AN GAOḊAL.
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A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation.
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Seventh Year of Publication.
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VOL 6, No. 9. APRIL, 1888
Knownothingism!
Mayor Hewitt's bigotted action has
done the Irish element in this country
a real service by raising the question
"Who are the American People?"
The Italians dicovered this country
and gave it its name, and the Irish
fought for and won its freedom, so that
the claim that this is an Anglo-Saxon
Republic is a myth — It is a Celtic Re¬
public, by virtue of discovery, of giv¬
ing it freedom, and of number. The
action of the N. Y. Aldermen ought
to be a lesson to the Hewitts, who con¬
stitute, perhaps, four per cent of our
population.
Here is a little bit of history, taken
from the Register of the House of Com¬
mons, England, which tells who are
the real Americans, but which our pro
English writers dare not, for obvious
reasons, put in our school histories. —
On the breaking of the War of In¬
dependence the population of the States
was three millions and a half. On the
conclusion of the War the English Par¬
liament appointed a committee to in¬
quire into the cause of the war, and
those who took part in it. In answer
to questions by that committee Maj¬
or-Gen. Robinson said he had been told
by Gen. Lee that one-half of the Reb¬
els [the American Patriots] were Irish.
Mr. Galloway, Speaker of the House
of Assembly Pa. stated, "Less than one-
fourth of the 'Rebels' were native born,
one-half were Irish, and the other
fourth was composed of French, Eng¬
lish, Scotch, Canadians and other na¬
tionalities."
Here, then, is the record of the Eng¬
lish House of Commons of the time,
and which no lying scribbler can dis¬
tort, telling who are the American
People !
When the Irish composed one-half
of the "rebels" that element must have
been, at least, one-third of the popula¬
tion. The English and their Tory al¬
lies being whipt, they ceased to immi¬
grate to this country, preferring Can¬
da and Australia; the Irish continued
to flock to the States in droves, and con¬
sidering their fecundity and the ster¬
ility (through causes which need not
be mentioned here) of the "Yank," is
there room for doubt that the Irish el¬
ement does not embrace fully one-half
of our population to-day?
The English element did not want to
rebel against "Mother Country" but
thought by brag and bluster to get some
needed concessions. It was Captain
O'Sullivan, a Cork man, who, with his
fifty brave Irishmen, commenced the
Revolution and forced some English in¬
to it against their will. This their own
records of that time show and we will
not now permit them to distort or
change them.
The English interest keeps these
facts out of our school histories, but e¬
very Irish-American parent should see
that his children should know them.
The handful of pro-English in the
country have ruled the millions for
years because they hold the key of the
machine, just the same as our city and
state politics are run by a comparativ¬
ely few bosses. Holding the machine
they control the finances of the coun¬
try and subsidize the public press in
the interest of that machine.
Mayor Hewitt has not the intelli-
