There will be many O’Brien set himself to the listed almost three times the Irishmen for whom the task of finding out how many number of Irish who actually R e v o l u t i o n toasting glasses will be tipped Irish there were in the colonies had been in the country. Other on St. Patrick’s Day — but A Shamrock For O ’Brien during t e Revolution. His historians, said O’Brien, were unfortunately few will be enthusiasm was noteworthy. wrong He was right. raised in honor of Michael J. facts,” “misrepresentation” O’Brien was employed by it to Washington for use in Insisting that many Irish The Irish, sand O’Brien, O’Brien. and the creation of “ false Western Union Company. His establishing his defenses was changed their names to appear were loyal, devout, honest, Am nesty Plea Yet it was O’Brien, a impressions.” job took him to various points told in detail. Only recently Anglo Saxon, O ’Brien O’Heas energetic, cultured — and divil fugitive from the Irish Hardly had O’Brien put his of the country. O’Brien used New Yorkers became aware of became Hayes, O’Clerys take those who said they In this period when amnesty and to foreswear his loyalty to rebellion, who took up the bitter pen away when Albert these trips to dredge up new the courage of Hercules became Clarke and MacNeill weren’t. for draft dodgers is the subject Great Britain. writing cudgels to show that Bushnell Mart, another and fascinating facets on Irish Mulligan and have established a became Neilson. Triumphantly O’Brien The situation of Walter of raging controversy a voice the Irish had never received historian, when the Revolution history. memorial in his name near the Even names like Black, Gray declared that Princeton, once from the distant past has Rutherfurd was described in a their proper due in the ended there were in the United O’Brien took particular financial district. and Green were seized upon by known as the College of New dispatch August 22, 1777, in echoes of the same cry. country’s historic annals. States two million of English delight in tracing down Irish “George Washington’s O ’B rien as having Irish Jersey, owed its eminence to the Penssylvania Evening Post. It is that of John W hen George Bancroft extraction, two hundred connections with the Associations with the Irish” is ancestry. two schoolmasters, Patrick Pointing out that Rutherfurd Rutherfurd, the man whose produced his “History of the thousand Scotch Irish and one Revolution. still another book by O’Brien. When O’Brien was through Hogan and William Gilliland. and Parker “seem determined name was adopted — and United States” and indicated hundred thousand Germans. His “ Hercules Mulligan And his “The Irish At he also added the Scotch to the Without them, demanded to secure by neutrality of distorted — by Rutherford and Ireland had sided with England O’Brien roared that the Confidential Correspondent of Bunker Hill: Evidence of Irish Irish insisting there was no O’Brien, where would conduct” slapped both men in East Rutherford. in the Revolution O’Brien Mart tract merely proved that George Washington” celebrates Participation in the Battle of difference except religious. Princeton be today? jail. replied in a furious denial. He “ c e rta in historians need one of the great New York war 17 June 1775” is a book all It was to no account, so far A happy St. Patrick’s Day As jailing went it was not charged that Bancroft was acquaint themselves with the stories. How Mulligan garnered red-blooded Americans, Gaelic as O’Brien was concerned, that to the toastiest of them all, difficult. The two men were guilty of “suppression of facts of history.” news about the British and sent or no, can appreciate. when he was tl.rough he had Michael J. O’Brien. ordered to stay within the confines of a farm. Then the distance they could travel was broadened. Meantime, the new goverment dickered with the English to win the release of f'U / l American prisoners — named John Fell and Wynant Van Zandt. Three years after the end of Com m ercial ÏÏV a fo r the war the Rutherfurds began a careful methodical campaign to win amnesty. In May, 1783, and SOUTH-BERGEN REVIEW TEN CE IVTS Per Copy the McCormick books asserts, Rutherfurd proposed that wealthy tory merchants should Published at 251 Ridge Rd.. Lyndhurst VOL. 51, NO. 33 Thursday, March 16, 1972 Second-Class postage paid at Rutherford. N .J. S«cond-Cla*i postage paid at Rutherford. N .J. be invited into the state to Subscription $3.00 contribute to its commercial development. Pointing out that such a RUTHERFURD policy had already been Rutherfurd’s plea for adopted in Connecticut, amnesty is pointed up in Rutherfurd urged adoption in Court Questions Shake Agency Richard P. McCormick’s New Jersey of an act