Year: 1861

Concerning the adopted citizens of the
Times says:


Loyal to the stars and stripes by an in
stinct dating back to their infancy, in which
America was the promised land of liberty and
plenty, could they but reach it's hospitable
Shores such martial ardor as they possess is
much more likely to enlist itself in defense Of
the Union than to incur the hardships of an
ill-organized and poorly-munitioned rebellion
against the General Government. On this
point the expressed sentiment of the Sixty
Ninth Regiment, N. Y. s. NJ. shonld be con-
elusive evidence-that military organization
being Irish of the most pronounced and rep
resentative type, and its voice being all but
unanimously raised in favor of volunteering
upon any service considered necessary by the
National Executive.


A writer in the Irish Pictorial, of New
York, makes the following appeal to his fell
low-countrymen:


To ARMsl To ARMS Such should now
be the cry of every loyal citizen, untilthe
blood shed at Charleston is atoned for by the
most signal punishment of the traitors who
would destroy the only free Government on
earth, and reduce our hitherto powerful and
prosperous country to a worse condition than
the petty States of Mexico. The President,
in his Inaugural Address, extended the olive
branch Of peace to the rebellous citizens of
the South, and called upon them to return to
their allegiance and their duty. He guaran-
teed to the seeding States continuance of
their postal facilities, and pointed out to them
the ruinous paths they were pursuing with
all the kindness and affection of a parent to
his erratic child. The pacific policy thus in
augurated has been treated with derision by
the traitors, and looked upon as evidence of
the weakness and cowardice of the National
Government.


The little garrison defending Fort Sumter,
who, by the by are mostly of Irish birth, and
of that fine old Celtic race which never yet
turned its back upon foe, had but few
days supply of provisions, and when the Gov
ernment offered to withdraw all the troops
from that fort, leaving only a corporal and
two men in charge of it, this was refused by
the rebel leaders, who insisted upon terms
which, ifagreed to by our Government, would
have made its name synonymous with every
thing mean and vile, and left our country the
scoff of every nationality on earth. These
humilating conditions the Government re-


ected, and announced to the Governor of
South Carolina their intention of peaceably
supplying the little garrison with provisions.
For this civil war has been commenced by
the South, which can end only in the over
wheming defeat of the rebels, and the de-
struction of the oligarchial and despotic Gov
ernment they have set up


In the war of Independence. Irish-born
men played noble part. At the battle of
New Orleans, the country was saved by An
drew Jackson, the son of an Irish peasant, and
in the war now inaugurated Irishmen will be
found loyal to the Government and the coun-
try which has been an asylum and home to
the oppressed of every nation. Let every
adopted citizen remember the oath which he
has taken to support the Constitution, and no
people pay greater reverence to the sanctity
of an oath than those of irish birth. There
are unfortunately, in all our large cities,
designing traitorous demagogues, who will
endeavor to instll the poison Of their own
minds into others, but they are few indeed,
and every adopted citizen should shun these
traitors or put mark of reprobation on
them. The Irish people on this continent are
loyal to the Union, the Constitution and tn
Government, and will support them by every
means in their power Let the Government
proceed with vigor. If we must have war
let it not be little war; let it be over
whelming so that it may speedily be ended.