The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-04

this occasion they got unceremonious dismissal An
exPresident could console himself with the prospect of
becoming Mayor of New York city-ex-oficials could
by serving the party" at such an immense sacrifice
get up valid claims to small share in the rich plumber
of the corporation the custom house. While certain
ex-Senators, such as the brilliant newspaper man of
Buffalo, could make himself so eminently useful as to
render his title to the Prison Inspectorshp of York
State strong that he could be kicked aside at the
next Democratic Convention as he was at the last
We affirm deliberately that on the part of certain
officials of the F. B. and ola very considerable number of
them to boot this honest and honorable little game has
been carefully and intentionally played 1t is true there
are men of sterling uprighness on the aforesaid Senate
who would scorn and spit upon such unheardof vilainy
But they either absent or, if present at the first
they fubbed off by false pretenses from day day
till they compelled to leave in order to attend to
their necessary avocations Then the work so carefully
cut out was finished in manner which it is needless to
describe. But
The best laid schemes of mice and
Gang aft aglee.
Mr.. Mitchell, the elect of the Senatorial heart did
not approve of the constitution This is not by any
strange 1t is not pleasant for imperial will
to be tied down by laws and compacs and conditions
Am Cesar ant nihH What if this does make millions
of slaves man who tried to keep many blacks in
bondage may well be excused if he would like asten
the letters of his ordly will three times many
whites Besides, the Irish have been in bondage
long that great cannot brook the idea of entrus
ing them with liberty. What right have they to be
free more than other slaves So Mr. Mitchell could not
swallow the constitution. Quite proper and consistent
say we. To this have to add another a-suficient
reason The Philade phia Constitution of the E. B.
strictly and purposey modelled after that of the
American Republic. Now, the principles of this Con-
stution most Enthusiastically proclaim universal liberty
They declare that all men, Of all lands races elm and
colors have right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness" This, Mr.. Mitchell does not believe, and
did believe. On the contrary the slavery which
for many weary and dsgraceful years the American
Constitution inconsistency tolerated, the only
thing in it which he admired and approved. Hence he
made himself its loudest champion and when Mr.. JEFF
ferson Davis summoned the Southern chivalry to
to rend the Union and rampe on the Constitution and
set up universal slavery the ruins of both, Mr. John
Mitchell his first and most Jealous supporter. Who
knows not that through all the red record of the late
rebellion his hand most prominent in pointing
the way to battle and blood Who knows not that IN
letter to the Dublin Nation he exuted in describing the
swathes" of dead Irishmen which were slaughtered
by the Confederate artillery the field of Fredericks
burg? Who knows not that when he met his unfor-
tunate countrymen in Richmond as prisoners of war,
that instead of plying their hunger and wretchedness,
he salued them with frowns and Let them die
What right have they to fight for the American Union!
Therefore admit readily and distinctly that in reject
ing the Presidency of the F. B-because the Consttu-
ton of that Organization modelled after that OF Amer
ica and both based on universal freedom-Mr john
Mitchell acted with entire consistency. How could
man accept office under that which he sacrificed nun