The Washington times., 1922-01-01
IRISH HER ES IGNORED
i'm DISTORTED HISTORY


have been incontinently wiped out
Of every one Of these revisions.
General Anthony Wayne gets bar
est mention by Hart, Guitteau and
Mclaughlin and Van Tyne. and
Everett Barnes does not mention
him at all.
HANCOCK A "SMUGGLER."
General Morgan. though admitted
by both Barnes and Guitteau to
have crushed Tarleton and freed the
South of the British and Tories.
and also admitted by Barnes to have
played a leading part in the cap
ture Of Burgoyne, is not mentioned
by either Of these elsewhere. nor at
all by Hart or by Mclaughlin and
Van Tyne.
In clear view Of all this consistent
suppression of Irish heroism. may it
not be assumed that It Is because Of
the Irish blood In his veins that
John Hancock Is shamefully ira
duced as "a smuggIer," with no sin
gle word Of his glorious record Of
patriotic sacrifices and services In
any of these revisions?
Rroude. the most malignant ira
Queer that Ireland ever had. says
that Irishmen were "the foremost,
the most irreconcilable, the most
determined in pushing the Aneri-
can Revolution to the last ex-
tremity." That was fitted to Eng
lish ears. To traduce the Irish or
the revolution In American ears
the only cue Is silence.
1t Is unjust to the Irish heroes
Of the Revolution, unjust to the
Irish people of today. unjust to
ourselves, that all these resplen-
dent names should be condemned
to obloquy or oblivion in American
history because Great Britain in
her eternal war with the Irish has
need to cultivate American sym
pathy and support. What of our
independence, self respect and ma
tional morale II we are thus to be
colonized. intellectually, emotion
ally and practically. as a Deepen
dency Of Great Britain in her i'm
perialistic purposes?
Now that we may comprehend
clearly why SO many Of the most
illustrious names in Revolutionary
annals are dimmed or eliminated:
simply because they are German
or Irish. perhaps we may also
Judge correctly why other lumin-
Gus names which have cast black
shadows upon Englands record
and sorely offended her pride are
also eliminated by these new
hyphenated historians.
NATHAN HALE UNMENTIONED.
One Of the best-heloved figures IN
the old school histories was Nathan
Hale. The original Barnes School
History. q favorite for fifty years.
and now revised but not reversed,
still contains this:
Captain Nathan Hale had been
sent by Washington a. q SPY into
the Pritish camps on Long Island.
He passed the lines safely. but ON
his way back was recognized and ar.
rested Being taken to Howe's
headquarters. he was tried and exs-
cuted. No clergyman was allowed
to visit him; even a Bible was denied
him. and his farewell letters to bis
mother and sister were Destroyed.
His last words words were: II regret
that have been one Life to lose for
my countryr' k
But Mclaughlin and Van Tyne
hove NO single word Of Nathan Hale,
NOR has Guitteau. or O'Hara, q
Word. or Everett Barnes.
In only one Of the SIX revised
school histories does the name Of
Nathan Halo occur. and there Hart
only lists him among distinguished
graduates Of YALE" with no hint o.
to why he ID distinguished.
And while these revisionists havs
no resentment against even men
ton Of the British execution Of On
American spy. they all fully and
feelingly recite the brave exploit
and American execution of the
British spy. Major Andre. In thsee
histories that altogether give lees
than one-fourth Of one limo "a
Nathan Hale. and not to the
point. there are more than forty
lines devoted to "the British
agent who was hanged a. . spy
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