The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-06-14


an English fleet hail nigh; st. Simon.
troops arriving from the West Indies
Rocllambeau's troops with those OF
Washington racing from the north. Th,
sea forces, ships and men, We're alto
gether French; OF the land forces, the
larger part We're French, three thou
sand men under ST. Simon and -four
thousand under Rochambenu. With
out France, was the victory to aliyht
upon us at Yorktown?
But France was with lis at York
town; and ut Yorktown all went we'll
The United States was nation, &C,
knowledged so by the world; all that it
stood for was Il stern and enduring
leality. The victory was tie feat of
the allied forces OF France and Of the
United States. Ilcarken TO Washing
ton and Kochambeau us ut Yorktown
they drink to the toaSt-Fruncc and the
United States! Sons OF Washinsto ton,
sons Of Rochambeau, we drink to it
tonight-Erance and the United States!
Without France, the Am r.can Revo-
tuition i'll the last quarter OF the eight
zenith century WAS undoubtedly IL fail
ure. This is the calm Judgment of his
tory, based upon facts indisputable.
France with her money, her navy and
her army gave us our independence.
The blood of France flowing with that
OF Americas own children poured life
into the Republic Of America; tie name
Of France is illsepalable from her most
cherished annals; the memory or
France is impressed indel bly, upon
her soul. Tear the republic to pieces,
scatter to the winds the fragments of
her mutilated form, blot forever Amer
lea out OF existence, buy her' name
amid the ruins upon the soil She once
covered with her glory-t then, and then
only, will America L rgct her debt OF
gratitude to France, aud cease to re-
peat in cNult;ltion- France and the
United States-and even then, remain
ing humanity viii rise up to thank
France for her cooperation in the
American revolution because of the i'll
estimable blessings which humanity
caught up from the liberties of Amer
lea, while America had lasted.
Our gratitude for France" wrote
Franklin at the close of the war, will
be- l hope, eternal"-our gratitude for
France, we tonight proclaim, will be,
beyond all peril of recall. eternal.
uOnored guests, be not surlris cd at
the enthusiasm with which America
has hailed your coming; she but acts
out her very soul; as she did yesterday
to Rocllambcau and Lafayette, SO to-
day she does to you; 50 tomorrow and
ut all times will she do to those who
speak to her of France, who bear to
her the banner and the name of
France.
But what means, l must ask, this
banner of green: Why hutlers it over
the festive board, where thanks ascend
to Heaven for victories won by the
soldiers of Washington and of Ro-
Did its azure folds unlurl
10 the breeze at Newport, CT Gloucester
Point, ut Savannah Or Yorktown? Aud
f not, why darts it hitller?
No; it did not rise to the skies over
your storied battleiclds. Alas for the
and it symboliZes! Erin has no place
among tile nations of the elrth; II L
sons must range themselves under the
banners of other lands, ii they serve
Justice and liberty. But had this BAN
ner of green shot up into the air ar
Newport or Gloucester Point, at Sa-
vannah or Yorktown, Oll-hearts We're
there that would have madly worship
ped it-swOrds We're there that would
have Instantly CLEANED in fcalty to 1t.
Armies OF Rochambcau, of st. ST.
mon, of d'Estaing, tell me whence OH
your mustcr-rols such names as | there
read: Arthur Dillon and Robert Dill
lon, Taafe and De Maloney, Browne
and Shea. Moore and O'Neil, Kelly and
O'Dwyer, O'Brien and OF;lrrcll? No
strangers are they to us you say to me.
They and fellows of theirs int, the mil
lions are known from "Dunkirll 10 Bel
grade from "Fontcnoy to Families
and to Crcmona;' on hundred battle
fields have they wrcathed in glory the
"Fleur-de-ls." They are SONS Of Erin,
and as such, by royal decree, citizens
Of France.
Friends, when Louis XVI. dccrcel
that French armies should sail for
America, Frances Irish brigade clam
ored for the privilege OF fighting for
liberty and for America; one-half Of
the Dillon regiment, under Count Ar
thur Dillon, was with dEstaing in the
West Indies and at Savannah, ana with
st. Simon at Yorktown; the other half
under Count Robert Dillon, landed
with RoclElmbcau Mt Newport, aided
De Lauzun t. rout Tarlcton ut
Gloucester Point, and with Rocham-
beau's men in front OF Yorktown rent
the heavens with their cheers, as the
English troops did homage to the tr-
umphant banners. Of America and
France, their drums meanwhile beat
ing. "rhe World Is Turned Upside