The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-09
An Editorial, An 0utburst and Twilight
FACTS VERSUS FANCIFUL CLAIMS


is merely a meter of elementary his
tory that any school child should
know.
We note the percentages in Father
Dolphin's communication with much
interest ard can't help but be very
much amused at the wild claims made
by the Romanists. The frantic efforts
of Romanists to force themselves to
the front as the greatest Americans,
is so ridiculous as to be comical.
Permit me to present few facts
as eye-openers:
The exploits of the so-called "Irish
Brigade" at the battle of Fredericks-
burg have been glorified ad nausem,
but always with Meagher, the COM
mander the central. figure. The
facts in the case are these: the five
regiments composing the Irish Bri-
gade lost in all at that battle, 545
men, while five American regiments
(145th Penn, 34th Penn, 5th N. H.,
18th Penn and 18th N. H., lost 944
men-including in both cases killed,
wounded and missing; and yet we are
constantly told that the Irish regi-
ments Especially the 69th N. W
were "swept out of EXISTENCE" but
the fact is, the Goth N. Y. lost but
10 killed, 95 wounded and % missing
-12S in all; while the 145th Penn.
lost 229 men, the 18th N. H. 1876, and
the 9Th N. H. 193-these latter being
purely American (not Irish) regi-
ments. But they never boast of their
exploits.
Due to the influence of Roman Bish-
ops, Ireland REFUSED TO BE
DRAFTED AGAINST ROMAN
CATHOLIC AUSTRIA, and the al
lies had trouble throughout the en-
tire conflict from Irish Catholic spies
who were working against righteous
ness and FOR the pope and the
kaiser.
The who'd world knows that France
had been waiting for years for the
chance of getting a whack at Ger
many, end neither did she wait and
follow England, but she took the lead
and said she would go it alone if nee
essary. Belgium, moreover, did not
JOIN with England UNTIL the Ger
man armies had ruthlessly trespased
upon her territory and mistreated
and massacred her citizens. England
and its influence had nothing to do
with Belgium's entrance into the war
it was a case of self-defense.
Rome made a lot of the alleged
statements by Secretary DENLY, that
the Romanists furnished As per cent
Of the marines. Even if this is true,
which we seriously doubt, what did
it amount to? They knew we'll that
the navy would have but little to do
with land fighting and that the Great
War would be mostly a land affair.
True to their training and senti-
ments, they managed to get where
they were least likely to lose their
lives, but it must be remembered that
these Roman Catholics WE'RE
DRAFTED. Few of them, compare
lively, enlisted voluntarily. Like
their brothers in Cork and Dublin,
they hated Professionalism and went
only as far as they had to go.
Now the simple facts are that our
Irish-American patriots of the Rev.
olution were almost to a man Protes-
tants. The immigration of Irish Ro-
man Catholics here did not begin till
long after vast numbers of Irishmen
did noble service on our frontiers in
the French and Indian and Revolu-
tionary Wars. But they were all
Presbyterians of the most rigid sort.
Many Irish names appear on the pa
triot rolls of New Hampshier. They
too, were all Presbyterians. They
were the so-called Scotch-Irish. Of
that stock came out honored fellow
citizens, the McGregors, the Bells,
the Morrisons, etc. A large number
of Presbyterians in the North of Ire
lanr, wishing to be free of English
monarchial and ecclesiastical rule, had
sent an agent here in 1928, to Shute,
then the royal governor of Massachu-
sets, in order to obtain grants of land
on which they might settle. The ar
rangement was perfected the next
year by the occupation by them of
Londonderry, N. H. They were the
beginning of strong accession from
that grand Celtic stock. John Sulli-
van, of Berwick, Me-, the founder Of
that patriotic family here, was, to Be
sure of a Roman Catholic family Of
the south of Ireland. He landed at
York, Me-, in 1928, and was befriend-
ed in his poverty Che was a school
teacher), by the famous Parson
Moody. AS he did not attend the ser
vices at the meeting house, it was in
ferred that he kept to his ancestral
faith. But his family tradition is that