The Irish standard., 1902-12-27
Sons OF Erin Not Cordially Welcomed BY
Early Settlers of Virginia
or Massachusetts.
This Republic Might Never Have Been Had
Not the Irish Been Here to
Fight the Enemy.

On Sunday, Dec. Z, at Carnegie Hall,
New York, Hon. Thomas j. Garrnn. of
Boston, delivered an address on the
Irish in America before the Reyolu-
tion. He said in part:
am to speak briefly tonight Of the
| Irish settlers in the colonies claimcd
by Great Britain, which, after the
| Revolution, became the United States
OF America. Tho Irish were not cortli-
ally welcomed by the early settlers of
either Virginia or Massachusetts,
though II grant of land was made on
the banks of the Mcrrimuc to Irish
settlers in 1854, and two wears lntcr
we read of ships leaving Donegal with
Irish emigrantS. Lord Baltimore came
with some Irish settlers in 1854, but
in 1919 Cromwell, who rode rouyh-slOd
through Ireland, transported 10000
Catholic Irish across the seas, sending
them to the Barbadocs Many of
these found their way to the North
| -AlilcIlciu COIlllncnt.
Ireland had a period Of mlnufuctur-
ing prosperity during the last Quarter
of the seventeenth century, but the So
called Revolution of 1858" and the
accession of William and Mary to the
throne brought a sad change to Ire
land. In the first year of their reign
laws were passed to discourage manu-
factlrcs in Ireland, and by these un-
just ana oppressive laws Ircland's
manufactures were ruined, and, ac-
corling to Lord FitzwiIliam, 100000
skilled artisans were driven out of Ire
land. A large number OF them cmi-
grated to America. The rack ck-rcnts,
says another writer, drove thousands
of the brnvcst and best of Irennd's
population to the North American col
Onics.
In the colony Of Pennsylvania was
made one OF the earliest settlements
Of lrisllmen. james Logan of Lurgnn
came with William Penn in 1G0D ana
was Governor of the colony for two
years after the death OF Penn. He
VAS Il talented man for his age, an
arrows flight beyond his contcmpo-
rarics. Penn wrote to him from Lon
don in 17OS: "Thcre is n complaint
here against you that you suffer public
Mass in Il scandnlous manner. Send
me the facts, as much use is made Of
if agninst us here" Logan was q
broad ana progressive man, possessed
Of the most considerable library in the
colony, which he hcqucatllcd to the
inhabitants
Tracing the march of civilization on
the North American continent, we find
the French making their way up the
st. Lawrence River, settling along it's
banks, along the shores of the Great
Lakes and down the Mississippi River
to the Gulf, pushing their way east
ward as far as the confluence of the
Allegheny and Monongahcln, and, in
the names Of the rivers, cities and
towns they have incffaccably written
their record on the pages Of United
States history.
Looking at the thirteen English col
onies along the Atlantic coast, we find
the pioneers Of civilization steadily
marching westward, and always in the
vanguard the men of Irish blood. Not
many statistics of the earlier immigrn-
tions have been preserved, but we do
find the record of the immigrants ar
riving at the Port of Philadelphia for
tie year ending December, 1923:
English and Welch. ..... 2G~
ScOLcn .................. I3
Germans ............... :,l3
irish ................. J,GJ5
or ten Irish to one from all European
nations, and this rate continued for
many years.
In the interior Of Pennsylvania, as
early as 1870, we find townships called
Derry, Donegal, Tyrone and Coleraine.
In 1920 several families from Long
ford sailed from Dublin bound for
Pennsylvania, but the captain Of the
ship, in gross violation of his contract,
put them ashore Mt Cape Cod in the