Mobile Register

July 2, 1861

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            FOREIGNERS-A friend of German birth informs us that some feelings have been wounded by an expression in the last letter of our Norfolk correspondent.  The allusion is to his remark that to “find a man at the South without a military badge upon his person, is to find a cripple, and invalid or a foreigner.”

            We beg pardon of all our friends, who may have been hurt by this remark, when we assure them that the fault is their own in putting an unauthorized meaning upon the term “foreigner,” which assuredly means one not a citizen, and we cannot imagine that our correspondent used it in any other sense.