Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-01-08
Nh o'BLAkE, in continuing bis re-


port 70 Belmont, informs that demo-
cratic functionary that on his arrival
in New York, in obedience to hiss
Belmont's-note, he felt anxious to,
get into the campaign at ono svoop,
so he plunged into the vortex by
. meeting at ""The Hope Of Erin"
Here, he says, the lonely exiles who
have kindly consented to take pos
session Of the City and it's politics.
taught him where TO feel the beat
dead Beat-of the political pulse Of,
New York. II was soon determined
at the "Hops," that when an Irish
man begins to wear paper collars,
and sit In Sd Avenue cars, reading
the irish Republic, be is a Lost mann
TO Tammany. Nothing less than lib
erty to all men win satisfy him. This,
says O'Blake, comes of "setting1.
the common people up with Educa-
ton. The ''Hope Of Erin" circle.
lament this state Of things, and take
measures to guard against spread
Of the evil. They lament with Bel
mont and their British allies every
where, that the aeys are departed
when thrones we're moored to the
rocks of despotism, and mere men of
clay bid their heads in the earth
when majesty passed. They grieve,
and all Tammsny grieves, that they
live in an age when newspapers
flourish and peasants pick flaws in
the arguments Of Priests and Kings.
OBIake soon discovered that his
mission was to suppress the spread
of intelligence among the masses as
much as possible, and TO raise up
Tammany, like very Gibralter in
hideous grandeur. to oppose the
food Of Enlightenment that is snrg-
ing az it's base, and threatening TO
engulph the world IN q saa Of liberal
views, and extend to all mankind,
Equal Rights and Equal Justice. IN
his apostrophe to Tammany, he ex-
claims 40 Tammany. long may you
flourish! for while you eat like q
cancer in the land, Republican. lib
erty cannot be perfect, and Democ-
racy will hold sway in New York.
If Tammany can be kepton her pegs
we have hope that she may eat ont
Republicanism in time, until the
very vitals of Liberty shall be sap
ped, and Europe, with its crowned
heads, can sing,
when Liberty goes DOWN,
Then---1p 90 We
The divine right Of kings, draws Its
strongest arguments from, her. Ho.
We peasants from The Tihsr, the Dan
ube. the Seine and the shannon be-
ware OF these Infatuated and hungry
souled Republicans, who would lead
you TO Liberty =" -
Addressing himself again to- Bel
mont, be says: 'sIf could Lead yeni
Mr.. Belmont. into the garrets Of New
York, 1t would do. your. patriotic
heart good to see wives waiting By
freless stoves, and shivering littl.
ones crying for bread, and waiting
for daddy TO bring the weeks wages
to buy Goals and food, aid while
waiting, to hear tho head Of thefsm
lily stagger up stairs, tnmbling ,ovel
pots on the landing. and finally burst
ing in the door, he tumbles on the
foor; 70 see the mothers heart cheer
up. as she searches his pockets fcl
the price OF FIRE and bread ; but The
sordid wretch 6nds nothing be has
banked bis weeks wages at 0'Flani
ran's Saloon, for the bensnt OF the
party. Generous mani patriotic
suuli Why should be squander bis
wages on q poor ignorant old wife
and worthless children, when Tam