St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-26

amGlgam of the distinct and typical races.
The three races are lght-haircd race with
blue eyes. race of red hair and blue eyes,
and they are both of large stature, mingled
for many years with a darker race Of smaller
stature. with black hair and black eyes. The
speaker stated that instead OF the Irish race
being a distinct race, and therefore peculiar.
il is the most mixed race on the face of the
globe.
You trace back the history OF the aristoc-
racy of Ireland and you will trace them back
10 a Norwegian. The Norwegians were over
thrown by the Irish, but not driven from Ire
land. They remained there and mixed with
the Irish race.
In 1854 he ran for congress and he thou ght
il was fair TO say that TO run was all that he
did 90. In the campaign it had been his
privilege 10 speak TO audiences almost eX-
clusively Scandinavian and again he had spo-
ken TO audiences as exclusively Irish. He
pledged his word as a gentleman that he
could not distinguish the difference. and
had he been able TO speak the Swedish YER
nacuar, ne should have been tempted TO adj
dress them in that tongue Many look upon
the Irish people with contempt. But the
prejudice regarding nationality is
THE saEEREST NONSENSE.
The speak, related number of amusing
anecdotes, one of the most laughable being
regarding the ancestry of Gen. Logan. He
had been told that Gen. Logan was of Indian
blood. He looked upon the general and be-
leved il. he was dark, his hair straight and
black as ink. his clear cut profile, and every
thing indicated that he was of Indian birth.
One day the speaker met the general and
said; Pardon me, but may ask where your
father was FROM
"Oh. certainly; he was born in Ireland
"But where was your mother bornY" inter-
rogated Mr.. Donnelly, feeling certain that
she must have been a squaw. but to his COM
plete surprise the general replied:
''She was born in the same country" Ire
land has no better friends than il has among
the radical people of England. He would not
say one word against the English people be-
cnuse il is a noble race, liberty-loving race
The English have been said 10 have been an
Anglo-SaXon race, but Mr.. Donnelly assured
his hearers that the English is as composite
! as any nation on earth. But IL is through q
/ mixture of bloodS, provided that they be OF
! the best bloods. that the altitude of human
| genius is obtained The Americans are the
most composite race in the world and the
! greatest race, and we are not backward in
acknowledging il. Laughter. The speaker
| said that the Irish race is the greatest race in
| Europe, and should they be given national in
| dependence he believed that they would take
| pattern after st. Patrick.
Ireland has been the most oppressed coun-
| try of which we have any record in history
In ireland there had been two antagonistic
races who had been continually struggling
| for supremacy, and the strongest of those
races have only survived the great contest in
which they have been engaged. The strong
only have lived and the weaklings have died.
| In this country by means of medical science
| the weaklings are preserved. and though
they may be mentally strong they are physi-
cally imbecie. Mr.. Donnelly here quoted a,
some length from Arthur Young. an English
man, who travelled in Ireland in 1T76, showing
THE ATROCITIES PERPETRATED
upon the Irish people during the penal DAYS
| in Ireland. William Pitt, the great English
statesman, declared in parliament that the
Irish had been Systematically wronged by the
English. He cited English laws against the
importation of goods into ireland and re-
ferred TO the obnoxious navigation laws cal
! culated 10 injure Ireland. The Irish were
prohibited from exporting cattle into En-.
| gland and notwithstanding these unjust laws
when famine arose in London the Irish peo-
pie generously sent 81, 900 cattle as their con-
tribution TO save the English people from
| starvation. After 81 that he Irish Deonls