The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-04-22

colonized what is now known as the
State of Virginia.
The next Anglo Saxon expedition to
this country was composed of men of
quite different type. Forced to leave
England, the Pilgrim Fathers, who must
not, by the bye, be confounded with the
bfgoted Purltans. settled in Rol and for
eleven years, at the expiration of which
term they embarked with their wives
and families on the barque "Mayfower''
in September 1920. and dropped anchor
in Cape Cod Bay two months afterward.
These lovers of liberty built home for
themselves on the coast of New England
and eventually separated into four COL
onies extending over Massachusetts,
Connecticut and New Hampshire. To
the credit of their descendants be it said
that were it not for the stand made by
New England in the Revolutionary War,
the revolt against King Georges Red
coats might have been as disastrous as
the defeat of Ballingarry was to the Irish
national hopes subsequently in the dark
days Of 1848.
Penn, the son of an English admiral,
was the leader of the Quakers in Eng
land. Prosecuted by their own fellow
countrymen, these inoffensive persons
crossed the seas, and settled in Pennsyl-
vania. They were followed by other
members of their communion from the
various countries of Earope. I have
now specifically stated the amount Of
colonization done by Anglo -Saxons on
our Eastern and Southern seaboards;
but it must not be forgotten that other
races did as mucn az, if not more, than
the Anglo-Saxons in the same districts.
Hendrick Hudson, Dutchman, was the
first European to sail up the river that
now bears his name, Some years after
ward, in 1923, Dutch colony took up
its habitation in Manhattan Island, the
present site of the city of New York,
since which epoch to the beginning Of
this century the Dutch we're practically
the rulers and owners Of the town de-
spite The fact that it was for q long time
in the hands of English seldiers, and was
at one period Of it's history annexed to
England by Charles IT. who made his
brother Duke of York. To-day the An
glo-Saxon element in the Empire city is
comparatively insignificant. The Irish
and other European races throug it's
thoroughfares and guide it's destinies.
New Jersey was also colonized by the
Dutch. European Catholics colonized
the shores Of the Chesapeake. Other
Catholics were the original settlers Of
Maryland. French Hugenots peopled
Georgia and the Caro'inas.
The exodus, which has been going on
at rapid pace from the old world to the
new during the past fifty years, was con-
tributed to almost exclusively by Euro
peans who had no Anglo-Saxonism in
their blood, character or temperament.
OF these Ireland contributed several mill
lions-"a million decade" as Lady
Wilde so emphatically put it in her elo-
quent lyric on the depopulation of that
country. Within the past twenty years
millions of Germans peopled the western
districts of the States. To these may be
added hundreds of thousands Of souls of
almost all other European nationalities
who have had no connection with the
Anglo-Saxon race. Not only we're the
regions of the setting sun under the hos
pitable shelter of Uncle Sans stars and
stripes populated by these hardy pio-
neers, but they also invaded the East
with the result that Anglo-Saxonism had
to hide it's diminished head in Philadel:
phia and throughout the entire State of
Pennsylvania as we'll as in Boston and
most of the other thriving cities and
towns of New England. Ango- -Saxonism
has now indeed no citadel or stronghold
in the land, save where colony of blue
nosed Orange Canadian bigots has been
established. In face Of these facts it
would be the height of folly-even on
the part of an avowed British jingoist-
to assume that the people Of the United
States belong to the Anglo Saxon race.
The land of Commodore Barry, Of Car
roll of Carrolltown. of Patrick Henry, of
Andrew jackson. and of Martin Van
Buren, has nothing in common-save and
except it's language-with England.
Europe and not England" as great
writer observed, 'is the mother of Amer
ica." Like the tributaries that .how into
their respective rivers, Like the rivers
themselves that pour their crystal waters
into the mighty ocean, 80 the yarious::|
races of Europe from the Spanish Knight3I
and the Portuguese caballero who raissd1
the, standard Of. the Cross ia the far West
and civilized the once wild wastes Of
California, to the burly burgher from
Deutchland who founded the city Of
New York IN the East, lave colonized
and built up, united in one feeling Of pa
triotism, this great nation which is de-
stined under Gods providence to be the
most powerful and prosperous OF COM