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MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL SATURDAY, AUGUST

L. SATURDAY, AUG
not brook that II should follow them.
The great extent to which they swelled
the Continental army and the vengefu
courage with which they fought the
ancient oppressor may be learned from
the words of an enemy, Lord Mountjoy
who died in battle opp0aing irish free.
dom in 1898. His LOr6ship, speaking
in the House of CommDns on April s.
1874, said in the course of lengthy
speech: "America was lost by Irish
emigrants. Thess enIfgrations are
fresh in the recollectiea of everv gen.
tleman in this Houses and when the
unhappy differences tosk place. I am
assured, from the best authority, the
major part of the American army was
COMPOSED OF Irish, and that the Irish
language was as comn,only spoken in
the American ranks az English. I am
also informed it was their valor deter
mined the contests, 80 that England
not only lost the principal part Of her
woollen trade in Europe, but also had
America detached from her by force of
irish emigrants.' This speech appears
In the parliamentary debates. 1t is
also quoted in full in Plowden's Hist.
Rev, Appendix. page 41.) After the
Revolution and more particularly after
the suppression of
THE IRISH REBELLION OF 1893,
our population was largely increased
from Ireland. Among The most pro-
mlnent was Mathew Carey, the dis
t,nguished publicist and the father of
the school of what is generally termed
the American economical system, who
fed from his native city of Dublin,
| where he had been imprisoned for
criticising in his newspaper the arbltra-
ry action of the government. Thomas
Adds Emmett, afterwards attorney
general of New York, DR.. McNevin.
Alexander Porter, afterwards Senator
from Louisiana and judge of the su
preme court, William Sampson, Samuel
Nelson, Gray, Harvey and host of
other leaders in the Irish rebellion
came to America as fugitives at this
time. The honor which was paid them
and the high estimation in which they
were held by the country Of their adop-
tion may be illustrated by pointing to
the marble monolith, with it's inscrip
tions in Irish, English and Latin,
erected at public expense to the memory
of Emmett in st. Paul's churchyard, New
York city. When Great Britain, in her
deadly enmity to the republic, precipl'
taJed war IN 1912, among the first to
respond to President Madison's call for
troops were escaped Irish fugitives,
who had fought the British at Corey
and Vinegar Hill. They crossed into
Canada under Colonel Winfield Scott,
afterwards major-general. AT the
battle of Queenstown Heights, Oct l3,
1872, Scott and his regiment were
forced to surrender. And here was
furnished a vivid illustration of that
diabollcal British spirit of savagerY
which has crYstallized Irish hatred OF
Britain into an heirloom. Shortly after
the surrender Scott learned that the
British officers were interrogating his
soldiers to ascertain from their manner
of speaking the English language who
among them were Irishmen, so that
they might select the latter be sent in
Irons to England to be tried and ex.
ecuted for high treason. Already
twenty-three had been selected to be
returned to "British JUSTICE" Scott
Indignantly protested, and in loud
angry tones, commanded all Of his men
| to remain silent, to answer the British
officers no questions. He told the
twenty-thrse, whose names are given in
volume 8, page 632, OF American state
papers, that if hair Of their heads was
touched they would be terribly avenged
by the soldiers of the republic, and he
personally promised them that he anG
the American officers would refuse te
give British officers and their mer
quarter on the battlefield if a solitary
one of them suffered before anv tribu-
nal of 'tBritlsh justice" Scott was
exchanged soon after in Boston, whence
be proceeded to Washington, where he
reported the matter to President Mad
ison, who immediately laid the report
before Congress, with a message re-
commencing such action as might be
necessary to sustain American honor
Congress Immediately passed the sac,
yesting the President Of the United
States with the power of retaliation
March 3, 1913. Meanwhile the twenty
three lrishmen were shipped to Eng
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