True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-01-11

A Traveller in the Western part of Ire
land, reports that the Celtic race is rapidly
disappearing from its own peculiar prov
ince. For miles and miles not trace of
cultivation or habitation remains, save
heaps of stone and unroofed huts. "The
light and athletic mountaineers of Come
mara," says the Galway Packet, "are no.
where to be SEEM" "the working classes
have gomez and half-stunted, sickly,
dwarfish relics, alone remain. The Far
West of the United Kingdom is desolate,
and emigrants from England begin to take
possession of the solitude.
We all know whittier those people have
gone; some out of the worldly famine
and pestilence; but many more by emigra-
ton to America. The most Irish part of
Ireland has gone from its own Far West
to a further West; but there it stops,
mainly in the Eastern parts of America
We have noticed it as settled element of
the American republic. 1t has established
itself and its piggery in New York it has
so completely taken to Boston, that the
true American, it is said, has left the body
of that town for the outskirts, abandoning
the corporation to become Western Dub
lin. How much of this account may be
exaggerated we do not know; but if it be
fiction, it is founded on fact. The Irish
party claims, in many instances, to turn
the elections; quite enough to provoke
that reaction of Native Americanism which
has appeared in paroxysm, and then sub
sided, as if the Americans, tired Of their
duty in preserving America for Americans
and of not surrendering to Emigrant Ire
land.
If the emigrants aspire to command the
balance in the republic, they are already
making their influence felt, and after their
own fashion. Attempts have been made
in certain towns to take under control the
management of the public schools, and in
some way Or other to bring them under the
influence of Popery. Nay, Irish agitation
of its own peculiar kind is established on
the other side of the Atlantic. Mitchell
and Meagher, torn from their native soil
escaping from Australia by breach Of pa.
role-repay the welcome which they have
found in America, by endeavoring to agi-
tate against the Americans-to undermine
supplant, and slpersede the indigenous
politics of the republic. They have un-
dertaken to teach the Americans how to
cut gordian knots that have perplexed the
wisest and the gravest, from Jefferson tc
Henry Clay; thus, John Mitchell has sci
the example Of breaking through all diff.
culties connected with the subject of sla
very, by fulsOmely praising the institution
to the horror and detestation of the very
: men who protest against abolitionism,-
} Talk to a man inconsiderately of the skel
, eton in his house, and he hears you witt
fright and disgust; but worship his skele
ton-praise his weakness and fatter hi
vices-and he recognizes the human devi
who contemplates some trap to make hin
sell his soul.
In short, having settled in the centre O
the great republic, "young Ireland" is in
!. Producing the worst traits of could Ire
) land"-its Popery, its piggery, and it
; canting laxity of moral. We know we
that the existence of this element, SO ey
: tensively exhibited in the very entrails @
America, is occasioning some anxiety
the genuine countrymen of Washington
Clay, and Jackson. The United Kingdol
is doing better than annexing Ireland
Y is assimilating that third kingdom to tn
! other two; and the distinctive Ireland
y re-appearing in the midst of the Transa
lantic republic. 1t is "a great problem ft
l., the future historian-a greater and MOI
J. urgent problem for the present America
statesmen.