of general amnesty. For almost a year the ‘‘Experiment In Fate of the grand worried about the provisions of declared that he would seek a Indépendance,” an insouciant question lay unresolved. Then the sponsorship of former be subjected to the same state The Supreme Court meadowland plan and the East the legislation. plan that would meet the little volume which first made State Senator Fairleigh seizure that has been reportedly asserted that the Rutherford sports complex According to these reports court’s objections. Dickinson Jr. of Bergen. attempted in the meadowlands constitutionality of the its apperance in 1950 and hung in the balance today as Justice Weintraub, who had However, at a conference in which has been re-issued this According to the mayors — if the meadowlands plan is meadowlands law is the New Jersey Supreme Court raised sharp questions about Lyndhurst on Saturday mayors the legislation was approved successful. q u e s tio n a b le because it week by Rutgers University raised serious questions about the tax distribution plan in the of communities involved in the Press. because many legislators failed deprives the communities of both projects. meadowland pact during the protest against the It is one of a great mass of to u n d e rsta n d its full Thus it is doubtful if their rightful ability to impose Whether either fits the various hearings, said that the meadowland legislation said books on early America which implications. It was believed at legislators will pass the taxes. constitutionality requirements distribution plan is not they do not think the may be expected as the the time that only the amendatory legislation. The of the state is doubtful. constitutional. amendments can be adopted. country surges toward the meadowland in Bergen and mayors do not believe that On the sports complex, the It was learned that last week Justice Weintraub is said to The mayors said they will celebration of its 200th Hudson Counties would be once the details of the tax court was said to be dissatisfied have demanded that the law be birthday in 1976. The Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub not offer any help. involved. distribution program are made over the plan to convert amended to meet objections. McCormick book is a valuable summoned lawyers involved in Legislation for the However, it is now believed public objections will be so revenues from the racetrack to Attorney General Kugler guide for New Jersey because it the constitutionality questions meadowlands development was that hundreds of thousands of strong that the amendments paying off a huge football field was at the conference. He shows the difficulties and bluntly advised them he is adopted three years ago under acres of New Jersey land could will fail. for the New York Giants. encountered after June, 1781, when the battle at Springfield signaled the end of the C arucci Explains Revolution in this state. Gash Questions Budget Slash The social and economic School Reduction problems were titanic. The Finance Director Thomas At issue was the elimination increase. He felt that no one in A detailed statement on total School Surplus available Board of Education should cultural injury done by the Gash’s position as a of the position of assistant the township employment why he recommended reducing was $82,669.98. work to have the legislature Revolution is quickly seen. The commissioner and assistant superintendent of schools should receive a salary the Board of Education budget “At June 30, 1971 - the pass laws that would have Episcopolian church, for principal of Lyndhurst High which had been held by the exceeding $20,000 annually. school budgets exempted from RLTHERFVRl) FAMILY CREST by $47,000 was released today total School Surplus available instance, was decimated School became an issue last late John MacLean. Gash asked for a chance to vote. by Mayor Joseph Carucci. He was $214,865.72 and that at Wednesday when the Board of Township Auditor William because most of its clergymen in April, 1784, there suddenly declared that reduction of the rebut Carucci’s remarks, and Janowski, in voting for the June 30, 1972 — the Surplus Commissioners reduced the Pelio, noting that Garfield had had adopted the British cause appeared in the New budget will aid the taxpayers after some resistance, was given reduction, said that Vincent available is expected to Board of Education budget by recently abolished such a post, and at the war’s end the church Brunswick Political Intelligecer but in no way will harm the permission. He asked how, Carini, last year’s board aggregate $133,839.00. .$47,000. urged Lyndhurst to follow suit. was almost obliterated. a series of letters — attributed school system.