With the title above, the article begins with, “Dear Sir”, and is signed only, “A Citizen of the World” Here are excerpts: “ To you , who have taken of…
Category: <span>Irish People</span>
A brief item from the Journal of Temperance Union, tells of efforts to bring Irish people into temperance organizations. It speaks of groups in Philadelphia, many other places, and includes…
April 22, 1842 Reference is made to the proceedings of the Baltimore Repeal Association, included in the Boston Pilot. The Baltimore group has declared that the Irish Address is “a…
February 24, 1843 Under Refuge of Oppression, there is an article from the Boston Pilot, titled, The Mania of Abolition. Referring to recent abolitionist speeches made at Faneuil Hall, the…
November 17, 1843 Here is a call to a Grand Meeting at Faneuil Hall, to hear the latest which O’Connell has written and said about American Slavery
April 30, 1847 Titled To Irishmen in America here is an “Address from the members of the Cuffe-lane Temperance Society to their Countrymen in America”. It calls upon the Irish…
July 5, 1850 Notice of the establishment of an Irish Emigrant Society, with a purpose “to exercise a watchful supervision over all impoverished emigrants on landing here, given them temporary shelter…
August 22, 1851 “The following is an Irishman’s description of making a cannon —- ‘take a long hole and pour brass or iron around it.’”
September 25, 1863 This brief article begins with a description of the condition of Irish people in Ireland as a people “without education, very poor, under the absolute control of…
October 9, 1863 Here is a letter to the Editor of the Pilot, with a direct criticism of its mis-representation of abolitionists, and its failure to represent Daniel O’Connell’s appeal…