Scotland was colonized by the native Irish. and after some centuries many of the descendants of the early colonists returned to Ireland. the ]ioie of their ancestors. Racially they are one people. I might say in this connection. Mr. President. that the first general who fell in the struggle for American liberty was a nativeborn Irishman. Gen. Richard Montgomery. The first British ship captured in the war was captured by the son of an Irish immigrant in Mschias Bay. M.-Capt. Jeremiah OBrien. The richest man in the American coloniesthe man who imperiled more than tany other man. not even excepting George Washington. when lie embraced the patriotic causewas the grandson of an Irish Immigrant. Charles Carroll. of Carrollton. John Hancock.
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