The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-24
THE IRISH IN NEW HAVEN
THEIR HISTORY TRACED FROM THE
 FIRST IMMIGRANTS,

ton, which is given in full below:
 CONNOR'S SPEECH.
 Emigration and immigration are pera haps the two factors which contribu- ted more than anything else to the de4 velopment of the worlds civilization. Whether it was a desire of conquest or an ambition to better the emigrantss condition, the results obtained were proportional to the desires of tho stranger within the new land.
 If we go back to the beginning and accept the traditional narrative of our origin, we find that our first parents Left the land where the lemon trees
 bloom.
 Where the gold orange glows in the
 deep thicket's gloom,
 Where wind ever soft from the blue
 heaven blows,
 And the groves are of laurel and myr-
 tie and rose"
 But their deportation was for the good of the service, and left the land of the lotus and honey for fields of labor and strife.
 Prior to the destruction of the cities of the plain a deportation also took place wherein the emigrants prospered and were an advantage to the country wherein they came.
 If we come down to historical times we find upon careful analysis that the nations which only existed for the purpose of conquest were themselves obliged to submit to the inevitable, and archaeologists are now delving in the ruins of Nineveh. Babylon, throughout the kingdom of Alexander and of Rome; the little Hellenic pes ninsula retains about the same geo. graphical extent, as in the time when Xerxes yielded to valor at Sa1amis. and Leonidas gained immortal fame at Thermopolae. The history of Rome for thousand years was one of strife, for like the other Kingdoms of the earth, they sought to aggrandize the native land by foreign conquest.
 The Gothic and German invasion succeeded where the Huns and Lytl1-S ians failed, because they were prompt- ed to conquer, not so much for the spells of victory not for the desire to lead the Roman captive home whose Ransom would their coffers flll,n but rather a desire to take upon themselves the civilization of the south
 The Mogul invasion of 1920 was the cause of the Turk eventually invading Europe, while the victory of Lepanto and the valor of Charles Martel before Vienna have saved us from an hiatus in the advancement of modern civiliza- ton.
 Approaching nearer our subject we find that the Frankish kingdom Of Charlemagne was divided during the reign of his successors. and this great kingdom became a prize of adventur- ous spirits or a marriage dover to a brotherless maiden.
 England from the conquest of the Romans until to-day appears to have welcomed the visitor she could not de- feat, and the policy which destroyed Napoleon in '15 prevailed against the Danes one thousand years before.
 The Saxon race is the one striking example where the conquered people took upon themselves the customs of the conquerors and improved these to such degree that the civilization of the victors was advanced, and the conquerors were themselves absorbed and forgotten in the ravages of time. Surely England enjoys an electric civil- ization.
 Ireland has suffered from but one successful invasion, and from that dis- aster she has never yet recovered. Whether or not the Irish are descended from one of the tribes of Israel I will not declare in this paper, or from what source they derived that perse- verance which characterizes them until this day. leave that for historians to discuss, but the fact that they success fully repelled every attempt at inva- sion until the sixteenth century does not admit of controversy, while to provee that the Irish had attained high degree of Christian civilization long before their neighbors,. it is only necessary to turn to the pages of his- tory.
 We will admit that the early immi- grants were illiterate but not ignorant, two terms which are by no means sy- anonymous. though they were frequents ly used indiscriminately in relation t0 the early Irish settlers.
 That illiteracy was not a heritage Of the Irish people. Such early English writers as Asserius in 651, Bede in HOO, Camden and Usher in the sixteenth century testify: and later in the sev- enteenth century Lord Littletou writes That in the middle of the sev- enth century members of both the nos bles and second rank of the English left their country and retired out of England into Ireland for the sake of studying theology or leading there 8 stricter life, and all these the Irish most willingly received and main- tained as their own charge, supplying them with books and being their teachers without fee or reward, which is most honorable testimony not only to the learning but to the hospitality of the nation"
 Sir James Ware and Jenner, author- ities on the founding of Oxford and Cambridge universities, respectively, do not hesitate to say that the early instructors in these two seats of learn ing were drafted from Ireland.
 So if we admit the illiteracy of the Irish we should be permitted to refer to the importunate and unjust laws of their oppressors which rendered that condition obligatory. In the eight eenth century the military system