Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-11

j lin OlI u VI w "A
command OF British ship of the line
by General Howe if he would desert
the American cause. Barry replied:
i have devoted myself to the cause of
my country and not the value or COM
mand of the whole British fleet can
seduce me from it." He commanded
the Alliance in 1872 and was coming
| with specie from Havana when he en-
countered British squadron. The
captain of one of the ships, the Sybil.
signaled to enquire who and what he
was. Barry signalled back: The
United States ship Alliance saucy
Jack Barry, half Irishman, half Yam.
kee: Who are you?" Then in sight
OF the other ships he attacked and dis
abled the Sybil. And Barry was a
| Wexford man!
When CORVALLIS surrendered at
yorktown he handed his sword to a
young lrish-American officer, Colonel
Wilson. In the making of our republic
the Irish We're ever and everywhere
faithful. Their loyalty and brilliant
deeds are inscribed in the pages of
our history in letters of unquenchable
light. In the perpetuation of this great
country they have also borne con-
spicuous and noble part not only in
the arts of war, but also in the arts of
peace.
In the war of 1912 the most distin-
gulshed heroes on land and water
We're Cells. McDonough swept the
lakes; Jackson, with 1920 raw re-
crults, met and crushed Packham's a.
600 veteran soldiers at New Orleans
During that battle and seige. the Celt.
F. S. Key, while prisoner on an Eng
lish ship in the harbor, composed
THE Star Spangled Banner" In the
Mexican war we read of the deeds of
valor accomplished by the Irish
Greens. Our own General Shields,
the hero of Chapultepec," was the
most noted military chief in that war
He also fought in the war of the rebel
lion, and is the only general who
whipped Stonewall Jackson When
wounded at Cerro Gordo, he said to
the men carrying him from the field,
L am OF no further use to my country;
you are. Lay me down and let me
die. You are all strong, able bodied
men-able to do your country some
service. For Gods sake lay me down
and go to your duty" They did not
lay him down and in short time
he was in command again. Wounded
at Winchester in the civil war, he
persisted in directing the operations
of the men till victory was won.
Nothing during the civil wal was more
creditable than the defense of LeXing-
ton, Mo. by Colonel Mulligan. With
200 men he defended the town against
General Price with $4,000 men. When,
after a furious bombardment of seve-
raj days, he was summond to surren-
der. he answered: IF you want us,
come and get u.s." He held out till
the last cartridge was used. After
the surrender Price ordered the am
munition of the prisoners to be col
lected. Mr.. Cosgrove, for Mulligan,
called up several of the soldiers, show
led their empty cartridge boxes and
said to the astonished Southern off
GER Il believe, sir, we gave you all the
ammunition We had before we stopped
fighting" What could be more path
etlc and thrilling than the scene enact
ed on the battlefield when Mulligan got
his death wound? AS the men were
the colors We're about to be captured
by the rebels. Lay me down. said
the dying hero, "and save the flag"
The answering devotion and fear
less courage of the men of the Irish
brigade during the whole of the civil
war compelled the praise and admira-
ton OF the world. Military writer's de-
clare that the charge against st. Ma
rvs heights stands unrivalled for bril-
llancy and persistent valor in the an
nails of the world. The only foreign
nag carried in the civil war was the
flag, of Ireland. Though 100000 Irish
men died in our armies that the union
might live, this honor is a consolation
to poor old Ireland. Her flag and her
sons assisted in the perpetuation of
American union and liberty. Many of
the great commanders We're partly or
wholly Celtic. The mother of Grant
was born in Ireland, the parents of
Little Phil" Sheridan, who cleared
the Shenandoah valley and who was
regarded by Grant as the greatest cav.
airy general of any age, were born in
Ireland; the parents of John A. Logan
We're Irish too Meade, Mcclellan.
Shields, Meagher, Corcoran, Cass and
numberless others belonged to the
lighting race
And in the Spanish war, more than
one-half of the men who went down in
the Maine belonged to that race. Five
of the seven men who helped Hobson
to block the harbor of Santiago were
Celts.
But Ireland also gave our country
such statesmen as Carroll, Jefferson,
Blaine. etc. She gave such orators as
Rutledge, Henry and Bourke Cochran.
She gave us myriads of men of the
bar and king of them all was Charles
O'Connor. Merchants such as A. T.
Stewart; inventors such as Morse, Nc
Cormick, etc; Journalists such as Ben
nett, Medill, etc. My friends, the Irish
from Maine to California, and from
Florida to Alaska, in legislature and
forum. in pulpit and press, speak the
language of liberty, advancement and
progress. They long for the time when
war shall cease to scourge the sons of
liberty, when the brotherhood of ma