they should still be known for their chastity
all over the world. The members of the Order in America were to be at
liberty to make laws for the welfare of the Society, but these must be
in accord with the teaching of the Church, and their working must be
submitted to a Catholic priest. The letter says--"We send you these
instructions, as we promised to do, with a young man that works on the
ship and who called on you before." Directing that a copy of the
document should be sent to another friend, then working in
Pennsylvania, the letter concluded--"Hoping the bearer and this copy
will land safe and that you will treat him right, we remain your
brothers in the true bond of friendship this 4th day of May, in the year
of our Lord, 1837"--

"PATRICK M'GUIRE, County Fermanagh.
"JOHN REILLY, County Cavan.
"PATRICK M'KENNA, County Monaghan.
"JOHN DURKIN, County Mayo.
"PATRICK REILLY, County Derry.
"PATRICK DOYLE, County Sligo.
"JOHN FARRELL, County Meath.
"THOMAS O'RORKE, County Leitrim.
"JAMES M'MANUS, County Leitrim.
"JOHN M'MAHON, County Longford.
"PATRICK DUNN, County Tyrone
"PATRICK HAMILL, County Westmeath.
"DANIEL GALLAGHER, Glasgow.
"JOHN MURPHY, Liverpool."

It will be noticed that of the twelve Irish counties represented above,
six are in the province of Ulster, three in Connaught, and three in
Leinster, so that the Hibernians appear to have had their stronghold in
the Northern province and the adjoining counties in Connaught and
Leinster. This is exactly as one might expect, seeing the necessity for
a defensive organisation against the Orangemen of Ulster. The Order took
deep root in Glasgow and Liverpool on account of the convenience of
access by sea from Ireland to these cities.

I was too young to have known John Murphy, who signed the letter for the
Liverpool Hibernians, but, from what I knew of these afterwards, it is
likely that he was a dock labourer. As I will show, these men, over and
over again, to my own knowledge, gave splendid proofs of their courage
and love of creed and country. Their love of learning, too, has been
equal to that of their fathers in the days when our country was "The
Island of Saints and Scholars." Some of these poor men may not have had
much learning themselves, but they made great and noble sacrifices that
their children should have it. I noted with interest in the Irish papers
recently that the name of the Secretary of the Hibernian Order at th