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DKUVRRRD AT THE

iinntr of t|f ^i f atrjcli's ^Dcieti),

On the 17th of March, I860,

I\ RESPONSE TO THE SENTIMENT OF

" THE IRISH RACE AT HOME AND ABROAD,"

BY WILLIAM HAT. LEY.

PUBLISHED AT THK REQUFST OF A NUMBRll OF KKIKN'DS.

Mr. President and Gentlemen : —

I rise to give a willing, but I fear a feoble and unequal response
to the sentiment juat announced in order from the chair. Several
national and patriotic toasts have been already proposed, and ably
responded to, and, no doubt, others will follow ; but I cannot think
any of them so much calculated to strike home to the seat of our
national affections, our patriotism, and our pride, as this.

Love of country, love of the scenes of childhood, love of the soil
from which we spring, is strong and enduring ; but love of kind,
love of blood and brotherhood, is, if possible, more potent and imper-
ishable. This love at once invokes history and tradition, penetrates
the misty realms of the past, chasing back enquiry to aboriginal con-
ditions, migrating fortunes and primitive alliances. It also follows
up and watches through the culminating and spreading epochs of a

people, marks tlxir varying movements, and anticipates their destiny.
Of no race, perhaps, arc these remarks more true than of our own.

The nervous Greek, tlie plastic Italian, the philosophic German,
the vivacious Frenchman, and the ro.atter-of-fact Englishman, may
not greatly cherish this pride of race, this ancestral affection, this
blood relationship; but the Irishman, mercurial though be his nature,
entertains it as the noblest attribute of his national character.

The Athenian of to-day, it is said, knows little of, and perhaps
cares less for, the Solons and the Socrates, of the great old classic era
t)f his country ; but what modern Irishman, be his lot cast in Con-
naught or Canada, California or the African Cape, is not willing to
lay down his life for the preservation of the memory of Milesius
Ossian, St. Patrick, or Bria.i Boroihme ? It matters not to him
whether the religion of the hero or benefactor of his race be Catholic,
Protestant, or Pagan : his deep rooted love, veneration, and sense of
gratitude, equally exhibit the same ardour and passion.

Many and memorable :i' liu acts and actors forever embalmed
in the national memory by this grand and glorious sentiment of the
Celtic soul I I shall not now, however, dwell on the inspirin"
theme — this ever-active feeling of a people who have now no distinct
national, legislative existence — this people of ours which cuts no in-
dependent figure of its own in the affairs of the world ; and which
achieves no glory but for the benefit of others ; yet achieves it every-
where, either in individualities, or in groups ; and sometimes, too, in
very formidable masses.

For those individualities, groups and masses, I stand up here to-
night, surrounded by you, my fellow-countrymen of every creed, con-
viction, and perhaps, extreme, and ask what other race of men has
spread abroad and excelled them in doing the world's work whether
of the head or hand — what other race has supplied the Herculeses of
labor, and the "pine-benders" of civilization more than they ? I
think I can easily sustain the answer, should it be necessary, when I
say, none ! This may sound egotistical to some ; but so much is
continually said to our disparagement, to much injustice is done us
and we are so frequently robbed of our national rights, especially in
the matter of talent, that on St. Patrick's Day at least, we should

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lift our banner high up in the face of nations and exhibit our
strength (of course I mean morally), show our achievements, and
claim our conquests.

I do not think I can be wrong in saying we arc the most prolific,
spreading, sensitive, hard-working and unselfish people in the world.
Some say we are the most improvident, factious, non-progressive and
intemperate. It would be a rather tedious undertaking on such an
occasion elaborately to pioduce the proof and disproof of all these
assertions ; but a few facts may interest without tiring. With re-
gard to our distribution and numbers, I think I may well exclaim
with the poet —

" No pent iiji I'licii contracts imr powers,
Kiir the wliolo lMmiicllc.»a Unlvcrso is ours ; "

because the Irishman is almost everywhere to be found whore man
can inhabit, and so nmch suits himself to circumstances, that an en-
thusiastic orator, at a certain St. Patrick's Day celebration, allowed
himself to be carried so far a.s to declare, that " even among the
burning wilds of Africa, where the face of a white man never is
seen. Irishmen are to be found " ! The following humorous extract
illustrating this subject, I found several years ago in a United States'
paper :— " In the East and West Indies the Irish are numerous. In
Spain and Portugal, Irish merchants, their families and dependants,
have been long resident. Paddy has squatted down in Egypt, built
him thatched cabins around the catacombs — is at home with the
Turks !— and is as much in favor of seraglios as the Sultan, and
as firm a believer in that portion of the Koran which wsanctions a nml-
tiplicity of wives ! Then, sorely against their will, have the ' boys
from the shamrock shore ' been made to procreate on the Malthusian
principle, and add largely to the population of New South AVales and
Botany Bay ! Good christians, as they are, the Irish have pilgrim-
aged in respectable numbers to Jerusalem, and discovered that there
WiW better ' ating and drinking ' there than the Sasscnnchu allowed
them to have in ' the isle of their deepest devotion.' They have,
many of them, given young Jews to Jerusalem ! From this fact of
location, originated, no doubt, the phrase oft«n heard in the third
municipality, viz. — ' Creoles of Jerusalem.' The Irish are the Ish-

