The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-18

ara on record sinos the President attended
a Friendly Sons OF st. Patrick dinner ne Is
q hne singer No race suicide IN this ia1llIg.
Weighs eight pounds and looks like the whole
family.
Nov want you TO join me in drinking
the health Of Patrick Mo Donnell and Peter
Mcdonnell and, above ALL OF Mrs heDoh-
NELL
The diners, who had punctuated the
telegram with laughter, rose at TINS ana
drank the health with a will and three
cheers. When they died down, Presldent
Roosevelt swung into the body OF his speech,
THE Judge has spoken to you OF the
formation Of the Friendly Sons OF 81,
Patrick In Colonial days. Long before
the outbreak Of the revolution there
had begun on the soil OF the colonies
which Sfterward became the United
States that mixture Of races which has
been and still Ia one Of the most important
features in our history as people, Az
the time early In the eighteenth century
when tho immigrants from Ireland hrst
began to come In numbers 70 this country
the race elements In our population were
| still imperfeCtly fused, and for some time
| the new Irish strain was clearly distinguish
| able from the others There was pc
| ouliArity about these immigrants who came
| from Ireland 10 the colonies during, the
| eighteenth century which has never been
paralleled in the case OF any other lmmi-
| grants whatsoever. In all other cases
| since the very first settlements, the push
| ing westward OF the frontiers has been
| due primarily 70 the men OF native birth.
But the immigrants from Ireland in the
| seventeenth century pushed boldly through
the settled districts and planted them
| selves az the advance guard Of the con-
| auerinE civilization on the borders Of the
| Indian haunted wilderness. In Maine and
northern New Hampshire, In western
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Caro-
| lima, alike, this was true.
these men had begun to mix with their
| fellows Of other stocks, and they furnished
| their full share Of leadership in the great
! struggle which made us a nation. Among
| their number was Commodore John Barry,
one Of the three OF four officers 20 whom
| our infant navy owed most. On land
| they furnished Generals like Montgom-
cry who fell 30 gloriously at Quebec and
| Sullivan, the oonqueroT OF the lroquois
who came Of New Hampshire family
which furnished Governors 20 three New
il was Mrs. Sullivan who said that she
| used 20 work in the fields with future
| Governor Of Massachusetts in her arms
and future Governors OF New Hampshire
and Vermont tagging behind her.
while the Continental troops Of the
| hardest fighter among Washington's
! Generals Mad Anthony Wayne, were
recruited so largely from this stock
| ferred 70 them as The Line Of Ireland.
| Nor must we forget that Of this same stock
there was a boy during the days Of the
| Revolution who afterward became the
| chief American General Of his time, and as
| President one OF the public men who left
| his impress most deeply upon our nation,
old Andrew Jackson, the victor OF New
Orleans
IRELAND's PART IN CIVIL WAR
country's history-the period Of the civil
war--the part played by the men Of Irish
birth or parentaRe was no less strihn
than II had been in the Revolution. Among
the three or four great Generals who led
the Northern army in the war stood Phil
Sheridan. Some Of those whom am now
addressing served in that immortal brigade
which on the fatal day Of Fredericksburg
left it's dead closest TO the stone wall which
marked the limit that could not be over
passed even by the highest human valor.
As you remember, had the honor lately
Of being a regimental commander in a
rather small war. Two OF the men, both
Captains, who were killed in that regi-
ment were sons Of men who fell in that
charge at fredericksburg. Capt. Bucky
OEeil showed the same indifference TO
death, the same courage In the face OF
supreme danger, that his father showed
when he fell in the most heroic charge Of
the civil war.
sThe people who have come 10 this country
from Ireland have contributed 70 the stock
Of our common citizenship qualities which
are essential TO the welfare Of every great
nation. They are a masterful race, of
rugged character-a race the qualities Of
whose womRnhood have become proverbial,
while It's men have the elemental, the in
dispensable virtues Of working hard in
time Of peace and fighting hard in time
of war. In every walk OF life men Of this
blood have stood and now stand. preem-
inent As statesmen and as soldiers, on the
bench, at the bar, and in business. They
are doing their full share toward the artistic
and literary development OF the country,
And right here let me make a special
plea TO you. We Americans take a just
pride IN the development Of our great uni
Versities and more and more we are seeking
10 provide for original and creative work in
thess universities. / hope that an earnest
American universities for the study Of
Celtic literature and for research in Celtic an
EQUITIES IL is only Of recent years that the
extraordinary wealth and beauty OF the old
Celtic Sagas have teen fully appreciated,
and we OF America, who have 80 large a
Celtic strain in our blood, can not afford 20
be behindhand In the work Of adding to
modern scholarship by bringing within
lis ken the great Celtic literature Of the
past.
AMERICANS BEFoBE ALL
sMy fellow countrymen, l have spoken to-
night especially OF what has been done for
this nation Of ours by its sons Of Irish blood.
But, after all, in speaking to you OF any other
body Of my fellow citizens, no matter from
what Old World country they themselves
or their forefathers may have come, the
treat thing 20 remember Is that we are all
OF MS Americans. Let us keep our pride
in the stocks from which we have sprung;
but let US show that pride not by holding
aloof one from another, least Of all by pre-
serving the Old World jealousies and bitter
nssses, but by joining In spirit Of generous
rivalry 10 see which can do most for our
great common country.
shmericAnism h not matter OF creed, or
birthplace, or descent. That man Is the best
american who has In him the American
spirit, the American soul. Such a man fears
not the strong and harms not the weak.
He sooTns what il base or cruel or dishonest.
He looks beyond the accidents Of occupation
OF social condition, and halls each Of hisfellow
citizens as his brother, asking nothing save
that each shall treat the other on his worth
as q man, and that they shall join together
10 do all that In then lies for the uplifting Of
this mighty and vigorous people In our
veins runs the blood Of many an Old World
nation. We are kin 70 ca oh OF those nntions
and yet identical with none Our policy
should be one q cordial friendship fer ali,
and yet We should keep ever before our
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