Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-28


soldier stands on the soil Of the COnfeierlcy |
from the Ohio and Potomac to the Gulf. Ken |
lucky, Missouri, and nearly ell Tennessee, are /
occupied within the enemy's lines-that |
is all. The Mississippi River is said to be opened
o. navigation since the fall OF Eicksburg; but
there is no navigation on il, aud shall be none.
unprotected by ships of war, IL is only few
DAYS ago that our good gueuillas sunk FIVE
merchant steamers on the river Insurance off |
ces will insure nothing that floats there: shippers
viii not freight boats that have to ron such a
gauntlet and il they did, the market is gone
there Is nothing to buy and 10 trade; neither
would any possible prices pay for the risk You
can understand now what the open Mississippi
amounts to That is our riYer-both banks of il, /
from Cairo down to the Gulf--and the west bank
from Cairo up the border OF Iowa: and it i not
10 be thought OF for single moment that any
thing can be allowed to 1oat on our river without
our consent. Rather than that. there will be
war these forty years Mr Seward, 1 know. is
ready with very fine language demonstrating
that the rebellion" ~ almost crushed; but. in
fact, lankees are more ready with language than
with any other insirumentalits 20 ''crush rebel
lion" IL phraseoogy could have overwhelmed
Us. 1t would have been all over with Us long ago.
In the me Intim the goes on: and ten DAYS
ago our forces killed and wounded thirty thou
sand of the Federals on the bank of the beautiful
little river CniCkamauSa.
Ii is sad to me TO think how many of our own
countrymen fell on every field Of this war-on
the Federal side, l mean; tor, to the Irish
men in the Confederate army. who fight Tor their
homes. and property. and lite against invaders.
there is nothing sad in the case at all: they are
in their duty, and are driven 10 arms by as strong
and imperious a necessity as ever impelled Swift
ers to fight the Austrians ut Sempach. or Ho
landers to resist the Invading hosts of Spain.
Those lrshmen who have thronged into the Fed
eral army have. unfortunately, made themselves
guilty parties TO the foulest crusade of modern
times-to desolate the homes of people who
have never wronged them. aud large proportion
of whom are their own kindred. Cannot some
thing be done 10 stop the fraudulent operations of
Yankee agents in Ireland. who are soliciting
emigration" 10y large promises. not one of which
will ever be fulhledl IL any unlucky Irishmen
are induced TO come 20 this continent, aud join
the Federal army by expectations OF grants OF
land to be assigned them IN this Confederate
country, after the rebellion" Is crushed. they
will be sorely disappointed indeed. | trust my
fellow couutrymen believe that would not in
teutonally mislead them Well. then, | tell
them that If the Confederate country should ey.
er be subjugated aud coniscatcd. IL will not be
for them. They are 10 be made use of precisely
as the poor negroes Ne-thrust Co the front IN
every fight and thrown aside afterwards MS bro.
ken tools. They will never hold land IN the
Confederate country, save that regular fee sim
pie of six feet by two, which many thousands Of
them now peacefully hold IL i true that the
lrsh troops have fought well on every occasions
aud our troops greatly prefer to meet Yankee or
German regiments. In the battles before Rich
m0nd their stubborn lighting won the admiration
OF our officers; and Afterwards at Fredericksburg
their repeated charges upon our batteries at Nal.
yern II lis will be long remembered as the most
desperate feat OF the war Oar loush glorious
lishl Their g,llanuy aud devotion was useless
there. Walton's Louisiana artillery and the
deadly fire of the Georgia troops moved them
down like grass. and they lay on that fatal field
IN ,wNhcs. Aud for whttY For The service of
a people Who despiso aud hate them more bitterly
than even the English themselves, You are
aware that the Yankee people have not an idea.
nor hilf an idea, OF Their owu--they derive all
from Engl tnd, aud there Is 40 Brilish doctrine or
principle which they have mbbed 80 fully, aud
- cordially embrace, rs hatred, horror oi the
Irish, Aiteea all the service, which our country
men have done Tor them Ia peace aud war. there
Il not now ia their service So much as Brigader
General Shields. Meagher Corcoran have all
been got rid of one after the other; sud IL is a
fact worth noting that the Confederate service
boasts gallant Irish officer of higher military
rank than any lrshman ever held amongst the
Yankees | speak of VI or General Pat Gle
burne. whose division forms part OF Bragg's mr.
my, and who has distinguished himself Ia all the
battles OF the West
But | know that many OF our country men
come over 10 join The Federal service, merely 10
learn the use ol arms--sith the hope of having
one day an opportunity Ia turn them against our
mortal enemies, the British In short. they are
taught that while dashihg themselves against the
muzzles OF Confederate cannon. they are IN some
sort liberaling Ireland II Is cent iinly. at least
a roundabout way. They may imagine. indeed
that the Yankee nation - likely 10 go To war
against England after this present war X finished
Another griesou Authorization! | tell YOU that
the Yankees have no idea of the kind-that their
pretended Indignation saust England Is assumed
Oily for tue very purpose OF deiuding the Irish
iutO their seryice-nnd that. instead of a war
betw cen England ana the ,ukees, there is much
more probability OF an alliance between them. 10
oppose the influence of France Vn tbs continent.
How will our unhappy fellow countrymen feel
tben-hehting along>de The rel coats, and
against the Freuchg-the Know Nothings Banks
AMI Fremont the Dutchmcn, Schenck and Rose
consolidating them on. and opposite them Mac
Mihon OF France and Cleburne OF the Couicder.
acyg
How ardeutly wish that could by any rep.
reservations or enueatles, restrain my country
men from this dreadful madness! Surely they
must see by this time that the Felerals tsht in
bad cause, with the iOulest means. The Liberties
of Ireland eau never be the fruit OF war To
crush the liberties OF another people
For NV own part. | am thoroughly satisfied of
the absolute justice ct the Confederate cause
Ny three SOM. having lost their own country aud
adopted this one, have thrown themselves in.o
the struggle 20 defend Their new homes. One of
them i At Charle-ton. serving under BeauIegari;
j. ~ Lees arm,; aud the third, and youngest.
tell on The fed al gettysburg, in the terrible
charge al Pockets division lie fell in good
Cause. aud ia z 'llint company
One gratifying fact j., that Coniederates now
uuiver-all, repudiMe Anglo SAxonism The
British. indee by way oi ptyiug them compl-
ment, claim them A. Anglo Stxon-; but they
politely decline the honor The word has disap-
peared from the Confederate press; aud there is
nothing inculcaied more per>istenily than the
fact that the separation from the Yankees was
necessary (among other reasons) by reason of
the difference Of race We consider ourselves
here rather TO belong To the " Latin race" and
claim kindred with the CeIts. The large proper
ton OF French aud Spanish. rs well as of Irish.
Scotch aud Welsh blood in this Southern country
justifeS the doctrine; and accordingly the whole
Confederate people hail with JOY the establish
ment of FreNch power in Mexico. France i re-
garlei as our natural ally. and the unfriendy
course Of England toward the Confederacy has
aroused a much more profound aversion toward
that people among COnfederates than exists
among The Yankees JoHS MITCHELL.
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