ever, any hesitation among these poor, neglected warriors; they refused to renounce poverty, nakedness, suffering and ingratitude. Splendid temptations were held out to them in vain; there was no Judas, there was no Arnold. among them; they seized upon their tempters, and trampled upon their shining gold. They sent them to their General, and these miserable wretches paid their forfeited lives for attempting to seduce a band of ragged, forlorn, deserted, but illustrious heroes. "We prate, ," he says, "about the old Roman and Grecian patriotism. One-half of it is false, and in the other half there is nothing that excels these noble traits in our army, which are worthy of the pencil of a West or a Trumbull."

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HOW AMERICA REGARDED IRELAND.

Mark how it is that America regarded them-mark the testimony of some of America's greatest men. Mr. Froude seems

to think that the American people look upon the Irish nation and the Irish people pretty much with the eyes with which the men of the last century would look upon them in Ireland, where the Irish nation meant the Protestant people of Ireland, and the Catholics did not exist at all. Was this the view that America No! Here is the testimony of

and her statesmen took of it? George William Park Curtis, the adopted son of Washington : "The Irish," he says, in 1829 won Catholic Emancipation; and before that time, when they were struggling for emancipation, they appealed for sympathy and moral support to America." And now this is how this great American gentleman speaks of them: "And why is this imposing appeal made for our sympathies? It is an appeal from them, from Ireland, whose generous sons, alike in the days of our calamity and of our glory, shared in our misfortunes and joyed in our success. Who, with undaunted courage, breasted the storm which once threatened to overwhelm us, and hurled with fearful and desolating fury throughout this now happy land; who, with aspirations deep and fervent for our cause, whether under the walls of the Castle of Dublin or in the shock of our battles, or in the feeble and expiring accents of famine and misery, or amid the horrors of the prison ship, cried, from their hearts, "GOD SAVE

AMERICA!" Oh! tell me not," he goes on to say; "tell me not of the aid which we received from another European nation, in the struggle for independence; that aid was most needed, and and all-essential to our ultimate success; but remember the years of the conflict that had rolled away; the capture of Burgoyne had ratified the Declaration of Independence ;' the renewed combats on the Heights of Charlestown and Fort Moultrie; the bloody and disastrous days of Long Island and Germantown; the glories of Brandywine, Newton, Princeton and Monmouth; all had occurred and the rank grass had grown over the grave of many a poor Irishman who had died for America, before the flag of the Allies floated in the field by the side of the Star Spangled Banner."

IRISH LOVE FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY.

"But," he adds, "of the brave heroes of the war-I mean the soldiers up to the coming of the French-Ireland furnished a ratio of one hundred men for any one of any foreign nation whatever." Then this generous American gentleman, to whom Ireland appealed for sympathy for Mr. Froude's is not the first appeal that has been made to the people of America—this high-minded gentleman goes on to say: Then all honor be paid for all the good service of the sons of Erin in that war of Independence. Let the shamrock be intertwined with the laurels of the Revolution; let truth and justice guide the pen of history, and subscribe on the tablets of America's remembrance-ETERNAL GRATITUDE TO IRISHMEN." Remember that this was Washington's son; remember that he tells us that the old, gray-headed, crippled veterans, who had fought under his father's banner in that war of independence, were accustomed to come to his house, and there he would receive them at the door and bring them in; and he tells us most affectingly of one old Irishman who had fought in the wars; who, after drinking the health of the gentleman who had entertained him, lifted up his aged eyes, and, with tears, he said: Now, let me drink to General Washington, who is in Heaven this day." He says, on the same occasion: "Americans, recall to your mind the recollections of the heroic time when Irishmen were our

friends; when in the whole world we hadn't a friend besides."

AN IRISH "HURRAH FOR AMERICA.

