Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-05-11
The Irish.

On Saturday last 600 able-bodied young
men left the North Wall for New York. -
They had been collected from the city and
the suburban districts, and were brought to
the quays in groups of four, ten, fifteen or
twenty. Wherever in the neighborhood Of
Dublin laborers' work was proceeding there
the Federal agent appeared, picked out men,
talked them over and generally succeeded
in buying their lives. The men are not
told in express words that they must enlist
in the Federal armies, but they know very
we'll what they are required to do, and what
they must do. They are ostensibly engaged
to work on the construction Of railway for
three months. Hhe- whereabouts Of the
railway we have been unable to discover
Their passage, clothes and food are paid for
and they are nominally allowed q dollar a
day until the expiration of three mouths
Their accounts will be settled, and the cost
Of theip passage, clothes, and keep, is to be
deducted from the money due from" the
quarters service. When that settlement is
made the men 'smsy enlist in the Federal
armies if they please" or, if they preferit
they may seek work. The Northerners arc
a sharp people, and they take good care
that the "three months men" must enlist
10 the Federal army to keep themselves from
prison. a.
For on arriving at New York the "emi-
grants" are placed by themselves either on
some island or an isolated depot While
there they must buy food, water, boots and
They are charged ten dollars for
what is worth two. Temptations ore offered
to them of every kind. If they have no
money so much the better. An accommo.
dating dealer in greenbacks attends every
company, and cashest their in Advance
at an enormous per oentage. On the expi-
ration of the three months the emigrant has
had some experience in digging trenches,
more in drill, but he is overwhelmed in
debt. He has been exposed to the rapacity
of swarm Of harpies and to legion of Sc.
ducers. He is told he may find work where
he pleases when he has paid his debts. In
his difficulty he is offered 9I65 in green
baoks,'a sum which will clear off his liabil-
tiles, and give him some capital to commence
new score, until that too is wasted, and
then he isis semitic the 'front.'"
There never was devised more iniqui..
tous scheme of deception, and, unhappily,
never was wicked device SO successful
Misguided young men are hired and then.
plundered, and they are plundered to com.
pei them to enlist. When. they are once
regularly enlisted they have nothing before
them. but death-death either in the sudden
shock Of battle, for they will be placed as
usual, in the van or on the forlorn hope ;or
death after lingering suffering when they
have been abandoned wounded on the field;
or death by fever, which kills them off like
flies in pestileutial hospitals, whose very
walls are impregnated with disease.
Oat of every hundred men who leave
their sweethearts, their families and their
work behind them, not ten will be alive at
this time next year, and Of these more than
half will be manned and crippled for the
brief term of their days. A more deadly
war was never waged than that between the
North and South-deadly by wounds; dead
ly by hardship; deadly by disease and in
this war fire Irishmen have been slain for
one native American. - -
1t is such an emigration as this that di.
lettaati professors pronounce to be the hope
of Ireland aud the blessing of the people.
The opinions of these theorists might be
laughed at were they notindicatigshf hf some
thing which is very sad. All those who
pronounce this emigration to be good are
persons wellknown for their connection With
Government. It follows, them that the
Government will never interfere to prevent.
that which their scribes are required to rep:
resent as o blessing. A ship is seized be.
cause their is q suspicion that it is intended
for the use oftbe+ +Confederatas. Her own.
er is called upon to.produee proof thai, she
is designed for some acknowledgement state.
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