The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-17
AN AMERICAN CENTENNIAL
BOOK.
Justice to be Done 60 the Irish People

Hon. William +. Robinson, for many
years one of the editors of the New York
Tribune, widely known over thirty years
ago as the Washington correspondent OF
that paper under the signature of Richie |
lieu, and recently member oil congress |
FROM Brooklyn. has been engaged, Tor
some time, in writing and will shortly pub |
fish book on the Origin and Source OF
the American People, in which he will en-
deavor to show that lrishmen and their
descendants now form a decided and over
whelming majority of our population, and
| that a large majority of the immigrants to
| this country. prior to the Revolution as
| we'll as since, were from Ireland. That
| the Irish element is and has been foremost
and truest in the American Army and
| Navy, in the Pulpit, at the Bar, on the
Bench, in Medicine. on the Press. the
Stage. in Art, Invention, Discovery, Liter
ature, Legislation, Commerce, Science.
Music, Architecture, Schools, Colleges and
Public Works. That the Revolt OF our
Colonies, the Declaration of Independence,
the Victories by Sea and land, the think
ling and the fighting of the Revolution. the
formation of cur Constitutions and the
inspiration Of our Government, were large
ly and chiefly the work of lrishmen and
their children.
Iu lS41, IN an oration delivered at New
Haven; in 1851, in an Grafton delivered at
Hamilton College; in speech In Con-
gress in 1869; and in numerous lectures
!. before literary associations; and IN letters
and essays published in newspapers and
+ Reviews from 1886 to the present time, he
. has asserted this claim. and has accumu-
, lated vast amount of facts which, if they
do not secure general acquiescence IN his
views, WILL at least, prove interesting and
instructive to all students in American
history, biography and ethnology.
III In order to make his book as thorough
| as possible, he solicits information, by let
ter or otherwise, from all persons in the
United States and ireland whose ancestors
: or kindred emgrated from ireland to this
Il country, and whose names deserve mention
! in such a work. Members of Congress
Governors and officials of the severa
: States, officers of the Army and Navy
3 Editors, Members of the Bar, Judges O
g Courts, Clergymen Of all denominations
u Mayors and other officers of Cities, Presi
Of dents and Professors of Colleges, Teacher
lss of Schools, and all men who have made
AT their names honored in the United States
tn and who were born in Ireland, or inheri
u Irish blood either on the father or moth
er's side, however remote, or their friends
= will confer favor by sending to Mr. Rob
inson the name, the year of emigration
= and county or place of birth in Ireland @
himself or ancestor or kindred so hon
ored.
& The book will be published in a crow
II octave volume of about 600 pages, with i
= lustrations and will be divided into som
up 80 chapters, showing what Irishmen hav
to done in as many departments of America
nd lite and history. The volume will be re
Ire markably valuable from the fact that
will contain about one hundred origin
letters never yet published, received /
II, Mr.. Robinson from Henry Clay, DAM
-. Webster, John C. Calhoun, Gen. Scot
) it VIM. H. Seward, Archbishop Hughe
ng- VIM. A. Graham, John Quincy Adam
,b ln Washington Hunt, James Buchanan, Ho
en- ace Greeley, George W. 2. Gusts, W.
90, Prescott, j. j. Crittenden, Zachary Tayl
and others.
= 1t is the author wish and hope to ma
the work worthy contribution to the &c
tennial of country whose early hlSto
was Illuminated by, and future life a
e hope largely depend upon the race who
W. history in the United States he is writiu
Aud for this he solicits the aid Of all W
have valuable information to communlca
Mr. Robinson proposes to lecture on
subject in the principal cities of the Uni
during the coming winter.
All letters to be addressed
W. E. ROBINSON,
P. o. Box 269, Brooklyn, n. Y