The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-09
Was 81. Patrick Jeremiahs

Those who have lightly objected to st.
Patrick being called Frenchman must
buckle on their armor anew, for Wild
doctor or rather Rev. DR.. Wild asserts that
st. Patrick was an Israelite and that his
the ingenious Doctors argument, but we
must admit that he deals very handsomely
with the Irish people in giving them full
grown prophet from the Old Testament in
stead of mere "Mossoo." The Doctors
arguments must be dealt with on their
merits; but if it should turn out that the
Irish people are the lost tribes of Israel the
standing Of the Jews in the world will be
greatly bettered. The ten tribes must have
taken the great fighting men with them, the
rollicking daredevil fellows who brought
their carpet-bags out of the wilderness and
were all the time ''spoiling for fight.
They were the boys that carried the rams
horns, and no doubt put them to more con-
vivial purposes than blowing down the walls
of Jericho. When the ten tribes went to
Ireland they Left behindsthemdn Judea the
solid business men, and that would expldin
how it has come to pass that the people known
as the Jews in modern history have been
making all the money and the Jews in Ire
land have been doing all the fighting. If
they were reunited now what team they
would make The Doctor, we observe, re-
lies greatly on the well known tradition
about Jacobs stone pillow. which now rests
in Westminster Abbey in front of the English
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evidence. Take the name jeremiah itself
Why, there are as many Irishmen who de-
light in the name Of Jerry as in that Of
Patsy. Now, the Irish people must have
some occult reason for picking that name
out for such continued reverence. They
Hezekiah or Isaiah or Nehemiah, but the
line Of Jeremiahs goes back, we are afraid
to say how far. The Doctor also says that
the Jews when they first came to Ireland
were called the children of Dan. Dan is
also peculiarly Irish name, as everybody
knows who has heard OF Dan O'Ccnnell, and
to-day the tribe Of Dan is one Of the largest
in the country. 1t is we'll also to remember
that st. Patricks fame rests strongly on
the way che gave the snakes and toads a
twist and drove them out Of Ireland. 1t is
a bad rule that will not work both ways.
When Moses did his great rod and snake
act before Pharaoh the latter hardened his
heart, which induced the holy Hebrew to
order up an army of frogs and toads that
Topped and croaked all over Egypt. St.
Patrick jeremiah was only reversing the
Egyptian snake act. He found the 'var-
mint" in Ireland, and when he twirled his
rod as Aaron did we have no doubt, as his
tory records, 'the beasts committed suicide
TO save themselves from slaughter" The
question will arise, How are you going to
get round the Hebrew nose? This is puer-
lie. Take O rfhousse Celtic nasal organ
and a noble Hebrew proboscis and they
will make pair Of Greek or straight noses
between them. They have been separated
for some twenty-six hundred years. The
ordinary Hebrew nose has been developing
hill and the Irish Hebrew nose hollow,
as the Darwinians would argue, during sew
enty odd generations, but each is still the
complement of the other. These two re-
markable branches Of n common people arc
to be congratulated on this discovery. II
is truly touching. "Sheremiah, mein long
lost bruder, by Crayshus r ''Shweet mother
O Moses, is that yourself, Abraham