“(6) To promote and foster an honorable and national spirit of patriotism, which shall know no lines of division, which shall be based upon loyalty to the laws, institutions and spirit of the Republic to whose upbuilding the Irish element has unselfishly contributed in blood and treasure, a patriotism whose simple watchwords shall be ‘true Americanism’ and ‘human freedom,’ and which has no concern for any man’s race, color or creed, measuring him only by his conduct, effort and achievement. “(7) To promote by union in a common high purpose, a sincere fraternity, a greater emulation in well doing, a closer confidence and mutual respect among the various elements of the Irish race in America, that by putting behind it the asperities of the past, it may unite in a common brotherhood with its fellows for the honor of the race and the glory of the Republic. “(8) To compile the results of its historical investigations in suitable literary form; to print, publish and distribute its documents among libraries, educational institutions and its own membership with a view to the wide dissemination of historical truths, and in order that such data may be placed within the reach of historians and other writers and readers. “(9) To discriminate every paper, sketch and document bearing on the work of the Society before the same is accepted and given official sanction, in order that its publication may be a guarantee of its historical accuracy; to do its work without passion or prejudice, to view acknowledged facts in the true scientific historical spirit; and, having reached the truth, to give it to the world. “Some two years ago the movement for the erection of this memorial was started. The first suggestion came from Mr. Thomas Hamilton Murray, the late honored Secretary-General of the Society. The Rhode Island members at once manifested a deep interest, formed themselves into a committee, and, in due time, solicited among their number subscriptions for this memorial. These subscriptions came in very satisfactorily, and, when we were assured that it was possible to erect a suitable memorial, a sub-committee of the general committee conferred with the Board of State House Commissioners, who assigned to us the most appropriate space in the State House, beside the cases of flags carried by Rhode Island regiments in the different wars. “The memorial has been erected with the aid of Rhode Island subscriptions, with one or two exceptions. It was designed by the brilliant young sculptor, Mr. John G. Hardy, under whose direction it was executed by the W. J. Feeley Company, of Providence.