The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-12-27
And l sailing, sailing swiftly from the
County of Mayo"


settlers from Connecticut and Pennsyl
vania. The Irish, of course, We're il
the front of the fight, Colonel Plum
kett commanding the Pennsyites, as
they We're called, and Colonel Butler
the Yankees. Thomas Neil, described
as middle-aged Irishman, the most
learned man in the colony. with true
Irish chivalry, joined the Yankees be
cause they We're the weaker side.
AS have said, Massachusetts want
ed no Irish settlers. The General
Court in 1920 passed this resolve
whereas, it appears that certain fam
lilies recently arrived from Ireland
have presumed to make Il settlement
in this colony. it is ordered that the
said people be warned to move Oft
within the space of seven months. and
If they fail to do so that they be pros
ecuted by the Attorney General by
writs of trespass and ejectment." And
at a town meeting held at Haverhill in
1925 it was resolved, THAT no aliena-
ton of lands should be made without
the consent of the community" This
was to exclude the Irish, but the Irish
were not, nor even have been, quit
tiers; so they remained. Haverhill is re-
nowned for its sycamore trees. under
the shade of which Washington rested,
planted by Hugh Tallant. tie Irish gar
dener. in 1877. Many of you doubtless
have read Whittier's poems of The
Sycamores,' in which he speaks of
Hugh Tallant as the Pioneer:
with his fiddle and his pack,
Little dreamed the village SaXons
OF the myrads ut his back"
The sleepy village changed to the busy
manufacturing city, all else changed.
But, still green, and tall, and stately,
On the rivers winding shores,
Stand the Occidental plane trees.
Stand Hugh Tallant's sycamores.
The descendants of these PuritanS,
whose forefathers did so much to eX-
clude the Irish. see their chief city
now governed by a man born in Ire
land, who commands the respect and
esteem of all men. The Irish who
came to New England were made Of
sturdy stuff, never ashamed of their
Irish ancestry. Il am inclined to think
little healthy persecution sometimes
does goodD
AS early rs 1871 twenty-six gentle
men, as they styled themselves. of the
Irish race founded the Charitable Irish
Society of Boston. one of the oldest
civic societies having Il continuous eX-
istence in the United States. 1t still
fouriSles; it's records complete, except
during the years of the Revolutionary
War, when it's members were at the
front fighting for American Independ-
ence. reassembling at the declaration
of peace in 1888. General Knox of
the Revolutionary Army, Washing
tons trusted friend and his first Sec
rotary of War, w;ls i, member of this
society. While Massachusetts was so
hostile many Irish found their way to
New Hampshire. During the sevel-
teenth century nearly 100000 Irish.
many Of them Catholics landed in
New Hampshire and found their way
to that part of the Colony of Mass
achusetts called Province Of Maine.
We find in New Hampshire and Maine
the townships of Dublin. Derry. Lon
dOnderry, Belfast and Limerick. To
this town of Belfast there came Sui
Ivan, the Irish schoolmaster, whose
father was one of the defenders of
Limerick, and whose sons bore so dis
tinguisled a part in military and civic
life. Maior-Gencral John Sullivan
was one of the most distinguished Of
ticers of the American revolutionary
army, chosen as Il delegate to the First
Provincial Congress. John adams
thus writes of him in his diary: "The
Committee of Violation of Rights rc-
ported set of articles whlcl, were
drawn by John Sullivan of New
Hampshire and these two dcclara tons,
the one of rights and the other of vio-
lations, which are printed in the Jour
nails of Congress for 1774. were. two
years afterwards. recapitulated i'm the
Declaration Of Independence. on the
4th Of July. 177G." Thus We see that
the bold words of tie son of the LINER
lex schOolmnster are Incorporated in
the immortal Declaration Of Indcpend-
ence.
There landed also ut Weltlect.
Massachusetts. the Higgins and the
Reillys and a man named Kelley. who
distinguished himself in King Philips
War.
Standing one day in the Capitol ut
Washington. looking at the historical
picture near the foot of one of the
stairways. under which is written
these lines:
"Westwaru the Star of Empire takes
it's way
The three first acts already past;
The fourth shall close it, with the clos
ing day,
Earth's noblcst empire is the last"
said to IL gentleman accompanying