The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-20
HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES
M n T. Jppnary o5Fh AZ

washington ID. Z. Jannary 10th OF
Daniel Senigan ESQ
Dear Dan
/ have not heard from your dee, damned City
Since left for Chicago, and Cannot imagind how
the pure Sons of the Soil get along. | suppose
as usual squabbling tecuecalities, hungcring
to devour any one who may perchance rise to the
surface and win for his guer1on the half of a
name, like L did, but the poor hybrid Ours Can
not Curb geneous, because like mur.e sit will
out so have become quite a politiei an Since
| met you, and will yet Sit as ConrressmG N froU
the State of Illinois representing the radica por
ton OF the state Of which Michael Seaman my
| greatest and most Constant friend the poet the
patriot, but Still greater man is one of the aas
devoted and abest defenders, and is thank Goa 'S
the van OF progression, not pulled at its TAIL Ii IL
the friends OF John Morrissey, and the NAGRt
matters OF New York City, may I not say Oh
Lord deliver us from sneh dimi-crats and Oh
good ST. Patrick-sure you banished the -
Shanakes-and you also sent the plug uglics of
| your offspring into the very home of freedom and
| they after escaping frefa worse than egvptian
bondage, turn around from what they had once
worshipped, enter into the home of slavery and
are waiting brided and ready saddled, for the
one fifth of our populatan to ride who with spurs
and whip Of unceuseientious lash and after n
long and troublesome Journey over Steep Crags
and deed morass, the poor N. 7. animals fall into
$. me chasm or democracys hell and then thew lie
bleeding and covered with wounds, in that Stencil
ing unfathomabh pithole of slavery, where the
hand OF resurrection can never reach to recover
them E@%S zSa t&E@ san
Thank God, Ireland, you are truly represented
IN the state of Illinois; preiudices, no suppos-
ed wrongs, no enemities against the Massachu-
setts Yankees, no brave state, not even all the
sickly paintings of Romish priests, pure sophists
ana damned demagogues, no nor all the despotic
powers that Catholicism Could muster would no.
make the Irish People of the west Vote for fls,
socalied democratic, but in truth "Aristocrasie
Democracy spfinging from South Carolina, and
throwing its hellish seed over the entire South
Spreading its outrageous dark branches. Shut
ting out the sunlight from the masses of the orr,
north thereby 0urtaiiing liberty giving it alb oor
to the privileged few, and Completely soyertp
ing the fundamental principles Of ecualT - iom
justice, upon which the commonwealth ~ an"
stituted and Created. - 'aS con
Let me pause, here, and tell You that .b..a.,.l
state that made an amendment to the Const;,,,..y
at its farming was South Carolina ssthat an ,,.
are born free and equal before the laws az ne1
and man. cor laws of the lani'' literaIlv-Aadu
ing the word white before so as to made real
Slavery to the Colh and let me tell Won tba,
the GoPd man Voted in the state of Tennessee nm
20 1899, and the motion was lost IN the leo;sIa
suie ey majority of one at that period to make
q, a. 40 tnank tod that my name is registered in
'ne auA'is Oh my great prairie State as carrying