24 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



but in Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet of August 27th, 

 1886, they are referred to thus: "We hear no 

 more of Hottentots." They are also referred to in a 

 speech of 13th April, 1886, by Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 

 who said : " Mr. Smith was in Ireland only twenty- 

 four hours, and he must have telegraphed back to 

 the Government, because they took action so 

 quickly they could not have a letter in that time. I 

 fancy the telegram was something like this : 

 ' Have discovered Ireland, found it inhabited with 

 Hottentots.' " 



(.) Pinkerton, a Scotchman, wrote that " the 

 wild Irish are the veriest savages on the face of the 

 earth." 



(3.) Parker Gillmore is quoted in the Saturday 

 Review of January 29, 1887, as stating in The 

 Hunter'* Arcadia: " I am a Scotchman and a Celt : 

 but all know that there is a wide divergence be- 

 tween the Celt of Scotland and the Celt of Ireland. 

 I have carefully studied those differences ; coming 

 to no hasty conclusion, and giving due weight to a 

 matter which is worthy of more than ordinary obser- 

 vation, I find, that of all the races of human beings 

 that I have become acquainted with, whether they 

 be Digger Indians from the Rocky Mountains of 

 Sonora, whether they be Kalmucks from the Steppes 



