The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1890-03-20

- | me lush NCiC.sy '"'uuHcetS
9 that OF Plymouth Rock. Thes
new emigrants from 1relan
wese sent 10 The New Americ
Q by the English government a
e whito slaves. by this Christian G
5 government which Tor 700 year
has crushed The rights of the pee
I pie Of Ireland.
r New England, them, was th
pom! where the Irish was colo
, nized. MANY, l.owever, went L
Pennsylvania, Maryland an,
far,her south.
, | want 10 dwell on this sub
, Jet, nv friends, 10 be able [,
show what an immense infiuenc,
the Irish Americans had in tn
war for Independence / wan
to show you today, in her erea
struggle for National lie, Ire
land can look to This country b,
right. America owes a hisiori,
debt. The words of svmpath,
and the deeds of friendship o.
The American Republic belong te
Ireland in her contest. They
should 60 there fully, and freely,
and fearlessiy.
. ut 10 go back 10 Irish emil
grafton before the Revolution,
In he years i77l Y the number
of Irish enigrants was 1880
Within the first two weeks o.
1878, there arrived in Philade:.-
phia alone $500 cnigranls from
Ireland. These were almost
wholly good, substantial farmers,
WHO sought the shores Of the ne
country. impelled by the bad
treatment OF the government al
at home. You may rest assured
that the hostile feelings of The
Irish exiles and their children,
stirred by the advice Of Frank-
lin, Thompson, Adams and Nor
ris, soon. crystallized into the pa
triotism of 1E76.
Pennsylvania was Il fasori,e
point of the early irish settlers.
In 1927, IN Newcastle in that rol
ony, the records say: "There ar
rived forty five hundred persons
mostly from Ireland; and in
Philadelphia, eleven hundred
and forty fiye Irish"
In 1928, $500 Irish landed IN
Philadelphia, and ia the next 10
years the CaroIinas and Georgia
received the majority of their
immigration from Ireland. Soit
is fact Of history that long be
fore The Revolution, the Irish
were pouring into Maryland, Vir-
ginia: Pennsylvania, Delaware.
me rarolinas. New Hampshire.
Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay
and Maine. Let me give you a
few figures-not dry statistics,
but figures. of inlensest interest
10 the Aaaerican of Irish blood.
The total Irish accession, for the
100 years from 1850 TO 1880, to
She American stock is as follows:
For the decade ending in 1850,
the immigration was A, 900; for
1890, it was $4,000; for 100, 25, |
600; for ITO, $4,000; for 1920, 25, |
600; for he five decades, ending
in ITO, it was 10000 and for
the decade, ending in 1880. il
was 35, 900; making total emf
grafton into the American colo
nies from 1850 10 1880. of $50,
900 souls. So that In the latter
year, by natural gains and in.
crease, the Irish population was
,095, 955. or one-third of the ep.
lire American people at that
lime. From these figures. II will
not appear strange when l say
hat the Irish element was
strong in the anti-revolutionary
Lays, They impressed their ge
MUS on the new born literature
,f America. they furnished
bold preachers and brave priests
% the Catholic and Protestant
churches of their day. In both
aiths were learned and holy
nen of Irish blood that founded
colleges and built churches, and
III fleeing from oppression. at
home. They cams from the
and of their birth, as they come
low, TO breathe the pure air of
living liberty. They sailed 10
he West, following Berkeley's
dea:
way"
Md Berkeley, who wrote that,
vas an Irish emigrant. j
They played an important
'art in the Revolution, and Oh
Is baiaefields Irish blood flow.
d freely for American liberty.
I furnished its most chlvalreus
Importers, on sea and on land,
a The persons Of The Irish born
nd Irish descended colonlsts Of
he day. Can America forget
|,iss Now, when that people
eeds sympathy and encourage
ient shall IT be said that we are