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RS. are living today in the south.
The CromweLIian Infany.

references are made to the transporta-
ton Of Irish Tories" and "convicts."
For example. under date of September
"a, 1858. we find the council of state
granting license to Sir Richard Meth
ersole TO transport 100 Irish Tories to
Virginia" The Tories were those who
refused to bend the knee to the Eng
lish invader and who. when captured
by the Cromwellians, were banished
for their persistency in resisting the
benevolent assimilation Of the Sas
senach. Those who were transported
were called convicts.
In explanation Of this term, Prem
dergast devotes chapter in his book
The Cromwellian Settlement of Ire
land" The Irish Tories were those
who would not willingly submit to be
"transplanted" in Connaught or trans
ported to the American colonies They
became the avengers of the wrongs Of
their people. They formed themselves
into bands and usually retired into the
less frequented portions of the coun-
try. and, headed by their prominent
men. attacked the English who had
taken possession of their lands and
other properties.
Broudir says that mot less than 10o,-
900 were transported from their native
land. several thousands of whom We're
sent to Jamaica and other West In
dian islands, many sold as slaves"
According to Dalrymple's Memoirs Of
Great Britain" (Vol. l. part 2. page
26O, $4,000 men had been sent away
by Cromwell alone"
Prendergast gives instances showing
to what extent this inhuman traffic was
carried on. On September IA, 1853
two Of the Bristol agents of the Plant
ers, named Selleck and Leader. entered
into A contract with the commissions
ers for Ireland Ito supply them with
$50 women of the Irish nation above 12
years, and under the age of As, also 300
men above ~ years Of age and under
so. to be found within twenty miles of
Cork, Youghal. Kinsale. Waterford and
Wexford" These were transported to
New England. The ships were Or
dered to repair to Kinsale. but Lord
Broghill suggested that the required
NJ Of irh
had from the wanderers and persons
who had no means to get their liveli-
hood in the County of Cork alone
Again. in January. 1854. the governors
of Carlow. Kilkenny. Clonrel, Wex-
ford. Ross and Waterford had orders
to arrest and deliver to Captain
Thomas Morgan. Dudley North and
John Johnson. English merchants. all
wanderers. men and women, and such
other Irish within their precincts as
should not prove they had such a set
tied course of industry as yielded them
means Of their own to maintain
them. all such children as were in hos
pitfalls or warehouses;. all prisoners.
men and women. to be transported.
CAN measures. however. were vain
to prevent the most cruel captures as
long as these English slave dealers
had recourse to Ireland. In the course
of four years they had seized and
shipped about s.4oO Irish, men and
women. boys and maidens. when, on
the fourth Of March. 1855. all orders
were revoked. These men, catchers en-
ployed persons ESQ runs the order). to
delude poor people by false pretences
into by-places. and thence they forced
them on board their ships. The per-
sons employed had so much piece for
all they so deluded, and for the money
sake they were found to have enticed
and forced women from their children
and their husbands children from
their parents. who maintained them at
school; and they had not only dealt so
with the Irish. but also with the Eng
lSn. winch last WIS the true cause,
probably. of the commissioners for
Ireland putting an end to these pro-
ceedings" This narrowing tale Prem
dergast quotes from Morison's "Thren-
odia Hiberno- Catholica." published at
Innsbruck Switzerland, In 1859.
In 1855. Cromwell applied to Lord
Henry Cromwell then Major General
Of the English forces in Ireland. ito
engage 1900 of the soldiers of the
army in Ireland to go to Jamaica as
planters. and to secure a thousand
young Irish girls to be sent there also
Henry Cromwell answered that there
would be no difficulty. only that force
must be used in taking them. and he
suggested the addition Of from $500
to 1000 boys Of from 12 to IA years Of
age. We could we'll spare Them he
adds. and they might be Of use to you.
and who knows but it might be a