maelites of the earth — wanderers everywhere — discovered ' quite at
home ' under the burning sun of the tropics — happy in the frozen
regions of the globe, if, in the absence of the ladies, they have ' a
pipe, a friend, and a glass.' Where ia it the ' exiles ' have not
penetrated? Where arc they not discovered ? "

The better to form an idea of the locations and numbers of the
Irish race to-day, I have made the following estimate from the best
sources of which I have been able to avail myself : —

Irish in Ireland 6,500,000

Irish in England, Scotland and Wales,. .3,000,000
Their descendants 1,000,000

4,000,000

Irish and their descendants in France and Belgium 500,000

Italy, Spain and Portugal 200,000

Austria and the rest of Europe 200,000

Asiaand Africa 200 000

Irish in the United States 3,500,000

Their descendants 7,000,000

10,500,000

Irish in British America 1,000,000

Their descendants 1,000,000

2,006,000

Irish in Mexico, South and Central America, &c.,

and their descendants 200 000

Irish in Australia, with their descendants 500,000

On the seas and non-enumerated islands 200,000

Exhibiting a grand total of. 25,000,000

souls in the human census of the world ! I give these figures, of
course, simply for what they are worth, as an attempt to prove their
plausibility here would be unpardonable on my part. One thing I
may be allowed especially to mention is, that nothing more thorougbly
proves the fallacy of the very current idea that the colonies of Eng-
land, especially those of North America, and also the United States,
are, in their people, for the greater part, of the Anglo-Saxon race. In
order to be brief on this point, I will quote from the works of John

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Lambert, an Englishman, with regard to Canada, the following ex-
tract, taken from a ehaptcr on the census of 1808 :— " It in a re-
markable circumstance," says the writer, " that among all the BritiHh
residents in the two colonics, not two hundred Englishmen, perhaps,
can be found." That since the period mentioned, the principal emi-
gration has been from Ireland needs no demonstration. With re-
gard to the United States, the same remark holds good, althougli the
German immigration has been very great ; but the following figures,
taken from "Holmes' Annals of America," and showing the arrivals of
emigrants at the port of Philadelphia alone, so far back as the year
1729, go far to prove that the Irish element forms the largest share
in the basis of the present population of the neighbouring Republic
—English and Welsh, 267 ; Scotch, 43 ; Germans, 343 ; and Iri.«h,
5,655 ; or a proportion of ten Irish emigrants to one from all other
nations in Europe !* Mr. Lambert, from whose work I have quoted
regarding Canada, states that in 1801, the year of the union, 30,000
emigrants arrived from Ireland in the United States. Facts like
these enabled Mr. Robinson of New York, to make an estimate
of the descendants of Irish parents in the United States, to which
the figures I have given are an approximation. An attempt to prove
others of my assertions would be, I fear, too tedious, and I
shall, therefore, proceed to refute the charge of improvidence that i'
frequently urged against us.

Is it not a well-known fact that the bulk of investments of Savings
Banks, both in the United States tnd British Provinces, consists of
the savings of Irish laborers and servants ? Mr. CatermoJc, who
published a small work on Canada in England, many years ago,
stated, on the authority of the Quebec ,Star, that all the money de-
posited in the Savings Bank in that city, in 1831, estimated at
£10,000, consisted of the savings of Irish laborers and servants, many
of whom arrived penniless in the Province. The most astonishing
proof of providence in our people, coupled with family affection, is
that recently furnished by Dr. Cahill, in one of his letters from New
York, wherein he produces a statement of the value of drafts is-
sued in one office alone in New York each month, from the 1st Jan-

•See McGec's History of the Irish ScttlcrR in America.

uary, 1859, to the 7th December, in the same year, and which in the
nm>iU^ an.onnted to .£45,142. It must be borne in nnnd that
th.s statement inehulcd only the value of drafts issued by one of six
Hinular offices, showinj,^ that if this one office may be taken as an
average of the whole, the an.ount of money ren.itted by the Irish poor

1 fnn?-'"'' ^" ^'''''' ^'"''"^' '" ^'■'''^""'' ''"""" *''*^ y^^' 185'^ '»"«t
IJJ :L.70,8;)2 ! No argument could more stron-ly prove the cxtraor-

'I'nary love of kindred that existed in the Irish heart than this most
astonislnng fact. Cartha.,'e, it is .said, supported in her old aye her
""'Hi'^r Tyre. If the Irish are of Carthagenian oridn, as it is main-
tained by our best lustorians, the lesson has not been^ lost upon them
for here m America do they labor and save for the maintainance of
tlieir poor relations at home in tlie old mother land.

