...ke said, Colonel, will you allow me to speak a word with you? What is it? said the colonel. Well, colonel, I wish you believed as you did before the war. Then you believed in putting none but Americans on guard and here I am, an Irishman, wet to the skin, having been on guard all night. The colonel laughed and retired. (Colonel Hincks had edited a Know-Nothing paper whose motto was, Put none but...