Society, F: Proceedings at the Dinner to the Rochambeau Spec

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Society, F: Proceedings at the Dinner to the Rochambeau Spec

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Excerpt from Proceedings at the Dinner to the Rochambeau Special Mission, Given by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at Delmonico's, May 29, 1902

Gratifying as the announcement of the Commission was to the American people at large, it was especially so to the millions of American citizens of Irish birth or descent. France had been the friend, the refuge of Ireland during the darkest and bitterest hours of her history. France had been the hope of Ireland in her many efforts to throw off the galling yoke of English oppression and misgovern ment. That 'the plans of the French to make good that hope were not as successful as they proved in the case of the American colonies of Great Britain did not. Lessenthe Irishman's feeling of gratitude to the brave and gen erous nation so lavish of its blood and treasure in the cause of freedom for mankind. Nor were Irishmen slow to recall that the two battalions of the Irish regiment of Dillon, under that brave Irish commander, formed part of the French force at the surrender of the English gen eral, Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown. Then, too, this splendid reminder of the olden battle-blood alliance be tween France and the United States came at a time when the cant of anglo-saxon brotherhood was widespread in these United States, and used in season and out of season, to make men forget that England ever had been an enemy or that any other power had ever been a friend.

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