"Look to the period that tried men's souls, and you will find that the sons of Erin rushed to our ranks, and amid the clash of steel, on many a memorable day, many a John Byrne was not idle." Remember, he does not say, many a Spraggs or many a Gibbs, or men that came over with Cromwell, but honest John Byrne. Who was this honest John Byrne of whom he speaks? He was an Irish soldier of Washington's, who, taken prisoner by the English and put on board a prison-ship, on the authority of Mr. Curtis, "he there was left in chains in the hold of the ship-pestilence being on board. He was more than half-starved; he was scarcely able, when he was summoned on deck, to crawl, like a poor stricken creature, to the commander's feet to hear what sentence was to be pronounced upon him. And then the English Commander offered him liberty, life, clothing, food and money if he would give up the cause in which he was taken prisoner, and join the ranks of the British army. In a voice scarcely able to speak; with a hand scarcely able to lift itself up, the Irishman looked to Heaven, and throwing up his hands, cried out-Hurrah for America!"" In the face of such facts; in the face of such testimony; in the presence of the honored name and record of George Washington, testifying to what the Irish Catholic men have done for America, Mr. Froude speaks as faintly as if he were speaking to the hurricane that sweeps over his head, when he tries to impress the American mind and the American people with any prejudice against the poor Catholics of Ireland. What does MacNevin tell us of the year 1809, when America was preparing for a second war with England? MacNevin records that one of the offenses charged upon the Irish, and among the many pretexts for refusing redress to the Catholics of Ireland, was that sixteen thousand of them fought on the side of America. But he adds, “That many more thousands are ready to maintain the Declaration of Independence, and that will be their second offense."

Now, my friends, there are other testimonies, as well as these, of the men of the time; we have the testimony of American

literary gentlemen-such, for instance, as that of Mr. Paulding. Here are the words of the distinguished American :

HOW AMERICANS HAVE SPOKEN OF IRELAND.

"The history of Ireland's unhappy connection with England exhibits, from the first to the last, a detail of the most persevering, galling, grinding, insulting and systematic oppression to be found any where, except among the Helots of Sparta. There is not a national feeling that has not been insulted and trodden under foot, or a national right that has not been withheld, until fear forced from the grasp of the English all the dear ancient prejudices that have not varied in that obstinate country. As Christians, the people of Ireland have been denied, under the penalty of disqualification, the exercise of the right of the Catholic religion-venerable for its antiquity, admirable for its unity, and consecrated in the belief of some of the best men that ever breathed. As men, they have been deprived of the common right of British subjects, under the pretext that they were incapable of enjoying them, for which pretext they had no other foundation than their resistance to oppression, only the more sore by the long sanction of it by the law. England first denied them the right of improvement, and then insulted them with the imputation of barbarism." Another distinguished American, Mr. Johnson, says; There is no instance, even in the Ten Persecutions, of such severity as that which has been exercised over the Catholics of Ireland." Thus think, and thus spoke the men whose names are bright in the records of Literary America. Taking, again, the unanimous address agreed to by several members of the Legislature of Maryland, speaking of Ireland, these American Senators and legislators say: "That dependency of Great Britain has long languished under an oppression reprobated by all humanity, and discountenanced by all just policy. It would argue a penury of feeling-an ignorance of human rights, to submit patiently, through centuries, to wrongs which have caused perpetual risings in Ireland; but only with partial success. Rebellion and insurrection have continued with but short intervals of tranquility. America has opened her arms to the oppressed of all nations, No people

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have availed themselves of the asylum with more alacrity, or in greater numbers than the Irish. High is the meed of praise, rich is the reward that Irishmen have merited through the gratitude of America. As heroes and statesmen, they honor their adopted country." Bravo! Until such glorious words as these are wiped out of the records of the American history ; until the generous sentiments which inspired them have ceased to be a portion of the American nature, then, and not before then, will Mr. Froude get the verdict which he seeks from America today.

I have looked through the American Archives, and I have found that the foundation of these sympathies lies in the simple fact that the Catholics of Ireland were heart and soul with you, American gentlemen, with you and your fathers, in that glori ous struggle. I find that in the third volume of the American Archives, a letter from Ireland, dated September 17, 1775, to a friend in New York, in which the American gentleman writ ing said: "Most of the people here wish well to the cause in which you are engaged. They are raising recruits throughout this kingdom. The men are told that they are only going to Edinburgh to learn military discipline, and then to return." Before they got a single Irishman to enlist, they had to tell him a lie, well knowing they were going to arm him, and to send him to America to fight against the American people; well knowing that they would never have entered the ranks of the British army for any such purpose.

A certain Major Roche went down to Cork, to recruit up for America, and he made a great speech to them; it was very laughable. He called upon them as Irishmen, by all that they held sacred, the glorious nationality to which they belonged, the splendid monarch that governed them, and, in fact, the very words, almost, which Mr. Froude alleges to have been used by Lord Fingal, were used by Major Roche to these poor men; and then he held up the golden guineas and the pound notes before them, and here is the record, in the third volume, again, of the American Archives, accounting for the success of Major Roche, in raising recruits to fight against America. The service was so distasteful to the people of Ireland in general