The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-14
Lament by a Ruined Rebel Able.

This unordained eccesiastic has gone frantic through
lamenting over the lost cause" lie is English
American hereto conva,ted into an Irish Catholic
His name is the Able McMaster.
One by one the small and very hungry dogs of the
sestyled Catholic press" O have been yeping at us,
IN very malignant manner, since we invaded their
happy hunting grounds" We found them at their
usual work. protesting any amount of orthodoxy and
barking out loudly possible the stereoyped yowls
against heresy and infdety, while they were busy filing
their pockets and their stomachs-feecng the sheep,
and then picking their bones. We had long studied
the breed Their marks " were evident They were
bastard Irish wolves crossed by the Southern slave
hunting bloodhound But, finding that open enslave-
men has become too odous in these freethnkng times
they have they often did BEFORE donned the skin of
the Sheep for purposes which is needless to paricu
larize.
We came in very unexpectedly this pous pack.
For in their amiable lives the wolves were caught
mapping We showed, intended to shew, no mercy
to the merciless One NANCY cur, called Paul. of Ire
land, got kick in the of his sanctifed person.
And the creature who prowls around the Quaker city
got dig in the ribs In fact the entire pack were
taken at disadvantage. The in the west, and
they shall learn to their COST But the most savage
animal fights for its life. Hence having had time to
rally they come at us from all sides with howl that
might welawake the dead Radical" growls one beast
"Infdel howls another. Negro suffrage" yels the
entire pack WE'LL WE'LL every animal must act accord
ing to his nature A holy" wolf will fight for his
"kettle of bones" with as much ferceness as a noble
breed will protect the fold.
This time have the pleasure of introducing to
readers dog of the true hunting bloodhound
breed. He answers to the Of Able. He has
been trained from his youh-we were going to say from
his puppyhood but that's not past ye-upwards to smell
runaway slave, to hunt him down. and giving glory to
God and his Church for the grace which enabled him
achieve this glorious triumph to return the poor wretch
to the tender embrace of his tyrant master Verify this
was glorious service.
Previous to the late bloody and inhuman invasion of
the pestient Yankee" the Southern plantations
whereby the holy trade in human flesh and blood and
soul put end o-the dog Able, although little
dull large welfed and ferce-looking "hanimal"
But atterly he has fallen on evil times The hunting
of niggers for pef and pleasure is no longer allowed
The Able Mac has grown lank in the abdominal
region, and in gait shaky and shutting SO that he who
was once deWlapped ike Ihessalan bull, is now
become like Dr. Browns unfortunate apprentice, "asthn
as twoounce vial" His howl" that so often rang
merrily of yore when beng up the slaves and
whose demoniaca tones became most delightful to his
masters ears when he paused and "barked up tree,
is all that remains of his former bulkiness WE'LL
this fellow-with his large and bloodshot eyes, his
loose and ribby trunk his paws red with the mold of
Union graveyards where he loves to burrow and howl
delightfully."- like hyena over the mangled dead-from
the furthest off corner of the field yowls at us to-day
"L.fdez and Radical" Let nobody be alarmed. This
animal was never known to bite where he knew he would
get well kicked General Meagher whipped the hound