, 1874-04-19

must elapse before these wild Celts co uld reac
| her frontiers, common report said they hn
no money, aud the railroads OF those days vel
neither numerous nor extended between tt'
oea'n aud the Great hakez But aPp5a PFem,
Irish hArdihood must have been low
for the Cc1t, given . fair fiel
and clear road, cen make time and conquo
space with the marvellous celerlty OF Roman !e
glonaries: Tho ring Of their plck-a1es ana Il I'll
crash of their eedges were coon heard along IL
banks Of the sasqa aehauna md through the Ao
hawk and Gencaee Valleys. They moved
| AN ARMY OF LABOR,
along the Central aud Erie Railroads, workin;
lie spartans, singing, while thoy marched nionl
kindred-who followed the first and Rroates
Cesar, their conqucror and their friend. inte
Italy, and, sometimes, after the fashion OF thei1
fiery. clannish blood, fighting like dovlls for nj
idea, boundary limo Of county, q
wild name, d favorito LEADER, amusement.
anything for excitement-tho only heaven o1
| the true-born Celt. So the woods Wherein the
| 1roquois and tho Delawares, century before,
had battled for Braddock, and for Wolfe and for
! Montcalm and DuQuesne, were Redeemed again
with biood-brought from beyond the sea by g
| race of men who came nearer to the aborig!nals
in their factious spirit and innate ferocty than
any other tribe which sprung from Europes lofty
! cradle amid the Caucasian hills. The war
whoops OF the red saraGe gave place to the
FERoCI0Us DATTLE-suoUTs
Of the "Far-Ups'' or the " Far-Downa, the
former, in Irish parlanco, meaning the South Of
Ireland, or Munster and the other the North
OF the island, or Ulster; OF Connaught-man "
and Corkonian," or, fercest and blood
isst Of Of + them en-, = ell the he wild % %slossu,
meaning natives Of Tipperary County. fhese
absurd contests, which the Roman Catholic
clergy nobly, and finally rith success, labored
to destroy, spread CONSERVATION amid the quiet
American ha1nlets situated along tho railroads
and canals, whero thu fuctionlsta had everything
in their oWn hands, and, for the first limo, tho
1rish name began to sound odious in tho Ameri-
can eur. Worse than poverty. worse than
squalor, was this most insane display Of brute pas
into the light Of liberty factious spirit that
would havo diagraood tho most savage tribes OF
Tartary.
WIZ WAS ALL THIS?
The The matter ; ia simply lnos2lcab1e to those
tory, and tho limits Of this article
will not permit Of q long dissertation
On the subject The system OF clanship, COM
mon alike to the ancient Gauls, the Belsn,
the Cymry, the Scotch, and the Britons-au
Kindred tribes,-had left its mark, after tho lapse
OF countless generations, upon the natives OF
that country most thoroughly Celtic OF any in
Europe, and most conservative in regard to it's
ancient traditions. With the 1lish, from time
immemorial, "Clan and " Chief" have meant
more than Country and Cauae, "a fact that e1-
plains their otherwise incomprehensible political
misfortunes. In his eloquent " Hlatory OF
France" the late IL. Michelet defines clanship
as being an attachment to an individual rnther
than to q principle. The Irish hive never united
for any object, unless undor Hugh O'NeiQ and
Daniel O'Oonnell, simply because their
STRONG LOCAL PREJUDIcEs |
blinded them to the general good, "a disposition
which the acute English we're just the persons
to avail themselves OF in tho task Of subiugating
all Ireland to their yoke. Moore bns said OF ]
This spirit: While our tyrants joined in hate We
never joined in love-" and the talented Thomas ]
Dayls, an Irish Protestant patriot Of O'Coune1's
time, in his song Of 'sNative Swords" thus !
Iorcibly expressed his ideas On the subject OF |
irish factlousness:
Like rivers which, DER valleys rich
Bring ruin In their water,
On S.tiyo llnd native hand
Flung foreign fraud and slaughter:
From Dertnod's crma to Tndor's time
Or claus were our perditou, [
Religions name eince then became
Our p1cte1t for division.
The gifted DIR. Drennan, who was the poet OF
he United 1rishmen Of 1893, in his I" Wake of
William Orr" has this to say on the matter:
1lapless ratonl hapless land!
Heap Of tnce1uenting sand
Cru1nbled by foreign weight,
And, by wor6e-douestic hate!
Thus it will be seen that this business OF Irish
actions lB by no means modern, aud, having SO
ar senerelized upon tho sebject, it IL now time
. cous1der the question in its local aspect, as
eyeloped
The tide OF Irish emigration flowed STEADILY
Est, sstra5d along The i5o9 tracks OF rrogfcsH,l
ands, An and tLsse Ireland nroiiScsllv furnished.
he advance-guard Of the new cru
adera entered Chicago some time after
le commencement OF tho illinois d Allchi-
IN Canal,-th much-botched water-anu-mud
,1~f T..:-t 7zf1-
this work, and at all the public works eubse-
1ently started. Irish sailors manned most OF
10 lake vessels Irish peddlers marched through !
10 country, pack on back, with sturdy step.
lillclah in hand, and making the we1lin ring !
ith strange bursts Of Irish song Irish farmers
,gan to settle on the borders Of the city; Irish
uatte1s commenced tic erection Of innumar- |
,le ehanties, locating chiefly along the main |
I'd north branches Of tue river. in the territory
IN comprised in tue EGhteenth Ward. Pouring | {
the train OF the hardy laborers came the camp
flowers, their {
wnEs AND cfmlDnES-
e former in red petticoats aud calico "wrap-
re-" just es they triupod III tie Connemara
,aths or on The broad nloors Of Muskerry; the
dreu. wild and nois:, after the faE!4ion Of all !
velilcs; particularly Of the youthful Cclt, IN I
nom native mischief is early displayed.
TIE MEN
the race were chiefly stout, Short and strong.
til brown Lair, cleanshayed faces and stooI-gtay ,
e.. Lucy wore bott 1elt mats ana blcnecnS- !
lite Jackets OF undyed woodland strong boots. !.
for rough usage. The women had chiefly ! :
LEX ha1r, tho color Of q crows wing, and blue
es-a Celtic peculiarly. They were not baud
me, as o rule but they had honest faces md = :,
tue WAS their only jswol These people we're y u
'sh, as they came from the old sod, and y
d not yet, after the imp7essionablo q
sh fashion, become impregnased With auy OF -
Q corruption Of the outside world. WHISKY
8 not extensively patronized. for Father
athews magic voice WIS still in their ears, and q
he pledge" taken at home, hold them fast, q
'st Of these early settlers came from the West o
! province of Irelaud,- :.
coNSAu6HT,- "
ocality into which most OF tho broken Irish :.
MS Of the other provinces were driven by ~ -.
omwell, by William, and the other philanthro- y
ts, who, in the name OF England aud of civil a
ation committed Wholesale robbery, rape, and y; =;
lrder in times gone BY. Consequently, these q q
re tho primitive CeltB-hardy, daring, fac- G' e.
as loving, fiery, jealous pious to superstition ~ ~
suspicious to the verge Of insanity. The Con- W W
lght people had things they listed for many ~ ~
RS; worked industriously for q living, and u
ltinued, after the Iris fashion, to raise large T.
1iiies Of healthy children. II II
'ut soon other enigrants began to show theu- IL
1es-lrish, too, for the Germans and Scauii- ", "
ians bad not yet learned that there was too m ao
70 loom for them in their respective father ~ ~
d. The other 1rlsh-the uer nruyaIs-,Eera | "