The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-13
The Irish in America.

I'VE have for transferring to columns the fol-
lowing letter written by New York correspondent of the
Dundee ADVERTISER The first that processes to be reply
letter written by gentleman connected with the IRISH
Republic private friend residing in the North of Scot
land and which appeared afterwards in the influential Scot
fish newspaper which have just named And second
wish let all countrymen know oha other people think and
sag Of e There not little be learned from
enemies; and from the anmus manifested throughout the
following epste it evident that the Scochman by
whom written, is anything but friend to the Irish
people of America who like himself exile from the land
of their BIRTH We do not say to nsnuate, that
all Scochmen enemies Such know the fact
STILL is only too natural for those who have lost sod
their national independence and who have neither the
power the a to regain it, to look with envy those who
true the glorious principles of Wallace and Bruce to
which they alas have proved false and recrean Let not
Scotchmen deceive themselves They at this moment
very pay figure in the eyes of all Independent For
nation whose proudes boast to make the tartan of its old
heroic clans palry show its English masters and
mistresse is far gone in shameless degradation merit
receive anything but the plying contempt of all who
despite of dungeons and scaods the of
| human lbery.-EDs l. R
To the Editor of the Dundee Advertiser.
SIR: In your impression of the Goth April with the peru
sal of which have been favored by young counryman of
yours find been written here headed
Ireland running America l. for would be
think that single respectable scochman should be deter
is becoming rapidly rishised The appearance of the letter
in your widely circulating and liberal journal demand
for its statements consideration that they onot nnscal
merit The pth of the letter lies in the following sentences
That Fenianism is under cloud here for the present" he
italics mine) that the Irish doing the Yankee
pretty nearly what the Yankee has done to the Indians
pushing them out of existence that "hey bambooze the
Yankees right and left cute the latter and that items
of thousands of the pass themselves off American
born citizens they have left off the brogue and have
succeeded in raising mousache and goatee"
do not intend to take up these assertions sa but will
call attention unfamiliar
incidents of history and to facts notorious to here
This country has lately passed through conflict of four
years. DURATION and of dimensions equaled this
continent and rarely yours After prolonged and des
perae resistance the savehodng arstocacy of the South
succumbed and the heart of every loyal American thrilled
with thought that the whipping post and the auconbock
aboshed that the sacred ties that bind husband and
wife, and parent and child no longer at the mercy OF
avarce and lust and that our broad domain there
left driver snap his whip the coes and
slave to cnk his manaces in the free air OF heaven
In the glory of this result the Irish in the United
States with few and splendid exceptions had share their
cast before the almost solid for the
party which the avowed exponent of Southern principles
they denounced the Irish landlord and applauded the South
saveowner they revled in the breath the British
Government and the Northern aboons Throughout the
terrible conflict that ensued while New England sraning
every and lavshng its blood and treasure in the
of country and mankind the Irish furnishing more than
their usual quota of brawng and sedtous demagogues who
srove to embarrass the Government and patriotic
and righteous efforts At home they voted perssenty for
the Copperhead sympathzer with the rebeon and in this
city, in the of 1863 when all the available troops
had left for Getsburgh repe Lees raid into the North by
way of Pennsylvania under pretext of resisting the
scrpton they organized bloody instruction and riot that
ragged unchecked for three days. firing and plagng dwell
ngs robbng citizens in the public streets in broad daylight
and hunting down, mareang and hanging the noensive
and terorsrcken blacks Thousands of these miscreans
joined the army, and jumped the bounty e, took the bounty
and deserted to the enemy thus bamboozng the Yankees
right and ef And whilst Americans generally who fought
the Northern ranks returned at the close of the to
peaceful pursuits these ruans and renegades who have
left off the broge and succeeded in raising mousache and
goatee ready for any enterprise whether in Canada
n Mexico in Ireland that promised plumber and booty
When the war and dispute arose between the