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

Louis of the leading and most enerprising citizens
are our countrymen.
AS general thing the Irish people of ST. Louis are in
business have been told that feature in the Irish citizens
here is determination to go into sort OF business
rather than be hewe of wood and drawers of water to
others. Would that all people thought and acted like
this Better take basket and pedde apples than dig mud
for pary pittance ST. Louis was of the first cities in
America in which Fenianism established. James
Stephens his first visit America some nine years ago.
visited ST. Louis and established organization there with
Mr. Moran its head From that day to this the men OF ST.
Louis have done for the OF ireland than any
other city in America Notwithstanding all the disappoint
and berayas occasoned by incompetent and dishon
est leaders, the spirit of liberty burns strongly in the
hearts of counymen here to-day, ever With few
miserable and savsh exceptions the general Irish people
here Fenians and nonF enians, thoroughly national
Contrast this with your thirty thousand Irish in Chicago
threeurhs of whom would bind the hands their country
and place her beneath the feet of the oppressor For public
spirit and broad manly action any great cause the general
Chicago Irish behind ST. Louis three hundred years.
1t is despcable to find this miserable feeling of sectional
rivalry carried far in Western cities, to allow
virtues in their opponents There certainly country enough
for Chicago Milwaukee, Cincinnati and ST. Louis to grow
and become prosperous without crossing each others paths
Read some of the Chicago papers, and there nothing in St.
Louis but murder and garrotng stalking through
the Streets and hearses at premium Visit ST. Louis
and you find the city quiet country town in New
England and the underakers and doctors growing the
dull times This is like of doubtful character seeking
his lngs by calling his neghbos all sorts of bad
names There is method in this madness" however, and
good many faces and large of business turned
away from ST. Louis by this systematic and unscrupulous
vifcaton This building oneself up your neighbours
rn deplorabe prosperity but "al means justify the end"
and if it is necessary smash all the cities in Christendom
to build Chicago, why they must be RACED, that's ALL
ST. Louis hard snag into, however. Her very
position the center of the richest country the world
the rivers of half continent rising from thousand noun
tain sources but all flowing towards center joining hands
and singing submission her feet at her back doors the
very earth bulged and bursting with precludes any
siby of decay She sits the very highway where the
immense army of the future and recruit previous
their grand march towards the Pacific When the Southern
States will yield their rich fruit to the hands of chaness
labor ST. Louis will become their base of operations Thus
is ST. Louis built rock that cannot be shaken by specu
laon She is bound to be the great center, if not the
capital of the future Republic when the United States will
extend her geographical lines until the flag Of the free will
float over the American continent.
This letter has stretched longer than intended but
not half long ST. Louis deserves at the hands of Irish
men, She has been asylum for the prosecuted of
race and for the oppressed of all nations receiving them
with outstretched arms to her generous bosom.
Now you may want to hear something about success in
extending the circulation of THE IRISH REPUBLIC You
that expectations not very sanguine We
knew there friends here but expected to find
enemies also. In the latter have been disappointed,
having with general unprecedented In four
days have received five hundred subscribers four
hundred of which individual subscribers the balance in
clubs There is large hearednes here about that you
do find in other places They prefer to pay five dollars
and receive the papers direct than be bothered with clubs
In intercourse with the citizens matter what their
opinions were treated with that courtesy which
is bred of intelligence Men who did agree with us
everything supported the paper the Irish principle We
could here for six months and add subscribers
list every day But object being introduce THE RE-
PUBLIC to the people, and let it work its way them we
us be off to fresh fields and pastures new AS twill be
impossible publish the of ALL give the of