Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-01
The ccIt Created TO be Absorbed.

| IT. o. Russell in the New York Indepcndeut.l
Vast as Is the namber Of Celtic nAmes
that appear In the directories Of our cities,
they are considerably less than they would
be were 1t not for the moral cowardIce
| and want of respect for hIs race which
| have ever been the curses of the Celt. No
man Is Drawer in battle than he and no
man will more quickly resent q personal
insult; but when it comes to standing up
for bis race and its attributes, no one is
more covardly. This moral coEardIce
has led to the disappearance Of hundreds
OF GRlic-Celt!c names In America. The
MscLsughlins become Lstiins and Clstlins,
the Hoolsghsns become Hollyhands, the
Mullveehils become Mellvilles, the CassyH
become Cases, the MscRories become Rog-
erses, and SO on almost sd infinitum.
Hundreds OF Irish names have been
changed In America by being translated
/ Even In ireland the practice has bsen com
| mon. The Celtic Irish living within the
English pale IN Ireland were for q long
time compelled by law to bsar only Eng
llsh names. II their own CeltIo names
were translstable, they generally made the
| required change by translation. One
change, or partial translation, of a Celtic
Irish name Is go curious and so we'll Eu-
thentic that 1t is worthy OF particular no
tice. My informant was a Mr.. Early, a
well known lawyer of Terre Hsute, Ind
BE died in 1885, but his con, who lives, or
did live very recently, Ia Terre Haute, will
vouch for the accuracy Of the following
particulars told me by his father:
Mr.. EARLY had documents TO prove that
his real name was Observation-Disclosures. The
family of that name from whom he was
descended landed In Philsdelphia from
Ireland In the early part Of the eighteenth
L century. The name means the early
| rising chief" This would have been an
awkward phrase to form an English sound
| ing name from, or TO translate in full, so
| only one word of 1t, moch, meaning "ear-
| ly," was translated, and hence the name
EARLY. Mr.. Early told me that General
Jubal EARLY, of the confederate army, and
most of the Esrlys of the south, are de
4 scended from that family.
No other branch of the Aryen or Indo-
| Germanic race has made go bad stand for
i its independence snd indentity ss the Gel
i tic branch has. The Celt seems TO lave
been created TO be absorbed. No other
| RAGS has produced such illustrious traitors
to itself; among these O'Connell, Carlyle
and Mscaulsy hold first places. o'Connell
did more to Apgllciz, the Irish than any
| other man that ever lived; yet so utterly
blind are the Irish to this fac: that they
rsise colossal statuss ard sky-piercipg
monpments to his memory. In his whole
| career he never uttered a word in favor of
the preservation of the Language, iiters-
ture or music of the race to which he be-
longed. Whenever Carlyle or Hacsulsy
| spoks of the Celt 1t was with contempt;
| they despised him as much as the verieer
Saxon cculd-if we can judge of their
ideas By the little they have said about
him.
In spite of the immensity of the Celtic
element smoDg EuglIsh speaking peoples,
and In spite of the vast number of emf
nent men 1t has produced, 1t seems des-
tined to be completely absorbed by other
races. Whether the Celt will ever resssert
himself, or whether the characteristics
that have clung TO him for more than two
thousand years will ever be changed, no
one can say. Il has, however, to be sd-
mitted that the Cymric, or Welsh, branch
| of the Celtic race has shown q most lsuda-
BILE desire 10 preserve its language, music
and every national attribute TO which 1t
can lay claim. But the Welsh never had
the misfortune Ito themsslves) Of produ-
cling an O'Conuell, Carlyle or Mscsulsy.
Those men belonged to the GAELIC, or Scoto-
Irish branch of the Celts.