Flier issued to promote the Irish Bond Certificate campaign in the United States

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"Patriots of Ireland! Be Strong in Hope! Your Cause is identical with mine" (George Washington, Mt. Vernon, 1788) 1919 1769 FRANKLIN went to IRELAND seeking the sympathy and support of the Irish people, 1769 and 1771. Ireland was a nation. America was then a group of struggling colonies. What was Ireland's response then? Ireland sent us soldiers for our army, and sailors for our navy; generals and commanders to command them, and GUNS and AMMUNITION to arm them. FRANKLIN'S REPORT: "ALL Ireland is strongly in favor of the American cause. They have reason to sympathize with us. Our party is warmly taken by the Irish in general. "There are ALL Bowdoin, 1772). (Franklin's letters to James Bowdoin, 1772). To help America, Ireland braved England's wrath. DE VALERA came to the UNITED STATES seeking the sympathy and support of the American people. Now, Ireland is struggling for the recovery of her Independence. America is an independent nation. What will be America's response now? Ireland simply asks for OFFICIAL RECOGNITION—recognition not government by our government—recognition not intervention. Shall we withhold it? DE VALERA'S REPORT: What will it be? Shall it not be that ALL AMERICA is strongly in favor of the Irish cause? Shall America hesitate now to champion the right? WILL AMERICA DO UNTO IRELAND IN 1920 AS IRELAND DID UNTO AMERICA IN 1769? ADDRESS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, PHILADELPHIA, TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND, JULY 28, 1775. "And here permit us to assure you that it was with the utmost reluctance we could prevail upon ourselves to cease our commercial connection with your island. Your Parliament has done us no wrong. You had ever been friendly to the rights of mankind; and we acknowledge, with pleasure and gratitude, that your nation has produced patriots who have nobly distinguished themselves from the most grateful acknowledgements of the Americans." "Accept our most grateful acknowledgements for the friendly disposition you have always shown to us. We know that you are not without your grievances." "In the rich pastures of Ireland many hungry parricotes have fed, and grown strong to labour in its destruction. We hope the patient abiding of the meek may seek not always be forgotten; and God grant that the iniquitous schemes of extirpating liberty by the British Empire may soon be defeated." FRANKLIN'S ADDRESS FROM VERSAILLES TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND ON BEHALF OF AMERICA, DATED OCTOBER 4, 1778. "The misery and distress which your ill-fated country has been so frequently exposed to, and so often experienced, by such a combination of rapine, treachery and violence, as would have disgraced the name of government in the most arbitrary country in the world, has most sincerely affected your friends in America, and has engaged the most serious attention of Congress." "* * * I have in my commission to repeat to you, my good friends, the cordial concern that Congress takes in everything that relates to the happiness of Ireland; they are sensibly a…