The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-11
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Mr.. Bittinger, delivered before the Freed
mems Association in this city on Monday
last. Mr.. B. was the principal speaker,
and at the close of his remarks the fol-
Swing named gentlemen, with others,
were appointed a committee to carry OUT
the principles of the Association LII TINS
city and vicinity: Messrs. A. W. Camp
bell, Postmaster and editor of the Intel
Igeneer; J..C Orr, United States CoHeci
tor; D. Peck, State SENATOR c. ID. HUB
bard, Congressman elect from this Dis
trict and the notorious Permit HOrn-
brook" With scarcely an exception, ting
above named are professional politicians
men who have frequently talked ana
written about the glorious freedom-loving
Germans. the debt of never-ending gratit
tude which the nation owed them, and
snch like-men who were loud IN their
nraises of the lamented Mulligan and his
irish heroes at Lexington, one OF them
even going so far as to say In his paper
that the conduct of Mulligan and his
Irish (not the Irish that spoke at the
freedmen's meeting) at Lexington, and
the subsequent speeches of the Colonel,
did more to fire the Northern heart in
the dark and doubtful days of 81, than
any other equal number of men living
men some of whom have been heard
to say, frequently, that the name
of Meagher and his Irish brigade should
be ever high upon the roll Of fame,
a brigade that went into the Army of the
Potomac under glorious Little Mac, thir-
ty.three hundred strong, fought through
the memorable seven days fight, and
when short time after the battle OF
5Antietam their. roll was called at Har-
per's Ferry, only few over five hundred
answered, tho balance having m0istened
the hills and valleys Of Maryland and
Virginia with their blood. Scarcely a
man of these Irish fellows was. IL fourth
of q generation in America, and cOnSe-
quehtly, according to Bittinger, Camp
bell, Hornbrook and Co. were at least
three quarters of q generation behinG
the uninstructed poor African slaves of
the Southern States Gracious heavens,
what gratitude! Irishmen, and descend
ants of Irishmen, foreigners and descend
ants of foreigners, hear what these base
cOwardly, stay at home, Office holding,
self-styled loyalists think of you and
yourhonored patriotic dead. Why cannot
these men when soliciting charities for
the unfortunate needy freed man, do so
without endeavoring by every means in
their power to insult and create preju-
dice against foreigners? Why not give
every citizen chance of contributing?
I know many citizens of Irish birth who
would willingly give a little for purposes
of this kind, and very many Germans,
English, Scotch, &c, who have never
shown disposition to be behind on oc
casions of this character. Oh no, that
is not what these men want; they want
commotion, excitement and strife, they
are after political ascendancy, they want
new issues, they feel and know that as
party they. are gone up, they wish to
make the negro a full citizen (see pro-
ceedings of an abolition meeting lately
held I'm Xenia, Olio), and in order to ac-
complish it, get up genuine anti-foreign
public sentiment. In this way they hope
to change laws, constitutions and
everything else which may stand i'll
their road, and before the mechanics
and working men of the United States
are fully aware of what they are after
we will have Cutie full citizen in our
midst. l could forgive these chaps if they
were only honest and had any regard for
the poor negro, but they are not honest
and have no regard for him. They sim
ply feel and know that as individuals
and as party, the working white men
of America have found them out; they
know that i'll few short years they will
bid a long and final farewell to the places
of power and trust which they have so
wantonly and shamefully misused and
are therefore bound to make a desperate
effort at covering the African with the
mantle of American citizenship and thus
secure enough cOlored voters to perpetu-
ate their power Is it not high time that
foreigners generally would take warning
and see the tendency of this so-called
Union party! How soon these gentle.
men found il convenient to forget the SER
vices of snch Germans as Sigel, Shurz, and
hosts of others less noted, and such
Irishmeu as Shields, Meagher, Mulligan,
CorcOran, and glorious Lyle, from Bell
fast, who fell in Tennessee while cheer
ing and leading his division to victory,
Little did these brave patriotic souls
think. that the success of the national
armies which they 50 gallantly helped
to achieve, would 80 soon be made use of
to degrade the living and dishonor the
dead AMERICUS