The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-09-25

in Muneey's Magazine: There were
few Irish In the Mayt1ower, but TIE
first large body arrived about twenty
years later. There were fivn or six
hundred Of them--a "oriorn ard pitt
full mob, forcibly transport I'd from their
native land. Those were the black
days Of Cromwell, when twenty five
dollars WAS paid for the head OF a wolf
and fifty dollars for the head of a
patriot lrishman." Fully 100000 Irish
men were driven out of Ireland about
this time. and New England must have
got a larger share than the poor. littl.
group earlier noted. Dublin and Lon =
donderry are old names on the map of
Now Hampshire, and Belfast on the
map Of Maine. 1t Will be claimed that
many OF these were Protestant Irish
from the North. and it would be rash
to dispute the claim in the case OF
most Of the voluntary immigrants. But
Cromwell wasn't cunning for Protest :
ants. They would have been we'll talk
en care OF at home.
There are family names in Maine
and New Hampshire, as OBrrn and
Murphy, of purely Catholic as we'll as
/ Irish suggestion. whose bearers are
most anti-Irish and anti Catholic. The
writer visited little New Hampshire
town hardly u year ago where tho
rivals for citizen prominence were 8
Collins and Sweeney: each Il Yankee
Of the Yankees. and, so far as he re-
tanned any religion. Protestant OF
Protcstants
John Sullivan, who captured the
British military stores at Portsmouth
four months before the battle Of Lex
inRton, was A member of the famous
Irish family which gave governors tc
massachusetts,, New Hampshire and
Vermont. Tho children of this famous
stock, as we'll az of many another
noble Irish line represented in New
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eiRhtceth centuries. would doubtless
have p"rsevered in their ancestral
Catholicity had there been any means
OF instruction and religious practice
For lack OF those. and by force Of the
overwhelming Puritan pressure or
every side. they presently grow up il
the religion Of the section. But theil
bold dash and initiative, their buoy
nncy of spirit. leavened, nevertheless
their sombre environment; blossomed
out in tn" fierce democracy and drs
wit Of the old time rural Yankee ant
helped to differentiate sharply the New
, Englander from the Old Englandcr
ono hundred and fifty of the Min
ute Men" Of Lexington, ana seventy
one of the American soldiers at Bunker
/, Hill were of Irish blood. while among
f; tho leaders were Andrew Browne
Colonel Barrett and John Stark, tn.
the others, tho sons OF Irish parents.
Why Ia not Massachusetts wise
enough to take leaf out Of the bool
Of New Yorks splendid craftsmanship
The latter state has no aliens" Sh.
welcomed the Irish immigrants brain.
and enthusiasm, and giving them FIRE.
play, clothed herself with glory. New
York is pre- emincntly the city Of jur.
lists Of Irish blood. Charles OConnol
or the nine Justices of the suprem.
court of the United States, Edward D
White and Joseph McKenna, are o
Irish descent; in New York, we f1nt
five justices Of unusual prominence ii
state and city-Martin J. Keogh, Nor
gan J. O'Brien, James Fitzgerald, Geo
e. Barrett, Victor ]. bowling and Petel
A. Hendrick, brother of the Rt. Rev
Thomas A. Hendrick DID,, first Amer
lean bishop of Cebu, p. /.
Thomas +. Ryan, Of New York, on,
Of the great financial statesmen Of tn
is Of Irish descent; Alexander f.. Orr
world, Of the New York Life INSURANCE
company, is of Irish BIRTH and Of tn
same line are Thomas F.. Mulry. presi
dent Of the Emigrant Irish Industria
!, Savings bank: Miles NJ. OBrien, vic
: president of the Mercantile Nationa
> bank, and Samuel G. Bayne. who ha