The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-10-26
SENATOR WILLIAMS
ATTACKS THE IRISH

He IeteHI SpttIH VI OclldlOA JOiiii
Sharp Williams of Mississippi in
which he turned loose his batteries
of comment and criticism upon the
Irish race has aroused general de-
sire ON the part of many readers of
The Commercial Appeal to see more
than the brief synopsis carried by the
Associated Press. 1t is with the pur-
pose of gratifying the demand of the
papers subscribers that the Missis-
sippi senator's full remarks are here
4 with published. They are reprinted
from the Boston Transcript.
Senator Williams attacked the Irish
in general and Americans of Irish
extraction in particular, alleges the
Transcript, saying that he was sick
and tired of the pretence that the
Irish had accomplished whatever good
works have been accomplished in this
world. They asserted they had wor
our Revolutionary War and defeated
the south in the Civil War. 1t was
not true, he said, but was "a part OF
the braggart nature of thhe Irish"
Senator Hitchcock, the Democratic
leader, walked over to the Repu1llcar
side where Mr.. Williams has Of late
had a habit of taking his stand If
speaking, ard sat down beside tho
NJ Lropo finn tn tlDl(
when there was pauses in the oratory
Mr.. Hitchcock whispered appeals t.
the speaker to desist, but without ct
feet. Finally he gave up in despair ant
retired to the cloakroom, Mr.. William
said;
snow | come from the South ant
to the resolution by the United Con
federate Veterans. | cannot pay tri
butte to the United Confederate Vet
Grams. ! am unworthy to pay tribute
to them. The few yet alive, without
pensions or support from a ybody
in the world, comprehend the best par'
of all humanity in all the world. They
are the purest and noblest ard great
est America Mas furnished. ! do moi
mean any reflection on anybody else |
| mean / know those old fellows ev-
cry time | meet them, and do know
that they represent the highest antJ
Hottest and most altruistic opinion
of America. They have met AMI
adopted IN behalf of the treaty OF
peace the resolution | send to the
desk and ask to have inserted in thu
Record.
"The United Confederate Veterans
know something about war, its hor-
rors and conqcsts. There YVES moth
ing in all history that compared to
them in their hour of surrender and
self surrender which came. later.
"If they had been lrishmcn II
southern Ireland fighting for some
thing unobtainabe, they weld have
left tho history of tho United StateJ
a different page; but they had COM
mon sense enough to know when they
had to quit They also had common
sense and altruistic sense to know
not when they had to quit but wher
they wanted to cult.
An AllusiOn 70 Gen. Lee
"Robert E. Lee never advocated
leading a force shooting behind trees
at the Yankee army. When he sur
rendered his armed forces in the fiel {
he surrendered them and came bach
into the American Union as well as
he could, reconciled to the situation
These Irihmen might learn lesso
from us. We are nearly all glad to
day that there are no custom houses
along the Ohio or Potomac to divide
the American people.
at has not been many days age
since | heard on this floor pretenst
that more than so per cent of thu
American revolutionary troops wer'
Irish when we gained our independ
ence. Only four per cent of the pop
ulation of the United States at thai
time was Irish and two-thirds of tha'
four per cent were Scotch-Irish and
English-Irish from Ulster; and dur
ing the American revolution Whenever
a man raised his cup of beer in Ulster
he drank to the memory of William
of Orange and to the liberties of The
American colonies.
81 also find out from a little inves
tigation that the British troops which
took the works at Bunker Hill against
us and made a defeat out of thinc
we have celebrated as a victory were
a British command denominated "The
Roval Irish" They went over our
works at the last minute and took
them from US. also find that ir0
South Carolina and Virginia during
the revolution the. chief forces com
manded by Carleton and many Other
British commanders were Irishmen