The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-03


WILD EGERToN.
Important Letter from Mexican General
e.e. f.5- - MATAMoRAs, MEXICO, July 18th, 1867.
Editors Irish. Republic. ~ ss#.-s .,t ,ss,. -
GENTLEMEN: Your seventh number has reached my hands,
full good wholesome reading matter just such
expected from the prolific pen of the learned and able gentle
who manages its columns. To say that your paper
the best Irish organ which has yet the light in America
isneither praise compliment but simple truth which any,
would readily admit after perung its pages for half
hour sincerely trust that party personal disputes will
be permitted disgrace the fair reputation which it
rapidly acquiring; or be suffered for moment misdreot
its efforts the noble objects which it has proposed
advocate -Irsh Independence and Universal Liberty.
During the three weeks in this country
passed through period of intense political excitement The
time has been marked by events perhaps the greatest that
nation witnesshe downfall of Legitimate obnoxious
and foreign government and the reestabishment of the
cherished Republican institutions of the land The hand of
the brave but misguided and bamboozled prince which
welded the sceper of his nearly established throne sled
in death and those of of his coaduors in Napoeon
ubiquitous and istarred scheme of conquest have shared
fate they richly deserved have fled to the
mountains the caves rocks good resting places
wreches who have been taken against
the country that gave them fe Let the world think
of it peases it will restore life to the Arch
duke Macmillan he has gone the way of all fes perhaps
few years before his time His memory and his acts
belong the pages of history and will be appauded
demned according the different political standponts from
which they may be viewed As far asmy humble per-
sonal opinion is concerned think that this unsuccessful
Mexican rongbow richly merited his doom; but doctors
differ you know. tAf liz ansi!saf ~ les sa
The people of Mexico keeny feel severity of the ordeal
through which they haveut and naturally eated
with the efforts independence which Just
been SO orious They admit that they
under strong obligations to the United States for their good
offices in demanding French evacuation of Mexco for had
Uncle SAM insisted upon it, Mexican patriots have
been still negotiating in the inaccessible folds of the Sierra
Madre limiting their operations the making of ncron
into the Valleys towns and cities of this Republic still in the
possession of French generals and Austrian mercenare
The Mexcans say grateful to the United States forthe
timely nterposton of their effective j" moral suasion
doctrine which has had such desirable influence in behalf of
Repubcanism with rotten European monarchies held to
account for their conduct AT the time we must
lose of the fact that had the Mexcans proved
to their cause all the moral suason in Chrsendom would
not have ced them from their inevitable DOOM or
have resusctaed again the lost cause of responding people,
who had abandoned the wreck the wrecer upon being
struck by gale that laid hemsupon their beam ends with
bare poles useless rudder and leaking hull Jack would
saw No. the Mexcans up ship-hink of that
Irshmenhey stuck her timber through thick and THU
they weahered the hurricane for they abandoned
hope they saw through the ormcoud that benghed the
land faint streak light which grew broader and brighter
by degrees till it Illuminated the land and brought to the
longing souls of the weary but earnest Aztec patriots indie
pendence and liberty in peace. @.s
That's what the Mexicans did. Take the example your
souls and worthy initiate it, Irishmen and with hearts
resolved and hands prepared go and conquer for you
if you but will it, The Mexicans only about eight
mons-sem barbarans the London Times will tell you