Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-09-07
A REAL AMERICAN
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on the soil, able TO trace his direct de-
scent TO the man who last bore the H.
tie. and having no European or other
competitor TO contest his right An
other lives in the ancient castle, re-
noyated and modernized, and derives
his income from his broad lands, but
he makes no claim 10 the title and
bears another which is the gift Of an
English king. The mar is John Lee
Carroll, once governor of Maryland.
and the title is Prince of Uriel.
One of his progenitors, Charles Car,
roll, of Carrollton, signed the Declare
ton Of Independence, a rather demo,
cratic document for a prince to pu,
his name TO, and the family have long
since ceased TO trouble themselves
about the title, but they are the lineal
and only descendants of the men who
bore il for a thousand years.
Ex-Governor Carroll is descended
from Roger Carroll, or, more correctly,
Rory 0Carroll, the last chief of the
Irish clan of that name, and the lineal
descendant of the princess Of Uriel,
who played a not unimportant part in
the history of ancient and medieval
Ireland. He espoused the cause of
the Stuarts in the wars between Charles
i and the parliament, and stood
Loyalty by that ungrateful family
when other Irishmen of his kind un.
der Owen Roe ONeill, who had won
rank and fame in the armies of Spain,
were battling TO shake off the English
yoke.
Ireland was crushed under the iron
heel Of Cromwell, and Col. Roger
Carroll accompanied Charles ii in his
exile, taking service under various
European governments according as
the whims of the banished prince die.
tated. During his absence the lord
deputy, Sir John Parsons. found the
Clan 0'Carroll's domain. which, in
violation of the rights of clansmen,
had been conferred on the chief by
an English title, a most desirable loca.
ton and selected il for himself. He
settled down there and made il bis
home.
Among vhe numerous Irish and
Scotch Jacobite families who made
their home in Maryland were the Mac
Tavishes. They were the chief OF the
clan, and, as such matters 20, as
.'blue" in blood as the Argyles or the
Sutherlands or the Flies, or any
Others now counting among the Scotch
aristocracy. In later times the Mac
Tavishes intermarried with the Car
rolls and the families are now related.
This involves a curious feature of
family history and a strange freak OF
the old blue blood" run wild. One
daughter Of the CAROLS, as is well
known, married a Bonaparte. An
other married a Wellesley, brother of
''the Iron Duke" Of Wellington. Still
another married a MacTavish.
A o OF this MacTavish conceived
the idea OF running for the British
parliament, and with the aid of the
Wellesleys contested the borough OF
Dundalk, then rotten TO the core. The
Wellesleys were Tories, but family in
huence was stronger than party
fealty, and MacTavish was elected
I'VE a candidate supported by the
Carlton club in London.
An old lrishman now living in this
city remembers well that rollicking
canvass and describes how MacTavish
used drive a four-in-hand through
town ''showering fistfuls of sixpences
and fourpenny bits among the mob"
He was unseated on petition Of brib-
cry, these ''sixpences and fourpenny
bits" constituting the brides. Then
he commenced suit to recover the
0'Carroll estate from Lord Rose, and
wound up in a private lunatic asylum.
His o was trained with great care,
and everything possible was done 10
keep from him the knowledge which
led 10 his fathers mania. But il was
Of no avail, and he, too, undertook
the task Of ousting Lord Rose from
the ancestral home of the ONCarrolls.
Neither seemed TO bother about the
bleak, heath covered hills over which
the MacTavishes held sway.
This last prince Of Uriel, as MacTav-
ish called himself, once made All ALI
ance with the O'Donoyan Rosa Fen
ians, by which for a time they re.
ceived a donation of $50 a month. III.
q ly he notified them that, unless
they recognized him as a prince OF
Uriel and began their communications
in the proper form with May it please
your highness," he would not condo.
scend totake any notice of them. That
ended the alliance. The council would
NOT hear Of ''princes or royal high.
nesscs."
I'VE must draw the line some.
where said one of them, IAN be the
hockey pokeyl | wouldn't call any
man Yer Royal Highness' If he was
10 give ten thousand a year To the
cause.
Poor Prince MacTavish. who was a
tall, slim and very a~ristocratic looking
young man, went through a course Of
training 10 iii him for the task Of win.
ming back the ancestral lands by the
sword. He entered the Servian army
as volunteer during their disastrous
war with Turkey some thirteen years
ago, fought under the banner Of Don
Carlos and sought the sanction of the
pope for his enterprise. He found
interruptions lawyers who preyed
upon his mania and encouraged him
10 60 on, until he wa finally put in q
place Of safety by his friends New
York Journal.