The new era., 1860-04-19
South Side once More.
ANTONIO DISPOSED oF.-NoRrH SID
CHALLENGED

EDlToR New ERA.-The hurry OF other
matters has prevented me from noticing
the lucubrations ofyour Correspondents,
and now have but barely time to give
them passing notice. You have en-
listed new recruit-Antonio; but beg
to be excused. He has attacked me
from the neighborhood of hen-house,
and fear to return the fire lest l might
kill the chickens. Let him "cackle"
on.
suppose. Mr.. Editor, have as good
"a right to travel out of the record. and
deal in assumptions, as "North Side"
has-and from the internal evidence of
his late comic production, think | am
justified in assuming that the author is
an Irishman. He gives US wit for ar
gument, fun for facts, and rdicule for
reason; charges without specifications,
and postulates without proofs The on
Iy witnesses introduced have s'IRAIToR"
branded on their foreheads; and the
mark Of the switch on his back, tamely
submitted to. North Side would have
us believe that he knows little OF eve
rything, and more too-knows who South
side is, where he halls from, and what
are his proclivities; knows he is badly
scared now, and will be badly whipped
after while; what he said a year and
half ago, and what consequences fol-
lowed; what sort of death he will die
and where be buried.
This reminds me of countryman Of
his, who, stepping up to an entire stran-
ger, accosted him with the salutation Of
an old acquaintance. When reminded
that he must be mistaken in the man.
insisted that he was not; that he knew
him very well; and when asked to
give the name, with characteristic read
mess replied: "Do you think l would
be after making such fool of you as to
tell you your name, when you know it so
well yourse IT,"
Now, Mr.. Editor, | love the Irish,
with all their faults love them. They
have their virtues, too, not the least Of
which is, they are mostly good demo-
Gratis: but how North Side got into the
wrong pew | cannot divine. He ap-
pears to be great stickler for the
union. England and Ireland is called
the United Kingdom; but the union
consists in the stronger section holding
the weaker in tho embrace of the Boa
constructor. Is that the union lie wishes
to enforce here? Let me tell him as a
friend it won't do; and if he should travel
"south of the Potomac" to enforce a
union Of that sort, his own countrymen
would give him the same mark of dis
tinction that was awarded to his proto-
type John Brown, without bothering a
jury. In all candor, let me say North
Side: you are the last man in the world
that should desire to withhold the high
est honors from the gallant, chivalrous
Governor Wise. To him, above all
others. are our foreign born citizens in
debted, especially Catholics, the child
rem and husbands Of Catholics, for the
triumphant vindication OF their rights in
the memorable contest of 1855. After
the renowned champion, SAM, had
marched from victory to conquest, over
every State north and east Of Virginia.
his further progress was arrested, and
his doom sealed, by the Herculean eff
forts of the man of all others only capa-
BILE of accomplishing the daring deed;
when it was known and boasted that the
Known othings had majority ofIO 900
of the legal voters of the State in their
Counclls-sworn to support their organ
lzation and vote their ticket-did the
noble Harry mount the rostrum, ad-
dressed the people in some seventy
odd different places, and from three to
four hours at tima, with a Eervor and
eloquence peculiarly his own, with the
whitening denunciations of the anti-re-
publican tendencies of the order, swept
them out of the State.-And now, for
sooth, one of the very men whose de-
gradation was thus prevented, talks
abont Gov. Wise's disunion sentiments.
But what metamorphosis cannot Black
Repnbllcanism accomplish. Their great
Juggernaut. Seward, can swear to sup
port the Constitution Of the United
States with deliberate purpose of COM
mltting purjury under the shield of a
higher law-can talk of an irrepressible
conflict between the sections: and vet
''there is no sectional issue" Another
Gov. Banks, can talk of letting the
Union slide, and he is a good Union
man. A Burlingame can call for an