Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-08
THE IRISH AT HOME AND ABROAD.

On New Years day, the Boston Radicals
white and black celebrated the anniversary o.
negro emancipation. Among other worthless
present and participants in the jubilee, was
Rev j. d. Fulton of fremont Temple motto
riety. This Puritan Parson is reported in the
papers to have declared, in the course of his
harangue to the self-righteoiis sons of Ply
mouth Rock, who, while rubbing their hands
and felicitating their negro brethren on their
glorious freedom find it convenient to forget
that they themselves have banded together to
crush out the freedom of millions of intelligent
white men who have dared to express dlssi-
dence from Puritan doctrines: thathe feared
the negro would descend as low as the Irish
man, and against that degradation he poured
forth pathetic jeremiade. A
Oh, what profound degradation threatens
the unfortunate negro! The alarlnedDr. Full
ton breads thathe will sink to the level of the
1rishman Let us tell the negro, to whom we
believe we are more attached than Dr. Fulton
: who and what, in a few words, the Irishman
is. The Irishman is white man with an open
broad face and q still broader heads, in phys
ical development he is the magnificent type of
man--his rugged constitution carries him safely
to the SHOWS of Iceland, or the sultry skies OF
Zanguebar; his native home is green island
in the sea where the arts of civilization flour
ished, when the Danes and other barbarians,
pouring forth from the northern hives, drove
that civilization from every other land in Eli
rope. In the eleventh century a Christian
monarch Of Ireland gave battle to the victori-
Gus Danes and swept them from the shores of
ireland. The same Irishman at a later day
entWined the lilies of France with imperisha-
bic glory on the field of Fontenoy; he appear
ed again in the English Parliament in the per-
seHof Edmund Burke, and the nations lifted
their voice in homage to his genius. Waterloo
saw him again Ill tie person of the Irish Wei
ingtOn.
A few days ago Most Rev Archbishop spald-
ing kindly placed in our hands a beautiful Lon
don publication Of the celebrated Address, in
$780, of the Roman Catholics of America to
George Washington, Esq, President of the
United States, with the noble reply of the Fa-
tier ofhis Country. In looking over those his
torical letters we saw the following names SUBJ
seribed to the address of the Roman Catholics:
John Carroll in behalf of the Roman Catholic
clergy Chas. Carroll of CarrOltOn, Daniel Car
roll, Dominick Lynch, and Thomas Fitzsim-
mons, in behalf Of the Roman Catholic laity !;
four of these noble patriots had the misfortune
of being Irishmen, some by birth, others by ex-
traction. In one of the most conspicuous
churches of New, York are entOmbed the re-
mains of man whom the nation mourned as
its eldest child, the protOmartyr of American
hberty-Gen. Richard Montgomery, an Irish
adopted citizen. The first war vessel fitted out
by the Congress of I775 was commanded by
Commodore Jack Barry. as gallant tar as
ever trod the deck of man-ofWar. Barry
too had the misfortune to be an Irishman.-
" The Father of the American Navy" as our
naval writer's style him, was once tempted BIZ
Lord Howe with a vast brlbe, and an offer Of
British ship-Ofthe-lne Barry's reply was
that he had devoted himself to the cause of
his country, and the3Yalle or the command of
the whole British fleet could not seduce him
IRON 1T" His answer to the British frigate In
the West Indies when hailed and asked the
usual questions, is not yet forgotten, except
perhaps by ParsOn FultOn-s The United
states ship. Alliance, saucy Jack Barry. half
freshman, half Yankee-who are you p"
If we open the 'Blae Book of the Reyolu-
tionary war we will find that the freshman has
got there too, and dotted it all over with Celtic
names Parson Fulton, of course, never reads
the Blue BOOK. In l777 dreadful sufferings
overlook Ene patriot army at Valley Forge; in |
l1I9 the Connectlcut militia mntinied, and theI
pennsylvania Line, In spite of the.efEorts oil
their leader and idol, Gen. Wayne, were ready
to throw down their-aFms Then came Vl tba |
inevitable Irishman to the rescue. Historv
fellsus that the armyief Washington would
have fallen to pieces but for an extraordinary
effort of patriotism on the part of the mer-
chants of Philadelphia. i. The merchants of that
city to the number Of ninety -three. American
Remembrance vol XII 229,) supplied, by |
contribution, the sineWs of war.
and enabled Washington to execute his final
plans Twenty Of those merchants were of
Irish origin, and these twenty Irishmen sub
scribed the sum Of $442, 500 to arm and subsist
our furnishing army. The Congress of 1886,
among its first acts, adopted an address to the