The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-10
Mitchell tl,o TInrtyl.

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Mr. hiohei, IL VII r. remembered, escaped @ftcr
.os % c1iio45 W pfacs G toarhn es paioel aoa as
tie diogusssd and horrned his Irish friends
b. csciaring h.mfolf rampant advocate OF slavery.
lie made hln,scl. specially rcpulsve because OF
the conpaceDcy ond chuckiing gross
.nrV oi bis arowals on the suhioc. TAe
martyr of lrc dom declared that mis- great aspiration Was
for plantation. %. rat niggdrs He went down South
ana p.c,eN AGAINST the government and the states
which lad pr5tec.,d him when none else woald.
y hat should think OF Ma2zini' if T.
70 reray shelter by joining inv con
siiracy - destroy our government our empire,
and our free political organizatiGnr This was what
John hitc4el did for ho United States such was his
hatred TO those who had protected hna that in the bit
terness o. his heart against the Northern States he
soHeitos forgot for moment Ms abhorrcnce OF Eng
land 40 southern tongue or pen ever saDdercd and
nsuited the go9crnnent and people OF the North as
hd the pen and tongue Of the outoast whom the
North hat saved in his hour of peril. He some
time honorec Europe By a visit, and while residing in
Paris, II 10 show how utterly false had been all his
prof ,'iOns of sympathy with liberty, he devoted him
self 20 writing articles for Irish uiamontanc paper
in which lac illuminated and denounced the efforts
vi The Italian patriots for the independence OF their
cocntry. Returning to congenai occupation in the
capital o. the slave dominion he exercised his pen in
Richmond paper by vitup ration anst the free States
against abolition, against Liberty and against Engianf
No man, it may be suely asserted did more within his
70 embttcr and icrocous the struggle then
going on TO rob of all the characteristic OF courtesy
and chivalry, to make II hateful and brutal
in practice as air ady was in principle on the side OF
the South While Meagher leading his IRISH Brigade
up the heights Of Fredericksburg Hood the battle held
with their gallant blood In the OF the North
Mitchell shrfeking hsing and sputtcring through
Richmond his zeal for the of the South
Richmond fcIi and MIR. Mitchell fed. He lived to
write treason another day. He sought refuge
again in New York He reckoncd, no doubt,
parAy he proverbiai generosity &C the people
whom he had So bitterly ,raduced, and partly per
haIs their contempt his gnoblc and puny onmty
hut u would that he had tried even their
atencc too far and ho in FORTRESS Monroe await
ing II " said, charge OF treason The mpudencc that
this into New York nay well be called astound
hg II lucky for him that his crimes only
nit,ed aynnst the government and the people whom he
esccratcd aud illuminated Lucky for him that his
tre.on not against the Emperor Of the French whose
Intervention in the OF Ireland he eagerly
Invited His life doubt ~ saie enough He will per.
ha have benefaciors and the chance of
tad-cing them. But whatever his fate England ought
To- feel some little interest In IT, For, but for
discarded system OF shooting convict rubbish into
Australia A. the people Of North America would probably
mover have been cxcd by the ungraciu society Of MIR
John Mitchell