Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-30
rProm the New York POst.l
he south and Adopted CITIZENS.

The south and Adopted SlALehS'
The Southern journals which have so
ubounded in abuse, especially OF our fOr-
eign-born citizens, will find in the recent
battle several very strong reasons for
amending their opinions. The conduct OF
the SiXty-ninth lIrish) regiment, OF the
Seventy-ninth tScotch,) aud of the Ger
man troops in the recent battle, when
properly explained in Richmond by those
who received the shock of their attack and
were lucky enough to escape it, will cause
the editor of the Richmond Examiner to
regret such passages as this, taken from
dissertation on "hnd-sills" in that jour
nal
These emigr.,nts tIrish Scotch, German. &e) 10
not like ancestors. fly from religious anil polit-
chi persecution. They como merely a. dHtHt1iS ~
search OF richer and tresher pasture. They come
crafty physenl 'Eant-for moral, intellectual an
religious wants they lave not acquired. They viii
settle Ia large masses, ail, for ages TO come VIII
practise an impure materiAllSm. The mass OF Them
sensual, groTelinG, lOw-fninded Agr7rians, and
nine-tentiIA or the.I would join the Mopaatns or
such brutal, leyeling sect, ii the opportunity
There is possibility. rs we understand,
that the Sixty ninth and some of our other
brave regiments. composed ofpersons Thus
stigmatized, will re-enlist and return to
Washington m time to take part in the
capture of Richmond. In that case the
editors of the Examiner and Enquirer will
do well to watch from some safe Granny
how these men, whom they call SENSUAL,
groveling low minded agrarians," put to
flight the proud armies of the chiValry.
They will thus perceive that there is mat
ter vi vital Importance to the boastful aris-
tocracy of the South in n hint thrown
out to them by Mr.. Russell. of the LOnd IN
TiRles, in one of his recent letters from
Mississippi We quote the passage, and
trust both sides will bear it in mind
He says:
sSIy companion was a very intellectual Southern
gentleman formerly editor Of a newspaper. We
talked Of the crime OF the e0unfFy-Of the brutal
shootings aud stabbings which disgraeed II. lie
admitted their existence with regret, but could ad-
vice Rad suggest remedy. The rONdiss have
rushed In rpou us so that we can't master them
Is the law poWerlessr sWell sir, you see these
men get hold of those who shonld administer the
law, tley too powerful or too reckless TO be
kept down. That Il. reign Of terTor-of mob
rufianismP 1t don't hurt respectable people
'When-howp well, sir, when things are settled
Well Just take the law Into our own hands. Mo- a
man GtaH hare a pots HHletE he's AHIeriean born,
aud by degrees we'll get rid Of these men who dis
1 grace u.s. Are not many Of your regiments com
posed Of Germans and Irish-of foreigners, in fact
yes, SIR did not suggest to him the though
which rose in my mind, that these gentlemen, II
successful would be very little inclined to abandon
| their rights with In their hands, but u &C.
currOd to as we'll that this would lie rather a
ponr reward for the men who were engaged in es-
/ tAbIshihg the Southern Csnfederacy. The attempt
may fall but assurehly have heard it expressed too
often TO doubt that there e n determination on the
part of the leaders In the movement to take away
the suffrage from the men whom they do not scruPls
to employ in fighting their battles. IL they cut abe
threats OF the enemy they will ste their own sweet
voices ut tho same time afterward-a capital
recomPense TO their emigrant soldiers"
We see here, not only that if the South
could succeed the deluded foreign born
soldiers, who make up probably the cream
of their army, would be coolly robbed of
their equal rights. bn: that even now these
/ s'intelligent southerners" do not hesitate
to charge their lynchings, their assassina-
tons with pistol and bowie-knife, their
utter lawlessness, upon the Irish, German,
and other foreign born citizens of those
| States.