We should remember that Sullivan was a Kelt, And through

the centuries the Kelts have given us the lordliest orators and golden artists, but for tenacity of purpose no one has celebrated them. General Sullivan when he was taken prisoner and fell under

the influence of the British military power, and contrasting them

with the meagerness that he had been accustomed to, for once his

heart failed him and his soul sank within him, and it is no sorrow

to his name to say that for the moment he thought the liberty of

mankind in the Western continent was doomed. He came from the British to us seeking peace, but after he

was exchanged and in his old environment his true native Keltic

courage returned and hii after life was the life of an ardent patriot. I do not think we give enough credit to the perceptions of the

ignorant. Suppose to ten thousand ignorant people this entirely hN-pothetical question should be stated: Around the globe is a people

who for three hundred years had been fighting a tyranical power

and well nigh achieved success. Would it be right for a republic

to step in and take them away from the power they were in rebellion against, and then this republic by force of arms prevent them

from becoming an independent republic? State to ten thousand

ignorant people this question, and they will shout with one voice

" that it is not right." State this question to ten thousand college

professors, and they will back and fill, debate and re-debate, and

finally be fogged by their very knowledge and at last come to no

conclusion at all. It has never been sufiiciently made clear that the classes fought

the Revolutionary war. The educated, the elegant, the conservative, the well-to-do, in short the " better elements," were practically

all with the British.