By John Francis Maguire, 1868
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Difference of the Position of the Irish in the Old Country and the New--Difference in the Countries--Power and Dignity of Labour--The Irish Element strong in Halifax--Their Progress--The Value of a 'Lot'--No Snobbishness--The Secret of Prosperity--The Poor's Asylum--Cause of Poverty--Catholic Church in Nova Scotia--'Sick Calls'--A Martyr to Duty--No State Church--Real Religious Equality--Its Advantages--Pictou--My Friend Peter--Peter shows me the Lions--At the Mines--Irish everywhere--A Family Party--Nova Scotia as a Home for Emigrants
CHAPTER II.
Prince Edward Island--How the Irish came--Visit to an Irish Settlement--Prosperity of the Irish--A Justice of the Peace--The Land Question--What the Tenant claims--The Tenant League and the Government--'Confiscation' profitable to the Government, and beneficial to the People--A Scotch Bishop's Testimony to the Irish--The Irish and their Pastors--The Sisters of Notre Dame--A graceful Gift
CHAPTER III.
Scene in the Lords--The Irish Race despaired of--The Settlement of Johnville, New Brunswick--We enter the Settlement--The First Man and Woman--The Second Man and Woman--Celtic Energy--Jimmy M'Allister--Mr. Reilly from Ballyvourney--How the Man of no Capital gets along--One Cause of Success--Mass in the Forest--Neither Rent nor 'Gale'--Other Settlements
CHAPTER IV.
Irish who settle on the Land--Their Success--Their Progress in St. John--Three Irishmen--A small Beginning--Testimony of a Belfast Independent--Position of Irish Catholics--The Church in New Brunswick--A Sweet Bit--Missionary Zeal--Catholicity in St. John--Past and Present
CHAPTER V.
The Irish in Quebec--Their Progress and Success--Education entirely Free--Montreal--Number and Position of the Irish--Their Difficulties and Progress--Beneficial Influence of good Priests--St. Patrick's Hall
CHAPTER VI.
Upper Canada--Number of the Irish--How they came and settled, and how they got along; illustrated by the District of Peterborough--Difficulties and Hardships--Calumnies refuted--What the Settlers did in a few Months--Early Trials--Progress and Contrast--Father Gordon--Church-building in the Forest--An early Settler--A Sad Accident--A Long Journey to Mass--A Story strange but true--The Last Grain of Tea--Father Gordon on the Irish and their Love of the Faith
CHAPTER VII.
Woolfe Island--Jimmy Cuffe--A Successful Irishman--Simple Pat as an Agriculturist--The Land Question in Canada--Wise Policy of the Canadian Parliament--Happy Results of a wise Policy
CHAPTER VIII.
The Irish Exodus--The Quarantine at Grosse Isle--The Fever Sheds--Horrors of the Plague--The 'Unknown'--The Irish Orphans--The good Canadians--Resistless Eloquence--One of the Orphans--The Forgotten Name--The Plague in Montreal--How the Irish died--The Monument at Point St. Charles--The Grave-mound in Kingston--An illustrious Victim in Toronto--How the Survivors pushed on--The Irish in the Cities of Upper Canada--The Education System--The Dark Shadow--The Poison of Orangeism--The only drawback
CHAPTER IX.
Newfoundland--Monstrous Policy--Bad Times for the Irish Papists--How the Bishop saved the Colony--The Cathedral of St. John's--Evil of having but one Pursuit--Useful Efforts--The Plague of Dogs--Proposal to exterminate the 'Noble Newfoundland'--Wise Legislation--Reckless Improvidence--Kindly Relations--Irish Girls
CHAPTER X.
The Irish Exodus--Emigration, its Dangers by Sea and Land--Captain and Crew well matched--How Things were done Twenty Years since--The Emigration Commission and its Work--Land-sharks and their Prey--Finding Canal Street--A Scotch Victim--The Sharks and Cormorants--Bogus Tickets--How the 'Outlaws' resisted Reform--The New System--The Days of Bogus Tickets gone--A Word of Advice--Working of the System--Intelligence and Labour Department--Miss Nightingale's Opinion--Necessity for Constant Vigilance--The last Case one of the Worst
CHAPTER XI.
Evil of remaining in the great Cities--Why the City attracts the New Comer--Consequence of Overcrowding--The Tenement Houses of New York--Important Official Reports--Glimpses of the Reality--An inviting Picture--Misery and Slavery combined--Inducements to Intemperance--Massacre of the Innocents--In the wrong Place--Town and Country
CHAPTER XII.
The Land the great Resource for the Emigrant--Cases in point--An Irishman socially redeemed--More Instances of Success on the Land--An Irish Public Opinion wanted--Irish Settlements in Minnesota and Illinois--The Public Lands of America--The Coal and Iron of America--Down South--A Kildare Man in the South--Tipperary Men in the South--The Climate of the South--California an Illustration of the true Policy
CHAPTER XIII.
California of the Past and Present--Early Irish Settlers--Death amid the Mountains--Pat Clark--But One Mormon--The Irish wisely settle on the Land--How they Succeeded in the Cities--Successful Thrift--Irish Girls--The Church in San Francisco--What a poor Irishman can do
CHAPTER XIV.
