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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
nks for pay and nothing else; whereas, the Southern soldiers of foreign birth have volunteered, like all our other soldiers, not for pay, but to defend their homes, their alters and their country. This makes the difference between the two classes, and it is all the difference in the world. Our correspondent cannot say more in praise of the gallantry and generous qualities of Irishman than we have said a hundred times. On every battle-field of the world, her children have fought and bled. Genius, eloquence, poetry, statesmanship, courage, energy, generosity, chivalry, sensibility, form a peculiar combination of Irish characteristics which we have always delighted to contemplate and culogize. In the war of the Revolution, many of our best and bravest leaders were of foreign birth. The very empire with which we were at war gave us a Paul Jones, a Montgomery, a Lord Sterling; Germany, her hereto Steuben, De Kalb, and others; and in the last war with England, and the contest with Mexi