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Show The Scotch-Irish. Editor of the Irish Standard: You think I would make an interesting interest-ing review of Mr. Hanna's work on the Scotch-Irish. It relates only to that people in Hamilton county, Ohio, yet it is in two large volumes. Think of that for one county only! I have known of it and his other outcoming book, "The Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania," Pennsyl-vania," for, . perhaps, ten years, and have had the latter work in manuscript manu-script submitted fcr my examination. Not a bit of interest would my review re-view of his published book excite. It has cost years of labor and a great deal of money to compile. I have known Mr. Hanna traveling from New York and westward to Nebraska, "hunting information and gathering records and transcript of documents. . AH this to uphold the people he sprung from and to record their names and deeds. We Irish the plain Irish don't like the name "Scotch-Irish." None of us, I however, are doing as Mr. Hanna and ! others of like descent have done and are doing. The Scotch-Irish are fixed in American history, and our sneers at their name will not lessen the strength cf the position they have secured. I can only commend Mr. Hanna's work. Let the Irish-Irish follow his example and gather up all the information infor-mation to be had by diligent search concerning the race. Are any of us doing it? Respectfully, MARTIN I. J. GRIFFIN. |