The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-27 00:00:00

" ONLY AN IRISHMAN"

An American paper, In an artiole ander the title of "Only
an I riehm an," called forth by the flippant remark of a young
lap who, reading of an accident said " After all, its only an
Irishman" say.:—

lierlirley, the philosopher, was cub, an Irishman.
Robert Fulton, the inventor of steam navigation, was
only an Irishman, by descsnt.
Curran, the inimitable orator and wit, was only an
Irishman. . _

Dues Scotus, the most subtle philosopher of the
Middle ages' was only an Irishman.
Donegan, editr of the most comprehensive Greek
lexicon, was only an Irishman.
Kanerand Hayes, the Arctic explorere, were only
Irishmen, by descent.
Marshal Niel, the celebrated engineer, was °nip, an
Irishman, he descent.
Captain O'Hara and Burke, the explorer the con-
tinent of Australia, was only an Irishman.
Gaoler, the last of the bards of the heroic ages, was
only an Irishman.
6rretidd, Marshal f France, and the hero of Fon-
tenoy, was (oily an Irishman.
Kevenagb and Prince Nugent, Marshals of Anotria,
were only Irishmen.
Barry, the greatest personator of "Othello," was
only MI iriohmaii.
Patrick Clebourne., "the Since-wall Jackson of the
Southwest,' was on.y an Irishman.
Quinn. the greatest personator of "Falstaff," was
only en Irishman.
St. Brenden, held by eminent authorities to have
been the tint discoverer of the continent of America,
was only an Irishman.
Edmund Burke, the greatest statesman that ever
stood in the British House of Parliament, was only an
Irishman.

M'Cormack, the inventor of M'Cormack's Steam
Reaping Machine, is only an Irishman.
Marshal APMahon, the prtsent head of the French
nation, is oily an II ishinan, by descent.
Fora !floors, "the poet of all circles and the idol of
his own," wAs only an Trishm.n.
Marshal O'Donnell, Field Marshal, Prime Miniater
of gpain, and dictator at one time, was only an Irish-
man, by descent.
O'Connell, the Ilerculesiof moral force agitators, pro-
nounced by Wendell Phillips the most powerful orator
he ever heard, wee only an Irishman.
Virgilius, • b'shop who fliurished in the eighth cen-
tury, and who wee the first to discover the sphericity
of the earth, was only an Irishman.
Macklin, the great actor, was only an Irishman. It
wee of his impersonation of " Shylook " that Pope
wrote—

"Thu is the Jew
fhat Shakespeare drew,"
"Grattan—aver glorious rettan—
With more than Demoathenee wanted, endued,
And Lets rival, or victor, to all he poueued "

so 'Syron says—sbas only an Irishman.
Father Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance, who
administered the total abstimnce pledge to upwards
of live millions cf persons, who accomplished more
in his day for the canoe of temperance than all the
American and Anglo• American temperance speechifiers
that ever shouted themselves hoarse on a temperance
platform, was only an Irishman.

•
Horace Greely, the great journalist, statesman, and
sociologist, was only an Irishman, by descent.

Williana IL Seward, the ablest Secretary of State
America ever had, was only an Irishman, by descent.
A. T. Stewart, the most successfal merchant in the
Uoited Atates, Is only an Irishman.

Doyle, the carkattuist, perhape the most versatile
of modern artists, wee only a Iriehman.
Hundreds of others, all famous in art, science, and
literature, we might easily name without alluding at
all to the "Scalawag Irishmen," such as Palmereton,
Wellington Gough, the late Earl of Mayo, Tyndall,
or hundred; of others, who, though claesed by England
among her greatest men, are in reality only Irishmen
whose birthright has been bartered away for some
English bauble.

According to a Washington telegram of the United
States Attorney• General is of opinion that the Firginiur was
not entitled to carry the American flaw, her papers having
been obtained by perjury. From Madrid we leash that the
1311. k of Uavana has advanced a n ll.Lun of dollars to the
Government for extraordinary expeusr, he agitation had
Er,v.ant,lyw s. I 1
fbrsolmd subsided.
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of jhaumaibce:gnivrienesg vu;dthebry
int!
mation respecting the British subjects, or supposed British
subjects, who 'hipped on board the Virtrinitu at Jamaica.