The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-21
Woeuing Star and Catholic Messenger.
sNw oRLEnNs. SUNDAY, JANUARY 81, 1871.
Father Hugents American Experiences.

TeCS everywhere at inc Top OF the Tree
zrat down in tho gutter of society. H'
ssSrud this in the various States he wen
este First of all in Canada-in Montreal
5t. went to the largest shoe factory, where
Il couuty Cavan man employed over 800
stands That man told him (Father Nu-
7 :.reltI chat when he entered Montreal he
2lad Just half IL dollar 1.-TWO shillings) in his
pocket, and now his warehouse was as
iMge as any they would see in North John
.z,I,-,.t or Water street. He (the speaker)
sent to Toronto, and he found grocery
srore kept by an Irishman, and it would
give them an idea when he said that from
2hat door (hcre Father Nugent pointed to
dc entrance door, right down to Scotland
cesad. was about the distance to which these
stores extended. He had built them him
sell. There were three stores, and they
rSerc like little town. There was another
saan who had branch establishment in
NLvorpool. He would not say whether it
Gxas in Water street, in brunswick street,
sr IN James street, but it was in one of
elISse streets, and that man was a banker
ia Toronto, and had an immense dry goods
,.ts1a blishment; he was county Tyrone man
Ind had risen from an humble beginning.
e they went to Toronto they would find
.ifat two out of every three men owning
.hase large stores were Irishmen. He had
rlo idea he was going to talk to them that
svening on these subjects or he would have
cat:cshed his memory. Canada was poor
country for poor man, but it was better
Ei most respects than England. There
xere five months of winter; and they had
70 lew down immense forests and plough
sx1ong the roots of the fallen trees for sew
zeal years; Crossing over the border, into
tie United States, he found that in various
llxces 1rishmen held high positions, and
Laieng others, one who had been poor
ataa 10 Liverpool, was now one of the first
,xerchants in Toledo. This man drove him
Gather Nugent in his buggy, and enter
tained him in his house, which was just
like palace. He then went on to Chicago.
Nt:tch, to great extent, was an Irish city.
Arriving ut q hotel about one o'clock in tho
morning, he (the speaker) Immediately saw
z.hout dozen girls all cycling him. They
did not know whether he was from the old
c1sCptry, or whether he was of the right
SOFT, b1t it happened to be Friday morn
ing, and when he refused tho meat and
'tas2ed for some fish they very soon found
ont what he was. One of the girls said,
think You are priest, sir 2" From
+.ov- York ~ the girl asked. "No," he said
" Are YOU long ovcr2n NO." he said, ~
Aui quite u grccnhorn." SO sho put him
-StrOugh his iaclnys, and then it was he told
LIE girls who he was, and he found that
very girl IN the room was Irish, and they
gave literally out of their earnings for the
emitted fremont House, which had been
burned down in the recent conflagration,
;.'iiuTe there were three hundred Irish SCR
rants, and these always subscribed
iStse:u.!g for every charitable object.
"a st. Louis, he found what they could not
IaTe hcre--Au ir!si, bank--and hc could
>.r.It 30 in any direction without finding Ca
- ttioiic churches, converts, schools and in
Solutions of every kind. Wherever lie
cEI.ae he found IIlshmen had the finest
stores and the largest places of business,
ard .aLey took their right position. 1t made
* ht.I IN m
-Ition in LlvcTpuotSwlth theirs, because he
tt.i1 that the IRISH people in Liverpool had
W.. taken their right position. They had not
r-aker care OF themselves. THAT cursed
drink bad been the ruin of thousands of
I; Nc, intelligent, brilliant men. He thought
&c knew Il great number of things, but lie
Esrud he had Il great deal to learn, and he
t,ad formed different estimate of the
.,1sti people. BE intended expressing his
niajnion in unmistakeable language with re-
.t1rd to this. They had been told that the
11rish were only fit to he drudges-that they
rete = pastoral people. There never was !.
greater falncy. The Irish people were not
IA agricultural people. 1t they studied life
l5Icy would generally find an agricultural
lseople T. sulen, dull, heavy, logged class of
FstnDie. The man to succeed in agriculture
@saIs< go slowly, steadily and persevering-
ey- There was such Il sparkling brillancy
"a the lrislmau's character, chat he found
anerelI following the plough was not u suf-
ricient sphere for him. The Irish people
Sz0Ei their character seemed destined to be
Giro leaders aud AT the head of every move
st<.srt. Gle tFather NuGcnU found, in talk
gag to some military men, who had fuugh Int
Gti Oie great American straightforward both
a the North and South that they were OF
&pft!ion that therr were no men on whom
sIcl: r"liancc conld he placed, or who
wore more formed /for brilliant, daShing
AID destructive achievements than the