The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-11

life in her." But she gradually came to, also
did, after the tail of the New York ST. Patricks process
sion had disappeared behind the City Hail. We have
likewise been in the habit laying the fatterng unc
ton to souls" that, here in America on the even
ing of the day devoted to the honor CD OF our pat
ron saint we could beat the world at trencher and
bottle performances and silence the songs of the seraphs
with the roar of our blatherskite oratory. But the
glory is departed from us. My Lord Mayo, Or Brayo,
and my Lord Kimberley, or Tm6er1ey-the name is
derived from the material out of which his ordship's
head is constructed poor little pluy Albert Guelph,
or Yelp Whep-have entered the arena, and beaten
the Paddles with their weapons Just think OF it,
O ye Commanding Knights Of st. Tammany, and
Friendly Sons of the Shilelah and hide forever your
diminished heads Envious people, who have been in
the habit Of asserting that ninetenths of paradng
and ranng the anniversary of the respectable Scotch
whom we have chosen for patron saint,
political nets to catch voters in, by whose sweet
services marshals assistant marshas and carriage
occupers and wirepuers generally get themselves
made into Aldermen and City Councillors, and pitch
frked into fat situations which enable them to mistake
the difference between the public purse and their
This proves that certain portion of people, if they
are not fit to govern themselves as the English
who have governed admirably in the habit of
assertngare perfectly competent to manage the affairs
of New York city the decided advantage of their own
pockets IF anybody doubts this request him to be
good enough to study the accounts furnished by Mr.
Richard German the learned and able counsel for the
corporation. If he is not convinced by these documents
of the truth of what we have stated give him up
despair.
But at that little game we obliged to con-
TESS that Irish politicians beaten hollow by their
English competitors. For is not one of your small
ward orators who gets his regaa and parades his
patriotism in turkey fashion, for the pious pur
pose Of getting fat place, or good price for his
GOALS, but very m putan rogue, compared with such
big swindlers Wales, Timbery and Mayo? Faugh
We feel utterly Disguised Our political patriots must
fly at higher game, such the Headship of the Nor
mon Church. the Presidentship of the Canadian
Dominion. Let them do that and we will begin to
believe that they not very little animals of the por-
cine persuasion For Isl not the fact that this English
Prince and those English Lords are eating their
dinners and making their speeches under the falsest of
false pretenses They love Ireland and the Irish. OF
they do Manchester scaolds and Mountjoy and
Portland and Penonve prisons prove it Oh yes they
love Ireland WELL that they take away her money from
her to the tune of about eighty millions of dollars
year. They love her WE'LL that they leave the two
thirds of her people hungry and ragged and helpless
all to disgust them with this world and qualify them
for better. Very loving of them and their aders and
abettors is not Yes, yes. They love ireland so
WE'LL that in less than quarter of century they have
murdered million of her people, and driven forth three
millions more as homeless houseless landless exes
the face of the earth How they do love Ireland the
darngs, and how Ireland and her people ought to love
them !!
This pudgy Prince Yelp, whose powers have all been
unfairly placed by nature in his stomach instead of in
his skull, is going to pay visit to Ireland Let the