Irish Laborers – Over $80k Sent to Homeland

THE SUFFERING POOR OF IRELAND.

The New York Courier has the following article:
The warm-hearted Irishman is an expression that has passed into a proverb.– The facts we are about to relate, and which have just been communicated to us, illustrate very touchingly the truth of this proverb.

We are informed upon reliable authorship that since the first day of November— when the distresses of Ireland for lack of food was too surely verified– more than eighty thousand dollars have been remitted in sums varying for $5 to $25 , by the Irish laborers, men and women servants, and others, toiling for their daily bread– to their suffering relatives in Ireland.

What a fact this is! and what volumes does it speak in favor of the strong affections and generous hearts of the Irish!

Eighty thousand dollars contributed from the earnings of hard work, to relieve parents and relatives of a distant land, whom the contributors may never in life see more! Think of it, ye men of wealth, think of it ye pampered sons of fortune– who– for there are such– shutting themselves up in the selfishness of a nature hardened by prosperity, pass by with an heeding ear, the cry of poverty– the wail of destitute childhood– the claims of a starving and suffering people.

Learn all– as we all may learn a lesson of self denial for the luxury of being able to lavish bounties such as are here recorded of the Irish, and let the memory of such good deeds come up to us in extenuation, when as will happen, we shall hear of excesses committed under the impulse of despair or starvation by the wretched peasantry of Ireland.