes the Northern clime ; How can wo sing Home songs of spring, Or the notes of summer time ? Wo silent seek the lonely homes Of a long.fcgotti'u race : Through voiceless streets our wingsirc lirnrd, And many a stream wo trace From its unknown source. In its downward courso. Till it dimples the ocean's face.^ At length the weary wanderers A whispering murmur hear, Like the pent up moan ofa mother's heart, Or the sigh of a sister dear. 'Tis a voice from home ; Glad spring has come ! 'Tis the sigh of the North we uear. Homeward over the salt sea waves, We rest mid sunny isles, Where the earth and the sky are ever bright, And the ocean ever smiles ; But the North whisper's " come To your home, sweet home !" Aad we fly from the sunny itlea. We ^est on the spars of the stately barque, And sonars of the North we sing. Till the mariners weep in their dreams with joy, As they hear the voice of spring, And the linnet's strain Stiaid o'er the main, And the song which they hear us sing ; We have come to the North, the stern cold North, The home of the brave and strong. To the true, the trusting, tender North, Dear land of love and song. Under the oak trees lying, Budding leaves I see. Winter is dead. Tassels of red Burst from the maple tree ; And the robins and linnets are echoine; baclt Ihesong of the little birdie, ' We have come, We have come To the land of our home From far across the sea ; We have come, We have come,' And the woods whisper ' come,' And my heart it says ' come' to the little birdie, For T knew 'twas the spirit of song I heard, That sangto me thus with the voice of a bird.