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A nation which allows her language to go to
ruin, is parting with the best half of her intellectual
independence, and testifies to her willingness to cease
to exist." — ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.
"The Green Isle contained, for more centuries
than one, more learning than could have been col¬
lected from the rest of Europe. * * * It is not
thus rash to say that the Irish possess contempo¬
rary histories of their country, written in the lang¬
uage of the people, from the fifth century. No oth¬
er nation of modern Europe is able to make a sim¬
ilar boast" — SPALDING's ENGLISH LITERATURE,
APPLETON & Co., N Y.
Who are the Scotch ? A tribe of Irish Scots who
crossed over in the 6th century, overcome the na¬
tives, and gave their name to the country — J CORN¬
WELL, PH, D, F. R. G. S’s Scotch History.
The Saxons Ruled in England from the 5th cen¬
tury and were so rude that they had no written lan¬
guage until the 14th, when the Franco-Normans
formulated the English. — Spalding.
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In calling the readers attention to the Rev. Dr.
MacNish's paper in another part of THE GAEL we
would, also, in passant, invite him to cast his eye
on those excerpts over the harp where we note
who and what our social enemies of to-day are, as
told by their own historians.
We regret our brethren of Scotland would ally
themselves with so inferior a race as (history tells
us) the Saxon is, or seek to cut loose from and de¬
ny their parentage in the face of inconvertible e¬
vidence of such parentage. Why this unfilial beha¬
vior of the descendants of our children who ran a
cross "The Stream" with Columbcille in the 6th
century ! Ah, because kneeling at a different altar
the significance of which is as far from their
comprehension as the movements of the heavenly
bodies.
Scots of "Alabain," blood is thicker than water,
we appeal to you to not permit the altar at which
you kneel to "estreat" you from your lineage, and
in an especial manner do we appeal to such learned,
liberal, and proud of their inheritance. Scots as the
Rev. Dr. MacNish to further the cause of Gaelic u¬
nification.
We would direct attention to the very interest¬
ing Gaelic matter of this issue supplied by Messrs.
O'Leary, Lally, Doherty, the Gabhar Donn, Prof.
MacGeoghegan, Rev. Father Murphy, etc.
A WORD TO GAELS.
We consider it due to the supporters
of THE GAEL to explain to them why
it comes out irregular at times, because
of the impression which such irregula¬
rity might make on the minds of the
uninitiated; and in doing this we go
back to first principles having nothing
to conceal, no personal interest to sub¬
serve
As is well known, twelve years ago
the Brooklyn Philo-Celtic Society foun¬
ded the Gael for the purpose of report¬
ing its proceedings and of bringing the
Gaelic movement generally before the
Irish-American public. Its size then
was eight pages and its price was $1 a
year. Copies of the first issue were
sent to patriotic Irishmen all over and
about eighty of them sent their dollar
as their yearly subscription to it. But
after the third issue it was in debt to
the printer, and the members of the
Society determined to abandon it. Be¬
ing the organizer of the movement and
our name being before the public as its
editor, and the Society having received
the subscriptions above noted, we rep¬
resented to them the discredit their ac¬
tions would bring to the Gaelic move¬
ment, and particularly on themselves
who had received money, as it were,
under false pretenses. But it was all
to no purpose
Personal pride and the honor of the
Gaelic movement prompted us to con¬
tinue the Gael or refund the subscrip¬
tions paid on its account ; but to con¬
tinue it and to have to pay the printer
was out of the question. In this strait,
we concluded to try our hand at print¬
ing and got a copy of Watson's Ama¬
teur Printer. After a few days we felt
satisfied of our triumph, and that the