Drink more injurious to Irish than to others--Why this is so--Archbishop Spalding's Testimony--Drink and Politics--Temperance Organisations--Hope in the Future
CHAPTER XV.
Poor Irish Gentility--Honest Labour--The Miller's Son--Well-earned Success--No poor Irish Gentility here--A self-made Man--How he became a Master Baker--The Irish don't do themselves Justice--How they are regarded--Scotch-Irish
CHAPTER XVI.
Remittances Home--Something of the Angel still--How the Family are brought out--Remittances--A 'Mercenary'--A Young Pioneer--A Poor Irish Widow--Self-sacrifice--The Amount sent
CHAPTER XVII.
The Character of Irish Women in America--An Unwelcome Baptism--The Universal Testimony--Shadows--Perils to Female Virtue--Irish Girls; their Value to the Race
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Catholic Church--The Irish--The Church not afraid of Freedom--A Contrast--Who the Persecutors were--The American Constitution--Washington's Reply to the Catholics--The First Church in New York--Boston in 1790--Universality of the Church--Early Missions--Two Great Orders--Mrs. Seton--Mrs. Seton founds her Order--Early Difficulties and Privations--Irish Sisters
CHAPTER XIX.
Bishop Connolly's Note-Book--Laity's Directory for 1822--Dr. Kirwan previous to his Apostacy--The Church in 1822--Progress in 1834--How the Faith was Lost
CHAPTER XX.
Dr. England, Bishop of Charleston--Bishop England's Diary--Bishop England's Missionary Labours--The Bishop's Trials--Bishop England's growing Fame
CHAPTER XXI.
Bishop England's diocese--'Music hath Charms'--Preaching by the Wayside--William George Read--'Mister Paul'--Taking a Fresh Start--Father O'Neill's Two Hundred Children
CHAPTER XXII.
Dangers from within and without--The Lay Trustees--A Daring Hoax--Burning of the Charlestown Convent--A grateful Ruffian--'Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk'--Protestant Verdict on Maria Monk
CHAPTER XXIII.
Bishop England's Devotion to the Negro--The Frenchman Vanquished--The Bishop stripped to his Shirt--Bishop England's Death--Spiritual Destitution--As late as 1847--The Sign of the Cross--Keeping the Faith--Bishop Hughes--Bishop Hughes and the School Question--A Lesson for the Politicians--The Riots of Philadelphia--The Native-American Party--The Bishop and the Mayor--Progress of the Church
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Know Nothing Movement--Jealousy of the Foreigner--Know Nothings indifferent to Religion--Democratic Orators--Even at the Altar and in the Pulpit--Almost Incredible--The Infernal Miscreant--A Strange Confession
CHAPTER XXV.
The Catholic Church and the Civil War--The True Mission of the Church--The Church speaks for Herself--The 'Sisters' during the War--The Patients could not make them out--The Forgiven Insult--'What the Sister believes I believe'--The Chariot of Mercy--'Am I to forgive the Yankees?'--Prejudices conquered--'That's she! I owe my Life to her'--An emphatic Rebuke--'We want to become Catholics'
CHAPTER XXVI.
Catholic Education--The Catholic Church in Advance of the Age--Catholic Teaching favourable to Parental Authority--Protestant Confidence in true Catholics--The Liberal American Protestant--Catholic Schools--The Sister in the School and the Asylum--Protestant Confidence in Convent Schools--The Christian Brothers--Other Teaching Orders--From the Camp to the School
CHAPTER XXVII.
Juvenile Reformation--Opposition to Catholic Reformatories--The two Systems Illustrated--Christianity Meek and Loving--The Work of the Enemy--Solemn Appeals to Catholic Duty
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore--Protestant Tribute to the Catholic Church--Progress of Catholicity--Instances of its Progress--The Past and the Present--The Church in Chicago and New York--Catholicity in Boston--Anticipations not realised--Number of Catholics in the States--Circumstances of Protestant and Catholic Emigrant different--Loss of Faith and Indifferentism
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Irish in the War--Irish faithful to either Side--Thomas Francis Meagher--Why the Irish joined distinct Organisations--Irish Chivalry--More Irish Chivalry--The Religions Influence--Not knowing what he preached on--Cleanliness of the Irish Soldier--Respect for the Laws of War--A Non-combatant defending his Castle--Defended with Brickbats--'Noblesse Oblige'--Pat's Little Game--Irish Devotedness--The Love of Fight--Testimonies to the Irish Soldier--The Handsomest Thing of the War--Patrick Ronayne Cleburne--General Cleburne and his Opinions--In Memoriam--After the War--The grandest of all Spectacles
CHAPTER XXX.
Feeling of the Irish in America towards England--A Fatal Mistake--Not Scamps and Rowdies--Who they really are--Sympathy conquering Irritation--Indifference to Danger--Down in the Mine--One of the Causes of Anti-English Feeling--More of the Cause of Bad Feeling--What Grave and Quiet Men think--If they only could 'see their way'--A Grievance redressed is a Weapon broken--The Irish Element--Belief in England's Decay--War with England--Why most Injurious to England--Why less Injurious to America--The only Possible Remedy
APPENDIX.
South Carolina: Bishop Lynch's Letter
The Land: Information for Emigrants
Slavery
Essential Importance of the Foreign Element to the United States
Biographical Sketch of Major-General P. R. Cleburne