t no man write my epitaph; for, as no one who knows my motives
dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain
uninscribed until other times and other men can do justice to my
character and memory. When my country shall take her place among the
nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be
written."

Again, in my peripatetic tour of nations, seeking and aiding the hosts of
Liberty, I stood with

GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON,

the greatest Irish-American citizen, soldier and President, behind the
cotton bales and swamps of New Orleans, and on the 8th of January, 1815, I
saw him hurl more than two thousand "Red Coats" into eternity, with only a
loss of seven men, three killed and four wounded.

Kentucky and Tennessee "Bushwhackers," with a lot of New Orleans
shopkeepers, armed with squirrel rifles, killed and defeated General
Pakenham, and the veteran troops of John Bull, in their raids over the
globe for land, loot and human blood.

And still moving across the Gulf of Mexico, to Vera Cruz; and by land to
Buena Vista, with

SCOTT AND TAYLOR,

I heard the scream of the American eagle as it swooped down on the tyrant
troops of Santa Ana, and with the Stars and Stripes waving in the breeze,
beheld the United States soldiers charge the castellated heights of
Chapultepec, and the next day, the 14th of September, 1847, saw General
Scott plant his colors over the "National Palace," with his conquering army
marching in glory through the city and halls of the Montezumas.

Yet, with all the woes of Mexico, I saw it in after years, rise out of the
toils of foreign monarchy, when General Juarez, the native liberator,
captured and killed the Archduke Maximilian, the representative of the
Little Napoleon of France.

The "Monroe Doctrine" triumphed in the death gurgle of Maximilian.

_Sic semper tyrannis!_

Treason to tyrants is truth to the people!

Off with the heads of Charles the First, Louis the Sixteenth and
Robespierre!

I stood by the side of

GENERAL BEAUREGARD

on the 12th of April, 1861, at the city of Charleston, South Carolina, and
heard him give the order to "fire" on the flag at Fort Sumter.

Slavery and "State Rights" threw down the gauntlet to Freedom and "National
Rights!" A million of men were destroyed in the great American Rebellion,
and after four years of the bloo