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ica. The political and religious animosity of the Saxon 

 to the Celt has from the earliest period of the unfortunate 

 entrance of the Saxon on Irish soil as rulers, driven them 

 as exiles to all parts of the Continent of Europe. 



In France, in Austria, and in all parts of Spain, are 

 found the Celtic Irish race to-day ; and many of the 

 Spanish commercial towns are principally peopled by 

 Irish, or Irish descendants. America was then open to 

 them. At that early period, when the Reformation gave 

 a fresh impetus to emigration from Ireland, the English 

 were little disposed to emigrate.* 



Even to-day her people are adverse to leave the 

 country ; and few of those who do leave, and who are put 

 down as Anglo-Saxons, are, in truth, really so. Extra- 

 ordinary circumstances at times elicit the truth, such as 

 the falling off of the population of Ireland since 1840 ; 

 when the Times of London stated that the emigrants to 

 America from England were Irish, who made that country 

 only a stepping-stone to the United States. 



Even now, when the spirit of migration seems to be 

 moving all the States of Europe, the Anglo-Saxons res- 

 pond not ; they hang back ; and those few who do emi- 

 grate are of the middle-classes, principally merchants 

 and shop-keepers. In fact, if the real state of affairs 

 were known, it would be made clear that the Anglo- 

 Saxon race is not at all on the increase. The whole 

 amount of her emigration is not equal to her immigration ; 

 and it may be said that some of her most populous cities 

 are Celtinized, if I may so speak. There is no part of 

 England where it is not the general complaint, that the 



* The pilgrim fathers may be said to be the first permanent settlers 

 of English, in 1620 



