Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-09-07

Irish prisoners from being hung by the Brit
ish Government. One Of these men living
in New York, wr,es 10 friend Of his in
Western Pennsylvania, giving detailed
account of all the circumstances, in his own
rich Irish brogue. But he narra.es the
facts in language that every freshman can
kboth feel and understand. Where is the
warm hearted Irishman that can vote against
Gen. Scott :?
"NEw YORK, Aug. 8, 1859.
"GENTLRMlN:--Msih 0Neil ax'd me
the other day Mr. Sullivan, sez he, why
don't ye wriie a histhury nv yer shrapels,
and aduntures av the frontier in the late
warl' Be dad, seq /, Teddy, I'm not like
you young chaps that's brought up TO The
lurnin' wild yer lexicons. and yer paradoxes.
and yer jome,hrys and the likes. and besides
sez /. my expayrience was limited entirely,
whin was sint aft 10 Ould England airly
in the war, but sez |, will 81. down wan o.
these odd.come.shorlys, and tell the Com
monwealth folks the sthory av the Queens
town prisoners.
"Ils meself that knows oil aboot that
same lis thrue | was bu. a bit av n gos.
soon thin, bu, Id hin in Ameriky long
enough to become a native, and begorra,
whin Gineral Van Rensselaer, was drummin
up the boys for shindy. tuck a hand
along, for scrimmage, and an iligan,
scrimmage lei me tell ye we had Nv it,
81 was undher Col. Scott, more be token
he hadn't Thin growed up to be Gineral.
I.Lz L., 1t, c,, ~, in hic
and had sowl in him twice as big as his
body.
"May be, Gintlemn, yev read the ac-
counts av thin times, and yell recollect the
Americans Tough, like mad, and bate the
inemy TWO or three times; and druv en-
back, but the British were reinforced agcn
and agen, and lots av him divils of red
skins along, and painted all colors too. at
that; and finally our little squad, alter being
killed up entirely, wor taken prisoners wild
Scott along! Well, bad luck 10 Thin, they
pu, us on board vessel a, Quebec, to be
sinl an TO Boston TO be exchanged. Well,
Mr.. Bull sends some av his Officers aboord
where were some fifty Or sixty av us nalhu-
ralized lrish-callin' US thrai,ers 10 King
George, and the likes, and picking US OUT
like shuap ou. av u PIN, jss for slringn us
| up. .....
"a liule Cockncy Officer comes up 10 me
and, sez he, yer name, sir 'O'Sullvan.'
sez |. Yer from Balyshannon,' sez he
If any body shud ak ye that sez |, tell
EN- ye don't know Take afr yer mt sez
| he, 'in the prisnce av yer suparior hofficers.'
Yer no, my suparior,' sez |, yer not high
enough by len inches sMark him down.
sez lie, to his Ordherly Sergeant, 'he cam,
spake English, and so they had 60. twen-
ly.,hi ee av US marked off when up comes
Col. Scott on deck, and sez he, 'what are
ye doin wild the boys?' picking EN- out
for the gailows,' sez red coat with epau-
let's on him as big as whitewash.brush.-
Then says Scou 10 the boys, 'whisht yer
tongues sez he; answer no questions, and
they III no, know yer lrish,-and now, Mr..
Kings Officer sez he, Il give ye fair warn
in, that if ye hang wen Of thin boys, I'll
hang an Engishman (orninsl him. and man
for man. 60 below scz the Officer -
Go 10 The divil,' says Scott, and SO they
quarreed, for on an occasion like that,
Scott is quarrelsome dvil as yed find in
Donry ybrook fair. But, ye see, our hands
wor tied, and they tuck .wenty-lhree av us
and meself wan av EN-, and sinl US over 10
ouId England, wild the consoing promise
that whin they got there, they'd hang every
mothers son av US. Be gorra, il was little
fun then left in us. For mesel(, did not
like the iday Of hangng-ils what had not
teen used TO, more be token, the OSulli-
vans were paple above hanging intirely
"Bul in The saquel, divil one av US was
hanged, for the Colonel, ye see, win1 on to
Washington as soon as he was exchanged,
and ,ould the whole story to tho President
and the big bugs at Congress, and they pass
ed law in jffy, 10 retaliaie, as they
called it. and Thin, Scott, who had jus. gol
,as,e Of the matter, went back 10 The seal
Of war. He'd soon plin.y of prisoners, SC
he picked out iwenly.,hree good looking red
coats, ingiish, no, irish, mind ye, and thin
he writes 10 the British commander, Mr..
John Bull srz he, for Thin % irish boys
I've SELECTED 20 inglish, and now av ye like
TO lhry yer hand a. hanging, there's Two car
play hand aI ,ha, game and we'll .hry
and make anners aisy,' says he. 80 they
began to look about thin, and finally con-
cluded TO e, US aft, and aiiher The pace,
they sini us back 10 this blissed land av
Freedom.
We landed al New York. and its no lie
tell ye. gin,lemen, the day we landed an The
Balthery, who should be lakin walk there
but Colonel Scott, that's the Gineral him.
+ self. He knew us in minute; and didn't
we know him2 Bedad, the people around
wor astonished inurely al the hurahs av the
wild irish-as they called us,
, "The Colonel lakes me by the hand, 'an
I is this you, MSiher O'Sullivan, sez he?-
Its meself ihtlrey, heaven bless yer amer,
sez |, 'and may the Holy Vargin, and all
the Sain,s purlict ye foriver and day af
,her,' sez |. 'Ye saved me life, Colonel
from the dirty gallows, too, sez ], mot lha
r Id mind fair chance for sho, in o scrim
mage an The field sez |, but to be hanged
like dog-its a way the O'SulIVan''
weren't eddicated 10, at all, al all, and they
fighting for freedom. at that sez ].
9 "Well, we parted wild hearty God bles
lye,' and I've not seen the Ginera from
that day 10 this, but II ever | forge, him, o
dom, vote for him, may the divil fly ava!
: wild me in,irely.
"Yer Humble Sarvent,
Q JAMIE O'SULLlVAN.
,,I "P s. The way Teddy and Meselc hnD