"Double Allegiance" and "Englishman Upon Ireland" [Text}

"Double Allegiance" and "Englishman Upon Ireland" [Text}

This image contains two articles found before the moonstone in the January 25th edition of Harper’s Weekly. The two articles discuss political policies in England. The article “Double Allegiance” discusses the absurdity of England’s allegiance laws where a child can be hung for treason if they fight against England for an opposing force in war even if the man was born in England or a colony then left immediately after their birth. The writer of “Englishmen upon Ireland” discusses Irelands want to separate from the English empire. The writer[s] of both articles reinforce England’s Cultural Disability from America’s perspective because the writer[s] point out the absurdity of these cultural practices. Because America did not adhear to England’s ideal’s on the represented cultural practices they talked negatively about them giving the reader a negative outlook on their culture. England is represented as Culturally Disabled by pointing out the flaws in their political policies and connoted how America was much farther ahead in terms of these polices than what England was achieving or hoped to achieve.

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