The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-19

John Wilson, of Armagh"
The first and only country which
sent supplies to the famished colonists
in king Philips war;" in 1875 was
| Ireland-and record of "The Irish
Donation may be found in the
Colonial papers of Massachusetts and
Connecticut.
The first sea battle on record in
| which an American ship took part was
fight off the Canary Islands in 1916,
and there the appellation was given
"An Irish man-of-War." The first shin
of the Revolution was built and fitted
| out and presented to the Government
by Nathaniel Tracy, son of Patrick
Tracy, of County Wexford The first
naval battle of the Revolution was
won by six sons of Morris O'Brien,
| OF Dublin The last naval battle by
Jack Barry and the first inland naval
battle by Commodore Marlborough. a
son of Patrick Marlborough, of some
where in Ireland
| So we have DeyereauX, Murphy and
Magee; Field, Winthrop and Doherty:
Mcbride, Mitchell and Connor; Kelly,
Kane, OKane and mcdonald from
Limerick" McGarry, Denton and Ho-
gan; Duane, Read and Mexican;
Lynch, Rutledge and Sullivan; Thorn
son, Nixon and Dunlop; Binns, DON
gan and Montgomery; Boyle, Clinton
and Houston; Bryan, Denvir, Johnson
and Mckinley; O'Sullivan, Mcclure
Killen and Reilly; London, Lyon, Car
ROLL And SO the record runs.
The first Judge of Ohio was Reilly;
the first clerk of the General Assembly
of Ohio was Reilly; the first clerk of
the city of Cincinnati was Reilly; the
first school in Cincinnati was taught
by Reilly, and the library in Cincin-
natl was presented by John Reilly.
Aside from the glorious First Citi-
zen,' Charles Carroll of Carrollton, let
us inscribe our peroration to "the
| father of a Governor of New Hamp-
| shire and of a Governor of Massa-
chusetts, of New Hampshires first
Judge, of an Attorney General of New
Hampshire and of an Attorney Gen
eral of Massachusetts, of New Hamp-
shire's only major general in the
Revolutionary army, and of four sons
who were officers in the Revolutionary
army. He was the grandfather of the
State Senator from New Hampshire
and of Judge of the same State,
and he was the great-grandfather of
the colonel of the Thirteenth New
Hampshire'-the renowned regiment
of the Civil War"
| Such, said critic, is the record of
| the Irish schoolmaster from the City
of the Violated Treaty limerick,
where the River Shannon flows.
Banned from his native country,
driven across the seas by English OPP
preston, he lifted the torch of light
and freedom on this western land,
and thus forged a link in the chain
which shall bind forever in sympathy
eternal the green old flag and the
Stars and Stripes. If ever a man de-
served to be of the constellar fathers
of the Republic that man was assured
| ly JOnn sullivan
What galaxy! What a record!
What a history! AYE car, I'VE, say
Our Country?" Surely, and we are
here yet. And ever, until the last star
shall be cast from the heavens and the
summons come to join our brethren
beyond the bar, shall be found the
Irish blood, the truly Catholic heart,
the warm, honest friendship and the
loyal devotion of the race and creed to
this glorious, God-blessed land.
Call the roll of the heroes, you'll find
Then there on the page, those of our
kindred
| Present on that ever-crimsoned day
And never such a record without
| Kelly and Burke and Shea.