Litchfield enquirer., 1861-10-17
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THURSDAY, OCT. IT. 1861.
The 9th Regiment.

The 9th Regiment. Recruiting is going on vigorously all over the State, and hundreds are taking their places in the grand army, of which Connecticut troops are in the front ranks, and among the flower and dauntless chivalry. Young mon, who, in the early summer were detained at homo by their multifarious business and many cares, are now rushing to the roll call to support their coun- try's standard on the field of fame, and honor, and victory. The Sixth and Seventh Regiments are already in the field, the Eighth goes on to tho wars fully manned and armed, this week, the Tenth and Eleventh are nearly full and are fast filling up, and the Legislature at its present sit ting has already passed enactments to provide for the equipment and maintenance of any num- Der who may desire, and who are even now clam bring for places in new regiments.
 And yet there is one regiment, already par tially organized and oficered, and which has en- rolled at this time about six hundred men in the ranks, which appears to have come almost to dead halt. We alIude to the Eth or Irish Regi- meat.
 4 writer in the New Haven Journal thinks
 ls so be owing to the fact that no exertion is or has been made to obtain recruits. We believe this to be an error, at least @ partial one. We have occasion to know that here in Litchfeld County as in other parts of the. State, active ex ertions have been made and are making to fill this Regiment up to the full complement of men from among the patriotic lrishmen who would serve their country on the same field upon which MKAeHER and MuLL1GAN bravely stand together with countless hosts of their countrymen who have won imperishable laurels in the present war. But we also know of another reason, which the Journals correspondent alludes to, and hich exerts more powerful influence against the re- cruiting for this Regiment than many are aware of. And this is the poisonous, leprous influence of rebels at heart and traitors in our midst, who are exerting all their powers in sneaking, un- derhanded way, to prevent the Irish from enlist ing in the country towns. We have such here; there is one distinguished one, and others less so, in Norfolk; there are two or three in Win sted, and some one or two in almost every town of this county, where efforts at recruiting have been made-and which otherwise would have been most successful.
 The influence of some of these men over the Irish is almost unbounded. They fill their ears with the most abominable falsehoods and treach- erous insinuations against the government, the war and the cause. They make it a personal matter to work themselves, and through their i'm mediate Irish adherents, to poison the minds, to quench the ardor, and prevent the enlistment of every patriotic Irishmen who would otherwise enlist-and for what object in view they do this, no one can know who cannot fathom the depths of meanness and depravity that line traitors heart.
 These men are kno,om, many of them, and they are watched closely by loyal men. Some of them will suddenly be brought up standing, one of these days, to their utter surprze and disgust. An affidavit or two is the only thing needed to transfer them to the classic shades of Fort La. fayette, or less aristocratic quarters on Gibbet Island. But meanwhile we beg of every intelli gent Irishman, under whose eyes this may chance to fall, to go forward among his patriotic breth ron, to stop the lies and poisonous treason that have been dinned or whispered into their cars by these snakes in the grass, and to urge, fso their conscience and patriotism lead them, to imme- diate enlistment in the GLORIOUS NINTH, now en- eamped in New Haven.
 Let us have regiment which shall emulate in glory the gallant 69th of New York, oficered by Irishmen, manned by Irshmen, with the Green Harp blending with the starry folds of the Irish mans adopted Flag. And so, in the words of one who went singing even unto death:-
 With conscience clear, what need we fear,
 When floats our green flag airy
 Twill know no shame>while round it flame,
 The swords of TiPperary.
 And while those memories thrill each heart,
 That sun each parting beam glows,
 Shall see us play, no towards part,
 However fortune stream flows,
 When comes the foe ranks will show
 No courage cold and wary,
 With pride we'll meet these bright eyes sweet,
 We wood in Tipperary!