The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-21
MEMPHIS APPEAL.
WEDNESDAY, :;APRIL 81, 1856.
THEIRIsH IN AMERICA.

THE IRISH IN AMERICA.
The foreign born lrishmen in s..
Louis. as we'll as the descendants Of
Irish families, are greatly exercised
over the charge Of the Globe Democrat
that the citizens OF Icish bith resi-
dent 10 America are not loyal TO their
adopted country. II ia not a, all sur
prising that the Irish and the descend
ants of Irishmen should ieel outraged
at the publication Of such a Cslumny.
The war which Irish.Americsns have
80 long made on England is no dis
loyalty 10 their adopted country. Let
England cease to be hateful to Ireland
and Ireland will Ceage TO hate her.
Here in the United States we have
but recently seen a party in power
that sought to make a new
Ireland, ruled by the sword and inn
FILTERED by hate, out Of portion Of
our own country. Yet, after but
few years of the experiment, the
American people revolted against it
in disgust, ID gave back the right Of
seli-government to States just emerged
from rebs!li n, and thereby knit them
to the Union more firmly in one hour
than could have been be done by
centuries Of force. England can
afford TO follow our example with per
feet confidence. Let British rule
cease to typify hardship, cruelty and
oppression 10 the Irish people, and
they will cease to detest tie
rule of the great empire, of
which they will be proud
and loyal subjects. Because the Irish
are Democratic, the Globe Democrat
seeks 10 torture their disloyalty to
England into disloyalty toAmerica. An
overwhelming maj lrity of the Amer.
can people eympathize with Ireland,
and native born Americans are usually
most prominent in The agitation for
Irish home rule. The Irieh in Amer-
ca have always been loyal to thsir
adopted country. At the Declaration
Of Independence the Irish element
constituted about two.thirds Of the
population. The German element
was not then 30 strong as IL is now,
but It furnished respectable and
patriotic force in favor OF our indie.
pendenCe. The people OF New Eng.
land had strong infusion CT Irish
blood, which wrote It's name in red |
letters al Lexington and Bun.
ker Hin, Bennington and Sara
toga. The English element was al.
most all against us, 1900 Of them were
driven TO seI at Boston by Washing.
ton on st. PStrick's Day, in l776. Tue
Irish troops from New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, including Maine, New
York, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware
and South Carolina, indeed from all
the States, tlocked to Washingtons
army, aud the illustrious generals
who stood around him were mostly
Irish. A little Irish society of some
hundred members in Philadelphia,
kno En as the Friendly Sons Of st.
Patrick, furnished Washing ton more
generals than all the descendants of
the Mayh1wer; and OF this society,
exclusively Irish, George Washington
was member. The Irish race In the
United States has sealed its loyalty to
It's adopted country with its blood on
every battlefield since 1870. There
were many Irish officers in the Revo-
lutionary War, aud there ara many
Irish names signed to the Declaration
Of Independence. The brave Charles
Carroll OF Carrollton, in whose veins
ran the pure Celtic blood, and who,
adding his address to his name oil the
glorious scroll, exclaimed: "Now the
King oil England knows where to End
ne was na'iYe-born Irishman.
rhis ace has poured out its blood for
ts adopted country, and il has borne
Is full share in the wonderful devel-
'pment Of the material resources OF
very section If the Union, aui can
iafely challenge comparison with any
,ther race that has contributed TO our
population.
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