National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-02-24
A DEFENCE OF THE IRISH.
Wat HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISH BY
THE IRIGH RACE.


tIon Of Hrooklyn. A few weeks ago Mrs. Hys,
vross letter to the lady who succeeded her, an
Who had supplied her with o young Irish girl
. house-serrant, through the once Of the ass
citation, entreating that in future 'no Irish'
s.nt to her. Mrs. Hyatt wrote quite long le
tsr, in which she went into . dlsquisition Of tn
Irish race in general, and denounced them
strong language. This letter Of Mrs Hyai
found its way into print, and has been taken q
BY veteran journalist of New York, who il .
enthusiast in his admiration Of the Irish race, {
which he 10 himself bright and shining example
W. Z Robinson sent . reply to ME- Hyat'
which was printed In . recent issue Of the BROOK
Ign Argus, and As 1t Is valuable historical essay
as we'll a. full and complete defence ofth lrisl
nationality, We transfer It to our columns, an
commend it to the perusal Of our readers. Ate
speaking of the action Of Mrs. Hyatt the write
says:
Now who, let me ask, are these horrible Irish
At home they have been Known BY many distin
British painter; Joseph Black, the great British
shemist; Robert Boyle, the great British phil
ESmnund BURKE, the greatest British Statesman e
Biz Philip Francis, the greatest British satiriet
Sir Hans Sloane, the greatest British naturalist
I'D John Tyndaii. the greatest British scientist
I might mention thousands Of others-Bellew
Canning, Carleton, Chariemont, Adam Clarke
Ooote, Curran, Edgeworth, Emmett, Fitzgerald
Goldsmith, Grattan, Hogan, Lever, Lover, Max
we'll, Maclise, Father Matthew, Thomas Moore,
American orator pronounces equal to webster
Dlay and Calhoun rolled into one; Sheridan,
Sterne, Swim. Usher and Wellington, and leave
Lour readers to place them on their proper pedes-
might also mention the Nugents Of Austria,
ne 0Donneils Of Spain and others s who. in al
heights" and walked am ition's diamond RIDGE
With frmest steps. The President of the French
republic, MacMahon and the recent Republican
President Of Spain, Castelar,, are Of this race Of
Aquadrupeds."
But the object ofmy noticing this matter ut all
b to try and correct the error into which some
Ind have not studied the origin of our people,
when they speak Of the Irish as something dis
ns IN ,ss The
ION, and every day since then they have been, as
,hey will continue to be, more and more 50. Prior
grants to this country were in Q large preponder.
Ance Irish. More 1rishmen arrived in Philadel-
in s than all the and lanes
Americans. There we're ten Irish generals around
Ensn.S we're Ioyaisss and Teres Amos, ali ali
the Irish were Patriots and Republicans. 1t is q
strange peryersion Of history that the true Amer
OF George Washington should be called Ameri-
cans. But if the Irish at the time of the Revolu-
tion were as numerous as the English, how is it at
Look at the Irish of the Revolution. Almost
every one of them had ten or q dozen children
born in Massachusetts had sixteen children, four
Of whom were officers in Washingtons army.
Rev. James Long sloss. Of Antrim, whose son Is
pine children. Rev. James Waddel, of Newry,
he blind preacher Of Virginia, and the tutor Of
Armagh, president Of Princeton College, and
grandfather Of Professor S. F. B. Morse, had
eight children. Rev; Charles Beatty, Of Antrim,
civ ~ fnkov
in Washingtons army, had eleven children, four
Of them officers in tbs American army, and one Of
xress. Rev. James McGreggor arrived in New
EIsland in Ills, with one hundred Irish families |
He haG an children. His David, born in Ire
al ' and Fl. saf %
grants would now number Schout one million, and
they are
THE BEST BLOOD OF NEW ENGLAND.
One Of his sons was aid to General Stark. Rev.
