The Irish standard., 1890-08-02
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Put None But Americans % Guard
Pure Fabrica ton Of The Enemy.

II Tut None But Americans On t5uard' p
Pure Fabrication Of the Enemy.
The following letter. which is sell
explanatory, appeared il the Globe oi
last Sunday 81 B
IN your issue Of July "A I read an & e ! s.
tended abstract OF the address, delivered
by DR.. Burren, Of Minneapolis, il reply
to Archbishop Ireland 8 paper on the
school question. The following day I
addressed a courteous note to DR.. Bur
rell, enclosing my letter on the Lafay-
cite motto, which Appeared q few days
previously in the Globe. I told Dr.. Bur-
rell that the phrase imputed to Washing
ton, "Putnone but Americans on. guard, :
was Of the same character as the Lafay-
cite phrase pure fabrication for which
no historical reference can be given. /
told him further that If he again repeat
ed the wo.ds ascribed to Washington, T
would be compelled in the interest of
historic truth and Of the Catholic Truth
Society, which have the honor TO re-
present, to call upon him publicly for
proof that Washington ever issued any
order containing the words attributed to
him. Last Sunday DR.. Burrell had the
hardihood of using the self same quota
tion without the slightest modification
whatever and therefore feel compelled
IT, cal upon him to day to produce his
authority for the use Of the words, or
stand as a falsifier of American history
The phrase in question had its origin in
! the days of know-nothingism, which DR..
Burrell seems Inclined to revive at this
enlightened day. It is gross injustice
to the memory of Washington to add the
sanction of his great name to the hatred
and prescription of American citizens
born in foreign lands. The pretended
order of Washington is employed for the
base purpose of jus flying the ignoble
war made by mon like DR.. Burrel1 upon
foreigners, especially it they are Of the
Roman Catholic faith, and into which
mon of sec arian and race prejudices IN
this city have unwisely allowed them
selves to be drawn. "Place none but
Americans on guard" is pithy expires
sion SO accordant with their intolerance,
and SO hostile to the broad principles Of
| true Americanism, that it has been un-.
scrupulously palmed upon the illustri.
Gus founder of the republic, Fancy, if
YOU can, George Washington at the
head OF an army composed, as it was,
of many Of the most true and tried SOL
diers of foreign birth-with such officers
| as Lafayette, Baron Steuben, Lee, Mont
gomery and Alexander Hamilton, and
an allied army of French troops led by
high-spirited, chivalrous French noble
men, by whose aid the war of the revo
lu ion was brought to q close-fancy
him, SO surrounded and supported, issu:-
ing such an order as "Put none but
Americans on guard" Thevery state
ment is enough to show it's absurdity.
I When Jared Sparks, the celebrated bio
grapher Of Washington. was asked con-
corning this phrase, he said that he had
never met with any such expires sion in
! Washington's writings and manuscripts.
But an attempt has been made to make
it appear that he used words of similar
import. A forged order, said to contain
the w,rds, was in the possession OF Glen.
Dearborn, of Rox bury, Mass, who died
thirty five years ago. Il was falsifca
ton OF genuine or der issued by Wash
! ington, which can be foundsin Forces
American Archives, vol H., p. 1854,
dated Cambridge Headquarters, July Z,
1775, and which reads assfolloWs:
tThe general has great reason and is
highly displeased with the negligence
and inattention Of those officers who
have placed as sentries at the outposts
men with whose character they are not
acquainted. He therefore orders that
for the future no man shall be appointed
to these important stations who is not a
native Of this country, or has wife or
family in it to whom he is known to be
attached. The order is to be considered
as standing one, and the officers are to
pay obedience to it at their peril.
,(SigneD Fox, adjntant Of tbs day;
countersign, Exeter; parole, Dorchester =
The circumstances of the momentfully
explain the purpose OF the order:
Washington had arrived at headquar-
tiers, in Cambridge, three days before
and finding want of care in the mill
tary arrangements, and having reasons
to fear that there were in camp persons
favorably disposed to the British, then
holding possession Of Boston, and watch
ing their opportunity to communicate
information to the enemy, he directed
certain precautions to be taken in the
selection Of sentinels, not against for
eigners as such, but against traitors and
spies in disguise.
If DIR. Burrell has time or inclination
to read authentic history I would re-
| commend him 10 read the wrifinpa Of