Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-20

mayor banuefbs the foDel agent VINO attempted
to run the blockade with dispatches to Mason
and slidcli, was private letter to a friend aud
another Intended for publication In the Dublin
Nation. Below We give an extract Of tho pri-
vste letter. aud the letter TO the Nation In full.
II lie interesting 10 observo how q man can
abuse a people who welcomed him to their
shores when no was an outcast.
Writing from Richmond Of hls own pros:
poets, Mitchell says,
"Now, for myself, am still uncertain what
il 10 be my lot. There ls q dreadful mania Of
placo-hunfing hero, and rather think most
people regard meas q new candidate for some
thing good In the Gin Of the goyernmont--that
Is to say that | am standing In overybo,ly'a way.
Hitherto | have aaked for nothing-but have
been very well received by the President. He
OF once made me aware that no know Of the
services of the two boys, whom he called my
gallant sons" and have no great doubt that
In a day or two when certain letters arrive
from James brigadier generals, will be able
to exert such interest az will cause the Presl-
dent to put him at least In as good a position
as he was before II not better. james has GER
tainly earned something at the hands of this
government, and has been more than once hon
orably mentioned In the reports Of the generals
commanding hh brigade. So that Will have
no modesty nor reserve in pressing his claims.
The -Moores are well, but in low spirits-his
business being broken up, and no military pay
coming In"
| Mitchell introduces, by note, young Mr.. San
dcrs to the editor Of the Dublin Nation aud as
sures him that Mr.. 5. will give him "much
authentic information on the subject Of this
country and government"
The following article prepared for the Nation,
is among the dispatches:
To nc Editor Of Nations
RICHMoND, Va, 2Sth Oct, 1862.
DEAR SIR Surprising that your readers may
| like TO read something from the Confederate
States, which has not passed through Yankee
medium, take an opportunity To send you
some account Of my Impressions on royisitinG
this city after an interval Of more than two
years. l came to New York, Of course, under
a fcigned name, and passed through Yankee
land as through an CnCmy's country, taking
care not TO be recognized; because in that case
they would have rendered to me their new oath
of " allegiance" 10 MIR. LinCOln's Government
under prctence that this Government is thu
Government of the United States which once
knew. or course, should have refused theil
oath, because 10 take II would be treason to the
Constitution, which once was the law Of that
country; and then should have been confined
in one Of the vast gaols which yawn for sus
poCted persons.
North Of the Potomac there is no law; aud
in travelling through New Jersey, Pennsylva
mia, and especially Maryland, | often asked
myself, Is this America or Is II Poland Of
YCneuaf Maryland, you arc aware, is prop
Crly II Southern State; and its formal adhesion
to the Confcdcracy was only prcventCdby over
whelming military force, and by tho dispersion
Of Its regular State Legislature rs riotous as
semblago. II Is only at this day by military
occupation, and by turning upon Baltimor
city the guns Of Fort McHenry, which wa
built and armed for the defeRce Of that city
that the State Is now retained not In loyalty
but In sullen acqulescence.
know that those who take their ideas from
Yankee sources may dispute this view. TIL
? Yankees are OF course anxious 10 represen
/ Maryland ns "loyal;" even compliment her Of
her ioyalty-as the Queen Of England occasion
ally compliments the Irish upon theirs-an
pretend that Gen. Lees late failure TO raise al
7 the state against It's oppressors Is proof q
! said loyalty.
But the truth is that the narrow and remol
mountain region Of the State which was tn
scene Of the late battles, Is (Ilke Western Vir
} ginia) inhabited by population not thorough
} ly well affected TO Southern institutions; an
} the other and greater portion Of tie State, tn
} ancient Maryland Of Lord Calvert and III
U NdtuOllC bottlbIsS luGluulub tnb great bOuInGI
D city Of Baltimore, was entirely cut OF iron
0 Lees army by the immense forces of McCleI
0 Ian. These good Marylanders felt themsclyc
0 totally impOtent, and could neither raise han
0 nor voice while Virginia was making her ga
0 liant effort to llbcrats her Sister State. In Bait
0 more | spent a week before any OppOrtunit
0 occurred for running the blockade upon III
0 lower Potomac. / stayed in the house of
0 worthy Irish citizen, aud met with the prime
0 pal Irish rCsldents Of the place. To my grea
0 comfort, found that the Irish In Baltimore
0 both high and low, Except few orangs-mUn,
0 are intensely Southern, and long for nothing !
0 much as the day when they may drive the Liz
0 colnltcs out Of the city forever. The regi,nis
0 Mr.. Lincoln, indeed, is humiliating enough
0 The city swarms with detectives, WHO watc
0 and listen abont hall doors, by night and day
0 TO see who goes In or out, and In whose house
0 the girls sing "My Maryland" When Cor
0 tederate prisoners are marched into some prli
0 on within the town, the men Of Baltimore mul
0 not address them, nor exhibit the Emallel
o mark Of sympathy under penalty Of instAI
o lncarcerationi but the ladies, on such OccI
o sons, don their richest dresses, line the street
% where the poor, ragged, glorious fellows pas
% mold aggregate meetings round the prison, an
% provoke the Yankee officers past bearing, !
% that the guard has sometimes been ordered
70 charge bayoncts upon the fair Insurgents. Eve
% women, however, are not allowed to wear Il
70 the taste OF the police. Not 10 Warsaw, nor
% Venice, are female ornaments more strictly Or
% scribed than In BaltimOrei and, while WI
70 there, young ladies were stopped in tho sire
70 by policemen because they wore a ribbon
70 red white and red, and marched off 10 the 81
70 ton house. A child was carried in the sire
10 by nurse, and the bows Of ribbon upon ii
70 little ones shoulders did not please a constal
10 who passed that way. Both nurse and chi
10 were carried OIL TO the police office.
~ From Baltimore / proceeded through Il
" "southern counties" of Maryland, a rich /
= baccO country, Inhabited by a most WORT
W class of planters, (mOst of them Catholics
W and ALL 10 man, warm In the cause Of L
Coniederacyi but their district Ia surround
-, on three sides by the sea, and Is therefore ut /
IN mercy of the gunbOats. On the other side
&C adjolns the District Of Columbia, and is held
Is awe by the huge army there. No part of
he the South, not In Virginia, not In South Car
lima, Is more entirely Southern, in principle Al
Interest, than these southern counties; but
the North will strain every nerve 10 hold /
command Of Chesapeake Bay, II must crush q
dis and exterminate these original Murylandc
Ih5y are doomed the Celts Of Errs and Tyra
ur ley were never more inexoTably predestlned
utter destruction; and the method of procedl
is this wise: they are bullied and tormented
constant patroling Of cavalry through the col
IT, try, who insult them daily, and carry of tn
de slaves before their eyes, either by force or
cd false promises. Thon the very week that
spent In those counties, the Washington &c
eminent undertook to enrol and draft thu