The Irish standard., 1890-07-26

AS that OF the grandest titled knight.
''The Irish jasper Greens should hold,
With never failing hearts Of pride,
The memory Of their soldier bold,
@ Who fought, bled and nobly died ss
Asa grand legacy Of fame
81 To the brave Irish raco aud nRme.
(Applause
The same exiled race, $50 dangerous
to everything that Americans hold
dear, gave the Revolution Mad An
thony WAYNE. = who, when the RECAP
tnre OF Stony Point was contemplated
and pronounced Impossible. said to
Washington: General, if you will
plan, I will assault and capture hi"
lApplause,) The same race $50 dan
gerous to everything Am ericans hold
DEAR gave the Revolution jeremiah
tO'Brien, whu won the frsts5A Amer1can
naval vjctory--the Lexington of the
sea- a--capt ptnred British ship after British
ship, and converted them into a America.,
sprivateers; Commod dore.. Barry the lgVex-
ford boy. father OF the Annerl lcan Navy.
who, on encounte tering an English feet.
was asked bYa surly English captain:
What ship is that2" and replied: ''1,he be
United States Ship Alliance, saucy Jack
barry, half Yankee. half Irishman.
Who in hi are you?'' Or as the poet
Collins put his answer: = s.5s
'This is the Ship Alliance s2s.
From Philadelphia town.
And proudly bids defiance
To England's King and Grown.
As CAPTAIN on her deck stand
TO guard her banner true.
Half Y ankee, half Irishman.
What tyraut slave are you? sassy.
Applause.
He then and there attacked the Bri-
tish feet, DESTROYED two Of their ships
and put the rest to flight. The same
race $50 dangerous to everything that
Americans hold dear = gave the Revo-
luton Gen. Hand, who threw ''physic
to the dogs,' and at the head Of his
Pennsylvania fighting Irishmen march
ed to the camp Of Washington; Gen.
Moylan, brother Of Bishop Moylan, of o1ft
Cork, and commander Of ''Moylan's' 3
.draqoons.'' who did effective work at
Stony Point, Trenton, Monmouth, Ger lei
mantown and Charl lesion. His banner M 4 ptl
waved in many stormy scene.
Through shivering grape and drifting death IT
I 1t floated ever true, 5sHs1 55s &5
And by the signs upon its path a. Es ss
Men knew what troops went through
The same race, 80 dangerous to the
peace Of society and to yerythlng that
Americans hold dear, = furnished Wash 50
ington with one half Of his army, aud,
in the hour Of his greatest need. $500 s
600. Lord Mount JOY, in the House OF
Commons. told tho Ministry, : Z OF on
have lost America through Ireland. !"
General Curtiss, who was on Washing
toms staff, wrote In his personal re.
collections Of the Revolution: S. Frfor
to the coming Of che French. Ireland
had furnished 100 soldiers for the one Of
any Other foreign nation. Then honor
ed be- the sons OF Erin IN the War OF
Independe Let the sham
rock be entwined with the Laurel OF
the RevOlntien. B !. !. May the pen
iof history snarave upon the tablet Of
Americas Tsenel pbrance eternal gra.
.titudet to Irishmenl Waaalngton HIM
self when jlle became . member of the
,FriendIy soma of St. Patrick. publicly
ackuow la,i1sd the Inde eDtedness 70 HIress
IL. Id. He who has read American his
tory haa read it 81 vain i she does not
know that had ii not bean for the moral
and physical Aid given not only bv che
Irish coIonists, but bY the Irish In Ire
land, IS American indep ependences would
moi nave bsen sacllie ashington:
,sJaiferson dams all / who had pnt
,puis their u nal1es to the clara a5of
& n,,l lelrlend dence, o6uld hafe been hung
SB.aI as trat tora ana the llns
ablti jts,tis l,slsI o
cendan H oflt6e
In asalnt s; s