Clarence Page and Republic Insult Irish

Bravo to the Arizona Republic for telling off people who hold onto belief in the canard that President Barak Obama wasn't born in the United States.

On the 150th anniversary of the Irish Brigade's fatal assualt on the stonewall at Fredericksburg on the Eve of Emancipation, isn't it about time Arizona Republic apologized for publishing the canard that Irish immigrants were responsible for pushing African slaves off America's ladder of social mobility. Did the Irish write the US Constitution that permitted slavery? Were Washington, Jefferson, Madision, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee Irish? Does Eric Foner's Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiery Trial claim that Abraham Lincoln, who at first was ambivalent about Emancipation and wanted to resettle freed slaves in the Caribbean, was Irish.

On the other hand all of the North's top generals in the Civil War had an Irish connection: Sheridan, Meade, Reynolds, and Sherman. Even Grant belonged to New York City's Ancient Order of Hibernians.

In the years since celebrating St. Patrick's Day by publishing this canard authored by Clarence Page, neither Page nor The Republic has singled out any other ethnic group and blamed it for America's sin of slavery.   Quite remarkable since not only were the Southern leaders not Irish, but neither were those who led the North's "loyal" opposition:  Clement Vallandigham, Fernando Wood and certainly not August Belmont, leader of the Democrats, who was a German immigrant who came to the Americas as an agent for the Rothschilds.