Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-03-17

81. PsIrIek's Day asd tho Irish PEG.


the great national anniversary Of the irish
people, and not only Of the Irish people
properly 30 called, but Of their "ssed, breed
and generation" scattered all over the
hAbitable globe. There are six millions
pure In Screen Erin Of tho Streams" fall.
Ing OF Of two and q half millions since ls4Si
aud counting their immediate progeny they
constitute; perhaps, as many more over the
broad face OF this continent. They abound
In Australia they swarm In California;
you'll ind them on the banks Of the Gauges
and the Tlgrls, as well as on the Mississippi
and the Platte, In the West Indla Islands
and New Zealand, as we'll as In Nova Scotia
and the Canadas. They are q power In the
very heart Of Britain. Their colleges In
France, Spain, Belgium and Italy ante-date
our existence as q nation. Not one impor.
tant centre Of industry In England, Scotland
and Wales that has not Its Irish colony Of
brain and muscle. They literally swarm In
Liverpool and Manchester, Leeds and Shelf
hsld, Glasgow and Edinburgh, the mining
centres Of West Britain aud the hop region
on tho Epgllsh channeli whilst the Celtic
garrison In London outnnmbers tho entire
population Of Llmlrlck.
In the last century one corps ofthe French
army was constituted Of twenty thousand
native-born Hlbernlans, commanded BY
their own officers Of Irish birth-the very
men and their sons who wrested victory
from the English banner on the plain Of
Fontenoy. "Never," sald Arch Duke
Charles, Of Austria, to Colonel 0'shea, who
commanded three thousand Austriaus at
the Great Battle OF Wagram, "never was
the House Of Austria better differed than
when possessing so many Irish, Of whom at
ono time upwards Of thirty were generals"
Wakefield, vol. 2, p. $751; They are the
main stay OF the British periodical press,
taking the frst place In both Houses Of Par
lament as StenographerS, and on all the
great organs Of opinion as writers, from the
broad sheet 10 the PonderouS quarterly-a
fact recently acknowledged by the London
Tina. Ono entlre hsmlAqhAseoSSH VIC drafnR
is eIeluAiyely Irish, In the sock and buSkln
a. we'll a. In Its literature, and never yet
has any one but q natlye-born Irllhman at
tained tho altitude Of q "star" ln'that hemi'
sphere.
They are similarly conspicuous 10 oratory.
What American lawyer has not heard Of
Grattan and Flood and o'Connel and Phil
lips, aud the sheridan's, while Edmund
Burke as legislator, an orator, an advocate
and writer, has very few equals In history.
Nor, are they wanting In science, as the
'-tiltues Of Boyle aud MolyneuH and Berkeley
and KlrWan, and Sloan and Lardner attest.
Their school Of medicine aud surgery Is one
Of the most respectable In Europe, dating
from Abernethy aud o'Connor Of Poland,
up to Champion aud cusack. In literature
they have produced some Of the brightest
names In the English language, too numer
Gus 10 be even counted here-Goldsmith
Swim, sterne. Moore, Lover, DenhRm, Steele
and Molesworth, will be at once recalled b!
every student Of the English classics. We'll
may ProtestantS pride In the names OF Jane,
Usher and Adam Clark, while the Roman
Catholics point to Luke waddlng aud Johr
Lanigan, four Of the greatest ecclesiastical
lntellects In history and biblical learning
that the last three centuries have produced
Inc, neH Hoih' "i''ou ~ 'uo LA',u 'O%sue'
VAo |Ouiu unaAS = HO'Aiy ~ 1usno'l'ea.
HetsS Ou1 VI P'Ass' So'Ai'' " 'Ne So
ourrAn, sarsneld, Wellington, the EmmettG
and many more In the different walks Of lit
erAture and war. Truly this Is q remarka
bic people, considering their struggle Of Sli
w.m - 49,. oppSS ~ w - ~,
'H-y '"s' 'AN1 ~ 'Do '1'
Latin pOet-Qndt fegIo ~ ttrfD non pltiiC
Lahort'-wb.t mart of thu rsr,b ia mt allied
-, ~ "
With our toll
Rnt toll and onnras.Ion ore f,rvollen IN,
Du' 'On ~nu 'Pp'"'s'ou uio io's0''eu w
day-the anniversary OF that remarkable
mani. death IN Uhoae life and labor. as a
" N N
missionary OF the Gospel, their country owes
tha brIgh,e.t NARA. ,of n. hI.,orv Fror, IN.
Pesss i' n''0'' run 'uS
low thatched shedding OF the peasant TO the
bl.,ID0 d,.wtno roo,,. ~ T,hII, Cal.
s W S
where the most klngly Ylceroy In Europ'
sIs' entnroned Win eorouet sna seepHe' ou
this, his greatest recepllon-day, Nay, II
m. x.,v h.u. os Windsor Cahtle Itself. 1,
hno Neiy haho VI "uuso' SSosie NSeh' "
the preaenca Of no mock royalty, but tn
, -.,.,. A.. ST. - ~, 4, A..
kcnune Aisieie' 1nis h''u VI "SSu ~
-,.- S.i.,..,,o,, g., r..,.,,s I.,,,,t,,,
men'Ary ueieBAHon run ilelauu' inhuu'ul
Irish peers In the Upper House, Of ever!
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bnAoe Oh poliIles hho IehBloub peIioi, eeie
brate this daY, or rather this nlRht, by 4
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sumPtuous supper " tue rreemAsOn tA'
ern In London Hand the Wearing of thu
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green
In this connection we present history o
:,
lreland's patron aalnli
81. Patrick, the patron saint OF the "0rOs
IaiS Of the OoeAn,n the land Of poetry an
souH, was born 10 q village called Bo6aVe
Tabsrnie, which AppeArs TO be the preseB
town Of Kllpatriek, near the mouth OF tn
river Divide, 10 Sootfand, between DunbAFtoI
and alGSEow. He calls himself both a HTitOI
and 4 homAn, or OF mi a ed : 4 traction, and ssY
hIS father was Of good family and named Cali
phuFnluS, and denIEen Of a neIEhboTInE eitl
q the RomanS who not long after AbAndon ei
hilton In 400. some Of the ancient writers OF
the subject call his mother Conehessa, and sal
Sho was q niece OF Martin OF TouTs 10 hi
GIxtsenth year st. Patrick was carried int
captivity By certain baTbaTians, together viii
a lumber or slaves aud yAsaela taken on hi