The Irish standard., 1898-03-05

ton squarely, and, by reversing the con-
ventional concealments, eyasions and
falsiications which have marked the
writing Of American history in the in
terest Of the English elements acknowl-
edge the splendid work done by the Irish
in America.
Let us examine his statements in de-
tail.
Relative to Ulster settlement he says:
1.-THE settlers were picked men and won-
en- of the most excellent sort BY the
middle of the seventeenth century there
We're 100000 of them in Ulster. The pro-
vince was a wilderness CT Dogs and fens:
they transformed it into garden. They
also established manufactures of WOOL
ems and linens; they were in
telligent ycomanry and artisans"
These extracts are the amusing myths
of the Seotch-Irish society. We have
an emigration from Scotland, by, say
1850, of 100000, with no account Of the
English, French, Walloon and German
emigrants who were introduced AMI
nothing said about the original settlers
of Ulster, the Irish. In 1859 Sir w. Pet
ty, a government official in Ulster, esti-
mated the population as follows: Irish,
60 $50; English, Scotch and other alisas,
40,571 total of l03,92l. 1t is very pos
sible that Sir W. Petty's estimate Is cor
rect; that he would find it very difficult
to arrive at a correct estimate of the
Irish; and much more easy to get at the
numbers of those who were naturally
the English supporters. 1t is we'll to
recall that at the date of this estimate
Ireland had gone through the horrors OF
IL years Of civil war, marked by cruelty
OF the most ferocicus kind; that the
Cromwellians had added deportation and
slavery in the Americas to their other
crimes and denominations; that Crom-
we'll had settled his own soldiers on con-
fiscated lands; and that he was not par
ticularly partial to the Scotch, whom he
had fought and defeated and whose I'M
age, at Il time when they were parley-
ing with the exiled Charles and plotting
the downfall of the Commonwealth.
Prof Fiske's 100000 seem to vanish in
smoke.
The character Of the population intro
duced into a country where the natives
are treated as outlaws and wild beasts
by the government is not hard to guess.
1t is not at all likely that 1t is going to
consist CT model farmers, expert artisans,
pious, educated. peaceful men and wom-
en-; that kind of people usually remain
at home. The adventurer, the neer-do
we'll, the poor, the desperate, the home
less; that is the kind willing to face
the hazards OF war and fortune in 4
land where the natives arc hard fighters
haters of the government. even though
exhausted by war.
The Rev. Andrew Stewart, Presbyter-
Ian pastor of Donaghadee, from lG45 to
1911, who was born and raised in Ulster,
leaves this record Of Prof. Fiske's select
ed yeomanry and artisans:
"Frcm Scotland came many, and from
England not a few; yet all of them gen
orally the scum Of both nations, who for
debt, Or breaking. or fleeing from justice,
or seeking shelter, came hther, hoping
to be without fear of mans Justice in a
land where there was nothing, or but
little as yet, of the fear OF God"
Such were the selected yeonunry; Sc
lected evidently by the kings writ, by
tho beggarly planters who received the
stolen lands from beggary king. and
by the London guilds whose gold went
in to the Kings pocket
The reverend gentleman gives us a
further hint Of the people who came thus
running from the sheriff and the heavy
hand of the law. He says "ln few
years there floclled such a multitude of
people from Scotland that the counties
of Down. Antrim. Londonderry, etc,
were In good measure planted, yet most
of the people made up IL body-and it Is
strange-Of different names, nations, dia-
lects, tempers and breeding. all void OF
Godliness, who seemed rather to flee God
AZ lHlS GlLt'l p ISL, lliill 10 IOllpW Ills
mercy; albeit at first it must be remem-
bered that they cared little for any
church"
People of many nations aud dialects
coming out OF Scotland needs an explain
alton. Mr.. Motley in his history of the
Dutch republic throws a great light on
this subject. He says in effect that the
religious wars of Protestant and CuthO-
lie. and the prosecutions growing out of
them Of the cver-incrensing scctarles
drove shoals OF artisans from Germany,
Holland and France to England Eliza
beth of England had troubles of her
own: and, while she quarreled with the
pope and disputed his hcadship, she was
jealousy insistent OF her own lcadrrship
of her State church and had no use for
the pugnacious scctares from across the
Channel. In time. owing to the English
jealousy of foreigners and rival manu-.
features and the queens adherence OF
rivals against divincly selected kings
Elizabeth shut down on the refugees
and refused them asylum. In those days
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