The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-07

keeping STILL they kept close SO many oysters but
when they supposed your party and yourself the
high road to destruction then they pitched and made
up for lost time and studied previous silence From all of
which, you will have difficulty in putting proper price
their support opposition, their praise abuse
And apopos of those Fall elections and the Republican
party glad that matters they did, and for these
When THE IRISH REPUBLIC was launched in May
last have to think that many prominent Republicans
held that they could well dispense with all the assistance
you could give them that you only making virtue
of necessity that you concluded that their party had lease
for life the administration of the Government and that
you do something ene you portion of the
spoils of Office Their Fall experience and your consistent
from the outset have rid their minds of such
notions They rate you at proper worth. If
but the New York Tribune do. And this assistance
sists in their literally amending altogether repealing
Neutrality Laws to suit the present wonderfully altered
don of the country and in settling the adopted citizens
question thoroughly and finally they did that of negro
slavery While fthey should allow this session of Congress
to pass by without doing either particularly without
doing the latter their party would be knocked pieces in
the approaching Presidential But have fear
this score General Banks and Judge Bingham have ex-
pressed their determination settle this queso this
session of Congress, satisfactorily the negro has
been settled General Banks is also determined to bring up
again the Neutrality question and profit by his previous
perience in the matter Apropos of General Banks, pro-
him of the most sensible men, and of the
when is well known that this House full of sensible and
able He has trait of character which has gone
and will go hand in hand with and brains and
sterling WORTH that is the with which you cam any
time, approach him any question of importance to the
nation, the individual citizen. Others there who must
awake night from overpowerng of this acct
dental and temporary Importance Poor fellows they know
not that it is the that dgnfes the office not the Office
the man They know not that monkey perched on the
dome of the Capitol is monkey STILL Notwithstanding his
great elevation Let not your readers accuse me- for mo-
men of being preudced for against any person. thing
party people. cannot afford to be. leave that
blind partisans. am welded to the truth. always
open to conviction Ever ready to shift ground when
find longer tenabe And will gratefully accept sug
geson from any person quarter when offered in kindness
good defamlng a
reputation because he held earthly subject views diff
mne as would of doing so because he did not
the clothes the bill of fare that did,
Nay more if could be possible that all the of ADAM
and all the daughters of Eve could agree with in opinion
my mind would break down beyond hope of recovery under
such unnatural state of things. Judge you, then,
follow any party through thick and thin for the natural term
of his e and how unjust it would be to abuse him for
ing accordance with his convictions and for obeying the
fiat of his Intellectual life.
Those absurd ephes Orange rag and "inide sheet
applied your Journal carry back, in thought to
twenty ago. was then in Ireland and fifteen years
carefully and weigh well the events of the day. AT that
day the Protesants amongst the Young Ireland leaders
toos while the Catholic portion of them denounced
ndes and apostates - and this because they had the
to differ with Daniel OConne. How changed is
all this And how is that ime length all
things even The present generation of Iishmen is all of
twelve hundred years in advance of the Irshmen of twenty
years ago in all the finer attributes of manhood You will
look in vain for the sos bigo and bockheads of that
period The few who still inger amongst whose conduct
orcby reminds of those look upon curostes
have down from former remote generations.
Whenever we hear those Rip Van Wrinkles hurl those
epithets hereto" renegade "infde" "turncoa" and
"aposae the heads of those who differ from them in
religion or politics. boh regard them with feeling
pity and contempt For if they had not long since
lived their day and generation they would have known that
such ephes regarded the most vulgar of slang
by all who make the least pretension to intelligence
and responsibility They at all times applied only to
those who would follow the crowd and invented and en-
by tot ifv inna
Welearn from the morning papers that Williams the Cath
Ollie bishop of Massachusetts, has declined to allow the
the repose of the souls Allen Larkn and Brien Think
that Master Brook The souls Of those noble young men
do need the prayers of this Williams or OF men OF his
stamp they already in the enjoyment of the fellowship
of the made perfect And that is what fear he never