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

ries in every line of industry. Their
brain and Drawn were ever at the SER
vice of the country of their adoption.
Their red blood has freely and abun-
dainty flown on every American bat
tlefield.
And when English greed and oppres
sion followed them and were crushing
out the liberty here they struggled
even to blood and to death that Ameri.
can liberty might live.
The eloquent pen of Chas. Carroll
first citizen" as well as the eloquent
tongue OF Patrick Henry-"the De-
mosthenes of the Revolution''-both
Celts-helped to arouse the colonists
against unjust taxation and oppres
sion, to create public opinion and
set the hearts of the colonists on fire.
There is principle in common law
that taxation and representation &c
mana IN hand. Reason dictates that
those who pay the taxes shall say how
tnelr money is to be used This prin-
clple England ignored. To vindicate
this principle the colonists fought and
Won But they wanted to be loyal.
Ihey pleaded and petitioned. But
theV were answered by oppression
tnat makes wise men mad. In En-.
gland conscience was blind, pity was
deaf, and law was dead letter. Here
trlal by jury was either abolished OF
made to be a mockery. Vengeance
was swift, power unsparing, and ty-
ranny Unsuitable in cruelty. The cry
OF colonial distress seemed to have be.
come but the groan of dying liberty:
as Henry Giles said long ago. But ont
OF the darkness of despair came "the
hghtnlngs of the eloquent" pleadings
Oh Celtic Rutledge, Patrick Henry
ana others. At last the country was
aroused and the people were at white
neat. The fires of liberty leaped from
colony to colony and lit up the CONT.
nent. Celtic Jefferson wrote the Dec
iaratlon of Independence, read for us
just now. Irish Nixon first read if il,
l guollc' IL was adopted July 4, 1875.
men a new thing happened on earth
"a new idea in government was for
lhulated IN new world,-a govern.
ment OF the people, for the. people by
the people. And thus a new state was
porn INTO the family of nations. To
IL the fathers pledged their lives. for
tunes and sacred housekeeping that
tne new state-'E Pluribus Unum, -
might live and shelter the oppressed
OF this and every land.
God grant that it may continue to
nourlsh till time shall be no more.
me Irish bore, though few, perse.
cuted and poor, a noble and conspicu.
GUS part in the making of this state,
John Sullivan, son of John Sullivan.
OF Killarney, Ireland, commanded De-
cember ], liza, at the taking of Fort
william and Mary, and secured there
some OF the guns and ammunition
USED at the battle of Bunker Hill.
In May, l775, Jerry O'Brien and his
Tour brothers led the men who took
the hrst British vessel at Machias Bay
the Lexington of the Seas" Thus
the first successes by land and sea
We're gained by the Irish.
In 1875 Montgomery invaded Can.
ada.
Historian, Professor Goldwen Smith
says that the Irish in the army of
washington We're so numerous that
lrlsh was as commonly spoken in the
ranks as was the English language.
4 General Robertson, who served "a
years in America, said: 81 remember
General Lee telling me that he beiiev.
en- one-half the rebel army was from
Ireland"
Washington Park Curtis (adopted
son OF General Washingtony, in his
PERSONAL Recollections," tells us that
up to the coming of the French, Ire.
land furnished in the ratio of 100 to |
of any foreign nation whatsoever.
Then said he, "honored be the good
old service of the Sons of Erin in the
war of independence Let the Sham
rock be entwined with the laurels of
the Revolution, and truth and Justice,
guiding the pen of history, inscribe on
the tablets of American remembrance
eternal gratitude to Irishmen."
John Randolph, of Roanoke, said: 81
nave sen white crow. | have heard
OF black swans, but an Irish opponent
OF American liberty have never eth
er seen or heard Of"
Historian Ramsay declares that .the
Irish in America were to man on
the side of independence. They had
fled from oppression in their native
country and could not brook the idea
that it should follow them here
This is most remarkable testimony
" AASi " = SIiSiiiuSl lIldI GO,UUU A1nGfl-
car Tories We're fighting against
Washington and their own country.
AS early as 1875 General Howe, writ
ing to England for more soldiers. ask
ed for German and not Irish, soldiers,
as the Irish could not be depended on
to fight against their brethren"
In the house of lords. the Duke of
Richmond said, attempts have been
made to enlist Irish Roman Catholics
but the ministers know well that
these attempts have proven unsuc.
cessful"
In 1884 Hugh Gardner in the Irish
parliament said, America was lost to
the English crown y by Irish
emigrants."
AS the war went on and England
could not purchase mercenary troops
any longer Irish men were seized and
shipped here to fight the colonists, but
they deserted at the first opportunity
and joined the ranks of the patriots.
When England was compelled to
withdraw all soldiers from Ireland for
the American war the Irish were al
lowed to become home guards. They