AN GAODHAL.
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Being reluctantly compelled, until my next, to
forego my promised prophetic explications, on ac¬
count of the paramount importance of the Irish
question which, in my mind, takes precedence of
all others, as being pregnant with the very essence
of true faith and prophecy.
In conclusion, believe me most patriotically,
Yours,
GAEL GLAS.
GUITH NA n-ÉIREANNACH
The Voice of the Irish.
(By GAEL GLAS)
Most reverentially, earnestly, and hopefully add¬
ressed to the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIII. : be¬
seeching His Holiness to loose the guardian angels
of the four provinces of Ireland.
"And I heard a voice from the four horns of the gol¬
den altar, which is before the eyes of God, saying to
the sixth angel who had the trumpet. Loose the
four angels, who are bound in the great river Eu¬
phrates. And the four angels were loosed." (Apoc.
9th. cap.
Oh! give us back our ancient home,
Thou Vicar of the Son divine:
The binding might, in heaven's dome,
And loosing power on earth are thine:
The green Niobe writes enthrall,
By Peter's chains in bondage bound
And drenched with persecuting gall,
Her only balm with thee is found.
From Josua, God's prophet high,
A treaty was obtained by fraud ;
But broken this, five cent'ries nigh
See how gaunt famine stalked abroad;
And so the Norman Gabaonite
Deceived an unsuspecting pope —
Hence Erin cursed with every blight,
Now in great Leo puts her hope.
Blest Samuel, in the olden law.
In Saul and David kingdom founds ;
And princely Jehu, also saw
That grace in sacred oil abounds :
Oh! Holy Pontiff hear our cries,
And vest our isle with sovereign right;
So that when war's red lightning flies
The Lord may not against us fight.
When Gedeon's men lapped of the fount,
To the smaller force did vict'ry cling;
And Moses brought from Horeb's mount
The rod that scourged the tyrant king.
Though we are weak our faith is strong —
For Rome we've shed a tide of blood;
And through temptation, dire and long,
We've kept our heads above the flood.
The keepers of God's vineyard, fair,
In our lov'd ise of old renown,
Though instant in religion's care
Have let its fences tumble down —
That Gaelic, long has fenced our creed,
Is now no mystery, occult,
Without thine aid its doom ’s decreed,
And much damnation will result.
Then loose our guardian angels, four,
In London's great Euphrates bound;
For provinces they stood before
The bulls our freedom did confound;
And these, prepared when ninety opes,
Both Goats and Infidels will smite —
Next realize prophetic hopes,
And fill the world with Gospel light!
MEN of IRISH BLOOD and DESCENT
in the States of Georgia and S. Carolina,
(Second Letter — continued from page 488.)
I conversed with this numerous family, and, a¬
mong other things, I learned that their forefathers
came from the northwestern part of Ireland. One
of these could trace up his great grandfathers who
came to the colony of Maryland with Lord Balti¬
more in the early part of the 17th Century, and he
told me, too, that he knew that Harppy was not
their real name but Hart. Thus, as Maryland was
settled by English and Irish Catholics it sent out
settlers from time to time to other English colonies
Perhaps the ancestors of those people came from
Maryland to S. Carolina and from there to Geor¬
gia. In Georgia and S. Carolina and also in the
State of Maryland are numerous families of the
Rabbits, Galloways, Kelly, Flemings, McMasters,
Butlers, Patricks (formerly, Fitzpatrick). Again,
in Georgia, S. Carolina as well as my own native
State of Maryland, are three more great families
of Irish blood, namely: the Roberts, Jones and
Gollmans (anciently O'Gallman). Then there are
in Middle Georgia and in Savannah as well as in
Union and Newberry Counties. S: Carolina, num¬
erous families of the name of Casey (anciently O'¬
Casey), and Braddon: Hon. John Braddon of Fair¬
field Co. S. Carolina, is a worthy representative of
this family. He was a general in the Confeder¬
ate army under General Wood Hampton of South
Carolina, Then are scattered over Middle and Up¬
per S. Carolina, in Livingston, Fairfield, Cheste¬
field, Union, Greenville and York Counties South
Carolina, the numerous family of the Rowls, and
other numerous families of the Rogers, Colemans,
and Oberrys. These three families are certainly
of Anglo-Irish blood. In Middle Georgia and in
Savannah also are many families named Thomp¬
son, also Parsons scattered throughout S. Carolina
Georgia and Maryland. We have got numerous
families of the Thompsons also, in Baltimore City
Howard and Washington counties, Md. As for
the family of Harvey, they are to be found nearly
in every city and county in Maryland. Then the
Stranahans of both Georgia and S. Carolina. The
Fadins, the Coles, the Carthys, the Boyles, Ham¬
lins, Griffins, Hackets, and quite a host of other
Irish family names which I am compelled to
lay over until my next letter. This shows plainly
that it is Ireland and not England ought to have
the title of "Mother country" of the United States
of America. (The presumption of the Holy
Street Tailors runs in the blood of Yanks this side
of the water — Ed. G.) I am not saying too much
nor expatiating in the least by saying that fully
two-thirds of the white people in South Carolina
and Georgia are of pure Irish or Celtic blood.
Now how much the Church has lost in the exile
and banishment of the Catholics of Ireland from
