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 THE

���RANITE AGNTHLY.

A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE.

T)evoted to Literature, biography, Histoiy, and State Progr&ss.

��Vol. X.

��JUNE, i88^

��No. 6.

��HON. JOHN" C. LINEHAN.

��A hundred years after the Puritans and Pilgrims made a settlement on the coast of New England, there came

���to this country a uiu'titude of emi- grants, mostly from the north of

��Ireland, who soon became absorbed into the ranks of the first settlers, and became the very best of citizens. In the contest for independence they rendered the most efficient services to the colonies, as they had pre- viously done in protecting the fron- tier from the inroads of the Indians. After another century, our doors hav- ing been opened wide for the recep- tion of people from every country, there came to these shores a tide of emigration from central and southern Ireland, which seemed at one time as if it would depopulate the Emerald Isle. In numbers like the countless hosts of the Goths and Vandals who overran the Roman empire, but pa- cific in their intentions, they sought in America homes for themselves and their children, where, under the flag and protection of the young republic, they could enjoy that liberty which had been denied them in their old home, and secure those advantages which thrift and industry offered in the new world.

When the country of their adoption

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