Anglo-Saxon Depredations

Billy Frank, Jr.

I. F. "Yes, far sweeter than this dark forest, fit haunt for Druids! There were bowers, fragrant with rich wild blossoms, vocal with the songs of birds! Under their arching vines the eye enjoyed a picture where the light danced upon bright leaves, shaken by gentle airs and which the smooth green hills and distant groves completed!"

"No fancy picture either! But I am not in that vein. How long will your "bowers," scanty though they be, escape the Vandal axe? How long will the law, the parchment defence of the weak red man, resist the Saxon?
(September 1851; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army)

"The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race."  (Typee)

The Anglo-Saxons--lacking grace
To win the love of any race;
Hated by myriads dispossessed 
Of rights--the Indians East and West.
These pirates of the sphere! grave looters--
Grave, canting, Mammonite freebooters,
Who in the name of Christ and Trade
(Oh, bucklered forehead of the brass!) 
Deflower the world's last sylvan glade!"  (Clarel 4.9)

UPDATE:  For "Vandal" as an adjective, compare the "Vandal axe" in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" with Melville's "Vandal burn" in Clarel 2.29.