John Elder, Of Antrim, commander of Penn
eiersymen fought for wsshington,S had hfteen
children, the youngest Of whom died at Harris
burg in isss, 4 the sEs Of sighty-seven; William
ter Of Benjamin Franklin, whose descers ,nfs sre
mostly Irish and LEFT nine children sns Of Wh are
J: Walker. the dist. .guished Sseretarv OF the
u-...u ,,atei Tr9alury, wbG was also Irish John
BEAD, of Dublin, had seven children, one of them
? signer Of Yur Declaration Of Independence,
!, |
third captain in our navy, Cornelius Read, of
Antrim, emgrating to Saybrook, Conn.,, had ten
children; Rev. James Caldwell, Of Antrim, John
Caldwell, Calhouns uncle, had nine children, one
Of them adopted by Lafayette.
IRISH IMMIGRATION IN THE LAST CENTURY.
= "Holme's Annals of America" tell us that in
IT'D there arrived in Philadelphia alone nearly
seven thousand Irish immigrants. Duane's pas
sages from Marshall's Remembrance" inform
that in two months Of the year 1774 about three
thousand emi8rants came to Philadelphia from
and wa,
Irsh arrived IN the Intervening half century At
Boston, New York, Baltimore, Charleston and
ten to one of all other emigrants, and all these
emigrants had children ranging up to ten and six
teen, and their childrens children equally pro-
that he had over nine hundred great-grandchil-
drsn.
that three thousand males left Ulster yearly for
the provinces; this for ten years alone would
amount to thirty Thousand. In ITS, think, one
Who tried to defeat wsshington) were Of Irish
birth and descent, and that over two thirds Of the
people Of Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania and
Irish when English CORVALLIS surrendered to
Washington's Irish generals. Since then the
emigration from England has not been more than
spe to ten.
MIGRATION SINCE THE REVOLUTION.
A report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to
sWenty-nine millions Of our population as emit
grants and their descendants since the acknowl-
6dgment Of our Independence. The last census
gives the foreign-born Of our population rs tive
millions and half and about ten millions as the
lions. much more than over one third Of our popu-
latIon, foreigners or their children. Now, add to
these fifteen millions the descendapts of the pro-
from five to tenfold each generation for a century
and you have the American people. More than
three fourths Of the American people are more or
most extinct. The German element is vastly
greater. There are as many descendants, and
have been as many distinguished Americans from
sf Plymouth. 1t was an Irish colony in Mecklen-
surg that first proclaimed the doctrines Of our in
dependence before Charles Thompson, of Ireland,
and Thomas Jefferson Of Virginia, drafted it in
Philadelphia. can name a dozen Irish to one
English general around Washington. The Amer
English-then as now-hated and malIgned.
9lory be around the graves of the Buffers, Clin-
Moylands, Starks, Sullivans, Thompsons and !
Waynes whose Irish swords flashed brightest in
the contest that won American independence, and
ray of patriotism that glistened on the blade of
bates! Our navy, like our army, was Irish: the
O'9riens, of Maine, its founders, and John Barry,
,f Wexford, an Irish Catholic, loved and chosen
BY Washington its first commodore.
TIE AMERICAN MIND WAS EDUCATED
10 Independence by Irish teachers, such as Francis
Yale congo fs:.tsnced the greatest classies!
Ichola- Of America, and Samuel Finley, Of Ar
nagh, afterwards president Of Princeton college;
Il was an Irishman, Berkeley, that pioneered
New England education. The first American
Voyage to China was by an Irishman. The brst
great commercial house Of Brown Brothers we're,
and the venerable survivors are, Irish. Inc nrst
general that fell In the American cause, Mont
Eomery, was Irish The last great battle. Of our
recent war, at Gettysburg, was fought under an
Irish Catholic, Meade. The first pubiishe. Of an
American daily paper was q Tyrone 1rishman,
DUNLAP. The hrst printer and first public reader,
. Well As the n.;-S: 6 our SseaEhtion Of inae
brs of steamboat navigation, telegraphy and reap
ing BY machinery, Fulton, Morse and Mccormick,
are Irish. The founder Of the New York Tribune
pnd the publisher and proprietor OF the New York
Herald are Irish, as were and are most Of tine
writer's reporters and editors of the leading peri
pdicals Of Great Britain and the United States.
Its
THEsTATuE or AN IRIsHNAN, H.
George Clinton, that has been sent to Washing
Ton, as worthiest to represent forever at the CaR
:ol at w Washington, our own Empire State. IL
was an Irishman, COLES. that hrst planned the
Ere canal. and an Irishmau'e grandson, DE Wit