The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25

of the last century, the emigration from ireland to this
country not less than quarter of Million When
foreathers threw off the British yoke the Irish formed
sixth or seventh of the whole population and oneourh of
all the commissioned officers in the army and navy were of
Irish descent The first general officer killed in battle the
first officer of artillery appointed the first commodore
missoned the first victor whom the British flag struck
at and the first officer who surprised fort by land
Irshmen and with such enthusiasm did the emigrans from
the Green Isle" epouse the of liberty that Lord
Mountoy declared in Parliament You lost America by the
Irish We will not speak of the physical development of
America to which two generations OF Irish laborers have
chiefly contributed but for the constant supply of which the
buffalo might still be browsing in the Genesee valley and
Forysecond street, be "out of town. speaking Hbenice
in New York will conne ourselves to the of brain
who have eavened the of bone and new by which
material prosperity has been worked out Who were the
CAROLS the Rutedges the Ftzsimmons and the McKeans
of the Andrew Jackson Robert
Emmett j. c. Calhoun and McDufhe, of later day p
whence the protector of the Erie canal the inventor of the
first steamboat and the builder of the first American rail
whence two of leading scuptors, Powers and
Crawford -whence most distinguished political econom
h Carey ?-whence the Hero of Winchester whom our city,
in with all the cities of the North, has recently
delighted to honor? They all Irish by birth or extrac-
ton.
Even to the Welsh element in population country
is indebted in small degree for its prosperity Of the
sgners of the Declaration of Independence eighteen had
Welsh blood in their Veins and among them were Samuel
Adams John Adams Stephen Hopkins Francis Hopkinson,
Robert Norris B. Gwinne Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin
Harrison, Richard H. Lee and Francis II. Lee Among
Revolutionary Generals "Mad Anthony Wayne, the fiery
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John Chadwalade and many Others were of Welsh blood
and were five of our Presidents VIZ John Adams jefer-
son, Monroe, j. Adams, Harrison Buchanan. We may
add that President the hero of Vicksbg is
of AngloSaxon Descent but of Norman-French uia Scot
land
How be infected by the Ango-Saxon mania
would be hard to tell Even in England it is ridiculous
enough but there it is beginning to be laughed at by
of sense who perceive the absdy of Engishmen claiming
to be AngoSaxons when there such in existence
and Those who parrot this boast should read
Deoes "True-born Enghman" in which, at time when
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the author was at pains to instruct his now many
mongrel races had consped form that vain lnatured
thing Englishman and showed in limping verse, but
unanswerable logic that
A True born Enslishmans contradiction
n speech an irony, in fact fiction;
A man akin to ali the universe"
Anything motley and heterogeneous than the Anglo
Saxon blood before the Norman INVASION made up
it was from the veins of Britons Romans Saxons Picts,
Scots and Danes would be hard to conceive 1t began
with the Celtic of which is dluton-that very Celtic
with which certain writers fond of telling it is in
deadly antagonsm and enmity; next comes the Roman
blood-a blood shared, less, by every people in
Southern and Western Europe to say nothing of parts of
Asia and Afrcaand which, know, derived from the
mngng together of all the of ancient Italy and the
ancient world and then follows the blood of the Pics and
Scots the ute Angles and Saxons the Danes and last of
ALL the Normans who, Dr. Latham says were from first
last Celtic the mothers SIDE and that of the father
Celtic Roman and German and hence brought over Eng
land only the elements it hadbeore-Cec Roman German
and Morse All this shows plainly that the idea of an
AngloSaxon race composed of Anglican and Saxon
clements Is sheer nonsense 1t shows that the English
AngloSaxon is composed of the constituents as
the other leading European not excepting the French
and that hence it is simply absurd for Americans to call
themselves AngoSaxons when they have conounded and
daily and confoundng the confusion of the
English blood by infusion from the veins of all other nations
of Europe.
The truth is that made up as are of many nation
aes piggng together heads and points, in rucke
bed mixed piebald and race
the looked down upon Compared with u.s. the
Romans who first comprised all the vagabonds of Italy, and
finally incorporated into the empire all the senibarbarans
of Europe homogeneous To plume ourselves
nordinate pride ancestry rebuked by Defo which led the
sesyled Trueborn Engishmen of his day to sheer at
the Dutch
Forgetting that themselves all derived
From the most scoundre race that ever lived,
A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones,
rams cked kinpdn diSpeODed