The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15

TO the base views OF
hypocrites whose only and bugbear is niger
equality when they know that their base passions have
often brought them that e aye and below those whose
patient orgivng and enduring natures their brutality has
often sunk them? Who do those men, or monsters who
murder citizens their own doors in daylight as wor to oy
their paid hengs who have since found their level
among those with whom their nature BELTS them to mngle
and who try SANDER by their scrbblng those they
unfit associate with, still worshipng the pictured
idols of their countrys ruin still exhibiting the crawling
funkes cunning that while panders to the ignorant pref
udce with which their scrbbng feeds the mob draws for
themselves slaves ptance from such sordd sources? Why
is all this? It is because the great archtraitor "Johnson
fills the Executive chair and has set premium rebellion
1t is because by his devsh policy he has turned defeat into
victory leaving the blood of thousands of patriotic
contymen sink useless into the EARTH while their slayers
rewarded with official honor And he crawed to his
position in that chair by rebellion and assassination he who
furnishes proof assisting in the bloody struggle one OF
the votaries of the gods gray still have chance to
ruin the Government under the guise of peace and perjury
by being made by the Executive traitor governor Judge,
mayor and in fact any Office (WHICH to figure of bitter
irony s nthe gJto Mepop johnson meanwhile corruptng
the people by his example
THE VITAL QUESTION NOW BEFORE u.s. shall the
country be ruled By rebels loyal WHICH YOU
TAKE? We have fear but those who are best with
proper share of and intelligence who have no faint
manly independence which first gave birth and being to the
United States and which has preserved it so long from
enemies in the field and traitors in high places The Gov
ernment which is now in danger than Bull Run or
Shiloh threatened it WITH the only existing form OF
combination of the interest," we'll being happiness and self
protection dignity and freedom for the people Gods foot
STOOL Shall it be destroyed by few guerrllas with white
faces who would prey human flesh and tten their ogre
like persons the and suerings of humanity? We
e Al o~~I IL, ooll,nx
shall be caught up and repeated until the air we breathe
shall ring with the reverberated NO! NEVER |!
The Boards of Registrars dispersed through the various
parishes of theSe of Louisiana testify to the evil effects
of the Southern system under slave rule and the general
lack of intelligence to be met with in every parish The
little printing Offices ESQ Called the Dephic oraces of the
locality less of blessing than curse, for in all
they but the tools of the upper Glass; and bandying
prejudice from little sicklylooking sheet to the other
advertising and describing sable runaway trying to
be witty over the punishment of petty theft done by
unfortunate slave who had this to stay the
cravings of hunger increased by the biting cold of winter
piercing through the bundle of which often had to do
service for his master before they transferred to him.
Many of those printing hans conducted the man
power SYSTEM and he is printer DEVIL editor and all What
political there is in all those frail little ink
starvengs what mastering of old jokes old Stories old
negroisms family PRIDE and class fanaticism What
ferocious little column will sometimes
against political Innovation crusher out of old
pet CUSTOMS which time and Southern feudaism sanctioned
But they are all ake-more than the Growing of one
rooster another 1t is only since the late that the
oldest inhabitan exception Butwe have excep
tons now few that they looked upon in their localities
as something horrble-devsh- basphemes that
he who would be seen reading them would be set down
pariah-he would lose But do not the dwellings of
refinement that line city streets, and fringe our
squares and foster much of this classified ignorance
and apeish prejudice parish cottage? And the ussy
editors of large the high priests of this bera
antiprogressive training which has bghed the city ana
ruined the country 1t is amusing of those pgmy
editors alluded to pick up hghsng argon against
human progress from the columns Of the fussy editor of
city chabag and go round among the storepay patrons