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

in Munsey's Magazine: There were
q few Irish In the Mayf1ower, but TIE
first large body arrived about twenty
years later. There were Ave or six
hundred of thsm--a "oriorn and pitt
full mob, forcibly transported from their
native land. Those were the black
days Of Cromwell, when twenty five
dollars was paid for the head of wolf,
and fifty dollars for the head of q
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, little
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-lrsh
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
Ell care OF at home.
There are family names in Maine
and New Hampshire, as O'Bricn and
Murphy. OF purely Catholic as we'll as
Irish suggestion, whose bearers are
most antl-Irish, and anti Catholic. The
writer visited a little Now Hampshire
town hardly a year ago where the
rivals for citizen prominence were a
Collins and Sweeney: each Yankee
Of the Yankees. and, so far as lie re-
tanned any religion. Protestant of
Professionals.
John Sullivan, who captured the
British, military stores at Portsmouth,
four months before the battle OF Lex
ington, was a member Of the famous
Irish family which gave governors to
Massachusetts,. New Hampshire and
Vermont. Tho children Of this famous
stock as we'll as Of many another
noble Irish line represented in New
England from the seventeenth to the
eighteeth centuries. would doubtless
have Dcrsevered in their ancestral
Catholicity had there been any means
OF instruction and religious practice.
For lack Of these, and by force of the
overwhelming Puritan pressure on
every side, they presently grew up in
the religion Of the section. But their
bold dash and initiative. their buoy
nncy Of spirit, leavened. nevertheless,
their sombre environment; blossomed
out in the fierce democracy and dry
wit Of the old-time rural Yankee, and
helped to differentiate sharply the New
Englander from the Old Englandcr.
. One 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
the leaders were Andrew Browne.
Colonel Barrett and John Stark. the
first named Of whom was Irish born,
the others, the sons Of Irish parents.
Why In not Massachusetts wise
enough to take leaf out Of the book
Of New York's splendid craftsmanship
The latter state has no aliens" She
welcomed the Irish immigrants brains
play, clothed herself with glory. New
York is pre- -emincntly the city Of jur-
lists Of Irish blood. Charles O,Connor
overthrew the Tweed ring. While two
OF the nine Justices of the supreme
court of the United States, Edward D.
White and Joseph Mckenna, are OF
Irish descent; in New York, we find
five justices Of unusual prominence in
state and city-Martin j. Keogh, Nor
gan J. OBrien, James Fitzgerald, Geo.
c. Barrett, Victor J. bowling and Peter
A.. Hendrick, brother of the Rt. Rev.
Thomas A. Hendrick. ID, first Amer
lean bishop Of Cebu, P.I. -"
Thomas F. Ryan, of New York, one
Of the great financial statesmen Of the
is Of Irish descent; Alexander f. Orr,
world, of the New York Life Insurance
company, is Of Irish birth; and Of the
same line are Thomas F. Mulry, presi-
dent Of the Emigrant Irish Industrial
Savings bank; Miles NJ. O'Brien, vice
president of the Mercantile National
bank and Samuel g. Bayne. who has