Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-11-25

lhngs About tho Southern irish = = &
We have been told ad nausaam That H.. sagts.r.
States, especially chiyaous old Kentucky f,r,o,. e.
its beautiful women and it's fighting coona.s l. sir
pure Anglo-SaEon, that the purest English blood Il r.
world flows IN the veins Of the Southland But Irwin 6
Cobb effectively punctmes this mymth in fine c,1,nt
number OF columbia and shows that not only are
Kentucky and other States not Ango-Saxon but thar t
Of inc famous men of the South and all OF it's cbvary
romance poetry, pugnacy and prowcss is due ia Irish
blood which courses abur1antly in its veins cr4ai
KIND OF history has been written for Americans b 4r
New England school of historians in which as was natural
the English strain in America has been oIorfod ol,,
an others Now the English strain has contributed MN,
that Is fine to the making Of America but it is mis-
take to assume that it has contributed everything The
IRISH and the Scotch have had large part in tho maxine
OF these United States and just what their contribution
mas oeeh to our history and institutions to our mentality
and ideas, will soon be revealed when a now and tr
history shall have been written by the scholarly mon %
are engaged IN rewriting the annals of America There
are many IN America today who are Irish and do mot
know it, so seduousy have the deeds of hisbmen been
elhef ignored or appropriated by AngloSaxor writer's
and SO far have the descendants of many Of tbo Trb
pioneers strayed from the traditions of their origin Cbb
himself IS case in point He says Il am one who i
lrsh and didn't know it, but row that do know it, I an,
P'"'Ni " tldl ldtl IndI OF other thing
cept that | am American citizen"
What he has discovered in his own case Iusfrato +t
case Of thousands and his revelations are interesting
He says in part:
Irish and Scotch
wy mother was Of the strain the breed of Black
Douglas Of Scotland, Scotch as haggs and rebels an
OF them descendants Of who followed the fortunes
o. BONNIE Prince Charles, and her mother lived in con-
y IA NORM carolina, one Of five countless where up >to
l0-0 O2ehc was not only the language Of the people in
the street. but was the official language of the courts If
was in that selfsame part of North Carcin. +bt tI
LNed some OF the men who nearly year before onr
Declaration Of independence was drawn IN wrote and
signed the Meclenburg Declaration which was tbo fire+
battle cry raised for American independence On the
other side i found by INVESTIGATION that nv, f,+br,
me ran back straight and nbroken to hatcbed coaa
on Jhe green side of hill in the Wicklow Mountains and
ms people likewise had some kinsmen in Galway and
some IN Dublin with whom following the quaint custom,
OF their land they accustomed to take tea and fght
atteward found had a collateral ancestor who was
out with the pixies in 98 and he was taken prisfna and
tfed TOR high crimes and misdemaanors against fbe
brush government and sentenced to be hanged bv
me neck until he dead and might God have mercy IN
his soul And he hanged by the neck until he was dead
and am sure God did have mercy on his soul for that n
OF ms went marching on transmitting to his people Of
whom am proud to be one the desire TO rebel against III
preston and tyranny had three great-grandfatbers.
two OF them Irish and one Of them Scotch who were Rev
outonary soldiers, and had a father who was Con
ledefate soldier And Of these facts too am quite proud
Tor find that my strain being Irish is always intent
either on trying to run the government or trying to pull
it down
The Kentucky Mountains
The State of Kentucky from which l hail has been
called the cradle of the Anglo-Saxoon race in America
and has been said that the mounaneers of that State
with their euds ard their Elizabehan Chauceran meth
DDS of speech represent the purest strains of English
blood to be found today this continent Now then let
US if that true have looked into that matter and
find that fifty per cent at least of the jewellers of the
mountains of the South and notably of Kentucky and Vr
gina, the linea descendants of runaway indentre
men, Irish rebels mainly from the Virginia plantations
know mountain county in Kentucky Of which half Of
the population bear Of three names They are either
Mayos or Patrcks, Powers And | once heard an
orator stand up before audience Of those Mayos and
Powers and Patrcks and congratulate them on their pure
English decent and they believed it.
Pardon me for referring to nv line of an
cestry for is testimony prove my claim On my faith
ers side am descended from group of men who went
from New England to Kentucky and the names of these
men were Lyon and Cobb, which is Danish corruption
OF oConnor, and Macker and Cendennnin and OHara |
and Glenn, which is corruption of Glynn What hot
bunch of Ango-Saxons
Daniel Boone An Irishman
what is true of my section Of Kentucky is true
OF the rest of the States Daniel Boone has been called the
rst explorer of Kentucky and has been said he was of
English descent Both of these statements are wrong
Daniel Boone not the first explorer of Kentucky The