The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-21

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of males between the ages of eighteen
| and forty five years were only four ana
one half millions by the census OF 1850.
| If the proportion of foreign born were
| the same in the army as In the whole
population, and there IL no reason why
| il should be less, it would have been
| more than twenty per cent, to say no
thing of the large importation for the
army. tss
the Reverend gentleman also stated
at the same time that ninety per cent:
of the claims of wounded soldiers and
soldiers widows and orphans pensions
were made by persons of foreign birth.
and considered that farther proof OF
the patriotism of Federal army,
If nearly two millions of men had to
be raised 10y conscription Tor tile fear of
! it,, and the payment of heavy bounties
(which was the case), would it be at all
probable that they would not apply for
any pension to which they were .enti-
tied? The gentleman's argument proves
too much for his case.
| How many men Of foreign parentage
served in the war there is no means of
ascertaining. II is undoubtedly true
that more than one-third were persons
of that class.
New York Herald, Dec %. 1856
| The Reverend Doctor Bellows, Presi-
dent of the Sanitary Commission, said :
ale would state circumstance that
would scarcely be believed unless it
came from authority, that no less than
ninety per cent. of the army who fought
throughout the war We're purely Ameri-
eau. lie did not think his friend, the
President of the st. Patrick Society,
would be obliged to him for this state
mcnt, but IL was nevertheless the truth,
aud If his worthy friend was chagrined
with the statement he would say To him
IL is so but, let the London Times put
that in bis pipe and smoke it. More
than that, more than ninety per cent.
of the claims of wounded soldiers aud
soldiers widows and orphans, came
from those of foreign birth. He did not
say this to reflect upon the gallantry and
loyalty and bravery of the Irish and
Germans and other peoples who had SO
nobly fought for the Union and the
country they had adopted. He merely
did il at this time, at the close of the
great events through which they bad
passed to vindicate the character and
patriotism of the native element, and to
disabuse those powers abroad who imag
ined or wished to please themselves or
their subjects with the idea that the
great American struggle, and the great
victory which closed it, was achieved
by the foreign element in the country.
This was not so. ltlla
HOW THEY DID THINGS AT RICHMOND
The more we learn of the way thew
did things i'm Richmond under the reign
of the cotton lords, the less creditabje
appears the performance of those So
called southern statesmen. There have
been several exposures of the corruption,
the gross waste and mismanagement
which prevailed mt Richmond during
the rebellion; but the lawIess despotism
Of Davis. and the rognery and ineonpe
tency with which he surrounded him
self, have not been so clearly shown up
before, as by Mr.. Foote in recent
volume. ~ et.ts4f5f
The pretence that the Richmond set
were the only true and capable states
men in the country, Is blown to the
winds by the revelations of Mr.. Foote.
We behold in his pages a parcelof blum
derers and corruptionists, who were
almost from the first faith;ess to the
political principles, devotion to which
they made the pretext for rebellion, who
made Richmond in few months tile
scene of infinitely worse corruption than
had ever disgraced Washington during
the worst days of Buchanan; who VIC.
lated alike law and honor, constitutions
and humanity; who upheld their favo-
rites in the most shocking crimes andin
the most transparent blunders; and who
clearly imagined that the best way to
establish "a q new nation was to bully
the North and to cheat the rest of the
world.
The stories Mr.. Foote tells about the
Erlanger loan, the inhumanities of
Hindman and Bragg, for which thew
were rewarded by Davis, the wretched
cheating of Seldom, and other like in
stances, give one a disgust for the whole
Richmond crew, which appears on this
and other evidence to have consisted
mainly of asmall party of INSCRIPTIONS
rogues, as vile, as reckless, and as con-
temptible as the set whom Kinglake
describes as surrounding Louis Napo-
leon before and after the COUP D'ETAT.
The Southern people are, happily. rid
OF these locusts who so hungrily proved
upon their substance. They will one
day know how great q debt they owe TO
the United States Government for res
cuing them from the clutches ofth most
graceless set of scamps that ever stole
the reins of the Government and drove
deluded people to destruction. Had
Davis succeeded, he and his companions
would have ridden the Southern people
as despotically as Napoleon does the
French, but with not title of his
ability and the South would not have
regained its liberties from these fellows
without another revolution.
Mr.. Footc asserts that Davis had not
merely arranged for an invasion of
French soldiers, but he had engaged the
services, without tue consent of the
Confederate Congress, of several tbous-
and Polish mercenaries, who would
have been hireiings at his personal COM
mandy. Y. Post.
The disaster to the steamboat Miami
on Arkansas River has given rise to
further troubles. On Wednes day. the
United States Marshal at Memphis
Tennessee, received writ for the arrest
of Captain Levy, his two pilots and en-