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of Virginia, showing intermarriages. 



Smith, Carrington, Venable, Payne, Wickcliffe, Wooley, 

 Breckinridge, Benton, Porter and many other names WTitten 

 high in history. 



"They were generally persons of great talent and thor- 

 oughly educated; of large brain and magnificent physique. 

 The men were brave and gallant, the women accomplished 

 and fascinating and incomparably beautiful. There was 

 no aristocracy in America that did not eagerly open its 

 veins for the infusion of this Irish blood; and the families of 

 Washington and Randolph and Patrick Henry and Henry 

 Clay and the Hamptons, Wickliffes, Marshalls, Peytons, 

 Cabells, Crittendens, and Ingersolls felt proud of their 

 alliances with this noble Irish family. 



"They were governors and senators and members of Con- 

 gress, and presidents of colleges and eminent divines, and 

 brave generals from Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mis- 

 souri, California, Ohio, New York, Indiana, and South Caro- 

 lina. There were four governors of old Virginia. They were 

 members of the cabinets of Jefferson and Taylor and Bu- 

 chanan and Lincoln. They had major-generals and brigadier- 

 generals by the dozen; members of the Senate and House 

 of Representatives by the score; and gallant officers in the 



