Standing elbow to elbow With them was the Iinigrant of that day. He crowded Into the Irregular colunmn of Washingtons army. he was with him in every battle. and from the days when our banner was first unfurled on Bunker.Hill until it rose In glorious triumph at Yorktown. The immigrant stood in the trenches. walked In the shows. and died In the: swamps as bravely and as valiantly as the native sons of that day. In the War of 1812 again the Immigrant responded to the call of duty. He was present when the first shot was fired and he! was with Jackson back of the cotton bales when the last rifle spoke defiance to the veterans of the British Army. The immigrant was with Scott and Taylor as they marched across the plains of Mexico. He followed them with glorious I heroism to the heights of Chapultepec. He stood with them in the sieges and battles and bloody days of that great conflict. In the War of the Rebellion the immigrant again responded to the call of his adopted country. He served under the battle. Ifiags of Lee :and Jackson. iand he marched bencath thestandards of Grant and Sherman and Sheridan.
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