Evening journal., 1898-03-17
WHAT THE IRISH DID.
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Farley, Gibbons, Winn, Butler and
Bryan, ancestor to the next president
Of the United States. broke open the
military magazine at Savannah, took
out the powder and used it later on to
drive leaden hail into the bodies Of
English mercenaries-
At Bunker HILL Erin's sons princi-
pally made up the forces stationed at
the rail fence, that twice drove back
the red coats with the bayonets and
saved the main body Of the patriots
from total annihilation.
During the engagement the New
Hampshire regiment of the Irish
American hero, Stark, very largely
composed of men of his own race,
maintained its ground, and successfully
resisted every attempt to turn its flank.
Major Andrew McClay, of this regi-
ment, still lives in fond remembrance,
and so does the chivalrous patriot, Ma
ior Moore
In less than two months after the
battle of Bunker Hill, several regi-
ments were formed of the hardy from
tiers men and farmers of Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Maryland, and those
were mainly sons of Erin. Their first
colonel, Thompson. was an Irishman;
their lieutenant-colonel, Hand, was an
Irishman. Many of the other officers
were Irish or of Irish descent, and they
wore upon their breasts the motto,
Liberty or Death"
Among the general officers appointed
by Congress, after Washington had re-
ceived his commission, were Montgom-
.tarr ns,I Csa1I n, fIsrk
made chief of artillery in the American
army. All three, warm with the pure
blood of theCelt coursing through their
veins. Brigadier-Ge Moylan was
an Irishman; Brigadier- General Reed
was the son Of an Irishman, and both
became members of the military fam
lily" of the commander-in-chief Of the
army. The parole on the 18th OF
March was Boston, the countersign st.
Patrick, and the brigadier of the day,
General Sullivan. That's Irish.
DECIIARATTONOF INDEPENDENCE
On the Sth day Of July, 1776 a grand
demonstration took place in Philadel-
phia. Thousands from the surround
ing country had gathered into the city
and every artery of the city itself had
| sent forth it's streams TO swell the
vast sea of humanity, it was the occa-
sion OF the reading of the Declaration
of Independence.
Not a whispered word was spoken as
I the clerk was reading the declaration.
| but as soon as the son OF the evicted
/ Irish farmer uttered the last sentence.
1 the people gave vent to their joy in the
i widest applause. OF the signers Of the
declaration, at least twelve, besides the
| secretary, were Irish by birth or de-
l scent. They were John Hancock, whose
| ancestors emigated from Downfall
rick, Ireland; William Whipple, OF
1 Irish parentage; Matthew Thornton
born in Limerick county; Robert Paine
1 descended from heroes who fought
their country's battles on the banks OF
L the Boyne; James Smith, born in Ire
land during the troubled times Of that
unhappy land; George Taylor, a medi-
cal student, in Ireland, who ran away
from home, and landed in Philadelphia
without a cent in his pocket; George
Read. of Delaware, was the son of a
wealthy planter who emigrated from
Dublin; Thomas Mexican, of Delaware
was likewise the son of an Irishman
who sailed from Ireland in the begin
ming of the last century; Charles Car
rol, of Carrolton, was OF Irish. descent
his forefathers coming from Kings
l county, Ireland, and his cousin was frs,
| archbishop of America Thomas Mel.
| sons grandfather came from Strabane
Tyrone county His name was O'Neil
but changed it to its English synonym
Nelson, the son of Neil.
| IRISHNrEN IN THE NAVY.
Tro.~ffp,ot,,~ e 4br ,,,,.t b.
kind, from unfriendly as we'll as friend.
| ly sources, establishes the fact tha
at least half the revolutionary army wa.
composed of Erin's sons. Georg
Washington Parke Curtis SAYS: "Of tn
soldiers up to the coming of tn
l French, ireland had furnished in tn
ratio Of one hundred to one of an.
other nation" Joseph Galloway, a bit
r 1 ter Royalist, in answer to the question
in the House of Commons, What wer
l the troops in the service Of Congress
! | chiefly composed Of? Were they ma
! | tive Americans, or were the creates
| part OF them English, Scotch, O
l Irish?" said: There were scarcely one
| fourth natives of America about one
half Irish, the other fourth English
t. and Scotch" Major-General Robert
4 CAh ettAAs ANAANnlbNA AN4AIlsi sil IL
telling me that half the rebel arm
! were from Ireland" Ramsay say
THAT the Irish in America were a,
most to a man on the side of indper
. | dence. where they always have beel
: and always will be. against Oppressio
and dying for liberty" P!owden az
4 | serts that most of the early successt
of the patriots of America were imm,
| diately owing to the vigorous exertior
and prOwess of Irish emigrants VIII
bore arms in that cause" And nor
dared TO dispute the assertion OF Lon
Nlontjoy, of the House of Common
when he told the ministers, "you han
lost America through the Irish"
l. Our fathers have taken the oath
allegiance to this as their adopt,
h country; this oath they have seal,
with their blood. We, their childre