Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-04
IRISH PATRIOT WHO BECAME
UNHYPHENATED AMERICAN
The Coming of the Day When United States Would Per-
nit Only One Flag Was Predicted by
John Boyle ORely.

miscarried Tho the Vigilant hove In
sight. she changed her course and put
I out to sea, leaving O'Reilly to his fate.
Her captain afterwards explained that
he did not see the little boat nor the
frantic signals made by it occupants.
There was nothing TO do but put back
to shore, where O'Reilly hid out for
three or four days almost perishing
with hunger and thirst. Finally a mes
sage came 10 him from Father Nc
Cabe that new arrangements had been
made with Capt. David X. Clifford Of
the bark Gazelle. another New Bed
ford whaler, TO take him off. Again
O'Reilly, with his l!ttle boat, and this
time he was taken on board. one OF
the officers Of the Gazelle was Henry
c. Hathaway, in whom O'Reilly found
lifelong friend, and who was one
OF those present at the recent unveil-
ing OF the tablet 10 the poets memory
at Hull.
With O'Reilly on board the Gazelle
cruised around in the southern waters
for many months and then, as they
were obliged to put in at the British
port OF ST. Helena, IL was thot best
to transfer him to another ship at sea.
The Sapphire, a Boston ship, bound
from Bombay to Liverpool. was sig
nailed, and O'Reilly was taken on
board. From Liverpool. O'Reilly
shipped as third mate on the Bombay
OF Bath, Maine, and after cruise of
several months on this ship he landed
at Philadelphia on November 23, 1868,
just two years after the date OF his
taking passage on the Hougoumont
for the Australian penal colony His
first act after landing was 10 present
himself before the United States dis
trict court to take out his first papers
Of naturalization.
Within less than ten years from
that date John Boyle O'Reilly was the
editor and owner Of one of the most
Influential newspapers in the United
States-the Boston Pilot-and was not
only president Of the Boston Press
club, but had the distinction OF hold
ing the office of president of the
famous Papyrus club of Boston. an
exclusive literary club that numbered
among its members Henry NJ. Stanley,
Edward King, Charles Eyre Pascoe,
Francis II. Underwood, first editor Of
the Atlantic Monthly; Alexander
Young, the historian; Robert G.. Fitch,
Edwin II. Whipple. the Ticknors,
James L. Osgood. william T. Adams,
"Oliver Optic" William NJ. Hunt. the
artist; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William
Dean Howells. Charles Gaylord, DR..
George Il. Loring and scores of other
of the men OF those days who were
illustrious in literature and art And
among all Of them. O'Reilly was the
best beloved" OF the disciples Of lit
erature. He numbered among his
friends Wendell Phillips. Henry w.
Longfellow, John G.. Whittier and
Oliver Wendell Holmes, all of whom
Irid high tributes to his genius as a
poet and orator and to his uncompro-
missing Americanism.
one of his greatest poems was
America" which was read before the
Army Of the Potomac In Detroit in
1881. General Grant was present and
heard the poem read, and was moved
out of his customary impassivity to
sayy: THAT is one of the grandest
poems / have ever heard" Perhaps
1t was a poem especially after the
heart of the silent old warrior, or
perhaps he was flattered by the poets