The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-09-25
WHAT A|LS NEW ENGLAND? ? ASKS A
WRITER IN A LEADING MAGAZINE
The Boston Republic Answers the in an Interesting Article
and Shows the Struggle For Two Score Years Between the
Transpanted Saxon and the Tanspanted C the Land Of
the Pilgrims and Purians.

He would be poor American who.
wherever dwelling in the United States,
would deny New England's immense
share in the foundation Of our civ il
liberties. Here was planted the seed OF
Home Rule in the town meeting, al
though that was but revival OF the
old Catholic Saxon Wapcrlake. Here
WAS the revolt against even the least
taxation without representations; here
the Boston Massacre, in which Eng
lish, Irish and African blood mingle ;
here the famous Boston Tea Party. "
nearby. at Lexington, the farmers fired
within Boston's borders stands Bunker
Hill; at Cambridge Washington set
his face against religious intolerance
in his stern prohibition of Pope Day"
in the Continental Army. says the
Boston Republic of Sept. Is.
New England gave us our first great
| SCIIOol W AlllSi INdi Ill tIc
poet and prose writer's who were the
glory of so many decades of the Nine
teenth Century; whose works endure,
and will be for all time the American
classics.
/ Here arose many Of our greatest
orators, statesmen and phlanthropists
tai NJ,
William Lloyd Garrison. Charles Sum
ner. Here was the home Of the aboli-
ton movement here the nursery of
great teachers and the experiment sta
tions of many educational reforms.
But there was a flaw in the sectional
life. It's geographical position made
for isolation. IT represented the old
est settlements in the original thirteen
colonies; and it had a stable ciNiliza- :
ton when the great west of today was
almost an unchartered wilderness.
English in the dominant strain of
blood it kept the English insu!arity.
and contempt Of other races. First
it passed by with lofty Indifference,
the little groups Of later comerE Then
when una ware, these had increased and
multiplied into a formidable host, it
turned ficrccly to crush and rend, for
getting that the predecessors Of these
had once been strangers and exile.s on
the same soil, and doubtless not less
unmixed Americana.
The history of New England since
the 30's has been mainly that of a
struggle, noisy or quiet, between the
transplanted Saxon and the trans
planted Celt. In the effort to prevent
the latter from attaining his full tie
velopment, the common progress has
suffered. What Ais New England? ?'
asks Edward Vallandigham, in the cur
the habit of the New Englanders Of the
older stock-wc cannot admit with this
writer that they have especial claim
to the name Of "native"-of charging
their ills, social and political. to unrc-
stricted foreign immigration; he do
clares that mot the stranger gained
the situation" Touching lightly on the
migration Of New Englandcrs to other
' parts of the country, central and west
ern New York. Ohio. Illinois, Michigan
Wisconsin. Iowa. etc. he continues:
clad the emisrant New Englande,
, stayed at home, we should have heard
, the natives would not have been left
in a minority, and they might nave
been more plant and sympathetic
Now, New England, once proud to pe
called the refuge for the oppressed ol
all nations, has at length proved z
churlish hostess to her alien guests"
Several false assumptions underlis
the paragraph just quoted: perhaps
; the strangest Of which is that New
, England's welcome to the alen," un.
less, indeed, he happened to be Of the
5 prevailing religion. was ever aught bu
. Fourth Of July figure Of speech
While no one is 80 foolish as to den.
, that English blood predominated in thu
foundation Of Massachusetts, yet al
t Herbert n. Casson said, writing Il few
years ago on ''The Irish in America,