The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-10

A good deal has BEEN said ahovt thu {, .rr..r
aad Irieh soldiers In the Yantse .,mv. Th.y
seem to b regarded BY some ~ more odious
aud sxscrabls than the Yankees by whom they
are employed. We cannot 20 regard them. Il
70 true. that in view of the gsuerous ard enl.
lAns manner In which the South iu,erpossd
and savsd them from the destruction with
which Know Noshingism nsnaesd them DO.
ns'eaily, socially, and religioasly, their con.
dase In bearing arns for thoss who would
have made thsu slaves against those who vim.
DC NED their freedom 10 a. ungratsfui - Il is
Suicidal But We can End some extsuuasipp Q
circumstances In their case which the Yankees
cannot plead. Many Of them had THE altsrna.
tive presented 10 thsm-to enliet in the army
or starve. Others were induced to smiera.e
to the United Ssatss with the promise ofsmploy.
ment - artieans and aerIculturists, and then
virtually forced into the army. Ali were reds
TO believe that the wars which distracted and
the taxes which oppressed Europe could all be
avoided here BY putting down the rebellion,
and thus ioaugurating ths nillsnium. They
are At last beginning to aaA ont that they have
been deceived, aud, il lsfs - their own voli
ton, We believe the msjosiy Of them would
return to their homes, and leave it to the Ysu-
KEGS proper TO fight out war in which the
Gsrmans and Irish have hisherte besn rsade
to bear the brnut Of the battle. In NO evert
ought their cond uct to prejudice the Ger mans
sud Irish Of the South, who have borne con.
spiouous and patriotic part in the defence of
their adopted country, and who have illustrated
on every battle field the traditional valor of
their race.
But, for the Yankees proper, by which in
term we mean the Puritan breed wherever
found, there can be no excuse or exten uation.
They were not forced into the invading army
by necessity. They could have lived and sup.
ported their families without invading the
South. They took up arms voluntarily against
those who had been their own countrymen.
who spoke the sams language, and worshipped
at the same altars with themselves, and who
had built them up commercially and materially
by the rich products of their soil and industry.
They were prompted BY the basest passions in
seeking the blood Of the Southern people-by
envy, cupidity, and revenge. Moreover, The
war was the natural and legitimate result Of
the character and principles of that Puritan
race which has always intermsddled with
other peoples business, which has always been
interfering, dictatorial and arrogant, and has
never been known willingly to permit any pso.
pie to enjoy freedom of opinion Or conscience
but themselves. The Germans and Irish of the
North have been but ignorant and helpless
tools in the hands Of these master Williams
We shall not permit them to shift particle of
the responsibility Of the war from themselves
to their servile instruments. The war has been
all their owD, and if they have not Lad the
nerve to execute with their own hands the vile
conception of their evil hearts, 30 much the
blacker is their iniamy in the eyes of all man.
kind
That we have ever been the countrymen of
these Puritan miscreants is our misfortune
and not our fault, but it does not entitle them
to any preference over men of different blood
and lineage. On the contrary, it heightens
and inteneifes their guilt, and makes them
moro odious and abomiuable. 1t makes their
crime, in comparison with that Of the foreign
like the crime of fratricide in
comparison with that Of any ordinary murder.
On them, and on them alone, rests the entire
responsibility of this war, and of every drop
of blood which has been shed, whether Of our
own soldiers or their own miserable dupee.-
As for our own wrongs, we shall be abund-
antly able to svenge them; a. for those which
they have inflicted upon their deluded foreign
we live in hopes that the day
will come when thu Germaus and Irish will
rise upon them at their own thresholds and
take away thsir name and country.