The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-15


Those Regiments II Foreigners.
The h,,gpart proceedings Of the North only
rrsyoke the contempt and resentment OF our
people but there are some occurrences '"'''
which fall upon the Southern heart among
,be.. il the enlistment Of foreign regiments 10
~, ,s an unrighteous war Of aggression upon
& n,h.rn liberty and independence. The
sau,b cannot help recurring to the events OF
1884 and 1855, when the same spirit OF ma
ugnaot and tanatical intolerance which Is no"
l., In 80 npou herself, was waging cruel anu
,e,c.rs.,.ss war upon the foreign exile and the |
np,G.nd;ng Catholic. Tie fres OF proscriP- |
tiou SWEPT over the whole OF that biso'eo sec
tion. aud in every city, village ana hatnie''
,r MT !, s.cret cor5clave. with stealthy step
IN tho small 10 us If tho night, &c swear by
their duty to God and county an eternal hos
,i,ifv to the foreigner and the Catbohc.
In the fury of their malignant and pro-
,crin,;ve fauaticism, and with the boldness
tlu, controlling secret organization impart-
cd. they eontented themselves not with veto
ries won everywhere hy the bsliot-box, but
they proceeacd to violence, in the burning OF
cathcdrals and converts, and in mob attacks
upon congregations and individuals. Nay, IN
der a pre'euse Of public virtue, when sh'hiy
discussed a vulgar curiosity and hcentious IN
ouisj ;yeDess. they violated the seeiusion OF
schnols and the sanctity Of converts and SIS
terhood. They sought to degrade the for-
ei.,upr. however intelligent, to a lower political
level than the free negro, and to deny rights
md franchises to the exemplary Catholic,
which they onceded to the poiygamous Nor
mon. The thirsty sands Of the desert do not
drink up the showers from the clouds with
more aviiity than the Puritan bigotry Of tie
North welcomed the dogmas of know-Noth-
ireism. They took root everywhere at tie
North shot up with magic growth, and poisop-
ei the whole Atmosphere with their baneirl
eybalnti.n Suddenly the yulgarest sku'ks Of
the streets became leaders in politics and the
di.pensato7. Of public patronage. The for
eigner felt himself under the ban Of the polls
aud Of tho Government, and the Catholic lis
,ened for insult in every sound that came to
his ears.
1t was while staggering under this thrall Of
intolerance and prescription that the Catholic
and the foreigner heard Of championship oil
his cause which he as little expected as q
miracle from heaven. 1t was precisely 10 the
section where his religion was least dissent
mated and his race most sparse, that this
championship of free conscience and equa
rights arose. 1t was in the land Of tho gen
erous and chivalrous Cavalier, land where
federation was not only a principle but al
emotion, where hospitality was not merely I
habit but an inheritance, that the indignan
voice Of rebuke was raised against the NEAR
aud base spirit Of Know Nothingism. Nir
ginia WAS then now, the battle ground be
tw en the champions of constitutional lieert
an the fol Gend of higotry and intolerance
THEN an obnoxious race and faith were to b
proslra'ed now il is a hated domestic inst
tuition that is the object of the same puritan
cal crusade. Then the bigot fought as th
emmy Of the Catholic and the foreigner
now the same bigot fights az the exterminatt
of slavery Unaided by the foreigner and Il
Catholic, we beat the Roundhead on Virgin
soil in 1858. VIII the foreigner and Il
Catholic enlist with the RouDdhead to fg
against us the same battle over upon the sau
Sill in 1861? A few regiments have enlis.t'
MEAGHEr--et p Brpfe-has Joined then
but Mitchell has not, and we trust he viii
al exemplar 10 hundreds of thousands.
This war is in fact. only continuation
the war of 1884 So somewhat differently
+, ctcd md but for a period. II was the Sou
who beat the Puritan bigot at that day; q
by beating him then, has drawn upon hers
the whole hrunt of his enmity and hatr'
no hos rnr
the race and religion he swore to extermin
in the Violence Of is onslaught upon slave
This Institution overthrowp. and the So,
overruu aud buunilated with what force a
ferority would he not turn upon the old '
TINS Of whose blood he was for time dis
pointed7 Theirs would be only the poor pr
ilege Of being the last devoured. by on appe
that no number Of holocausts can safe, and
a thirst which no quantity of blood can sls
But though aided by regiments that sbo
be found only on the side of constitutso
liberty, the Roundhead will not win the
On the same fields whereon we routed
then, we will roat him now. just as complies
just IS ignomniously. The cause being
same, the combatants the same, so will
victory be the same; and few unfatt
foreigners did no, change the fortunes of
battle then By their treacherous blows, so
the misguided regiments who have now ia
up arms tor their own worst enemy, a
nothing against that cause which is as dea
the foreigner as it can well be to the ~ava
lillian aud Mary College.
The lectures ia this College have been
pemied during the remainder VI the pre-
sessiua. Thus has ended, permanently
unagoiaably, one VI the most prosperous
sipns which this ancient College has enjt
for several years. The war spirit in that
ton Of the State IL irresistible and the
aity, from sense of public duty, yields
advance to necessity which would have
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