The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-29
FACTS WELL STATED.

We extract the following from speech recently de-
vered by Hon. S. II. Blake, of Bangor Maine, the
cason of the presentation of standard to the Graan
Guards Of that city
But this prejudice against foreigners is only in the
main without good cause but against interests for
need them We need their genius and their labor. 1t
Christopher COLES, Irhman who suggested the idea,
afterwards magncenty carried by De Witt Clinton
of connecting by canal the great lakes with the eaboard
1t Robert Fulton whose father and mother spoke the
Celtic dialect of Cork, whose inventive genius gave to the
that thing of e that taking in its brnwny
of iron and oak hundreds of lives and millions of
New York. walks steadily off with them the Atlantic
and places them all safely down upon the wharyes in Liver
pool in days and 80 minutes.
America afford to spare its Irish intellect Eng
sh literature might well part with Moore and Gold
smith, aud Burke and GRATTAN
"Wc need the Irish aborer; need him to dig
nails to make our railroads and to pile palaces Of
brick in citiesabobu thank God to labor respec
table in this country. We need the Norwegian and the
Swede the praries of the West with wheat need
the plant the valley of the Ohio with the vine
and need Of men born under hotter to Guilt
the rice fields Of the Caronas and the cotton plant
the South. These, ALL here and need them. We
not do without them If would They are in great
measure the acers Of countrys wealth They have
aided largely in building the edce of national great
ness
And there any danger that the interests of
try will be betrayed by its foreign population Have
citizens of foreign origin in the main, proved themselves
the country Of their adoption Who Of them has
deserted standard betrayed the secrets of cabinet
The tories of the revolution Irhmen. Irshmen
in the defence of the Capitol when Washington
ingoriously burnt but they at New Orleans when the
flag ST. George traied in the dust; they
Cerro Gordo with the gallant Shields and at Buena Vista
with Butler and Brep German and Mckee. They
Hartford but they at Carpenters Hall at the
birth Of American Independence and the Of Thorn
and Taylor, Smith and Read Carroll and Lynch Rut-
ledge and McKean have gone down to immortality signed
upon that instrument there drawn up that enranchsed half
continent and to humanity ground to stand upon
in Gods own time to disentbral the world
delegates of Irish descent in the convention
that framed the constitution the United States The Irish
always beat in unison with American feeling When
Dr. Franklin in Dublin in l77l at the opening Of the
Irish Parliament (by the rules Of the house strangers
admitted only to the galleres) the entrance of Dr.
Franklin the speaker rose and observed that there
distinguished American present and by unanimous vote,
he was invited take a the floor of the house. 1t
the and people Dr. Franklin represented that die
this Of courtesy the part of the Irish Parliament
The first public meeting held abroad to express sympathy
for the American colonies in Belfast Ireland in l775
Ireland has always sympathzed with Americas. From
has been and the feeling that has existed
home has been responded to by her here in of
patriotism Wherever duty has Called whether upon the
upon the land in the field in legislative hail.
have bazoned their with honor upon
our counrys escutcheon. McCeary Bunkers Hill,
Barry was deck the Lexington, Crogan the
battle Thames, Gray and his noble compeers at
Mexico. The gallant 9th had Drawer than its Irish
private; Hugh Donnor the third in the castle of
Cheputepec And in the last in the ncxtcome
when will class OF citizens will respond to the call
the country with enthusiasm than the Irish, none
will enlist more readily none will behave with bra
very and in the field wherever standard pushed for
ward furthest there they will rally around it,
ting their deaths with deeds Of herosm carrying Off in
triumph the trophies of victory"