Every great privation visited upon the Irish people has proven a blessing in disguise for America. Persecution and oppression in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries furnished America with valiant sons and pure daughters. inured to poverty. born to privation. and eminently fitted for the blazing of a broad highway to progress and liberty in a new and strange land. The famine of 1848 marked the beginning of a stream of immigration such as has seldom been witnessed in the history of any land. From 1848 to 1870. more than 2.500.000 Irish men and women came to these shores. not the infirm and the decrepit but the staunch and sturdy manhood and the wholesome and pure womanhood. the flower of Ireland. and these were the men that aided in making possible Grants campaign in the Wilderness. Shermans march from Atlanta to the sea. and Sheridans master stroke at Cedar Creek.
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