Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — Smith O’Brien’s Opinion of his Countrymen in America. [ARTICLE]

Smith O’Brien’s Opinion of his Countrymen in America.

William Smith O’Brien, in a speech to a number of his countrymen who gave him a public welcome in Detroit, told them, among other things, that—“He found that all the hard work was done by the Irish, and in. the South, where he thought he should find but few of his coun‘rymen as laborers—where the climate was so warm—there wen a great many, but it gave him pain that all ov“.' the c.untry he found many of the Irish, w 1.0 earn from one dollar and a hal' to two dollars per day, who spent it all for whisky; and intimated that such of them w,n|'l he better off' in their native land earning a shilling per day, and where the whisky was better.”