The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-11-23


From the intercepted letter Of Mr.. Do
Leon, which the Yankees Published, We
learn that tAat interesting nation have been
recruiting In ireland at great rate. During
tho current year they have been able to pro
cure twenty thousand recruits only, leaving
it 70 Be inferred that In former yeaH Their
s1ccess had been much greater. These Pre-
cesdings are perfectly well known to the
Palmesston Ministry-Mr. DE Leon mad
eouversation regarding them with the Lord
Lieutenant Of Ireland-many attempts have
been made, We are told, 10 stop them, bull
vifhout effect. Russell finds that the for
eien enlistment law IL not sufficiently com
prshensivs TO embrace them. Were the
party engaged IN them the Confederate Gov
eminent. NO doubt II could be stretched so
q to catch the dclinquents or, II that failed'
Resell would Ego down to Parliament" as
the phrase b, with law sufficiently broad
AND long to secure the. culprits, as In net.
But they happen to be Yankees, and to In
terfere witS them In the prosecution OF their
upright designs would be to wound the sus'
capabilities Of Secretary Seward. Anything
rather than that. Submission, humiliation,
total surrender of British policy into the
hands of Adams, rather than encounter that
terrible misfortune. Neutrality, Vattel te:'a
N, consists In rendering no assistance OF any
kind to either belligerent party. The British
Government is neutral after fashion. 1t
certainly renders no direct assistance to the
Yankees by sending them recruits. 1t con-
tents itself With merely permitting them to
recruit on their own account. 1t does
nothing more than throw the door
open; they walk In and help them
selves. The Irish have been filling the
world with their complaints. Of English
tyranny ever stace the days of Strong-bow
ana: his land thieves. Persecution, 1t has
been said, never begets charity. 1t must be
true. Bow else can we account for the as
.tonishing xesl with which the prosecuted
Irish unite In assisting the Yankees to fasten
the letters upon the limbs of men as well
entitled to be free a. themselves to crush
the last remnant of freedom upon this cor
tinaut q It has already been csushed In their
own country? to side with the oppressor
AGAINST the oppressed? with those who, on
. former occasion, prescribed them and
their religion, against those who stood side
by side with them in defence of both?-
Nothing has ever astonished us so much as
the part, In this struggle, taken by the large
majority of the Irish people; and though
we have among us many brave sons OF Erin
who are prepared to shed their life's blood
In defence of our and their cause, yet they
seem to be the exception to rule as gene
raj g 1t 10, to US, unintelligible.
But there can be no excuse for the British
Government In this matter. But few years
ago the whole world rang with their outcries
against the filibusters that were assailing the
various portions of what was once known as
the Spanish Empire. There was no epithet
which wrath and jealousy could invent that
was not applied to that description of enter
prise II the United States Government, their
journals hesitated not to cay, could not put
. stop to 1t, the whole world ought to unite
and take the matter into their own hands
But neither the filibustering enterprises, nor
any others, since the great North poured it's
barbarians upon the provinces of the Roman
Empire. ever presented spectacle worthyto
be named on the same day with that which
IL this day presented in Ireland. The United
States sent out their filibusters by hundreds
these recruits from IrelaQd are reekoned
by scores of thousands. Aud the British
Government, which can find an apology in
its pharisaical profession of neutrality for
stopping q few Confederate steamers, can
find no means to put an end to such an exo-
dus az this