The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-23
The Irish Defended.
WHY THEY DISLIKE TIE PRINCES RECEPTION
HOW THEY BEHAVE IN WAR;.

WHY THEY DISLIKE TBE PRINCES RECEPTION
HOW THEY BEHAVE IN WAR;,
The Irish papers of New York. this
week, engage in simultaneous and very
enthusiastic defense Of the Irish. The Me.
tropolitan Record takes up the question of
the reception Of the Prince of Wales, and
offers the following explanation Of the action
of the Hibernian population on the occasion
of that visit:
"Citizens of Irish birth and Irish parent.
age, with hundreds of Irishmen now serving
in the ranks of the New York militia, kept
away from the ovation arranged for the
Prince of Wales. This was not done from
any splenetic desire to offend or insult q
weak youth, who would find it difficult to
earn a living amongst us, if landed unfriend-
ed upon one of the river piers, but in &C.
cordance with that spirit of manly scorn
with which the exiled victims of British
government oppression have treated the re-
personalities of that system in every por-
ton Of the world. We are told the Irish
in New York should have buried all such
feeling in their bosoms tor the moment
This is easy of advisement, but difficult to
accomplish. for large share of allowance
must be made for the fine feelings of men
who reflected, at the time, on the hundreds
of thousands of ruined homesteads and
blackened rOof-trees, and the millions of
whitened and still unburied human bones so
lately scattered over the green fields of their
fatherland by men executing the rule
termed even "benefcent" of Queen Victo.
ria in Ireland"
The Irish american greatly grieved at the
comments of Harper's Weekly on the Irish
race, produces letter from General Scott
and remarks upon it as follows:
Having said so much in reputation of the
loose and random charges of the Journal of
Civalisation, made in ignorance of the true
facts of the case, or else in expectation that
those facts would hardly come to light, we
shall dismiss the matter after placing upon
record the testimony borne by General
Scott himself to the valor and fidelity of the
Irish in the American army in Mexico. 1t
is contained in a letter addressed by the
VCeCioA oOAOlCA W w llildui 1COUluoOu,
Esq, of this city, who has kindly permitted
us to copy it from the original, which is as
follows:
TUESDAY NIGHT, July 2, 1850.
Dear Sir:-I have been out of the city, and
l now write at the last moment, without refer
ence to others or to papers.
In Mexico we estimated the number of per.
sons in the army, foreigners by birth, at about
$500, and of these more than two thousand
were Irish. How many had been naturalized 1
cannot say; but am persuaded that seven out
of ten had, at least, declared their intentions,
according to law, to become citizens.
1t is hazardous, or may be invidious, to make
distinctions; but truth obliges me to say that.
of our Irish soldiers, save few who deserted
from General Taylor, and who had never taken
the naturalization oath, not one ever turned his
back upon the enemy or faltered in advancing
to the charge. Most of the other foreigners by
birth also behaved faithfully and CALAMITY.
In haste, yours truly,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
To W. E. ROBINSON, ESQ.