St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-11
AREMARKABLE CAREER.
A Man Who Has Done What He
Could to Turn the World Upside

"A Man VINO Has Done WnaC lie
Could to Turn the World Upside
Down.
Philadelphia Times.
One of the chief characters to be seen
in the neighborhoOd of the New York
assembly chamber, or in the hall of the
Delavan house, at Albany, n. Y, this
winter is tall, spare man, past fifty
years of age. His irOn-gray locks and
quick, sharp eyes make him at once at
tractive, and those who are unacquainted
with him, and they are few, inquire at
once who he is and what is his bust
ness. The answer comes quickly, he
is Col. James Emmett Kerrigan,
and his business-nOne. Col. Kerrigan
has had a varied experience. He is
placed i'm the unenvied position of hay-
ing price set on his head. There is no
chance of his ever becoming an alb
Sconder, because he dare not go to
Canada. Neither can he visit England,
Russia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, Central
America, Cuba, the Argentine Republic,
Australia or Scotland. Yet, withal he
is the soul of patriotism. He has faced
death in hundred different forms,
fighting for this country and warning
for others. He has been on terms of the
greatest intimacy with Gen. Santa
Anna, Macmillan, and other noted rev.
olutionists and fighters. He was four
times elected alderman in the city of
New York, and it was while holding
that Office in 1856 that he passed reso-
luton and caused to be erected the
monument to Gen. Worth which now
stands on Madison square. He has also
been twice elected to congress i'll the
district now represented by Sunset Cox.
Kerrigan has done all that one man
possibly could do to turn the world up
side down and bring on rebellionS in
small mOnarchies. In 1876 the Mexican
war broke out, and Kerrigan was at the
head of company of New Workers al
most Immediately. He served with dis
tinction all through that war, and Oh his
return to New York was presented with
a gold medal from congress in recOgni-
ton of his bravery, and also a bronze
medal from the city of New York. Not
content with the fame he had acquired,
nor satisfied with having escaped with
his life, he afterwards joined filibus-
tering party, and went down to capture
Nicaragua. Driven from that state, the
colonel and his party went into Mexico
and joined in the rebellion against Sante
Anna. After months of hard fighting
he returned to New York, and was
elected alderman for four successive
years. When his last term expired the
feeling for battle came over him again,
and he set out for Spain and joined the
revolt against the queen. Kerrigan next
Joined with Martinez Lopez in the effort
to free Cuba. In this he was unSucceS-
full, and, returning once more to New
York, he settled down and was twice
elected to congress. AT the end of his
third year as congressman he resigned
his seat and joined the Union army, in
which he earned the title of colonel.
Returning from the war he took a
number of men under him and COM
manded the ship Erin's Hope. Its OBJ
iect was to excite rebellion and free
Ireland, but the vessel was driven off
the Irish coast by English cruisers. On
his return in 1866 he took command OF
the party of Fenians who invaded Can
ada in the latter part of that year, and
were captured by the Canadian authOri-
ties. Since then the colonel has been
engaged in various enterprises III all
parts of the world. His latest exploits
were Joining Editor Cutting in the en-
deavOr to have Mexico annexed to the
United States and also in an attempt to
Illustrate the queens jubilee celebra-
ton. Together with twenty-five men
he went last April in ship, loaded, it
is said, with dynamite, with which they
were to blow up London. The vessel,
however, sunk off the Isle of Man, and
of the twenty-five, kerrigan, a man
named Charles White, and one OBrien,
were all that were saved. Kerrigan's
mission in Albany is said to be looking
after the interests of the exempt fire
men, of which association he is an en-
thusiastic member. He still claims that
the United States could not do better
than annex Mexico, as it is, he says,
the richest country in the world. but
that the natives are too lazy to cultivate
tbair land