The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-14


The Freemon's (slaveman's) Journals big bow-wow: :
A PETTY NUISANCE IN THE NoRTHwEsr-A reverend
friend In the Northwest has slips from sheet
published till lately published in that region called The
IRISH REPUBLIC to be edited by discarded Presby
terrain preacher Our friend asks if we see fit to notice
it" We have two of the earlier numbers of
this sheet 1t is doomed to sterile and short existence
The bad menindel in religion and destructive in politics.
that have made donations to try its success will
become discouraged when they how poweress such
agency against the Catholic faith of the Irish people The
brightest jewel in the of Irish nationality has been,
and will be- the heroic fidelity of that people to their religion
and to the priesthood the repositories and ministers OF
the sheet such this IRISH REPUBLIC will
perver any Irish Catholic 1t will not be accepted by
any such till his faith has become irksome to him. because
he has entanged himself in matters against justice against
purity in the net of niqutyand is hunting for
not returning to the morals of the Catholic Church Therel
vitality in that miserable sheet 1t has profound prn
cple whatever and neither talent respectable literary
ability to sustain it. Any formal reftaon of its gable
would only lend tia little galvanic motion Silent contempt
is what it suggests Catholics But if in parish
other it to be doing HARM the remedy would sug
gest would be the preaching of mission, by some of the
orders of priests especially devoted this work Let the
poor wanderers who trying to fill their bellies with the
husks that swine that the sheet referred offering
hemet these poor esrays listen to instructions their
simple duty Christians and to the eternal
yeres-Death- all of us must soon Judgment
before Creator Heaven, that must gain except
fool away brief lives-He that escape will
but that will devour if do not make of present
lives to the glorious inheritance mission of this
kind in any parish with its OF open COMES
SIGNALS for pentens will quickly disspate all the puny
efforts of the exPresbyeran preacher that writes up the
infdel sheet above alluded to.
How Enthusiastically this fellow looks on Infdels" and
Radicals" "a reverend friend sends him some slips
from sheet pubshed-or till lately published, by ga
discarded Presbyterian preacher" Our reverend friend
asks us, if we see fit, to notice it,
Certainly not You and your friends, we sure,
are too vrtuous in your greatness to notice it, 1t is not
giving you and your friends the least trouble This
know for you and your friends continually protest
ing you do not Nay even ye get wroth in your
protestatons. The bad men-infdels in religion and
destructive IN otics-ths last is where the gazee is
supposed to in-w of course hide their accursed
heads when Able McMaser shoves his goggles back his
retreating forehead and frowns. However, if in one
parish other we seem to be doing HARM he advises
mission. This is just the thing A mission with the
Able at its head The Able sent some missionaries to
Chicago years ago, and they did good work
among the Irish who listened to their preaching They
were missionaries of the order of the Golden Circle"
and they succeeded in ordaining high priests of
the order here among Irish and native gulls and
traitors. All will remember the trials of those foolish
Irshmen for being implicated in the Camp Douglas plot
to let the ten thousand prisoners loose the city, to KILL
burn, etc. We of the opinion that the Abbes mis-
sion would not succeed in this parish now. We we'll
remember this same mailman describing how New York
city be burned up and how the Abotionsts were
going to be devoured And this is the rufan who has
dared to advise the Irish people, man who has led
more of them to the devil, and remained outside the
gates himself than any fend who has ever existed.
Even and other loudmouthed patriots and Chris
tans as they pleased to call themselves, owe their
federation by people whom they have endeavored to
Destroy to their insgnifcance We advise this hypo-
critic, who is ever procaiming from the altar steps his
sancy to remember how Christ rebuked such pharsees
and devote himself to the last eternal very-he He
should study at once to avoid going there
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