The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-29
THE IRISH IN AMERICA
SENATOR GEORGE F. HOAR'S TRIB.
UTE TO THEIR DEEDS.

Rev. T. J.. Conaty Who is to Assume
Charge of the Washington University
ESQ Distinguished Men Grace the Occa-
sion with Their Presence.
Worcester, Mass, Dec. 2S.-Citizens
of Worcester paid a remarkable tribute
tonight to Very Rev. Thomas j. CO.
naty d. D., who is about to leave Wor-
cester to assume the Office of rector Of
the Catholic University Of America.
plimentary banquet at the Bay State
house, and ESQ OF the notable men Of
Worcester sat down to the tables in the
dining room of the hotel, after a very
informal reception in the parlors, at
which many personal regrets were said
to the doctor, and many words Of kind
ness were offered upon his deserved
honors.
In speech following the banquet
Senator George T. Hoar said, in part:
THE relation Of Ireland to Massa-
chuSetts and to American liberty has
been quite close from the beginning.
In 1876, when Massachusetts was suf-
fering from the terrible effects of King
Philips war, the generous people OF
ireland sent over a contribution for our
relief. They played no unimportant
part in the Revolutionary war. The
greatest military event in our war Of
independence, until the surrender at
Yorktown, was the expulsion of the
British army from Boston. The foot OF
a foreign invader has not touched the
sofi of Massachusetts from that day to
this.
when Washington's army entered
Boston, after relieving Putnam on the
18th of March, 1776, with drums beat
ing and colors flying, and Sir William
Howe with his army and his troops
went out, an event which Burke said
was more like the departure of a peo-
pie than the retreat of an army the
watchword of the day was st. Pat
rick
1.-THE good st. Patrick came into Bos-
ton with General Washington, and he
came to abide. The catalogue OF the
brave soldiers that the Irish race has
furnished to America is too long for
repetition here. Besides Montgomery,
there is Andrew Jackson, the great
hero Of the war of 1872, and Phil Sher-
idan. the hero of the War Of Rebellion.
of whom General Grant once said to
me with his own lips:
General Sheridan is supposed by
some persons to be capable only
of a single brilliant and dashing ex-
plot. There never was a greater mis-
take: he is able to conduct a campaign
over an extent of territory as large as
any nation in the world can cover with
its troops
1.-THE Catholic church in England, the
country from which our ancestors
came, was always on the side OF the
people against king and noble She en-
countered Tudor and Plantagenet with.
as stern a Thus saith the Lord as
ever was uttered by Hebrew or Puritan
lips. But it taught kings and mobiles
the great lesson Of democracy. It
taught them the great doctrine which
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the OPEN
ing sentence Of our great declaration,
that there was one power in this uni
verse in whose sight the soul of the
peasants was in equal value with
theirs.
There are many of your clergy
men among the dead and among the
living who have a tender place in the
hearts of the people of Massachusetts.
She still cherishes the memory Of
Bishop Cheverus, the first Roman
Catholic bishop of Boston, missionary
to the Indians, encounterer of savages
and Of pestilence; the American Fene-
Ion, afterward archbishop of Bordeaux
and cardinal.
"She does not forget Bishop Fen
wick, my fathers friend, whose hon.
ored dust lies upon yonder hill, under
the shadow of the college which he
founded. There is a warm place in
her heart for John Ireland, who sa
when he was bishop of Minnesota that
but per cent. of the liquor dealers
in his diocese were Catholics and who
gave brave rebuke in Washington to
the men who despoiled our southern
fellow citizens of the precious crown
of their sovereignty. We are glad to
send him our greeting and salutation
this evening. When somebody told
Abraham Lincoln that General Grant
drank whisky, he said he'd like to send
a barrel of 1t to each Of the other
generals. I should like to send a bar
rel of John Ireland's theology to some
of our Protestant bishops"
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