The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-09-24

Under the above title the Messrs. Roberts
have reprinted an interesting monograph on the
history OF the emigration from Ireland to the
United States and the influence exercised on
the politics Of their native country by the Irish
settlers in America. The author. Mr.. p II.
BAGENAL. is an Englishman and looks at Irish
questions from an English point of view. and
we have therefore been unable to find anything
new or valuable in his remarks on the recent
Land League agitation. and the relation OF that
movement To the Irish element of the Ameri-
can population. On tho other hand. his re-
searches in tho early history of Irish emlGra-
ton TO this country have had substantial re-
suits. and are likely to surprise those persons
who imagine that our struggle for indepen-
dencs was almost exclusively carried on by
coonists If English descent. The largo part
taken by lrishmcn in the winnin: OF our politi
cal liberties is clearly brought out in this vol
umc. The striking facts collected by the author
ought to be widely known. for they would go
far to render impossible a renewal Of the old
Native American agitation under any form.
As early as tho middle OF the seventeenth
century the English authorities in Ireland
gave orders 10 deliver all prisoners Of war and
nj destitute persons TO the agents of Bristol
merchants, for sportation to New England
In 1853 $50 able bodied men and marriagcable
purest Celtic blood of the south Of Ireland and
infused into the primal stock of the New Eng
land people. Within four years tie same Brs-
tot firms OF slave dealers had shipped & 400
Irish men and women to the British colonies of
North America. Maryland. probably from its
Catholic origin, was. ID an early period. poll
OF attraction SO rapidly did the Irish Cathoi,
element multiply in this colony that in l.0S
the Protestant inhabitants passed an net i'm
posing n fine Of twenty shillings for each Irish
servant TO prevent the importing Of too
great number of Irish Papists into the prov
ncc." Apparently. however. this had no, the
desired effect, for in III yet another act was
passed against Irish Papists" more stringent
than the first. In tho ten years between 1927
and 1897 the Irish furnished to the Carolinas
and Georgia the majority of their settlers
Pennsylvania however. would appear to be
most distinctively nm Irish colony. In 1727
there arrived in Newcastle Government 4 500
persons. chiefly from Ireland. and ut Philad"l-
phia l55 Irish. Of whom none were servants.
In the very next year 5000 Irish landed at tho
port Of Philadelphia. tho proportion OF Irish
to all other emigrants taken together.
being nearly ten to one. From this date
| down to the eve OF the Revolution the inflow OF
emigrants from Ireland seems to havo been
| amazingly copious. In the years III II the
number Of cmgrants to America from ireland
| alone amounted e. 1870. Within tho first
fortnight oi August l773. there arrived At
| Philadelphia 3 900 culonis,5 from Ireland. and
| from the same document which records this
| circumstance 1t appears that vessel, were
| arriving every month iroightcd with emigrants
| from Ireland aud the highlands Of Scotland
| Al most OF these Scttlrrs were intensely dis
contcnted with the treatment they had re-
| ceived mt home their accession to the colonial