The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-21
December q, 1851

on certain nsophlstcaed portion of people talent
cry, more wa--p punch
One night when the jovaIest lot of patriots that
shrugged their shoulders honest labor assembled
around the pewter mug" and the usual investment in pa
trioc toas and bad ucks England were made the
chaps ups and says says he, What the country uould
e or other INSIST removing headquarters treasury and all the
ceterds out Of New York!!" Heavens if Jove had flung
thunderbo into the pewer mug there could be such
CONSERVATION. 1t only lasted for moment however, it
was unanimously decided that the person persons who
should dare breach that subject should be denounced
traitors c. o. RS British goold, organizers and official
journals would be put their once and
given to the scoundres until they hunted down."
The choicest and most fragrant portion of our people reside
IN Manhattan to the number of two hundred thousand
or less and they have made up their minds that all who
reside outside that barony only fit to be the hewers of
mud and drawers of (hot water" to themselves make
their punch So long has New York maintained her ascend
eney over the rest of the nation and determined these
vrtuous and pure corkacan ward
politicians Thubber ma Carhy thugs pro-
tessonal PATRIOTS who allow you dance what you like
pay Tor the music religious pharsees who their creed
their breasts ousde that the world may know them
the intimate friends of the Lord the keepers of brohes and
the singers of glasses the traitors to the Republic and the
butchers of negro babies all combined-for der-that
1t Is virtually useless to attempt evade them &c. my
advice to the country large long you be de-
voured by this headed monster ater yourself all
for the good of Ireland and submit with humble grace
BELTS the victims to the Unsuitable gods of corruption who
sit enhroned above the odorerous pureus of the Five
Points.
When started on my literary rambles, did not intend
to get into Baxter street and the Bowery but there
got lost in the dismal and CHASTITY forest whose are
titanic monsters with serpent branches underneath whose
kissing leaves the ghosts of ruined rustic Irish girls wander
pucng the fruit of death from the fangs of the viperous
boughs. have often stood the City Hall and seen the
pilgrims visiting their Mecca where their Mahomed punder
deied the Bowery and looked along that vision
of Mania Pot Mulberry street. with its tumbledown tene-
ments and sinks of ordure its low and wrnkled brows
whose murderous ridges virtue strangled and
buried long ago by crime and thought surely this comp
Gated grdron called Manhattan is but the well conceived
and nicely executed by the devil for catching souls
know that thousands and thousands of the simple peasant
girls from the holy hills of Ireland flow yearly into this
mouth of he'll never to emerge from there but
cast burial grounds know than can tell you now
Suffice it to say that there is conspiracy of crime that
city and to be honest to be the butt of nettered
villains and be the lover of justice is to be unhonored in
her archives have of my old scholars there
tending bars and ratp and lower still as officials at the
City Hail. and would have known them if they hadn't
told me who they
In my Greenfield Seminary in Kilkenny where Dillon
DAILY, of Dallysown with whom I am stopping here and
that ova priest Father Ireland first learned to conugate
always taught the boys that it in the color of the
skin the soul of lay. That heaven had given any
peculiar excellence this that nation but its seal uni
formly upon ALL That chance climate necessity and GER
tain other had forced this nation to the top of the
heap and that to the bottom That the higher nation rose
in grandeur the interested it became in reaching
down the lowly and drawing them up That in our own
struggle to the top against the BRUTE that eternay push
ing down. thereby beng its assumed greatness we
should not in turn stamp those below u.s. and who were
struggling up to the light back into the darkness again.
This and much that had learned from great Nature
herself who smiled and frowned upon all alike taught
them also remembered that slaves ourselves-un-
willing Ones that is of aland should have
fellow-feeng for the unfortunate My DEAR found them
as anxious to brain with black skin you would be