The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-30

on the face of the planet" IA
Let US turn from this picture to
: another. Says correspondent OF
: the London Times "a paper that
heretofore has never let slip an op-
portunity for maligning the Irish),
writing from Ireland lately: "The
high breeding of the Irish peasantry
cannot fail to please even a chance
i. visitor, and the purity Of their do
nestle life and the lasting strength
of their family ties cannot fail to
attract admiration"
A bishop of the Methodist church
} in San Francisco lately made teur
) of Ireland. On his return heme in
his first sermon he related his expe-
riences among that people, conclud-
| ing by stating that whatever might
i be the character Of the Irish in New
Il York and San Francisco, at home
they were the best people on the
u face of the earth, adding ferVently,
"God bless the Irish.'
That the Irish are brave and
ehivalrous will hardly be denied.
Do we want examples of Irish
craftsmanship, literature and ele-
quence, things hardly belonging
to the province Of barbarism, her
skies are thickly emblaZened with
the proofs. 1 refer not for my ex-
amples to the days just past, says an
Irish orator, when our Burkes, our
Barrys and our Goldsmiths exiled
by this system from their native
shores, wreathed the immortal
Shamroks round the brows Of paint
ing, poetry and eloquence. To be
the last and humblest name in the
litany which contains the names of
Tone, Emmett and Fitzgerald, names
that awaken notes of hereism in the
coolest heart and stir to lofty pur-
poses the most sluggish mind, is,
says another Irishman, an honor
that compensates me fully for the |
privatiens l have endured. Curran.
the scholar of charity, was declared |
by Byron the most extraordinary
man he had ever met or read about, |
Madame DeStael reiterated the
words of Byron, while Tom Moore |
characterized his eloquence as the
very music of freedom. Goldsmith, |
whom DR.. Johnson declared with a |
pen in his hand the superior Of the |
grandest galaxy Of genius thei
world, perhaps, has ever seen. Phil
lips who delivered the unrivalled |
.eulOgiums on Curran, Napoleon and
Washington. Do you need further
record of Irish names which have
been enrolled upon the scroll of |
fame Black, the chemist, Boyle, the
philosopher, Francis, the satirist,
Sloane, the naturalist, Barry, the
tragedian, Barry, the painter, whom
a distinguished writer declared the
most divine man he had ever met.
Tyndall, the scientists, Bellew, Can
ming, Carlton, Charlemont, Clarke,
COOte, Hogan, Lever, Lover, Max
well, Maclise, Father Mathew1
Dan1 O'Connell, whom the greatest
living American orator pronounces
equal to Webster, Clay and Calhoun 1
rolled into one; Sheridan, Sterne, I
Burke, Swift, Usher, Wellington,
Shlel, Griffin, the Walter Scott of Il
Ireland,) and last but not least Par G
nell, and his long line of glorious
ancestors. :
1t was an Irish colony in North
Carolina, says an Irish writer, that!
first proclaimed the doctrines of in
before Charles Thomp-t
son Of Ireland and Thomas Jeffer-
son Of Virginia, drafted them in
Z Philadelphia. I can name a dozen
Irish to one English general around
Washington. The American army
was an army of Irishmen whom
the English then as now hated and
Glory be around the
graves Of the Buffers, Clinton's, !
Hands, IrvineS, KnoXs, Mont II
gomerys, Moylands, Starks, Sul1i- =
vans Thempsons and Waynes l.,
whose Irish swords flashed brightest h
IN the contest that won Ameri- &
can independence, and bright 4
be the light around the soil.
taTy English ray of patriotism
that glistened on the blade of Gates.
The American navy like the army.l
was Irish. The O'Brien's Of Maine,
It's founders, and John Barry oil
Wexford, its first commodore, The
American mind was educated to in
NOPChuOAOO ny 11IDI CSdCuoIS, SuCO
Is Francis Allison, of Donegal.
whom President Styles, of Yale
College, pronounced the greatest
classical scholar in America: and
Findlay, of Armagh, after
wards president of Princeton Col
ege. 1t was an Irishman, Berkeley, :,
hat pioneered New England educa- l.
ion. The first publisher Of an L
American daily newspaper was a l;
Tyrone Irishman. Dunlap, Fulton, Il
1orse, Mccormick, Meade, Sheridan, u
sweeney, Shields, Malone, Cleburne,
stewart, MeagheT, etc., were Irish
zen. And it was an Irishman, Ram J.
ay, who wrote the first history Of u
he United States. They are Irish IT
zen who furnish the Biographies "
nd school books for the schools of "
freat Britain, the Sullivans of Dub v
n; and far away among the Kerry 4
fountains to-day clara" can find v
cores of young Irishmen whose 81
brogue is just as euphon- q
]uS as his own, but who far out u
trip him in educational accomplish A
1ents by being able to sustain a Ok