Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-11
RadicaILOHaIfY.

The Philadelphia Age exposes case OF
Radical loyalty, as manifested during tile
war. The statement of the Age is given
below, and those who read it will bear in
mind that those guilty of the grave crime
here alleged were of the 'last man and the
last dollar" order of patriots, who always
talked loudly about its being the duty of
every man to go into the war, but never
became individual examples once OF their
own arguments. 1t was the habit, too, of
Massachusetts, to boast of the number OF
regiments she had sent into the field, but
the loyal patriots of Radicalism mostly
stayed at home to do the voting. Their
money sent more men into the field than
did their devotion to the Union: stJ
Some time in the year 1864, when the
terrors of the conscriptiOn looked the self
ish tanaticism of Massachusetts, full In the
face, and the price of substitutes rose to
$500 and 500 apiece, there arrived in the
harbor of Boston, the steamer BeilOna. and
the barks Garland and Peter Godefroy. They
were freighted with human beings, mostly
men, and mostly Prussians. They had
come to land ofpromise and well Tequited
industry. They had come to till the land
and exercise their peaceful trades, and
death. The story is soon told.
They had been visited-these poor crea-
tures-at their homes in Germany by a
smooth tongued, plausible son of Massa-
chusetts, the agent of certain Boston
! firms. His errand was to procure German
emigrant laborers. The bloody .'slave-
holders rebellion" said had thinned the
labor of the North; and there was great
opening for the skilled industry of Europe.
He promised them employment Tor three
years, 500 cash down and $12 a month
1 (ominous terms, but unmeaning to the dis
| tant stranger.) No doubt he painted New
England as land of milk and honey, Mas
sachusetts paradise, and Boston harbor,
whittier they were to be waited, the Golden
Gate. As will be seen, they found it a
very different thing. At last the tempter
prevailed, contracts of very misty phrase
ology were signed, the poor Prussians
bade farewell to their fatherland, and the
deed was done. Besides the contract which
they signed. they were induced to release
any claim they might have on arrival to
compensation beyond the 500 and $12 a
month. The BelloRa and her consorts
| sailed. .. --. ..
Boston harbor is destined to have an ugly
name in history. Not only is Fort Warren
there, with its tale of unavenged wrong,
but there are two small islands called Deer
| Island and Galloupes Island, which have
their story to tell. On these wretched spots,
cut off from all Intercourse with the land,
these poor German emigrants were landed,
and by force were kept. The Bellona
dumped down the human cargo as If they
had been so many mules. Presently-how
long exactly we are unable to say-there
came up a whisper to the German residents
and associations of Boston that something
was wrong. -,s Il trs..fE
Now and then a poor sick stranger was
found wandering homeless, who said he had
| hi ar
| ing in strange land. This led to inquiry,
and the startling facts were disclosed. that
| all these emigrants had been landed at Deer
| Island, surrounded, and kept in terror by
the armed police of the city of Boston-in-
spected by military surgeon whose name
we have-the sick sent a.hore and turned
adrift, and not dollar paid to them, and
the we'll forcibly transferred to Galloupes
Island military post, and there by threats
and persuasion enlisted in the army of the
United States and sent instantly to the
front, credited to the quota of Massa-
chusetts. and the substitute money
which was realized by the operation,
received, and to this day kept, by
commercial firms with which it orig
mated And for all this there is no redress
and as to it there has been scarcely any
publicity. The Prussian Charge d Afdires
made some faint effort at investigation
The German societies in Boston did all they
could. but loyalty, ana the puollc senCl-
ment of Massachusetts,, approved it. The
Yankee merchants made good thing, and
the poor friendlcss Prussian has the honor
of sleeping in some national cemetery, or
to wander MANNED through the streets.
These radical patriots who were guilty
of this fraud are terribly shocked at the
idea of dealing in flesh and blood, and here
is a transaction that really transcends il
enormity anything known in the slave
| trade