The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-28

that stern war had deprived him Of when it took his father
and protector away to crush the treason they wnked at
whose blood sed the "lost cause they SO aectionatey
quote in their loud bids for rebel sympathy and support
And again. let them ask the fawning conspring political
hack what the Grand Army of the Republic gave
him when he endeayored to sneak in Them and call
them down from the high standard they had set to follow
and commit themselves to the partzan sentiments of the
woud-be martyr to liberty, and his sensbties will Jingle
with shame he calls to mind the picture of misery and
they showed him, that they to to paliate
and asked him. are your sferings greater than Mesef
Let them ask that sterling patriot and hero General John
A. Logan whose sheds halo of glory upon that
already long and gitterng host of giant souls who have
stood against the shock of tyranny the field and FORUM
lie who has added another star to the concorse OF satellites
that make his glorious He whom they dare stigma
tie political renegade and leader of second order OF
Jacobns Let them speak to his face the words they
grind of the growing press that bend to their
ardy WILL and he will tell them, his eye flashes with the
whitening of nsulted hero that if to be identified
with an army would fain recall the light the fading
eye grown dim with watching for the "missing in action"
who come that cheer the broken heart of the
widow whose husband returned but to die in her
the threshold That may clothe these ragged little
and warm their freezing feet. That will comfort
and support the one-armed veteran of seventy
whose occupation is gone, and put food in the
mouths of the hungry and starving dependents of the sol
der whose decease the midnight battlefield in the
ar-o Southern prison. be proved the satisfaction
of the authorities at Washington and procure for the for
saken the pittance of widows pensions. If to
lead this army to be Jacobin then he Jacobn and
well may he glory in the title If to close the doors of this
order against the spy that urked in the the other
Grand Army in the field and organized the Knights of the
Golden Circle hamper and obsruct their workings to
tain the best system of mankind has yet pro-
duced and lend his forever glorious and for
Free and heart forever true to justice and liberty to
incur the displeasure and invoke the lbes of press and
people his have endeared the hearts of every
American citizen then may they blow the scofes for
his and every other gallant soldiers name that swes the
mortal Roll of Honor" will live and be revvedn coming
time when the life work of their ibellers shall be sunk in
oblivion. For it is hoped their mghties efforts in poor
cause will leave stain upon the of glory their
race may day bear among the nations of this EARTH
And if among the illusrious souls that have written
record upon the page of historic that charac
the nineteenth century future ages there those
that will shed brighter transmit to postery more
glorious heritage than some wot of whose names and
Republic then l have yet to become familiar with their
history and would thank the Pilot LEADER any libel
os propagandists enghen upon the facts in issue.
w. w. P S.