The Irish standard., 1910-11-19
|RELAND'S HISTORY
IN THIS REPUBLIC
1t is to the Sons and Grandsons of
the Survivors of the Dreadful
Famine and
To Men Of Later Days Who Were
Forced to Emigrate Through
a Policy Applauded
BY British Statesmen of the Coffin
Ship" Era, That lreland's En-
voys Now Appeal to.

During the seven months OF the
year (1861) eighty Thousand, chiefly
young men and women, have left Ire
land, most of them forever. They
have gone OFF with money in their
pockets, and with strong limbs and
stout hearts. They have left behind
the aged, the weak and the ailing.
If this goes on long, Ireland
will become very English, and the
United States very Irish. When an
English agriculturist takes farm in
Galway or Kerry, he will take Eng
lish laborers with him. In
short time a Catholic Cslt will be as
rare in Ireland az a Red Indian on
the shores of the Manhattan.
The Celt goes to yield to the Saxon.
This island of one hundred and sixty
harbors, with it's fertile soil, with
noble rivers and beautiful lakes, with
fertile mines and riches of every
kind, is being quietly cleared for the
interests and the luxury Of humanity"
London Times.
Thus the English leading journal"
to which Richard Pigott and others
contributed afterwards, spoke the
thoughts Of the English ruling classes
during the terrible years for Ireland
when the foundations of Ireland's pow
er in the Great Republic of the West
were being laid upon the agony of a
nation seemingly doomed to irretriev
able destruction in the land which had
been held by their sires since the far
off ages before Moses led the children
of Israel across the Red Sea, says the
Belfast Irish Weekly.
The "Times" rejoiced with the un
holy Joy of a ghoul gorging its infer
nal appetite. And the leading jour
nails" yelps Of fendish exultation were
echoed by the lesser organs favored
, by British statesmen fifty years ago.
/ Quoth the Saturday Review" Nov.
20. 1859:
"The Lion Of st. Jarlath's (Arch-
bishop John McHa1e) has growled in
grievous dungeon that bucolic tastes
are prevailing in Ireland.
He sighs over the departing demons
! of assassination and murder. I"
Ireland, he says, is relapsing into q
desert, tenanted by lowing herds in
stead of bowling assassins.
+, Ireland is boiling over, and the scum
flows across the Atlantic. 1t
can be spared"
During those years evictions were
! numbered by scores of thousands. OF
set purpose--and with full sympathy
of British rulers and the active CO.
operation Of Britain's armed forces
the landlords of Ireland attempted the
wholesale determination Of the Irish
race; and the organs of English pub
lie opinion sloried in the policy and
sang paeans of delight over the de-
struction Of the people. Between 1849
and 1880 at least 1861 900 Irish mon
| and women were driven across the
Atlantic. From 1861 until 1870 the
emigrants numbered at least $4,000.
And here Is a picture of the circum.
stances under which these victims OF
British craftsmanship and landlord
rapacity left the fertile land Of their
, fathers:
Crowded and filthy, carrying dou'
BILE the legal number OF passengers,
who were ill-fed and imperfectly
clothed. and, having no doctor on
board, the holds were like the Black
Hole of Calcutta, and deaths occurred
in myriads. - The Chief Sec
retary for Ireland was able to inform
tho House Of Commons that Of hun
dred thousand 1rishmen who ded te
Canada, 6,1oo perished on the voyage
400 on their arrival, and 1900 in the
towns to which they repaired. From
Crosse Island up to Port SarmA, along
the banks Of our great river, on tbs
; shores Of Lake Ontario and Erie
wherever the tide Of emigration ha,
extended, are to be found one unbrok
en- chain of graves where repose faith
err and mothers, sisters and brother