It is worth noting that, if the Irish are conspicuous by their absence from the last named, they are gloriously prominent in the first. The race which has given to America, Crawford, Milmore, Kelly, St. Gaudens, Thompson, Hennessey, O’Donovan and as many more, has contributed at least its share to the glory of the country in that department.
The corrected figures, not according to Mr. Lodge, but according to the authority from which Mr. Lodge professed to have taken his own are, therefore, as follows. We give first the summary of the Lodge tables and then that of Appleton’s cyclopedia. They speak for themselves:
| According to Mr. Lodge. | According to his authority. | |
|---|---|---|
| Statesmen | 22 | 67 |
| Soldiers | 37 | 107 |
| Clergy | 113 | 140 |
| Lawyers | 18 | 59 |
| Physicians | 4 | 16 |
| Literature | 39 | 70 |
| Art | 19 | 19 |
| Science | 9 | 9 |
| Educators | 7 | 14 |
| Navy | 8 | 19 |
| Business | 11 | 35 |
| Philanthropy | 8 | 12 |
| Pioneers and Explorers | 3 | 5 |
| Inventors | 0 | 3 |
| Engineers | 3 | 4 |
| Architects | 0 | 0 |
| Musicians | 1 | 2 |
| Actors | 7 | 18 |
| 309 | 599 |
The true figures are almost twice as large as those of Mr. Lodge, and are far from representing the great total of Irish ability contributed to the United States, but not acknowledged in the cyclopedia.
Mr. Lodge must plead guilty to one of two charges. Either he has deliberately misrepresented the facts, or he is so careless or incompetent that he can neither count nor quote within 50 per cent of the truth.
EMIGRATION FROM NEW ENGLAND TO IRELAND.
From Prendergast’s Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland.
Prendergast’s Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland says: “Ireland was now like an empty hive, prepared to receive its new swarm. One of the earliest efforts of the government towards replanting the parts reserved to themselves was to turn towards the lately expatriated English in America. In the early part of the year 1651, when the country, by their own description to the Council of State, was a scene of unparalleled waste and ruin, the Commissioners for Ireland affectionately urged Mr. Harrison, then a minister of the Gospel in New England, to come over to Ireland, which he would find experimentally was a comfortable seed plot (so they said) for his labours.
“On his return to New England, it was hoped he might encourage those whose hearts the Lord should stir up to look back again towards their native country, to return and plant in Ireland. There they should have freedom of worship, and the (mundane) advantages of convenient lands, fit for husbandry, in healthful air, near to maritime towns or secure places, with such encouragement from the state as should demonstrate that it was their chief care to plant Ireland with a godly seed and generation.
“Mr. Harrison was unable to come; but some movement appears to have been made towards a plantation from America, as proposals were received in January, 1655, for the planting of the town of Sligo and lands thereabouts, with families from New England; and lands on the Mile line, together with the two little islands called Oyster Island and Coney Island (containing 200 acres), were leased for one year, from 10th of April, 1655, for the use of such English families as should come from New England in America, in order to their transplantation.