The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-14

! S0Pc' OoA4o0 1duU3 OAoA 2US0AA0 . A1Oe
able general and diplomatist, and one 9
1relands greatest sons-one OF whom sh
has every reason to be proud, for he wa
, the military rival OF Frederick of Prussi
and of Frances most skilled marshals
and he Allied all Europe with the fame 0
his exploits in the field and his talent il
the cabinet"
But the limitations of time and space
hurry ms onward; yet must linger for
moment among the stately ranks Of tin
Irish Brigade in tho service of France
those undannted heroes who carried
with them to the tta,sskiss 01f 1ff the Seine, tht
Rhine, the AIDA and the Scheldt, tht
unbroken courage which would not benn91
to the disaster Of the Boyne or the car.
mage Of Aughrim. In fancy / behold
them at Marsaglia, in Italy. meeting tie
chosen troops Of Victor Amadeus, sword
in hand, breaking their lines and chasing
the flag and the army Of the House Of
Savoy within the walls of Turin.
I stand among them on that nidwin-
ter pi9ht of the chill Cremonese," when
aroused from their cold bivouacs, dressed
only in their shirts, headed by the bra We
O'A1ahoney, and cheering for their col
onels, Dillon and Burke, they, nlnsket in
hand, beat pack the ironclad calvary of
Austria, batfled Prince Eugene and
rescued Cremona from the grasp Of the
napsburgs. behold them at the second
Blenheim, so disastrous t., France, clos
! ing up their thinned ranks, charging
their way through the thronging hosts of
the enemy, saving their colors the only
corps in the French army that did so On
that day--and covering the retreat Of
Tallard and de MARGIN on the Rhine:
Again see them at Cassano, swimming
the broad and rapid AIDA, turning the
Austrian flank with a captured battery
and deciding the day For the cause of
ths, Grand Monarch. The disaster Of
Families brought out their finest quail
ties as soldiers. They made rearguard
fight, while the army of Marshal Villeroy
wss in full retreat, broke the English
J regiment Of Churchill by ali iInpetuous
charge, captured it's oolo1s and conveyed
them to Ypres, where, hung up in the
convent of the Benedictine nuns, they
attested Fer generations the devotion and
the valor of the Irish in exile. Almanac
saw them place the crown OF Spain on
the brow of Phillip v, while Oudenarde
ana Malp!aquet proved to France and to
Europe, that, in defeat as in victory, the
Irish soldier is faithful unto death.
/, THE WAR or THE REVOLUTION.
| Here, in this land of our adoption, the
Irishmgn, whether Catholic or Protest.
ant, or whether, by descent. Sax Il, Celt
Or Norman, has indelibly made his mark,
He stood with the American farmers in
the bloody redoubt of Bunker Hill. IN.
der Prescott; he tore down the English
Gag upon the sea with Jeremiah O'Brien
at Machias; he marched With Montgom-
cry to Quebec, through the tangled for.
ests of our continent, and with him also
who was his countryman, dyed the win.
ter SLOW with his hearts blood on that
bitter night of daring and OF sacrifice; he
fell with Pulaski, at Savannah, and con.
quered with Gates and Washington, and
Sullivan and Lafayette at Saratoga and
Yorktown; he pointed the guns of Mac.
Donough on Lake Ohamplain, when the
British Aotilla sank in sight OF Platts-
bureh; he aimed his rifle with Andrew
jackson at New Orleans, when Paken'
ham, the hero OF Salamanca, left his'bones
for a period, on the plains OF Chalmette;
he charged with Shields at Chapultepec.
and swept along in that whirlwind OF
valor, precipitsted by glorious Phil
Sheridan on the astonished legions oi
Jubal Early .at Cedar Creek, and was
with him again when he stood, like a
hedge OF glittering steel, between Lees
brave army and escape at ,Appomattox.
Can any man, present here, or absent
/ 0160WA0Ic, A0uAc w Il u0lO OF Am0r1-
can battle in which the Irishman has
not gloriously participated? Consult the
war papers 81 our greatest generals, con.
suit the statistics Of mortality in the war
for the Union, and in the answer which
they convey, let the bi9ot be confounded
and the slanderer stricken dumb!
| THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
Philip Comte de Paris, heir to the va
cant throne of France, writing to Gen.
st. Clair Mullholland from Cannes.
March 8, 1886, says: It was with pleas.
urs that I met the Green Flag with the
Golden Harp waving at the head Of
Meaghers Brigade in the army Of the
Potomac. Z He then describes the bad
position Of the army, all MIXED together,
|on small eminence. which commanded
IAlexantlria Bridge Isaines' Mill) Snd,
gonttnaued q shth Psse, - 8.