AN GAODHAL.
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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." — ARCH¬
BISHOP TRENCH.
"The Green Isle contained for more centuries than one.
more learning than could have been collected from the rest
of Europe ... It is not thus rash to say that the Irish
possess contemporary histories of their country, written in
the language of the people, from the fifth century. No
other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar
boast." — SPALDING's ENGLISH LITERATURE, APPLETON & Co.,
NEW YORK.
Who are the Scotch ? A tribe of Irish Scots who crossed
over in the 6th century, overcame the natives, and gave
their name to the country. — J. CORNWELL, PH.D., F. R. S.'s
Scotch History.
The Saxons Ruled in England from the 5th century and
were so rude that they had no written language until the
14th, when the Franco-Normans formulated the English. —
SPALDING.
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Probably there is no other people in the world to-
day whose literary education is so perverted as that
of the Irish. Irishmen and Irish-Americans of tol¬
erably good English education have not the slight¬
est idea that the excerpts over the harp on this page
are facts. On the contrary, they doubt their gen¬
uineness though we have given the authors, and
where the works can be had. Hence our crop of
Murphies who degrade and disgrace the Irish name,
and who will continue to degrade and to disgrace it
until they are properly instructed in their rights.
Had the antecedents of the defamers of the Irish
people been placed before the populace they would
very soon bide themseles from the public view. We
make no war on Eglishmen or "Scotch Irish",
but when, in their ignorance (if it be ignorance, or,
political bluster, or enmity) they make war on us,
then we strike back by simply reminding them of
who and what they are, and who and what we are,
as told by their own historians.
Irish Americans are the greatest goms in the
world to day to allow themselves to be reviled by
their nondescript enemies when they have only to
circulate and point to the above extracts (and their
language and literature) to silence them for ever.
Gaels, do you circulate these extracts and poin
out your language and literature to the doubting
Thomases, and then the number of the vilifiers of
your race will become less, and your Murphies will
vanish.
In this city there is a well-to-do family from the
suburbs of Belfast who pose as "Scotch-Irish." The
female head of the family was so overbearing that
her "common Irish" neighbors could not stand her.
But, in course of time, they got hold of her youthful
history, and, on the first opportunity thereafter, a
sturdy Mayo woman, whom she attacked, smilingly
asked her, "Musha Mrs — what about Mr. So
and So"? The virago shut up as if struck by light¬
ning, and in a few days moved to another part of
the city. What is the moral of this — and we add¬
ress ourselves to all Irishmen? It is that they can
effectually shut up the vilifiers of their nation by
showing up what they are. They have the proof
plainly in the extracts from Spalding, etc., with the
language as positive evidence : circulate it! Mrs.
"Scotch-Irish" no doubt will continue her course in
her new quarters; but let you act the part of the
plucky Mayo woman, and have her character all
over by scattering the Gael everywhere.
THE HERALD'S BLACKGUARDISM
Of all the caricatures which have
come to our notice for some time, that
on Mr Ed Murphy, the junior United
States Senator from N Y, in the New
York Herald of Jan. 22nd, is the most
villainous, for it is leveled not at Ed
Murphy but at the element of which
he forms a part.
In enumerating the former senators
from this state, excepting the late sen¬
ator Kernan and a few others, the He¬
rald blackguard represents Ed. Murphy
jr of Troy underneath them (the head
being represented by a large potato) as
"Our New Senator!"
The senators enumerated are, Mor¬
ris, Van Buren, Marcy, Fish, Fenton,
Seward, Clinton, King. Dix, Conklin,
and Ewarts. — We challenge the moral
assassin of the Herald to point out
one in the above list who is the supe¬
rior of Ed Murphy in social National
antecedents, and he will find the pedi¬
gree of all of them on the preceding
column, furnished by their own bigot¬
ed, anti-Irish historians William Spal¬
ding, A M., Prof. of Logic, Rhetoric &
Metaphysics in the University of Saint
Andrews, Scotland, in his English Li¬
terature, published by D. Appleton &
Co. 346-8 Broadway, New York, 1856;
and Dr. James Cornwell, F.R.G.S., in
