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Show ' THE GRAY AND THE GREEN. The gray streets $f London are grayer than the stone' i - -y The gray streets of London ' where I must walk my lone, ; . -.. ' The-.. gray-; city pavements are hard to tread, alas! ' -' , . ' , - .My heart and feet are aching:, for the Irish grass. . - " .J"'." For down the winding boreeh the grass ' is soft as silk. The wind, is sweet as honej;, the. hedges white" as milk : " f-" ' ''' '" ' Gray dust and grayer houses, are here,. and skies like brass, The lark is singing, soaring o'er the Irish grass. ; , ' j The gray streets of London stretch out a thousand mile, ' O dreary walls and windews.-and never a song or smile! Heavy with money getting, the sad gray people pass. There's gold in drifts and shallows in' the Irish grass. i God built the pleasant mountains and ..' blest the jfertile rdain,; ' V :But in this-sad gray'London God knows I go in pain. : 0 brown as any amber, and clear as any glass.. . ; The 'streams my heart hears" calling from the Irish grass. The gray streets of London they say are paved with gold; I'd rather have the cowslips that two small hands could hold:' ; I'd give the yellow, money the) foolish folks amass- . ' ri i, For. the dew that's; gray .'as silver on the Irish grass., . - I - . ; .. - 1 think-that I'll be going before I die . .of grief. . ' . " i . The wind fnom over the mountains' will - give my heart relief: . : .. The cuckoo's calling-sweetly;- calling in dreams, alas! ' ' ;v ! Come home, come home, acusha;. to te Irish -grass. ; v. . '; '' ' ... ,.-''- T-Pall Mal.l.Gazette. CROMWELL IN IRELAND , Irish People Sold Into Slavery. The London "Athenaeum" has published pub-lished the following letter: . 23 Leeson Park, Dublin. In your issue of April 29, Mr. W. F. P. Stockley remarks that-"many people would like to-bave the evidence for and against Cromwell's sending Irish prisoners pris-oners to the West Indies." Prender-gast, Prender-gast, in his "Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland" (London, Longman, 1S65), quoting in part from the Order Books of the Commissioners of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for the Affairs of Ireland, preserved in th Record Towre, Dublin JL'astle, wrote as follows: ' 1 t J - "After the summer Assizes of 1638, Sir Charles" Coote. Lord President of Connatight, and Colonel Sadleir, governor gov-ernor of Galway. were directed to treat with Colonel Stubbers or other merchants about having a properly j victualled ship for eighty or one hun-i hun-i dred prisoners ready to sail with thei first fair wind to the Indian Bridges, the usual landing place in the Barbadoes, or other English pjintations , thereabouts there-abouts in America. T-iese were proprietors pro-prietors who had been sentenced to death for not transplanting, but had been pardoned by his excellency. At Barbadoes the prisoners were to be delivered to certain merchants (who were to pay the cost of transportation), transporta-tion), all except ten, who were to be consigned to a person to be speedily named. This was a Mr. Edward Smyth, a merchant resident at the. Barbadoes. His lot. however, was afterward aft-erward increased to twelve, ten men and two women, and upon receiving them at the Indian Bridges, or elsewhere else-where in that island, he was to pay Colonel Stubbers four pounds : per maii for transportation and victuals." Prendergast gives in a series of footnotes foot-notes references to the various . pages of the Order Books in which the entries en-tries are to be found which .justify his statements. In Hardiman's "History of Galway," p. 134, it is stared that Stubbers transported from hecrty to the West Indies no fewer, than l.QOO persons, whom he there sold as slaves. A letter to Lord Byron in Carte's 'Collection," 'Col-lection," vol. II, p. 412, asserts that the thirty survivors of the citizens. and garrison gar-rison of Drogheda ''all that were left of them" after five days of massacre, ! were shipped to the West Indies to be sold as slaves. ' . WILLIAM F. DENNEHY. |
