The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-26

From the NeD London (Cona.) Chvoniele.
General scett and the Traitors Hung by
Court-Martial I'm Mexico.
There have been a great many villainous at.
tempts to injure the good name Of General scorr,
but not of them that have seen quite 80 viii
famous as the attempt TO excite i'll feeling against
him, from the fact that he ordered court martial
in Mexico for the trial of certain deserters who
had not only deserted but actually taken up arms
and fought against the American army. To order
the court martial was all he did. The sentence
was passed and the execution done by Democratic
officers During short address recently deliv-
cred at Auburn, on his way home to Washington,
the General thus alluded to this odious attempt:
ssThis story, my friends, was started by some
person without the heart Of an Irishnian or AmeIi-
can. AT Churubusco we took some deserters. We
had three thousand Irishmen in our army, and
these deserters to pieces. But my much esteemed
friend, General Shields, told them il would dis
please me If they should offer any violence, and
they forbore on account Of my wishes. Here are
the facts and beg of you to consult every Irish
man who was in Mexico to the truth of my state
ment leave II nov to your Judgment, although
my feelings have been deeply wounded by the foul
Islander have thus alluded to. s,fga
We are willing to submit it to every irishman
worthy of the name in the whole country whether
the old hero 10 not quite right In the indignation
he feels for this foul Islander upon him, and whe-
Their every Irishman ought not to join him in that
feeling-whether, indeed, all the Irishmen do not
join him in despising the miserable minions capn.
bic Of such an attack We ourselves have never
heard an Irishman refer 10 this matter without
proclaiming his indignation, not against the Gem
erai, but against the false hearted Irishmen who
baseIy deserted their colors and fought aide by
liz oc hat tad
The Irish themselves are the very men who feel
deepest the dsgraceful conduct of their country.
men, and who most rejoice in the punishment &C
justly inflicted on them. We venture to say that
If the court martial which sat in judgment on the
miscreants had been composed entirely Of Irish
men, the deliberations of that court would have
been much shorter. The court would have made
short work with the traitors, and all the more
brief because the criminals were Irishmen. The
Irish feeling against men of that character is un
mistakable; it has no potence with those who for
get the honor of the Irish character and basely be
tray the confidence reposed in them by the country
of their birth or their adoption. 1t is by means
to be wondered at that the Irishmen in the army
with an Irish brigadier general at their head
should, in the audiences of their indignation
that Irishmen had deserted their flag, be 80 exas.
perated az to immediate the offenders on the spot
They could have done so, probably, if their galan
countryman, General Shields, had not invoked tn,
name of Scott in prevailing with them to desist
Now, forsooth, "the Democracy has the impu
dence to impute the punishment of these men t
General Scott q crime! There ia not q tru,
Irishman anywhere who will not "spit upon' tn.
imputation nm insult to the Irish character
who will not spurn the slanderer who has thu
merely attempted to identify the Irish feeling
among US with the acts of band of abandoned
traitors. If there be in the United States a maj
who rejoices that Riley and his traitorous asso
ciates were hanged by the neck for their basenes
in Mexico, Mat man is an Irishman!