A great njany facts liave come to uiy mind which would assist me
m .llustrating this subject, but I know, considering the time at (mr
disposal, the recital of them would be unpardonable. I might show
what Irish genius and labor have done all over the world, and how
others, in many instances, luive been accredited with their accomplish-
ments. I will forbear dwelling on the present foremost figures of our
race, but will simply allude to some of the illustrious cotemporary
names inscribed on the scroll of fame. At home, in the three kingdoms
wo have MeClintock, the navigator, who has just received the honor
of knighthood ; Charles Kean, the first of living tragedians, and for
whom the lovers of the drama, both in England and Ireland, are now
engaged in raising a becoming testimonial ; Alfred Tonyson the
poet laureate ; Kane, the chemist ; Russell, the letter writer ; DoLaey
Jwans, the soldier of the Crimea, one of whose ancestors, General
DoLaey, conquered it long ago for the Czar; McClise, the painter-
Ualfe, the composer of thirty-two operas ; Foley, the sculptor; Lard-
ncr, the philosopher; Cahill, the orator, (now on a visit to
America) ; and, if I am not mistaken, Palmcrston, the Premier.
On the Continent we find an O'Donncl, prominent both in
Austria and Spain ; Count Nugent, the Nestor of the Austrian army,
a native Irishman ; with McxMahon and Neill, in Prance. The last
of the illustrious dead is Sir William Patrick Napier, the greatest
military historian of the day. Perhaps you have all read a tribute to

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e;rcu.nstance may not havobcforest . Ju^'' ^''''^- This

""« l^oard, and I beg to roLarrow ;i7. '''"^""*^""^° ^^«""J
things that the Irish popuTaZ .fTr n '' '" ^"^^'^'«"« ^^ate of
tolerate. I am not one of hn . ?'" ^'"'^" ^^'^"^^ "« longer
«J^ouH be united e::::!^^:^ ^^^*t^o Irish populati;:
consider «ueh a combination Lwb ?7''''' ^'"^"«« ^ ^o not
that I deplore their factJ le! til 7' ,"" •*"'*' ^* *^'« «-"« time
i-policylthinkanyauerpu ir t'"'"- ^^^^^ ^-"-ts
.-Practieable, beeause S i; n" ta! "t"'^"'" "^^"^'^ ^« "tterly
independence so much Zu'JV" ^^'^''^'^ ^^o values his
-ore tenacity, than the Ir h J " I?^'^^^ T P"^"*'^ ^^^^ -t^
element into one mass in th's "v I '' T'"^^*^ *^ ""'^"^ "^« I"«h
of Irish disunion. ButVh ^ Z'n'. 7 "" '"'^"^"'- ^'^^'^ -^

>-lt, is done us, as a ^elpt I th' ntTd" T""' "'^""^-^' ^^

P opie, 1 thmk a demand to repair the wrong

to which I iinudc must bo Hj>oc(lily heeded. There is not oven a
county to perpetuate the memory of the lute Colonel Talbot, the
jiiiiiicor of Lake Erie ! Then, let this not continue.

Mr. Prohtideiit, wliile I nay s^-) much of our own people, far be it
from me t<) offer any uncalled for diHi)aragement of any other. All
races and peopU; have their virtues and vices. We have all come to
thin country to make our livelihood and build up a new nation. We
Irish, have brought our labour and intellect ; the Engli.-^h have
brought their capital and experience ; the Scotch their thrift and
ptirscvcrance ; the Germans their industry and patience ; and
other nations in like manner have contributed their quota, all of
vshich added to the virtues of the old French stock that preceded
ihem, let it be liopi'd, will i^ventually harmonize in producing a
new nation in the north of the New World that in course of time will
rear, itself to a position of cmiii'nce and of glory. But let us, fellow-
countrymen, take care now, that in after generations when its history
C(»meH to be written, and its heroic ages described, that the Irish
clement of its jwpulation will "ic properly represented in the pages.