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Ireland.
Major Kelly. who demolished the
bridge over Stony Brook, near Prince
ton, in the face of Corvallis army,
born in Ireland.
Colonel Nixon was a minute man at
Lexington, wounded at Bunker Hill,
and took part in the battles of Sara.
toga, Princeton ETC., born in Ireland.
Colonel Zebulan Butler, great fav-
orite of Washington, born in Ireland.
Col. John Mcclure, one of the master
spirits of South Carolina. He fell at
the first fire o. the royalists at Hanging
Rock, and four of his cousins lay bleed
ing near him. His command was known
as the Rocky Greek Irish.
Patrick Calhoun, father of John G.
Calhoun His three brothers fought
for American independence. One per-
ished by the hands of the Tories. anoth-
er fell at the battle of the Cowpens with
thirty sabre wounds, and third, taken
prisoner by the English, was immured
for nine months, in the dungeons at
st. Augustine, born in Ireland.
Robert Wilson, of North Carolina,
was sturdy fighter, he and his seven
sons were in Washington's army.
Colonel Francis Barber, son of Pat
rick Barber, of Longford, Ireland, re-
ceived a commission from congress, in
l776, as major, Third Battalion, New
Jersey troops, was in constant service
during the entire war. Took part iE
all the battles of'the North.
Colonel John Barber, brother of
Francis, commanded company in the
New York line, Irish American.
Captain William Barber, youngest
son of Patrick Barber, and brother of
Francis and John Barber, commanded
a company in the New York line.
Genl Walter Stewart belonged to the
Pennsylvania line and participated in
many battles, born in Ireland.
Colonel Stephen Moylan, the ''Murat
of the Revolution" served in all the
battles in which Washington, was en-
gagged from Boston to Yorktown and
also with Wayne at the storming of
Stony Point, born in Cork, Ireland
Nearly if not quite half of the popula-
ton of the country previous to the
revolution was Irish. In the first num-
Der of the Maryland Journal and Balti-
more Advertiser, dated August Goth,
1878, the following bit of news occurs ::
"a CARGO OF REBELS.
Within this fortnight three thousand
five hundred passengers have arrived
from Ireland"
In 1771 and 1772, the rumber of inn
migrants from Ireland to America
alone amounted to II, $50.
Within the first two weeks of August,
1878, there arrived in Philadelphia
three thousand five hundred emigrants
from Ireland And thus it is that from
the earliest time the Irish people have
had fondness for America. In 1923,
five thousand six hundred Irish landed
in Philadelphia "Of all the countries, .
says Ramsey, the historian of South
Carolina, "none has furnished us with so
many inhabitants as Ireland" Froude,
the English historian, tells us that
Bunker Hill was named after hill of
that name in Ireland.
In the appreciation for the great as
sistance and services rendered to him
during the revolution and in acknowl-
edgement of the patriotism and cour-
age of the Irish in fighting the battles
of that time, Washington became a
member of the Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick, an Irish society of Philadel-
phia, which is still in existence and
which has the name of The Father of
his Country on its membership list.
Not only in the preliminaries DuC in
the eventual organization of our gov.
ernment. in every department and
avenue of American life, civil or mil
itary, in commerce, in the arts, in
every department of learning, in the
professions, literature, law, medicine,
journalism, these people stand the
equals of the descendants of those
other nationalities which go to make
up the American as we find him today.
There was no studied intention of be-
ing f1ippant or offensive in our refer
ences to the Irishman, in the Pilot of
last week, and we regret that what
was said could be so construed