Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-01-10
NUMBER z.

monstrous? Distinguished Southern off,
GERS, carrying about their persons deep
scars received in numerous b4ttlr- fields,
have been overslaughed or overlooked to
make room for Yankees. some Of whom
were elinging to the Lincoln hulk when
the great victory at Manassas was achie-
we'd and then and not till then, with
characteristic shrewdness. they were led to
connect their fortunes with the triumph.
ant South. Who will undertake to count
the number of Yankee clerks in the sever
al public departments at Richmond. En-
questionably the young men Of the South
have right to complain Of the preference
thus shown to Northern toadies. ltis Ger
tainly mischievous in its tendency. Yet
the claims of our Southern born youth
are COO often ignored. if not secuted, and
impudent Yankee adventurers (nearly xll
claiming now to be Marylandera, and act
ing, too, no doubt, in the double capacity
of spies as well as clerks.) are receiving
salaries which brave Southerners would
be glad to get. | believe there is no ex-s
aggeration in these statements and that
they are all true. They are certainly
great evils. of which the people of the
South should demand the instant abatc.a
ment. 1t may he pretended as extenua.
ting Of the practice Of admitting Northern
men to fill honorable positions in the Con.
federacy. that we trusted foreigners in
our seven years struggle for independence.
1t is. however, easy 70 destroy the force of
this charge by simply responding that
the toreig"ers achom scs then acelcomed to
our shores acre gentlemen--not Yonkees,
and this expresses much. " a Q o Q o
Under tempting offers several Northern
officers have declared themselves on the
side Of the South in the existing contest,
and in doing this they huye given strong
proof of their unworthiness. Under still.
greater temptations, who will not say THY
might abandon our cause, aud 60 back to
their first love? 1t seems to me clear that
ifa Northern man volunteers to 6gut aginst
his own kindred for pay, for still great
er bribe he will not hesitate to turn
against his new friends, between whom
and himself there exists no ties of blood.
I repeat, when he accepts commission in
the Confederate army or navy to fight
against his own people, the Hessian Yam
kee affords the strongest possible evidence
that he has little principle or honor, and
therefore, he should not be trusted.
But such was not the position of our La.
Efayette, our pulaski, and many other
foreigners, who nobly rushed to our aid
in the ever memorable war Of l776."'' Our
friend Wallach, Editor Of the Washing
ton Star, in copying the above article.
says I'VE republish it as illustrating
precisely what those have earned who not
being native Southerners, have neyerthc-
less proved traitors to the United States
lin the current contest. The Yankee in
high position so numerically scored by
This writer, is doubtless, Cooper, Who,
though a Northern man. resigned the po-
sition of Adjutant General Of the armyof
the United States to take the same posi-
tion under Jeff. Davis He richly deser-
yes the contempt showered upon him, and
all like him. by this rampant writer. We
learn from reliable source that, smart.
ing under the suspicious and con-,
tempt which his Northerh birth earns
for him in Richmtnd he plays the bitter
est and most loud-mouthed secessionist
there. in the hope Of tcmpering public
opinion against him That he lisa poor
devil deserving just snch treatment as
% this Richmond writer accords to him, ID
evident in tile change in bis character
which the fact mentioned above illus.
trates." slidcll is another traitor born at
the North.
q Thirty fall pigs and twenty spring